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NEW: The DOJ filed a lawsuit against the newly GOP-controlled North Carolina Board of Elections. It represents a troubling Trump administration tactic: Filing lawsuits in cases where the plaintiff and defendant are aligned, allowing for sweeping policy changes without the legislative process.

submitted 20 hours ago • 15 comments

Amazing legacy 💔

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Okay, people. Get prepared and don’t let misinformation put you in a dangerous place. Be safe. Be smart. And let these fucking fascists know you aren’t going to live like this.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Take some time to read this really powerful portrait from @gabrielleemanuel.bsky.social on the difference PEPFAR has made in one little girl's life, and how it's unraveled after the Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid, which the House voted to codify yesterday. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I no longer view the crisis before us as a GOP vs. Democrat issue, and I haven't for a long time. This is a profound issue of choosing to fight supremacist politics, of necropolitics-- of whether you believe it's worth protecting people's right to live with a measure of dignity and respect, period

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

submitted 2 days ago • 709 comments

Go vote Mississippi! Only a few hours left.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

🚨NEWS: Trump is blocking nearly all asylum seekers — but is now funneling government cash into supporting an influx of white South Africans who want to emigrate now that apartheid is over. Details from a confidential government memo viewed by The Lever. www.levernews.com/trump-taps-r...

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

“The warm defender of the sacredness of the family relation is the same that scatters whole families—sundering husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers, leaving the hut vacant, and the hearth desolate.“ —Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

If you wondered whether PROOF was correct that Trump and Bukele are now in the international slave trade, here is breaking news revealing that Bukele wants to sell the 250 slaves Trump sold _him_ to Venezuela. Unreal. Vile. And a Crime Against Humanity.

submitted 55 days ago • 99 comments

here's what you can do to derail Schedule F and restore an independent civil service: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-tangible...

submitted 55 days ago • 38 comments

If gang affiliation is illegal, why isn't every Proud Boy and Klan member, and home grown Nazis sent to El Salvador?

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

“Off screen, Ralph is a passionate health advocate and honored AIDS activist. In 1990, she founded The DIVA Foundation, a national nonprofit 501(c)3 charitable organization, as a memorial and lifelong pledge to the many friends she has lost to HIV/AIDS.”

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments