Shout out to @publicnewsservice.bsky.social for covering our PA complaint challenging Pittsburgh's racist school closure plan. State civil rights enforcement matters much more as McMahon's Dep't of Ed ignores/encourages racial discrimination in schools app.publicnewsservice.org/story/pa-civ...

PA civil rights complaint alleges school closures harm Black students

Pittsburgh Public Schools are facing a civil rights complaint alleging district school closures discriminate against Black students and violate the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.The board's May 27 ...

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"The great irony is that bans against trans women in women’s sports, women’s bathrooms & other areas of public life actually endanger all women." In  @thehill.com, our president @fatimagossgraves.bsky.social writes about how sports bans have never been about protecting women.

Banning transgender athletes has never been about protecting women

It is no accident that the same politicians are pushing both anti-transgender legislation and a rollback of women’s other protections.

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“Welcome to the new era of preemption.” Local governments are increasingly being overridden at the state level as legislators cite economic development as justification for top-down control. These trends are harming our democracy – get the facts: www.eenews.net/articles/cap...

Promising news! Texans voted AGAINST book bans and gender-policing students because these policies make schools worse for everyone. Hoping new school boards repeal these policies and invest in schools that teach truth and value kids regardless of race, sex, disability or other traits.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2y ago

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

This is truly where we are

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

1/ The Callais decision is more than a court ruling it’s an assault on the hard won power of Black voters. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was born from generations of Black struggle against systems designed to dilute our votes and silence our communities.