This is incredibly disturbing. The number of cases in Mississippi alone of Black people who met their deaths in dubious/highly suspicious ways, only for authorities to shrug it off and do a piss poor job if investigating...there are so many names

Tasia Fortune Identified as Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Jackson Home

The woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home is 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, the Hinds County Coroner’s Office said.

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First cousin once removed (my mom’s cousin). He captured history.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 5mo ago

Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a Mississippi highway in 1966 became an enduring image of the Civil Rights Movement, died on Thursday.

Independent Sector and Council on Foundations File Amicus Brief Defending Charitable Gifts and the Freedom to Give independentsector.org/blog/stateme... re: American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Hispanic Scholarship Fund

Independent Sector and Council on Foundations File Amicus Brief Defending Charitable Gifts and the Freedom to Give - Independent Sector

Independent Sector and the Council on Foundations filed an amicus brief defending lawful charitable gifts and freedom to give.

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Lawyers’ Committee and Partners File Amicus Brief in Support of Hispanic Scholarship Fund in Section 1981 Case www.lawyerscommittee.org/lawyers-comm...

Lawyers’ Committee and Partners File Amicus Brief in Support of Hispanic Scholarship Fund in Section 1981 Case

WASHINGTON— The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, along with partner organizations, filed an amicus brief in American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Hispanic Scholarship Fund in the U.S. Di...

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I call it unconstitutional but these days that is only slightly more serious than disconcerting.

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Penn Calls Government’s Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff ‘Disconcerting’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Supreme Court justice discovers that facts, principles, and words matter.

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand. He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops

"The clinic ... run by the Christian, Maryland-based humanitarian organization World Relief and funded by USAID, provided a key weapon in the fight: IV bags to stave off dehydration and death. The bags cost just 62 cents each, and in three months, the clinics had helped save more than 500 people."

Chris Morran@themorrancave.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

Yep. The biggest threat to the GOP are GOP voters, and no one is trying to suppress their vote.

I used to worry about civil war. Now I worry about the US being the site of a proxy war and potentially more.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Large parts of the new Trump national security strategy have been lifted in whole text from speeches delivered in the last three years by Vladimir Putin

Immunity for the executive now creates a terrible double standard that that will actually foster obedience to illegal commands

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 11mo ago

For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.

The MAGA twist on forum shopping is maybe more wretched than imagined.

Margy O’Herron@margyoh.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov

There is something very GenX about this: gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...

AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives

OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.

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Kavanaugh visiting the Queen City, so I see.

The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121@fightingliberal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Trump's ICE has expanded its immigration crackdown to Charlotte, N.C... US citizen stopped twice by ICE. Car windows smashed by ICE. Dragged from car. Files a police report against ICE... thehill.com/homenews/sta...

Grade: C- Josh is very bright and quick of thought but often does not spend enough time on his assignments.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

On this day in 1830, North Carolina passed laws that criminalized teaching enslaved Black people to read and that made the repeated dissemination of anti-slavery pamphlets punishable by death.

Nov. 15, 1830 | NC Mandates Death Sentence for Dissemination of Anti-Slavery Pamphlet

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Can confirm.

TPM@talkingpointsmemo.com · 11mo ago

TPM spoke with executives at nonprofits advocating for immigration reform, action on climate change, democracy, civil rights, and other causes that are largely opposed by the administration. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-n...

A competent democrat with good messaging can parlay this into a victory in red districts. newrepublic.com/article/2021...

Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse

It’s bad enough that Trump wants—and DOJ will likely fork over—this tribute payment. Now, get this: It can probably be done at first without even being revealed publicly.

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Isn’t this also a national security nightmare? Exposing the bones of the White House for all to see?

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Let's see how that government ban on White House demolition photos is going. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Guess it’s time to increase my rates.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. (Published July with @texastribune.org)

Specifically, nonprofit clients.

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · last yr.

Some of the nation’s largest law firms warn clients to prepare for politically motivated federal probes stemming from Trump’s domestic terrorism directive, which could be used to stifle dissent and revoke tax-exempt status from left-leaning nonprofits. https://bit.ly/4gXSqC8

The whole administration is now subject to arrest.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last yr.

This is fascism.

The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways. blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...

The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for Excellence

Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.

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Posting this three hours before the start of Yom Kippur is quite a choice

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · last yr.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

So much depends upon A statement Of fact That needs a Citation That doesn’t Exist

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last yr.

Just a reminder that in the Los Angeles ICE case, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence played up the extent to which those *not* properly subject to immigration arrest were detained "briefly" and released "promptly." www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-177-... That wasn't true in L.A., and it isn't true here.

So much depends upon A statement Of fact That needs a Citation That doesn’t Exist

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last yr.

Just a reminder that in the Los Angeles ICE case, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence played up the extent to which those *not* properly subject to immigration arrest were detained "briefly" and released "promptly." www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-177-... That wasn't true in L.A., and it isn't true here.

Chilling stuff.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last yr.

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Lawyer friends, consider volunteering and spreading the word. The eye of Sauron is turning to nonprofits and civil society. nonprofitdefense.org

Home Page - Nonprofit Legal Defense Network

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I thought sketch comedy was illegal now.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last yr.

Karl: “You've said that you restored free speech in America. Is that free speech, including for people who are harshly critical of you, for your political opponents, for people who say things you don't like?” Trump: “You're not a wonderful person. Frankly, you're a terrible reporter.”

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

ML@mlpoole.bsky.social · last yr.