Carla Trounson (Hickson)

whatever else republican house speaker mike johnson (and the congressional republicans who serve under him) ever do in this life, this headline will last forever and ever, for their whole blessed lives.

(gift link, no paywall)

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

Trump Declares Dubious Emergencies to Amass Power, Scholars Say In disputes over protests, deportations and tariffs, the president has invoked statutes that may not provide him with the authority he claims.

Trump Declares Dubious Emergencies to Amass Power, Scholars Say www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

🚨BREAKING: U.S Department of Justice files voter suppression lawsuit targeting North Carolina voter registration. The weaponization of DOJ for political gain is here. Subscribe to Democracy Docket to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear:
The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here.

Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead.

This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite:

‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’

Their crime is being Latino in a country quickly emerging as majority non-white. Tell a conservative Latino friend.

This is what happens when you’re willing to risk it all over ending pronouns and Black history. Hope those cultural wars pay the bills.

Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

#HandsOff DC! Fight! Resist! Protest! ✊

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YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Heroes

Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world.

“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

How it started/How it's going

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

1. All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.

Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Ugly Turn, Putting Starving Kids at Risk Two U.S. nonprofits that manufacture a treatment sent by USAID to help severely malnourished children abroad say the process is in chaos. This isn’t what Marco Rubio said would happen.

3. All supplies of US-manufactured emergency food packets for starving children on the brink of death – terminated. newrepublic.com/article/1919...