The nation's landmark voting rights law just turned 60. It may not survive Trump.
βThe long-term game is to repeal the Voting Rights Act.β
Voting Rights Act turns 60 today. I've studied VRA for 15 years. Most people don't realize just how much it transformed American democracy, ended Jim Crow & enfranchised millions of Americans
Now itβs on life support. If it dies, American democracy dies with it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
06.08.2025 21:42 β π 372 π 138 π¬ 9 π 1
I hope this guy goes into title insurance after college
06.08.2025 23:48 β π 50 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
Serve your country! Defend your culture!
Just in case itβs not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a βdefend your cultureβ slogan.
06.08.2025 20:07 β π 6696 π 2789 π¬ 415 π 429
It was clever.
06.08.2025 21:50 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
UPDATE: Missing sections of the Constitution Annotated website have been restored. Upkeep of Constitution Annotated and other digital resources is a critical part of the Libraryβs mission, and we appreciate the feedback that alerted us to the error and allowed us to fix it. constitution.congress.gov
06.08.2025 19:13 β π 421 π 120 π¬ 58 π 42
ICE raided two Asian supermarkets simultaneously and in one confiscated paperwork, necessary documents and shut down the business.
They even harassed the shoppers.
When your face is the only crime, what kind of system is that.
06.08.2025 19:01 β π 701 π 436 π¬ 36 π 18
Honestly, this made me emotional!
I am not a fan of politicians, I think Politics as Sports Teams is part of how we got here.
But I AM a fan of showing up and saying "actually we should make life better for people, stop telling us it's impossible" and these two should KEEP DOING IT.
06.08.2025 20:03 β π 119 π 18 π¬ 1 π 0
Best example of projection Iβve seen in some time.
06.08.2025 18:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
JD Vance and other pedophile protection party officials are holding an emergency meeting tonight over their strategy on the Epstein files.
This cover-up is a disgrace to Epsteinβs victims. The American people deserve transparency and accountability.
Release the Epstein files.
06.08.2025 18:48 β π 4259 π 1048 π¬ 80 π 86
Top Trump officials will discuss Epstein strategy at Wednesday dinner
hosted by Vance
The administration's handling of the Epstein case, as well as the need to craft a unified response, is expected to be a main focus of the dinner, three sources familiar with the meeting told CNN. The meeting will include White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Vice President JD Vance, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI
Director Kash Patel and Blanche.
The WH Chief of Staff, Vice President, Attorney General, and FBI Director are having a meeting to determine the "political strategy" around the child pedophile case circling around the President???
Is that worse or better than when Bill Clinton walked across a tarmac? (Also bad, btw!)
06.08.2025 01:14 β π 1580 π 400 π¬ 62 π 80
YOU WOULD NOT NEED A STRATEGY IF THE FILES DIDNβT IMPLICATE YOU IN CHILD RAPE
06.08.2025 02:50 β π 353 π 80 π¬ 2 π 2
@mcuban.bsky.social you wanna do something good that nobody will yell at you for?
06.08.2025 00:12 β π 360 π 55 π¬ 5 π 2
βItβs a new type of creativityβ lol
06.08.2025 02:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Also worth noting:
Theyβre killing the media industry *first*.
Techbros have been very clear that their goal is to put as many people out of work as possible.
This is nothing more or less than an attack by the 1% upon the rest of us that, if left unchecked, will crash the global economy.
05.08.2025 18:17 β π 1163 π 489 π¬ 14 π 15
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
05.08.2025 23:00 β π 8205 π 5654 π¬ 88 π 114
ICE agents disguised as construction workers in Danbury, CT.
This isnβt immigration enforcement , itβs state sanctioned entrapment. Disguises. Deception. Targeting workers just trying to survive.
This is terror with a badge.
This is fascism in a hard hat.
Call it what it is.
05.08.2025 02:13 β π 417 π 247 π¬ 36 π 11
Crazy to go this route. Attacking 14-year-olds as if he sees them as adults to do with as he pleases.
05.08.2025 20:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by MSNBC
Maddow: U.S. profoundly changed by authoritarian leader; 'We're beyond waiting and seeing now'
It's here, y'all. We're no longer trying to prevent it. We're now trying to get out of it.
#FascismisHere
#StopFascism
#TrumpCrimeFamily
#ReleasetheEpsteinFiles
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQbD...
05.08.2025 13:57 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'
FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?
WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?
04.08.2025 14:42 β π 17230 π 3911 π¬ 805 π 665
I think weβre on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the βlearning lossβ of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
05.08.2025 11:43 β π 3621 π 771 π¬ 91 π 96
I love this. We are going to see more heroes stepping up
05.08.2025 02:04 β π 3169 π 717 π¬ 74 π 21
Why didn't Todd Blanche talk to the victims to get the names of the perpetrators?
04.08.2025 16:58 β π 14023 π 3966 π¬ 701 π 234
This is so gross & i am so tired.
Do not try to pass this off as "an interview w/ Joaquin Oliver." It is an "AI" system trained to mimic someone's face & voice to talk about his killing via gun violence. It is not his memories. It is not his words. It is not his self, even in digital form. Stop it
05.08.2025 00:29 β π 302 π 52 π¬ 9 π 1
Dear United States, I wish you would have handled and would handle the whole βEpstein
Filesβ with more respect towards and for the victims. I am not some pawn in your political
warfare. What you have done and continue to do is eating at me day after day as you help to
perpetuate this story indefinitely. Why not be completely transparent? Show us all the files with
only the necessary redactions! Be done with it and allow me/us to heal. You protect yourself and
your powerful and wealthy βfriendsβ (not enemies) over the victims, why? The victims know the
truth, we know who are in the files and now so do you. Do you really think the public is that
ignorant of the truth? Further redacting the names, like yours, will only cause the distraction you
say you donβt want, and the conspiracies that you in fact are stirring. So I will continue to stay
silent and continue to hide from all the pain and suffering, out of fear of you and your wealthy
powerful βfriendsβ. In the end we are the biggest voices of the truth and the truth always comes
out in time.
Another victim accuses "the United States" of protecting " yourself and your powerful and wealthy βfriendsβ (not enemies) over the victims, why?"
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
04.08.2025 21:10 β π 522 π 171 π¬ 7 π 2
1) these narratives are not rooted in reality
2) even if all the worst caricatures about lazy ppl who "refuse to work" were real, it's irrelevant. health care is a human right. so what if someone's "lazy"βthey deserve to die if they can't afford health care? THAT'S the extreme position
05.08.2025 03:03 β π 297 π 58 π¬ 0 π 0
Right-wingers are so insecure and covetousness that after they gathered public goods, land, economy and education for themselves they wanted the one thing we had: the story of oppression.
They want this more than anything else b/c of the powerful narrative & culture we created from it.
05.08.2025 02:30 β π 1810 π 427 π¬ 46 π 13
I overheard a guy at the airport bragging about being at January 6th and I walked by him sitting in first class. Wealthy business owners stormed the capitol. January 6th was loaded with people who had the leisure time and travel budget to be there. Interrogate who is telling you to hate the poor.
04.08.2025 01:55 β π 4581 π 905 π¬ 19 π 0
you can talk to grieving parents about how they are coping with loss and show respect for whatever methods they are relying on to find meaning and purpose without β¦ doing that
04.08.2025 20:32 β π 45 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Elite New York High School Admits 8 Black Students in a Class of 781
This is not meritocracy, it's white supremacy.
05.08.2025 02:08 β π 1013 π 250 π¬ 29 π 21
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