BREAKING: A judge ruled that racial discrimination played an unlawful role in jury selection for Hasson Bacote, a Black man who challenged his death sentence in North Carolina.

This landmark ruling could pave the way for other people in the state to successfully challenge their death sentences.

Now more than ever.

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration for refusing to issue passports with accurate sex designations for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people.

This action violates the Constitution.

Judges curb Trump’s sweeping executive actions Federal judges are curbing President Trump’s sweeping directives to reshape the government, issuing a flurry of rulings blocking his agenda from charging forward.    More than three …

President Trump is not above the Constitution.

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The Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have today fully decoupled their energy grid from Russia. At the moment they are running in an island mode, but starting tomorrow the energy grid will be reconnected with the European Union.

ACLU demands access to Guantanamo immigrant detention center Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem has said the Guantanamo detention center will hold 'the worst of the worst.'

Sending immigrants to Guantánamo and cutting them off from any contact with the outside world opens a new shameful chapter in the history of this infamous prison.

We're demanding answers from the Trump administration.

N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care A White House executive order threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for trans youths. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James s...

Despite executive orders from Trump, the law is clear: Denying care to trans young people means that health care providers and hospitals are in violation of our anti-discrimination laws.

Trans youth are entitled to the same care as their cis peers - it's the law.

Tell Congress: Don't defund our communities President Trump’s decision to block trillions in federal funding to critical services already approved by Congress is a reckless, cruel, unprecedented power grab that will impact every one of us.

Courts across the country are temporarily blocking Donald Trump's order to block trillions of dollars of vital grants, aid, and loans to our communities.

Tell Congress: Don't allow Trump to defund our communities.

A photo of a person holding up a handmade rally sign reading "A world without trans people has never existed and never will" among a group of protesters.

Trans people have been here since the beginning.

And we're not going anywhere.

📍 The People's March
📸 Will Martinez

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this horrible rich apartheid south african fuck thinks he's king of america and no one is stopping him

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

How a Monument to Women Finally Won a Place on the National Mall The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional and other roadblocks.

A lonnnng time coming www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/a...

The world needs more genuine heroes and fewer wannabe Lex Luthors

anyone seen the Von Trapp Family Singers? They were supposed to perform at the inaugural ball tonight, but they haven't shown up. weird.

Grateful for this lovely new gig. I’ll be covering @convoswithmother, a wonderfully funny and moving new play by @thematthewlombardo.bsky.social @therealcarolineaaron and @mattfdoyle.bsky.social are perfection. Directed by Noah Himmelstein. Previews begin February 7 @ Theater 555 #offbroadway

They’re not hiding it anymore.

Absolutely F-ing YES!!

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