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Phoenix City Council meeting on Missing Middle Housing ordinance is embarrassing. Other cities implemented it citywide. 5th largest city in US can’t get it together and is fighting tooth-and-nail to evade state law and stop the building of new homes while we’re in a housing shortage. Sad.

White text: "72% of people killed by lynching between 1882 and 1968 were Black. 75% of people executed by the state in the South between 1910 and 1950 were Black." Light blue bold text: "The death penalty is akin to modern-day lynching." Red ACLU logo. "Source: NAACP and Equal Justice USA". Dark blue background.

The death penalty grew out of this country’s brutal practice of lynching.

When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.

No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.

A South Carolina 20-Year-Old Has Been Charged With Attempted Murder Police say she took medication to end her pregnancy

A South Carolina woman who police say tried to end her pregnancy with medication has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and child neglect.

Don't miss this story from @kylietcheung.bsky.social

jessica.substack.com/p/south-caro...

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.

This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.

My constituent's Affordable Care Act plan jumped from $209 to $710. At 63 and with a chronic disease, she's considering going without insurance. Republicans want to strip people of healthcare so badly, they are willing to let people starve over it. It's depraved. Health care is a human right.

Still waiting for an answer! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Speaker Johnson kicked me out of his office. Here's why.

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

I would frame this if I was him bsky.app/profile/pbum...

Well well well

If Chuck Schumer can’t bring himself to vote for the Democratic nominee for mayor, he should resign his position as Minority Leader.

Jen Allen: Immigration detention center in Marana neither ethical nor humane | Guest opinion Management and Training Corporation buying back the recently shuttered Marana prison likely means they will be making significant profits, and though ICE detention centers are a lucrative business,…

A prison that has been closed for years may soon be transformed into a detention center – a center like many others around the country with inadequate conditions for children and adults, all for profit.
www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...

If only these leaders instead called on Billionaires and Corporations to pay their fare share

ICE: Stop Terrorizing Children ICE is traumatizing children as young as 14 – trying to strip them of their rights while they're without attorneys or family to help them. Take action against these horrific abuses now.

ICE is traumatizing children with cruel immigration raids, then trying to strip them of their due process rights when they’re alone, without attorneys or family to help them.

Tell ICE to stop tormenting kids — and urge Congress to introduce legislation to protect these children.

The Journalist Who Spent More Than 100 Days in ICE Detention | American Civil Liberties Union Emmy Award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was covering a protest near Atlanta when local law enforcement arrested him. Then, ICE detained him.

Mario Guevara's deportation signals a dangerous precedent for press freedom. ICE detained him for over 100 days for live-streaming law enforcement, despite the fact that he was permitted to work in the U.S.

Hear more on the newest episode of At Liberty.

Arizona AG sues U.S. House over Grijalva swearing-in Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat, won a Sept. 23 special election to fill the seat previously held by her father.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva sued the U.S. House on today over Speaker Mike Johnson's ongoing refusal to swear in Grijalva as the state's newest member of Congress.

We have rights when protesting. Learn more at www.aclu.org/deployment_kyr.

Picture this: It’s your first day at a new school. You’re still figuring out where to sit and wondering which hallway leads to the cafeteria when your teacher says, “Everyone, bow your heads for… First Amendment 101: The Freedom of Religion

Let’s break it down what the U.S. Constitution says about the Freedom of Religion.
youtu.be/faDKlhjaWPg

me after attending a protest

The UA has a big question to answer So do the rest of us ... What we've been up to ... And that's a really expensive car wash.

Everyone go read this 👏👏👏

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I saw One Battle After Another and did not enjoy it. I am clearly the outlier but I thought the sexual politics of the film were bad. The representation of Black women revolutionaries was painful and I think the fixation on interracial sex and a mixed race character is a hackneyed trope.

I hadn’t seen this review from @brookeobie.bsky.social until it was just dropped in the replies but I’m moving it up because I think it’s worth reading how someone who is a Black women critic is responding to this film

That one time a lobbyist suggested I put mandatory financial literacy classes in my rental assistance bill…be so serious

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

We should not only “not comply in advance,” we should not comply during and after either.

No compliance with fascists ever.

Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion Abortion *is* a big tent issue

To single out abortion as the place for compromise is to ignore the political reality of the last three years.

And in a moment when the stakes are so high—as women are literally dying—being both confidently wrong and hugely influential is straight up dangerous. jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

Ezra- Your piece on the death of Charlie Kirk was reckless, insulting, condescending, and worst of all, a piece of hagiography. For someone who claims to honor history and context in your work, it reads as if it was written by someone who respects neither of those things.  What does it mean to practice politics in the "right way"? For whom does a "taste for disagreement" benefit? Certainly not the vulnerable populations—trans people, Black women, and more—who Kirk routinely targeted with hate speech and calls for violence.  When I was a college intern at NBC News Washington in 2008, I would watch your MSNBC appearances on the monitor in our office. At that point I could only dream of having a platform like yours, which has grown exponentially since then. Now that I have a platform (albeit it much, much smaller than yours) and I couldn't fathom using it to gaslight the country into believing a hateful man stood for a public good. Maybe it's time to consider how you're using yours.  Marisa

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

no one has ever been more furious