Nikhil Shah

Trump’s Judicial Nominees Cannot Wait to Make LGBTQ People Second-Class Citizens The White House’s judicial confirmation machine is firing on all cylinders. The results are already ugly.

Trump's judicial nominees really, really do not want to talk about how seriously they take the right to same-sex marriage ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

NEW: A federal judge has demanded NSF explain in court how the UCLA grant suspensions are not in violation of her June order that restored grants to UC scientists

US steps up efforts to help Bolsonaro avoid jail over alleged coup plot State department condemns judge’s decision to place former Brazil president under house arrest as trial proceeds

Trump is terrified at a country actually holding someone like him accountable.

‘Latinos deserve a district’: alarm as new Texas maps dilute voting power in Austin Dramatic reshaping of district 35 will make it harder for candidates of color to win, civic groups say

“Even a conservative supreme court said central Texas Latinos deserve a district, and that’s why my district exists,” Casar said. “If Donald Trump is able to suppress Latino voters here in Austin, he’ll try to spread that plan across America.”

US citizens jailed in LA Ice raids speak out: ‘They came ready to attack’ Exclusive: Andrea Velez and Adrian Martinez recount their capture by immigration officers and its effects on their lives

This has been the most outrageous act of racial profiling by the federal government in decades and we get little national outrage.

"So, yes, reading still matters, even when listening is an option. Each activity offers something different, and they are not interchangeable."

I know that we are in our little bubble here and shielded from right wing conspiracy theories but wtf is going on people burning Labubu dolls and linking it to the demon, Pazuzu? 😆 Are conspiracy theorists so lazy that they are getting their plot lines from movies like the Exorcist? 🤣

"ABC's analysis found that across the country, homeowners in predominantly Black and Brown areas tend to pay higher taxes than those in mostly white neighborhoods for a house worth the same amount on the open market."

Strengthening collective labor rights can help reduce economic inequality A research team’s findings suggest that when workers are free to advocate for better wages and benefits for themselves, it also benefits society as a whole.

The richest 1% of Americans now have 5x more wealth than the bottom 50%.

Meanwhile, 59% of Americans can't cover a $1000 emergency expense.

Strengthening collective labor rights may reduce economic inequality, according to political scientists.

Hundreds of ex-Israeli security officials urge Trump to help end war in Gaza Open letter calls on US president to pressure Israel to end conflict as Netanyahu mulls expanding offensive

"About 600 former Israeli security officials, including previous heads of the Mossad and the military, have urged Donald Trump to pressure Israel to end the war in Gaza as the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, considers expanding the conflict."

Trump administration reportedly suspends $200m in grants to UCLA University chancellor said ‘life-saving research’ will be defunded as Trump’s academic crackdown continues

It was a matter of time before they came after UCLA.
“It is a loss for Americans across the nation whose work, health, and future depend on the groundbreaking work we do.”

Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents Thanks to the Supreme Court and the Trump administration, student loan forgiveness is out of reach for many — unless you work for ICE.

"The announcement comes as the Trump administration works to limit the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program for groups the president considers political enemies"

@drdrea.bsky.social had the best panel at SDCC this year in my opinion. We need more substantive ones like those.

And the reason why Black people were hypervigilant about it all is because Jim Crow is very much within living memory and the end of chattel slavery's only two long human lifetimes away for us.

My mom is older than Ms. Ruby Bridges. She had me just 12 years after the Civil Rights act was passed.

That's not too bad. It sounded worse when you first said it 😆

Wow. I know i have been busy with my work (as you can imagine) but wtf is this with the FBI?

Honest ad.

LOLSOB I was in grad school in the biomedical sciences in the 90s: the misogyny was off the charts AND we had so little language to describe it.

Michael Flynn Jr. posing in a new pair of AE jeans he bought.

A man walks around with an American Eagle shopping bag.

I should state two things at the outset.

First, I never comment on womenswear because I don't know anything about it. This thread isn't actually about Sweeney's jeans (sorry, I lied). But in the last few days, I've seen grown men buying American Eagle jeans and I simply can't abide.

This eagle should shit on and attack Sweeney and her "jeans." 😆

Inside the neighborhood patrols watching for Ice: ‘They thought they could scare us – but this is LA’ Volunteers with Union del Barrio look for immigration officers and post videos and alerts, warning people to seek shelter

“They really thought they were going to come in and scare everyone into their corners, but this is LA — and LA is resisting.”

Sydney Sweeney’s Republican voter registration revealed amid jeans ad controversy Revelation comes amid public fixation on American Eagle’s ad featuring the star and a pun about her genes

Maybe we should give her and American Eagle the same treatment we gave Elon and Tesla? Those jeans look horrible to me.

🙏🏽

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

“They see Los Angeles as a model to be replicated,”

How it started. How it’s going.

Israel closes 88% of cases of alleged war crimes or abuse without charges – report Conflict monitoring group Action on Armed Violence says Israel is seeking to create a ‘pattern of impunity’

"Iain Overton and Lucas Tsantzouris, the team at AOAV, said the statistics suggested Israel was seeking to create a “pattern of impunity” by failing to conclude or find no fault in the vast majority of cases involving “the most severe or public accusations of wrongdoing by their forces”

'DOGE lied': Expert floored as blistering report finds Musk team blew billions The Department of Government Efficiency wasn't so efficient after all. In fact, was extraordinarily wasteful, according to a Thursday report by the U.S. Senate's investigations subcommittee.When Elon ...

A Senate report reveals Elon Musk’s DOGE agency burned through $21B in six months. Cost-cutting moves like mass layoffs and axing programs like CFPB and USAID backfired—causing major losses and harsh humanitarian fallout.
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Europe’s trade deal with the US was dead on arrival – it needs to be buried. Here’s how to do it | Georg Riekeles and Varg Folkman Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. The EU should now steel itself and reject the terms imposed by Donald Trump, say Georg Riekeles and Varg Folkman of the European Policy Centre

I am glad someone said it. These trade agreements are reminiscent of those during the era of colonialism.

More than 1,000 rabbis and Jewish leaders denounce starvation in Gaza The former rabbi of Washington, D.C.'s largest synagogue denounces starvation in Gaza, joining more than 1,000 rabbis and Jewish leaders from across the world petitioning Israel.

Over 1,000 rabbis press Israel on Gaza aid

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The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

Nothing to see here.