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Defendants in Georgia 'Cop City' case say they are in limbo as trial delays continue It has been more than a year and a half since authorities in Georgia indicted 61 activists on racketeering charges in connection with protests against an Atlanta-area police training facility that cri...

This story offers a glimpse into how the RICO case against Stop Cop City protestors––"likely the largest criminal racketeering case ever filed against protesters in U.S. history"––has damaged, frozen, and endangered the lives of those facing charges.

Orange sign reading Donors Against MAGA overlays arms raised in the air in protest. Wednesday, 6/11 at 7-8:30 p.m. EST

Billionaires are consolidating power. Dissent is being criminalized. But people with wealth can and must fight back.
Join Donors Against MAGA on June 11 to organize for democracy over authoritarianism.
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When Journalism Becomes a Weapon: A Call for Ethical Reporting - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly A call from NPQ's editor in chief for ethical reporting and journalism to defend democracy, civil society institutions, and civil rights.

NPQ's editor in chief @saratexas.bsky.social on the importance of #journalism to defend democracy, public institutions, and civil rights in authoritarian times:
nonprofitquarterly.org/when-journal...

Today in the New York Times --communal leadership at its most powerful – prominent figures & trusted voices refusing Trump-Netanyahu with clarity and unusual unity in a loving show of solidarity with Palestinians. #saynotoethniccleansing www.saynotoethniccleansing.org

NYT full page ad signed by 350 rabbis and several other Jewish people. Text: Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing. (Photo stolen from James Schamus’s Twitter! Thank you, James!)

I am probably on some government lists now but at least I am in good company.

So proud to be in community with folks organizing. I just donated to @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social and hope other culturally Christian folks will join me in saying #saynotoethnicleansing

saynotoethniccleansing.org

Gutting USAID Will Have a Monumental Effect on Combating Climate Change The agency was a key player in renewable energy and disaster protection around the world—until Elon Musk showed up.

Gutting USAID will have a monumental effect on combating climate change. The agency was a key player in renewable energy and disaster protection around the world—until Elon Musk showed up.

A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

This is morally indefensible and strategically bankrupt. It’s just letting people die on purpose and it makes us weaker in every way.

Headline: "Israel Tells Military to Draft Plan for Gazans Who Want to Leave The order by the Israeli defense minister comes after President Trump proposed a U.S. takeover of Gaza and said that all two million Palestinians in the enclave should be displaced."

Let's be clear on what this is: The Israeli government is preparing a draft plan for ethnic cleansing.

I taught my undergrads about the Spanish expulsion recently. Every part of my Jewish soul and Jewish familial memory cries out against the Jewish state doing this to another people.

Wherein the president tries to describe a resort hotel development and an ethnic cleansing simultaneously, and clearly forgets which one he is talking about several times.

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

Cop City Vote

Trump and ATL Mayor Andre Dickens have something in common: they both believe it’s OK to obstruct democracy when they don’t get their way. Vote. Them. Out.

Sign up to stay involved at copcityvote.org

#atlpol #letusvote #doyourjob #stopcopcity

front page of NYT today

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social

A private citizen shutting down a government agency is a coup. Do not normalize this.

YouTube video by CNN Collins presses Trump’s border czar on possibility of raiding schools and churches

- Chicago has successfully educated folks so well with "Know Your Rights" that "border czar" Tom Homan went on TV to complain that it's hard for ICE to conduct arrests. GOOD.

"Chicago - very well educated... I've seen many pamphlets. " - Tom Homan (at 3:50)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1v...

YouTube video by CopCityVote Stop Cop City (English)

The Cop City Vote coalition of Atlanta has something to say to Mayor Andre Dickens and Atlanta City Council. Count the votes and let the people decide! #stopcopcity

youtu.be/EdGIqPfqE5s

i love that bishop baddie’s book is on being brave. #church @mariannedgarbudde.store

ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!

Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

"Harvard University has laid off its staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates."

screengrab of Die Zeit story on Elon Musk

Die Zeit, a prominent German publication, titles its article: 'A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute.'

Support newsrooms that aren't backing down in the face of fascist threats and that publish the kind of news and analysis that fuels movements. Support @truthout.org:

screenshot of the german paper Die Zeit with the headline and subhed reading Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß Elon Musk streckt den rechten Arm, und alle springen drüber. Willkommen im neuen Aufmerksamkeitsregime.

in english: A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute Elon Musk stretches out his right arm, and everyone jumps over it. Welcome to the new attention regime.

while musk’s fanbois and the ADL tap dance around it, the German papers call it what it is

News Organizations Are Tiptoeing Around What We All Saw How fear of litigation shapes coverage of influential figures

“The New York Times went with ‘Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture.’ The Washington Post opted for ‘Elon Musk gives exuberant speech at inauguration.’ Some local TV stations even cut their footage right before the first and most obvious salute.”

President Biden banned new oil and gas drilling along more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal waters on Monday. He said he was making the move because drilling posed unnecessary risks to the environment, public health and the coastal communities’ economies. nyti.ms/4gH37YL

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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...