Don't ever talk to me about another country cracking down on protesters and free speech until you've cleaned up the mess you made in this house first.

Most white American “conservatives” do not actually believe in limited government as a principle, they just believe in limiting government support for Black and brown people. This is why they also believe in EXPANDING government when it comes to police, prisons and surveillance…

‼️😳 Well, there you have it folks! Leonard Leo in a 2017 lecture given at Acton Institute:

“Thank you Chris for your very very kind introduction. I’ve seen that comment about the third of the Supreme Court. I prefer controlling interests, but we haven’t quite been able to…

#AbortionRights BREAKING—

Yesterday May 2, 2024,
Arizona’s legislature passed a repeal of the state’s 1864 abortion ban.

But abortion is still banned in Arizona, with no exceptions for rape or incest. Doctors and nurses can still be jailed for providing abortion health care.

#OnThisDay in 1964, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, two 19-year-old Black Americans, were simply trying to get a ride back home. Instead, Klansmen abducted them, took them to the Homochitto National Forest, where they beat the pair and then drowned them in the

On May 2, 1963, more than 1,000 Black children peacefully protested racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the Children's Crusade, beginning a movement that sparked widely publicized police brutality that shocked the nation... (Equal Justice Initiative) calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Police have now confiscated this banner and arrested the faculty holding it.

This sort of coverage versus the coverage of the actual violence against pro-Palestinian protestors at UCLA confirms why so many of us call out the false god of objectivity in journalism. It has never existed. Choices about framing, emphasis, legitimacy are made every single day…

2004 did this for me

People's City Council - Los Angeles No. Worried.

This is unprecedented. Brown University strikes a deal with its students to end their peaceful protest & encampment, in exchange for a formal divestment vote from Israeli interests. And no student will be punished for protesting. This is democracy at work.
thehill.com/homenews/educa…

Cakedaddy read & shared NPR's story 'The 4th Amendment: Search and Seizure' about the BIPOC community ift.tt/JzVGDk0

“We’ve turned pessimistic in this country…Whatever happened to nuance?

At Duke, there are a lot of students who are not happy with what they’re seeing in Gaza.”

What’s the real concern among students?
“Students feel they have inherited a broken world. They are angry about…

Forced public removal of hijabs? Any victims of police misconduct or witnesses to police misconduct at Columbia or any other campus has the right file a complaint with NYC CCRB to receive an independent investigation. It matters because it is also an independent source of data.…

WATCH-- Chris Hayes: It's easier to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that's happening in the actual conflict which is, of course, the source of these protests.

…..but they’re all students who haven’t been compromised by bad actors infiltrating a protest to stoke ire & resentment against Biden, etc.

I knew I was right about this.

If Black people demanded Congress pass an Anti-Blackness Awareness Act defining anti-Black racism, half the country would be screaming about wokeism and CRT.

Y'all trippin' for real.

Florida Woman Denied Abortion Miscarried in Hair Salon Bathroom, Lost Half Her Blood | Paste Magazine jezebel.com/florida-woman-…

It is interesting, to put it politely, that Tiananmen remains the American reference point for state violence against political movements instead of, I don't know, Kent State, Wounded Knee, the MOVE bombing, LA '92, Ferguson, Standing Rock, NoDAPL, Stop Cop City, etc etc etc

by all means, let’s put it on the record how many cops are out of their fucking minds on liver king level steroid regimens. i’d love to cross reference the listed plaintiffs with the misconduct complaint database.