“Led by a 20‑Year‑Old, Wisconsin Teens Tried to Throw 14‑Year‑Old Black Boy Into an Industrial Meat Grinder While Yelling Racial Slurs” www.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
"How many of my brothers and my sisters will they kill before I teach myself retaliation? Shall we pick a number? ... I must become a menace to my enemies." Environmental protection, Gardening, History esp. Africa and Diaspora.
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“Led by a 20‑Year‑Old, Wisconsin Teens Tried to Throw 14‑Year‑Old Black Boy Into an Industrial Meat Grinder While Yelling Racial Slurs” www.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
The Defense Department is opening an investigation to determine if the tech giant’s use of overseas engineers to maintain sensitive U.S. government computer systems compromised national security. www.propublica.org/article/micr...
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names. When Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Dept of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them. www.propublica.org/article/alas...
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned. www.propublica.org/article/heat...
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What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life
Trump accidentally revealed a dirty secret — and it has America's CEOs panicking www.rawstory.com/trump-267394...
Trump is laying bare decades of corporate socialism— use of taxpayer money to support and enrich private corporations and their stockholders (including elected officials who continue to trade shares and profit while making laws and regulations that impact the companies in which they hold shares).
An L.A. honors student was beginning her senior year. Now she's hiding from gangs in Guatemala. Nory and her mother were following the rules. But as MSNBC reports from L.A. and Guatemala, U.S. officials deported them anyway. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
Woody Allen Heaps Praise on Donald Trump With Bill Maher. Bill Maher also used his new interview with Woody Allen to paint the disgraced director as a “victim.” www.thedailybeast.com/woody-allen-...
Louisiana’s attack on the Voting Rights Act could set back Black voters everywhere. The Voting Rights Act gave teeth to the 15th Amendment’s promise that no American could be denied the right to vote because of race. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Fox New fed the same racism, cruelty and ignorance that generations of Americans knew as their family and community norm, to them each day as unashamed shiny media streams. They were mesmerized to see "themselves" on tv, all their hate and ignorance proven good and normal - again.
Gavin Newsom mocking Karoline Leavitt as Effie Trinket from the Hunger Games 👏🏼🤣🏆
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)
I doubt that most think he is actually dead, they are mocking him, and the ridiculous scammy claims that are his admins policies, social media posts, his own babbling, and what his MAGAts spread around to justify and bask in being cruel and ignorant. Using facts doesn't work on them, this does.
Letting white goons with guns harass Minorities is my guess?
One of the reasons Georgia may consider *ending* AVR is that it “results in more voters than the national average” ... www.ajc.com/politics/202...
The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town has overwhelmingly won an election, four years after White residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve.https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/us/first-black-mayor-newbern
America has (long had) a segregationist-confederate problem. Hitler/Nazis admired, got inspiration from Anerica’s evil and sent lawyers to copy American racial cruelty laws. Many Americans should think of their own elders, communities - not Nazis - to understand the model for MAGAs cruelties.
The mayor of Baltimore drastically slashed crime despite close proximity to Virginia with its lax gun laws and it was a blip in the news cycle and then a return to the only way to stop crime is law and order. We are a cruel, punitive country with a national press that loves facism.
The argument is so inherently absurd that it bears repeating: Alabama is claiming that it is unconstitutional to consider race when addressing racial discrimination. Next up, addressing gun violence without considering guns. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
@njdoc.bsky.social Trump crazy babbles every time he speaks.The voters who chose this degenerate and now continue to B.S. about what he is, should be mocked and ignored. Trump rambles about 'good looking guys' getting spit on by 'crazy' women in interview www.rawstory.com/trump-insane...
Remember when Trump suggested injecting bleach? This post is almost as stupid. Trump shows he’s unaware that Operation Warp Speed appointees oversaw the vaccine trials and details of the trials were released in lengthy public FDA hearings not to mention in peer-reviewed articles.
Perfect example of why I reject "we need women" political comments that ridiculously assume white women are "different" than like-minded white men. We need better people of all kinds. Ex-Dem Sinema taking credit for key parts of Trump's megabill as she rakes in cash www.rawstory.com/kyrsten-sine...
May you live long enough to see the shithole improve due to the resistance voices of people like you, and may your relatives sit complaining in admiration as they wait for you to arrive very VERY late to that bus.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
Giuliani has profited well enough from his corruption and cruelty to afford all the medical treatments, the time to relax in a comfortable home, all sorts of physical therapy and indulgences to be just fine enough compared to millions of others whose pain he endorsed and cackled about.
This is brave and wonderful.
This is what I think of as the Powerball-EZPass blue state option for responding to Trump: create interstate compacts to replicate some of the lost federal capacity
I would be stunned if Americans are begging Democratic leadership to fight the brazen racist core of the Republican agenda, and directly confront their family, friends, neighbors, communities that are voting Republican and cheering for all their hate instead of hiding it behind 'just class issues."
Millions of racist Americans are constantly appeased and that helped fuel MAGA culture (which was segregationist culture, and before that confederate culture.) Many Americans are predisposed, hungrily eager, for someone like Trump.
Americans seem to welcome those documentaries and movies about the holocaust. Is it because it didn't happen in America, doesn't reflect on their families, communities or challenge their ideas about "failed cultures and communities" and make them confront the cruelties and myths of their own?
After WWII ended, the Allies forced the German citizens to view the vestiges of the atrocities their Nazism, their communities, caused. Americans always get to look away, complain about being bombarded by all that "stuff" that doesn't affect their lives (but was done by their communities.)
Racism is a hammer on the people it targets. I wonder why others are so overwhelmed by just mentions of it, yet argue that it doesn't much hurt us to endure it daily, across generations? Also why aren't they so annoyed "hammered" by hearing racism when spewed by their family, friends, communities?
A gentle reminder to UK 🏴 media Black & brown people don’t have to be nursing you or working as carers wiping the backsides of your elderly parents to be worthy of your condescension & entitled to human rights . Human Rights are universal, that’s the point .
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
Russia tried to assassinate the head of the European Commission by jamming the GPS on her plane.
Masses of the poorest, most marginalized, directly threatened by racist violence people confronted evil during the civil rights movement. Now we have masses of privileged, insulated people who are cowering in fear, convinced they can't do anything except whimper and post on social media.
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
She died because she was raised to be racist and ignorant, and Trump promised her both as the public norm and law.
The integrity of Earth’s biosphere is under unprecedented threat. Energy flows from photosynthesis are fundamental to life on Earth. However, human activities are increasingly diverting a significant portion of them, disrupting nature’s delicate balance.
Trump Unravels, Protesters Surge, and Governors Refuse To Bow My Labor Day Post:
Democratic Party is an easier target w/ a larger audience eager to see them torn to pieces and blamed for all that is wrong, not fixed. Going after Republicans with that energy would rankle media bosses, wealthy communities. Blame GOP for what they do > Blame Democrats for not fixing what GOP does.
Not just by women, because there are ineffectual women in the party as well. Democrats don't need more women like Kyrsten Sinema. Don't need more women who are more sympathetic to GOP voters, than to the Democratic base. No more fixation on not offending the white working class with anti-racism.
Inspired people are best served by inspired leaders who can act on the shared values and sense of urgency. However, some voters need to blame Democratic leadership for their personal lack of "inspired" challenge to GOP voting family, friends, community and GOP local and state leadership.
" Donald Trump wants to erase this history, because it casts a poor light (to put it mildly) on his own fascist dreams of a hierarchical, patriarchal, racist American future in which wealthy white men are entitled to the reverence, servility, and bodies of everyone else."
This is what Trump pardoned, a hardened criminal terrorist, do you think he will pardon him, yet again? share.newsbreak.com/essh8z13
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So glad to see him reelected, and y'know *in* office since they literally changed the locks on him I wrote about this town last year bc there was a lawsuit to make it have elections, which coincidentally stopped around when the Voting Rights Act was passed 🙃 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Q: What’s an interesting thing about the Meadowlands that most people do not know? A:..the first settlers burned out the forest bcse pirates were raiding ships along the river.... the ships being raided were slave ships, and the pirates were stealing the slaves. jerseyvindicator.org/2025/08/11/f...
By the way @jerseyvindicator.bsky.social Right here @njdoc.bsky.social is a portrait of New Jersey that deserves a feature.
Most Americans have always been allowed to evade truth, clutching their myths about inherent goodness, dedication to freedom and justice, and sweep "bad things" under the rug and refer to them as "the past we've over come." Why did millions of "Patriots" choose and cheer sociopath Trump? Expose it.
MAGAts should be required to face what Trump (and they) have done, but most major media organizations wouldn't tolerate even journalists doing that because those media organizations helped it all happen and covered for it. After WWII German citizens were forced by the Allies to see what happened.
Trump was a terrible person all along, and Ivanna saw it, but certainly Marla Maples and Melania willfully stepped right in to the filth. Maples helped with the cruelties towards Ivanna, and Melania sold herself to his evil empire. Her rant on Obama not "proving himself" to Americans? Sickening.
I'm glad for the conversation too and appreciate your information. It takes a lot to be socialized in that kind of setting and to become so conscious, open, about what was wrong - and reject it. You weren't meant to care about the things you've mentioned. We all need to challenge ourselves that way.
I'm glad to have a conversation with you, & I appreciate the information. It wasn't until after I left home at 18 that I realized other things. My whole school was founded by the KKK. Our colors were red & white, our mascot was the dragon, our school paper was called the Crimson Messenger.
Ivanka is likely the most aware of her siblings on what her father is and does, intellectually, and takes her profit from it just like his wives did/do.
@njdoc.bsky.social I listened to the Mayor describe physically unclogging storm drains himself, so surprising he'd side with more development to overwhelm the system. jerseyvindicator.org/2025/08/07/i... Also "The Jersey Vindicator" is a wonderful name. @jerseyvindicator.bsky.social
I don't know if ICE released this woman because of my @jerseyvindicator.bsky.social story. But I do know it feels good to be on the right side again — and making some kind of difference, even if it's just for one person. jerseyvindicator.org/2025/06/09/i...
She should be allowed to keep the deer. There should be an exemption, vet check requirements, and this considered as ani exemption not a norm. The law has to respond to unusual circumstances, not be rigid and cruel. This is the garden state, after all.
Media outlets using AI to generate content without a disclaimer would be fined $10,000 for the first offense under a bill sponsored by three NJ Dems.
The Garden State now has only 5.1 journalists per 100,000 people. Only Nevada fares worse.
"it was New Jersey that launched the nation." - Roger Williams, state historian for the New Jersey Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.
..on it!
They know how their own racism and cruelty, ignorance and stupidities.
The fossil fuel companies really do intend to keep on extracting and burning until they're forced to stop — no matter how much damage they do along the way. Their executives literally Do Not Care. The very definition of evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
...because those millions hate us.
But then they must be allowed to fight, without all the backstabbing from journalists who want the fight but not the wins. Journalists who only want enough resistance to maintain their own professional spaces. Journalists who needed to batter Democrats while unconcerned (then) about Trump winning.
He Plagiarized and Promoted Falsehoods. The White House Embraces Him. Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, has enjoyed rare access and promotion from the Trump administration. archive.ph/8udEH#select...
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Hope all is good and great!
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
Most wouldn't even think to mention Mamie Till, so thank you. I apologize if you felt I was angry at you, rather than for what Mamie and millions of others experienced. Angry that most Americans know what happened in Nazi Germany better than what happened in America for centuries.
And even now many speak of fascism "newly" coming to America, and reference Nazi horrors, but not the ones their g/parents ignored or inflicted in America. Because Americans weren't forced to see then, we have MAGA now. They were raised to believe America had no such horrors.
Thank you for sharing. Millions of Americans got to look away, ignore what was going on, yet advise Black people not to be angry or "too aggressive" about ending segregation. Such horrors inflicted on their communities for centuries, including slavery, by the time of the civil rights movement.
Right after the ruling from Judge Dillin, the KKK blew up an empty school bus, & later set a bus on fire with kids in it.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/p...
His mom's refusal to hide his body was important, and it reminds me of post-WW2 when Germans were forced to see some of the Nazi horrors by the Allied forces. America required that of Germans, but not of their own people. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/f... (video)
No need to apologize, but I appreciate your concern.
It didn't make me angry. I just saw a chance to add some detail to an interest, a concern.
The people shocked most by Till's photo weren't the people who started the Civil Rights Movement, they were a few of those who denied its horrors. The people who started the Civil Rights Movement grew up with those horrors as common, they were pained, but didn't suddenly figure out things were bad.
The civil rights movement would've happened. You do understand this wasn't the only murder, the only abomination, and that millions lived under violent segregation laws, racist terrorism? Civil Rights Movement organizing and activism started before Till's murder.
My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires. When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
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There are lots of people who lack high education, fancy jobs, wealth, have problems their skin color doesn't insulate them from exposing, but they didn't vote for pedophile rapist grifter idiot insurrectionist sociopath as POTUS. They choose better for leadership and for their fellow humans.
Why was it just too much to ask that in 2024 America would not mass vote for - and now tolerate - a rapist pedophile grifter racist insurrectionist idiot to be POTUS and openly, repeatedly, gleefully loot the nation, impose cruel and stupid policies, constantly babble ridiculous sadistic ignorance?
Blood drenched settler and slaver communities, recruited and provided land to drive off Natives or cower enslaved or free-Black people. The lynch mobs, segregationist, bigoted cruelties attacking any difference. We are to fear the urban areas - but ignore why so many fled them from rural areas.
The realities of MAGAt culture should help dismantle myths about "good pure rural heartland conservative christians" bcse if they were really as claimed they wouldn't have voted for a rapist grifter insurrectionist pedophile anti-christ. Also, knowing U.S. history would counter those myths too.
Would it be a shock to consider that some academics who just study an issue, miss critical details that people who actually live in the issues know? Due to willful bias or sloppy research, which includes not listening to people they don't consider "academic enough" to listen to and learn from.
Disabled people have been warning about this EXACT SCENARIO since 2016 and raising the alarm that if Trump installs a fascist government *this is what would happen* We very literally predicted all of this. None of it is a surprise. People just don’t listen to the disabled so you are caught off guard
If our fascism was normal and rote then we would have to admit we allowed it to happen and could have done something to stop it. So much easier to convince ourselves it’s unique and unknowable so we can wash our hands of responsibility.
True to tradition, Trump will skip out on a failing company, taking loot and none of the impact of the destruction. However, this time the company is the U.S. and it isn't just a few partners, staff, that take the hit. It is America. Even if he dies, he indulged himself and left bits for his family.
The government that Momand’s father risked his life to serve in fighting terrorism wants to deport his 19-year-old son, despite the young man’s lawful presence in the United States. www.rawstory.com/ice-deportat...
Following a mass shooting in Minnesota, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) insisted he couldn't remember why he opposed a bill to increase school safety. www.rawstory.com/tom-emmer-sc...
@njdoc.bsky.social He used his scam "I see damage so I won't pay full or at all for it" Trump responded: "the stone will be replaced, the subcontractor will shoulder the cost, and, he vowed, “never let that contractor work at the White House again.” www.rawstory.com/trump-reveal...
Trump celebrated the "true character" of former NFL coach Jon Gruden despite (because of) his resignation over reports that he used racist, sexist, and anti-gay slurs. www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...