Authoritarianism is here. Secret police arresting US citizens for speaking out.

Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.

This is what happens when secrecy and cruelty meet incompetence. Pretty much our federal government in a nutshell right now . And families pay the price. www.wfae.org/race-equity/...

Hey by the way #PatHarrigan - if you are going to talk about CMPD get the name right - they are NOT the Charlotte Metropolitan Police Dept. They are the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department. Are you sure you’re from around here ?

Love wins! But we need to stay vigilant, as you never know with this court how issues can come back up.... #LoveWins

Maine voters are projected to reject a ballot measure that would have added voter ID requirements and adjusted absentee voting rules, according to the Associated Press.

Zohran Mamdani, whose triumphant campaign was built on progressive ideas and a relentless focus on affordability, will become the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century. Along the way, he energized South Asian and Muslim communities that rarely receive sustained attention from politicians.

Elizabeth neighborhood Pumpkin Wall is up! This is its 21st year- I remember when it first started!

Yup It’s still a man’s world. But that’s changing. Women’s sports will continue to rise. Stay strong.

Get ready for a peaceful Oct 18 “No Kings” rally. This will be global. It will be creative . No tyrants. No kings. We want democracy #NoKings

A federal judge on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, even as President Trump turned to the Texas guard in a widening hunt for military forces to send to Democratic cities. Follow live: nyti.ms/3KCr5t4

This Wednesday (Oct. 1) at noon, join us for a "Lunch & Learn" with Tim Heaphy on: Defending Democracy: Confronting Political Violence in the 21st Century Register at: catawba-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Love math nerds. Well done Rivka! She’s proven what voting rights advocates have been saying all along : www.forbes.com/sites/kevina...

Showing this weekend in Charlotte.

Free speech scholars say ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely represents "jawboning," when government officials pressure private companies to suppress speech.

Liberal democracy is “dependent on the existence of nonpolitical institutions,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social tells @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. “It has to be the case that when you win an election, you don’t get to control everything.” Watch more from #TAF25: bit.ly/46lDaLT

Today we are all Jimmy Kimmel.

At least 40 Palestinians were killed in Gaza City as residents described nonstop Israeli attacks, from drones and jets to explosive robots used to destroy neighbourhoods, medical sources and witnesses told Al Jazeera aje.io/mespwe

The decision to suspend one of American television’s best-known hosts reflects pressure from within the company’s commercial orbit and the US media regulator’s looming presence on.ft.com/4mIfh69

In what amounts to his furthest-reaching threat to media freedoms, President Donald Trump said U.S. broadcast networks should face scrutiny over their licenses if they’re too critical of him.

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://cnn.it/4p0fkwn

Pete Hegseth’s move to reinstall a Confederate statue is, at worst, a move to show that “he and the Trump administration are making common cause with apologists who believe that the wrong side won the Civil War,” Mike Nelson argues.

This is because we no longer have leaders who care about intelligence - or who exhibit any.

Great piece! Good to see that it is posted on a right leaning site - the George W. Bush Institute. Good to know that both right and left leaning voices are tired of the growing polarization in our country and are trying to find a way to co-exist again. Can we ? www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/pro...

Oh yeah great accomplishment . Let’s bring back memorials to the enslavers and revere those who fought to secede from the country so they could keep owning other humans.

The Brennan Center has a stark warning about unconstitutional federal interference in state - run elections : www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Sure seems like the President of the United States is going to pardon a convicted sex trafficker and serial abuser who ran a pedophilia ring with his best friend in the whole wide world.

How is this humanly possible in just a couple of months... Pay it back, fElon.

I wish building a concentration camp and selling merch was attacked as much as suggesting taxing billionaires 2% more to pay for free childcare and buses for everyone.

Demonstrators formed human chain for 'Rage Against the Regime' rally in Raleigh's Halifax Mall #NoKings www.wral.com/news/local/r...

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Inmates would rather die of starvation than continue to live in this facility. That tells you everything. The Trump Administration is reaching new heights of cruelty.

Congress has given up its power, leaving America and the world subject to the whims of a madman.

And the misogyny continues, empowered by those in leadership who openly degrade women.

Good points. Cancel the LA Olympics : www.laprogressive.com/los-angeles-...

Any of you National Park supporters, this is outrageous. The Trump administration wants to rewrite history so it’s only about white people. Call your federal reps today: www.sfgate.com/california-p...

Censorship wasn’t enough . Now they have to document their censorship. Following the autocrat’s handbook: UNC Board of Governors Demands New DEI Compliance Committees www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

Earlier this year, the Trump administration dismantled USAID, the agency responsible for international aid. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists that "no one has died" because of the cuts. cnn.it/459Hs7g

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Out Rep. Mark Takano sounds alarm over official’s “deeply disturbing” comment on Holocaust deniers www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/out-...

Businesses across the state (including three in Charlotte) were caught ringing up different prices than what was advertised.

I’ve Seen How the Neo-Nazi Movement Is Escalating. You Should Worry. www.theassemblync.com/media/neo-na...

It’s time for all of us to be afraid No one is safe. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

This is terrifying. The new budget bill has created an American Gestapo, thousands of masked and unidentified goons snatching people off the streets . Their budget is unprecedented . Trump’s masked army.

To mock and smile over a bill that will snatch food and healthcare benefits from millions while increasing the federal debt to give relief to billionaires is despicable and cruel and evil.

Protest again at Hawthorne St bridge today - protesting the big ugly bill that steals from the poor to give to the rich.

Doctors and nurses at Veterans Affairs hospitals are worried about support staff being laid off after President Donald Trump took office in January despite an already strained medical system with staffing shortages, hiring freezes and attrition.