"Kansas City went 17 years without a municipal jail." "FIFA will leave and the jail stays in our community." "That's not a World Cup investment for our City; that's a permanent expansion of incarceration disguised as event planning." #Missouri #USA #Incarceration #Sports

“We have made a technology that creates nothing but will ensure you have no future while we get richer and richer wait why are you boooing?”

On Fri night, Brooklyn court staff forced a woman to give birth inside the courtroom. Per public defenders, she gave birth in handcuffs, unable to reposition herself, unable to pick up her infant. The men who’d shackled her looked on. The judge lauded the birth of a ‘beautiful baby’ on the record.

Progressive candidate for Colorado AG calls for censure or impeachment of Gov Jared Polis (D) for giving clemency to Tina Peters

If you’re in Michigan, please consider joining this march. Racism & police brutality cannot go unchecked. ELPD needs to be held accountable. #JusticeForIsaiah

The work continues ….

Dont worry, now we have a mayor to remind everyone

I’m so tired of politicians telling us that we, the people have the power to change government but then not fulfilling their part of the basic premise, which is acting on our behalf. The whole point is that they’re supposed to pitch ideas on how to make things happen and we give them power to do so

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

Harrison Ford’s ASU commencement speech goes viral Story by Alix Martichoux KTLA Los Angeles Wed, May 13, 2026 at 11:49 AM MDT www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

3,437 bound volumes. 17,000 pounds of documents. 1,400 victims. Tomorrow at noon, I'm standing at a podium in Tribeca and reading the Epstein files out loud for 24 hours straight. Please join me. Subscribe here: www.youtube.com/@eliza.orlins

America's gun psychopathy continues: *184* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest, with 4 people wounded, in Homestead, Pa.: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

And this country will continue to value guns over dead Americans.

Americans in Congo may have had exposure to Ebola in outbreak, STAT News reports reut.rs/4ugMQk5

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Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

A great day in Montgomery, AL as thousands gathered under the theme “All Roads Lead to the South” - a rally to mobilize awareness & action in opposition to southern states racial gerrymandering to dismantle majority Black congressional districts after the SCOTUS decision in Louisiana v Calláis.

People who think organized religion has always been a hustle watching Trump 2 every day like

I mean lol

Jim Crow 2.0 isn’t coming, it’s here. Yesterday, hundreds marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama to continue the fight for voting rights that are under grave assault. The bridge isn’t just a symbol. It’s a call. Get on the bridge.

Israel has been expanding the territory it controls in Gaza during the ceasefire, Netanyahu acknowledged Sunday, pushing past the lines that were agreed upon in the US-brokered ceasefire 870 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since the ceasefire www.timesofisrael.com/now-60-netan...

Native American tribes say their sacred sites are being damaged by federal contractors building more walls along the U.S.-Mexico border. The construction has accelerated after the Trump administration waived cultural and environmental laws.

And the fact of them not caring about our consent is central. The pushers of AI don't care about consent. That's why they scrape artwork & writing without legal permission for sources. They also want to force AI on as much of the world as they can for profit, especially as it proves unprofitable.

Roy Wilson remembers marching with his family before the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. Sixty years later, he’s walking the route again with his friend Sharon Gargill and hundreds of others, reflecting on a new fight over voting rights. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/3PMJjLp

Detainees are telling us they are being treated brutally. Trump’s admin is trying to stop us from seeing it. And GEO Group has a 15yr $1B contract to run Delaney Hall. Detainees took a huge risk to tell us what’s happening behind closed doors. We must listen and take action now.

The only thing people hate more than AI are the sociopaths shoving it down our throats.

Mike Johnson is headlining Trump’s Rededicate 250 today in DC. White Christian nationalism is a racist movement. Corporate sponsors of Rededicate 250 include Mastercard and United Airlines.

Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 871 Palestinians since the so-called ceasefire started last year.

Thousands of people rallied Saturday in Montgomery, Alabama, to push back against conservative states' efforts to dismantle congressional districts that helped secure Black political representation. n.pr/4dNGqmC

Following in the steps of the LCME, which accredits med schools, the ABA has dropped its requirements for law schools to commit to diversity in recruitment, admissions, and student programming. This follows federal pressure to discontinue these requirements or lose their accreditation.

We need public health experts in the Senate. We have enough lawyers and enough businesspeople. Support me, a feminist public health professor and elected union leader as I fight to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate. Andreaformaine.com

best trend of 2026. boo all these fuckers.

America's gun psychopathy continues: *179* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔😡💔 The latest: a teen fatally shot his pregnant girlfriend, critically wounded her pregnant friend – forcing her to deliver at just 6 months – and critically wounded a woman. people.com/man-accused-...

America's gun psychopathy continues: *181* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest, with 4 people wounded, in Atlanta, Ga.: www.fox5atlanta.com/news/four-pe...

New in my newsletter: A major civil rights protest took place in Alabama today in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

The path for national redemption is thru the south. Years of investing and losing turned GA; the same can happen here. LA is full of disengaged and disenfranchised ppl; there's potential here. As in GA, organizers here, mainly Black, are moving mountains; they deserve support. LA deserves support.

Internal AutoZone memo: “.. We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.” (via Costa Oil) #$AZO

“…reinforcing previous studies, the researchers found that a patchwork of state, federal and local policies allow data center operators to avoid publicly disclosing their actual water use.”

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Turns out a Navy willing to execute civilians in boats in the Caribbean to produce snuff films for the president is a Navy willing to let the FBI director treat a tomb as a fun frolic

You do not spend generations suppressing a people you believe are weak.

Marching in Alabama… same bridge, same fight, different century… (H/T @memphisforall )

Journalist Solomon Crenshaw Jr. is covering the voting rights events in Selma and Montgomery today for The Handbasket. Here’s a great shot from this morning:

Montgomery. (📸 by Solomon Crenshaw Jr.)

Washington Post in 1979: U.S. State Dept. found Israeli "abuse during interrogation of arrested Palestinians," including "refrigeration, use of electricity, hanging by the hands or feet, extreme forms of sexual sadism, interrogation accompanied by starvation, enforced sleeplessness"

The Watertown School District, in Wisconsin, voted to ban students from performing a song that’s dedicated to the Stonewall uprising, leading to major protests by students. www.wpr.org/news/waterto...

Imagine hearing a 11-year old tell you this and going “nah, we want you to feel excluded” bsky.app/profile/capi...