Trey Reed and Corey Zukatis deserved lives of abundance, hope, and opportunity. May they rest in peace. Both cases demand a full investigation.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The South has got something to say! Over 100 people showed up to canvass in a special election runoff for Debra Shigley with @ossoff.bsky.social, @reproductivefreedomforall.org and our @hrc.org family! We can win this, y’all! Volunteer with us: mobilize.us/hrcga

The @wsj.com has not done nearly enough to repair the harm. Email them and demand better: HRC.im/wsj

A lot of y'all didn't decry "political violence" when Tortuguita was shot 14 times in cold blood by state troopers, but have a lot to say about someone whose assailant remains at large with an unknown motive. Why is it complicated when the victim is brown? Why is it so easy then the victim is white?

The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath. Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.

A moment of silence for Donal-

So you mean JD VANCE went to PEACHTREE CITY to tell Georgians that crime has people hiding in their homes? They only crime happening in that city is white collar and not having a golf cart 🥴

Your leadership is feckless, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. Resign and let someone who can see the imposition of military forces on our civilian streets and call it what it is. Pathetic.

We can thank Brian KKKemp and Georgia Republicans for their bills to allow anyone to have a gun anywhere they want. The GOP’s obsession with guns makes all of us less safe. www.11alive.com/article/news...

The man who helped pass Georgia’s abortion ban, suppress Black votes, undermine unions and working people, and attacked Georgia’s LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities wants to be a Democrat Governor? You MUST be joking 🤡

Mike Collins can’t even spell the name of the state he wants to represent in the US Senate. 🤭

Trans friends in ATL or who can get to ATL, the comrades at Snap Co are running a free passport clinic from Aug 18-26! More details here: www.snap4freedom.org/event-detail...

John Oliver doesn’t get enough credit for having a show with a strong viewpoint who will oftentimes devote 20-25 minutes to a topic, sometimes one that you can’t hear about on American television anywhere else, and manage to be pretty consistently funny while doing it. It’s a hell of a balancing act

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

The GOP death cult is a morally bankrupt party decaying the fabric of America with their spiritual rot. They steal from the sick, disabled, pregnant, young and working poor to line the pockets of the wealthy, build concentration camps and fund genocides.

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use 2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use 3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

All this activism against cop cities, carceral punishment, police brutality sure would’ve restricted the extent of police power but y’all ignored them and called them “naïve” and “unrealistic” and “far-left”. Supporting that activism would’ve been useful for these times of incarceration of innocents

AI slop is a failed tool of the right to compensate for their lack of talent, artists, innovators and writers. They were so jealous of the progressive cultural power of Black, Indigenous, AANHPI, Latine, working people, LGBTQ+ and disabled people.

Final results coming out showing Zohran beat Cuomo by 12 points just as the Senate passed the largest transfer of wealth from all of us to billionaires is a reminder to all of us that the majority don't want this. There's way more of us than them. Call your house members!

Trump’s disastrous budget bill is the most devastating blow to working people we’ve seen in modern America. This administration wants to destroy our country to line the pockets of the wealthy. We can fight back, and we absolutely should.

When Josh Hawley talks about turning the GOP into a party for working people, he’s full of shit. If you talk big game about supporting the working class but always fall in line for the billionaires, you aren’t any better than the other GOP officials — you’re just a liar on top of being a sell-out.

Billionaire Bill Ackman is now saying that there are "hundreds of million of dollars" available to back a challenger to Zohran Mamdami. This is a billionaire refusing to respect democracy, and refusing to respect a vote that chose people over profit.

10 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jim Obergefell and his late husband John’s right to be married. Now, I get to share my heart with the love of my life and I’m so excited that we’re getting married! 💍 💛

he's right and he's right to say it

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

The thing about those who deeply believe in a better world is that we’re constantly let down by our present. But there is immense strength in the ability to rise time after time even as grief threatens to drown us. So many try to bury us not knowing we’re seeds ✨

On this day more than 50 years ago, Sylvia Rivera climbed onto a stage to advocate for incarcerated trans people at a Pride rally and demanded trans inclusion in the fight for rights. Hearing her speech is important 50 years later. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The State of Georgia forced a Adriana Smith, a brain dead Black woman, to incubate a baby, but sure…tell me more about how America is a bastion of human rights. American exceptionalism is fascist ideology wrapped in pretty words.

It is illegal for Donald Trump to drag America into another endless foreign war. Congress should immediately pass a War Powers Resolution to block Trump from carrying out an unconstitutional war.

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again

Donald Trump is dangerous, violent and incompetent and has no business being the President of the United States. The Hague awaits.

If you’re under 30, you weren’t even born the last time Andrew Cuomo lived here. This is your city. Vote like it.

Georgia can’t lead on civil rights while criminalizing the poor. @warnock.senate.gov and @ossoff.senate.gov supported the a bill that fuels racial profiling & ICE raids on our unhoused neighbors. We’re calling on them to undo the harm. ✍️ Sign the petition: resist.bot/petitions/PV... #abolishice

To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to *break* laws. Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

Karoline Leavitt is a genocidal racist mouthpiece of a wannabe autocratic regime.

We are updating the @washingtonpost.com story now on the Skrmetti ruling, but I wanted to share a few feeds from my interviews today. First, HRC's senior legal director says there are still MANY pathways for fighting laws that target trans people.

SCOTUS Skrmetti decision is devastating, but we are NOT backing down. This moment requires all of us to double down on our commitment to equality for ALL and sharpen our focus on organizing for a better future for the LGBTQ+ community. These colors don’t run! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has imperiled access to health care for trans youth by upholding Tennessee’s ban on affirming care for trans youth and ruling that this anti-trans law is not unconstitutional.

Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people. These bastards want us all dead.

Shout out to Chase Strangio who did his level best and should have fucking won. What a beast of an attorney and an amazing advocate. This is heartbreaking. #Skrmetti

What’s quite sad about this is that progressives also want economy where parents can choose whether or not they stay home to raise their kids. We also believe one income should be able to sustain a family. Seeing the manipulation of the young working class in real time by the wealthy is jarring.

This genocidal rhetoric rooted in supremacy needs to be condemned. It’s vile. And if you don’t see an issue with what he’s saying, you’re actually a horrible person. Placing a hierarchy on the value of human life is how we ended up here.

I’m so proud of our incredible super volunteer and emerging leader in the fight for dignity and equality for transgender people. Love you to the moon and back, Bella!

No Kings in Atlanta. No Kings in America. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

If you had as bad and crazy of an experience as everyone trying to fly on the East coast did today, you can thank Trump’s cuts that destroyed FAA capacity.

While I am grateful that there are people who died trying to protect their neighbors, US Military activity post 9/11 up to 2023 lead to the deaths of 4.5 million to 4.6 million humans in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. The vast majority of people weren’t soldiers.

Newsom is a fascist collaborator. He knows Trump has weaponized federal funding to curtail speech they disapprove of. Bringing Hollywood under federal subsidy like this would put film production under Trump's control. Have a queer kiss or a trans character? Funding pulled.