Dianne Bell

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Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Black people saw the largest decline in financial stability for nearly every category compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Federal Reserve survey.

White Supremacy Is an Antidemocracy Movement open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters

Again. But we have to fight every inch of the way before November. Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM

The great flaw in Plessy is its refusal to see segregation for what it is. This willful naïveté animates Callais as well It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

8. So while I don't think Callais is *apocalyptic* for Democrats, it's still a hideous perversion of the Constitution that will undermine democracy and racial equality for years. The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead. The 15th Amendment has been repurposed to greenlight racism. It's a dark day.

White Christian supremacist court. White Christian supremacist President. White Christian supremacist Congress. And the result is the most profound series of setbacks for the rights of people of color and women in over a century. It is a nauseating time to be alive in America. Fight back harder.

Especially since Todd Blanche has been caught lying about SPLC. www.ksro.com/2026/04/28/s...

I am concerned that Fidelity would make a decision like this based only on flimsy accusations. “On its own terms, the indictment is frail and deficient.” – Andrew Weissmann - The Poverty of the DOJ Indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center at www.justsecurity.org/137171/indic...

All this because Donald Trump couldn't abide the idea of a Black president having a success. This war may have been triggered by his desire to distract from Epstein...but his tearing up the JCPOA (like his Nobel Prize obsession) is driven by his profound and unyielding racism.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Reactionary centrists and republicans spent years smearing, belittling, or dismissing anyone who properly described the Trumpism as a white supremacist project. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

It is time for more than one general to stand up and speak out. This is intolerable behavior ever much less in the middle of a war. Hegseth must go now.

The US Department of War Crimes.

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

The Secretary of Defense fired the Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war because he refused to follow a racist, sexist, probably illegal order. This should be the end of Hegseth and demands an investigation into whether, as likely, the President okayed the action.

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

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Texas is close to not being a functioning democracy It’s the hardest place to vote because Republicans have put impediments in place based on totally bogus vote fraud concerns - that they just make up The courts have become complicit in this effort What we’re seeing in Texas now is a disgrace

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

"That so many Americans chose to place in power a man who holds people in contempt on the basis of race, religion, and national origin; ...—well, that does say something about America, and Americans." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Hey @democrats.senate.gov and @housedemocrats.bsky.social remember you are there to fight for people like Laurel. No healthcare. No deal!

gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... "Trump is saying, essentially, If you don’t want to get hurt, you’ll do what I say." -By Adam Serwer

remember all those hot takes during the primary about how Mamdani was the candidate for rich white liberals? a "champagne socialist" ? yeah, about that

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

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COMING THIS SUMMER TO ABC: the obeying-in-advance Olympics. Executives and owners of America’s largest corporations compete to see who can decipher the whims and musings of an aging, addled authoritarian and OBEY! IN! ADVANCE! Tune in this summer. It will be the only thing left on TV (or TikTok).

Read this from @jamellebouie.net (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.” My latest in @thenation

Trump is using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to rig the midterms: -Extreme gerrymandering -Nationalizing voter suppression -Weaponizing law enforcement -Occupying Democratic cities Please read & share my new cover story in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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