Leslye Colvin

Leslye Colvin

@leslye.bsky.social

Catholic Writer ~ Certified Spiritual Director ~ Contemplative Activist ~ Alabama native Journey with me as a paid or free subscriber at leslyeslabyrinth.substack.com. she/her Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Mother Jones
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The Supreme Court’s decision decimating the Voting Rights Act threatens to return the country to a pre-1965 America, when white supremacy was the law of the land, and Congress contained no Black members from the South. “This has sent us back, in my view, over 60 years.”

motherjones.comJim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

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Vanity Fair
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An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ by Matthew Cole examines how bank accounts linked Kushner to Israel, the UAE and Saudi Arabia: vanityfair.visitlink.me/qHPzPB

vanityfair.visitlink.meThe Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in TransfersAn exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former senior adviser—to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.
Leslye Colvin
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Thank you, @motherjones.com, for coming to Dothan, AL!

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

“I have never seen a rally with this much excitement and this kind of crowd, ever.” Congressman Shomari Figures (D-AL) drew 400-500 people in a county that Trump won by 48 points. Dothan locals said the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA is motivating democrats to get out to the polls.

Leslye Colvin
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@motherjones.com had two journalists in my hometown yesterday to cover the campaign of Congressman Shomari Figures in his newly gerrymandered 2nd Congressional District of Alabama. Looking forward to reading the report from Anna and Ari. #ShomariFigures

Leslye Colvin
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I'm attending Committee to Elect Shomari Figures for Congress's event, “Dothan Get Out The Vote Rally with Rep. Figures, Sen. Doug Jones, Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Jon Tester! Hope to see you there too! www.mobilize.us/figuresforco...

mobilize.usDothan Get Out The Vote Rally with Rep. Figures, Sen. Doug Jones, Sen. Booker, and Sen. Tester · Committee to Elect Shomari Figures for CongressJoin Congressman Shomari Figures, Senator Doug Jones, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Senator Tester of Montana in Dothan on Thursday, October 22 at 12pm for a high-energy rally bringing togeth...
Leslye Colvin
@leslye.bsky.social

"Laurie Carafone, executive director of the Catholic social justice organization @networklobby.bsky.social, said recent polling illustrates the growing divide between white and Hispanic Catholics." www.ncronline.org/news/trumps-...

ncronline.orgTrump's deportation crackdown may influence how Catholics vote in midtermsCatholics and advocates spoke to NCR about how Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement is creating political tensions ahead of the 2026 midterms.

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Sherrilyn Ifill
@sifill.bsky.social

Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

mississippifreepress.orgKohen Wiley Shooting ‘Was Justified,’ Mississippi AG SaysThe police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s…
Leslye Colvin
@leslye.bsky.social

“This is genocide!”- Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan

DAWN@dawnmenaorg.bsky.social

“This is not a humanitarian crisis, Kate. This is genocide,” Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan told CNN. At DAWN’s 2026 Annual Gala, we presented Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care physician, with the 2026 Jamal Khashoggi Defender of Justice Award, for her courage, service and advocacy for children in Gaza.

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MoveOn
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Share to make it loud and clear: Every. Single. Vote. Counts.

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Abdul El-Sayed
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

President @barackobama.bsky.social showed me something in myself I might never have seen without him. I’m humbled to have his support in this fight. The Affordable Care Act will have laid the groundwork for guaranteed healthcare and I'm honored to pick up his baton and finally pass Medicare for All.

Leslye Colvin
@leslye.bsky.social

Tuesday, October 20 at 5:30pm CT

Southern Poverty Law Center@splcenter.org

📚 Oct. 20: Reserve your spot to talk history and remembrance with author Jim Emison at the SPLC's #CRMC 🔗: https://bit.ly/4h80lOZ We'll discuss his book, "Murder on the Hatchie: The NAACP’s First Martyr," exploring the 1940 death of Elbert Williams and his role in the fight for #CivilRights.

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Veterans Against Trump
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And they can immediately denaturalize and deport Elon Musk, who illegally overstayed his student visa and lied on his citizenship application. There is no statute of limitations for immigration fraud.

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John Cocker
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On this day in 1866, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 29 Mar 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband and on the 19 Oct 1942 to Treblinka extermination camp where they were murdered on arrival. Her name was Josefa Fröhlichovás

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The Assisi Project
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“The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment." #PopeLeoXIV #RespectLife #NoDeathPenalty

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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social

NEW: When Christa Pike became the first person to survive multiple lethal injections, witnesses at the prison that day suddenly became a part of history. I spoke with @iamstevenhale.bsky.social of Nashville Banner about the things he saw in the execution chamber—and the things he could only hear:

thehandbasket.coWhat it's like to witness a botched executionQ+A with Steven Hale of The Nashville Banner, who watched as Christa Pike survived two lethal injections.