Lisa D. T. Rice #MaskUp

American Democracy in Distress Ignore Race at Our Peril Every single day, I look at this quilt, which I created in 2021, hanging in my home studio, wondering why I've felt like I've been YELLING 👏 INTO 👏THE 👏 VOID 👏 ever since. I'm hoarse. Can you hear me now? CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW??!! #democracy

NEW: WDIV poll of Michigan Senate race

Per info received from the Davis campaign, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (a contender for the 2028 presidential race) will be rallying alongside Davis today in NOLA.

JUST FILED: Big loss in court for Trump's attempt to intervene in California midterm elections High-level Jan 6 riot defendant seeks taxpayer-funded payout Maurene Comey's vindication.. .. & the frail new criminal case against James Comey DAY AHEAD: macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-...

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald is still doing the heavy lifting on keeping the story alive. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

As a scholar of white supremacy & Black liberation movements, it's important to me to recall my own family's history supporting slavery & Jim Crow as I do this work. I wrote this piece a few years ago to help me think through how this past both facilitates & informs my research today.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

#HBCU #blacksky

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

special Buckeye edition, episode 4 bsky.app/profile/kyle...

This is a near perfect article whose only defect is the fact that it refers to them as Dan Sullivans rather than the correct Dans Sullivan. www.washingtonsun.com/national/dan...

📣 There is no racial or ethnic requirement to be a US citizen. Period.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Empathy and kindness are so needed in the world we now live in 🫶

Welp. "Liberals are the new racists," according to an America Next commercial that just aired during the Green Bay vs Detroit game. Uh huh. I'd say I've seen it all. However, I'm pretty sure the rhetoric will get more ridiculous over the next 16 days. White supremacy is a helluva drug.

Check out how easy this is.

NEW: Judge Mike Bennet, a Trump appointee on the 9th Circuit, just told the DOJ he doesn't think they have jurisdiction as the district court was prepared to rule after he already knew 331K ballots were processed.

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I know that everyone is focused on Trump's attacks in California and Alaska. My team is fighting in court in both places. But understand the fight for free and fair elections is much broader. Elias Law Group is currently litigating 92 voting and election cases in 42 states plus DC.

Earlier this week ... I cooked up a batch of collard sweet potato hash. Delicious!

The oddities of driving while Black, even in #DC.

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Good morning, soup lovers. Ready for this week #navybean soup. It's fall, y'all! Where are my foodies?

I need people to understand this selective good ole boy justice — the kind that protects abusers, rewards impunity, and openly flouts rule of law and equal protection under it — is Jim Crow shit, practically speaking. It's how Jim Crow terrorism FLOURISHED. Trump broadened the acceptable targets.

10 days left to elect some of the most battle-tested fighters the Democratic Party has ever seen. From Georgia to New Hampshire to Arizona, the folks on the ballot this November are focused and ready to deliver. Let's get it done.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Elias Law Group has filed to fight DOJ's lawsuit to rig the Alaska Senate election. We will win this case, Mary will win this election, she will be certified and seated.

Oh, wow! Sadly, this would never happen in DC. Or ... would it? 🤔

🚨BREAKING: Democrats have asked a federal judge to move quickly in their lawsuit seeking to stop the White House from threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution and demanding that states remove voters from registration rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

#OnBrand Yet let's see how many white women in Ohio choose the INSANITY.

The answer is yes. He can win. Because he doesn’t throw trans folks under the bus, for one.

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

Somalian. He's Somalian. www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.

Been hearing family & friends in DMV area push this for at least 4 decades: DC Statehood Now! People forget or do not know folks actually live & thrive in DC with no real representation in our federal government. It has been in my lifetime that they got home rule! #WorkingToFix2026

Jan. 6 and the Long Shadow of Civil War- and Reconstruction-Era Political Violence I found this interesting article by Professors Greg Downs and Kate Masur. "Two days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, we authored a piece for the Washington Post drawing on our expertise in Civil War…

In less than 2 weeks, Washington, DC will use ranked choice voting in a general election for the first time. This comes after DC voters approved an RCV ballot measure in 2024 w/ 73% support. Here’s what you need to know ⬇️ @rankthedistrict.bsky.social

East Potomac costs $42 to play and hosts thousands of people each year. A lot of the players are beginners. A lot of them don't have that much money. A lot of them are black. This is the course Donald Trump has decided shouldn't exist, and in the past, he's been fairly explicit about why not