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It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

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...

The Trump administration may be going after the Southern Poverty Law Center now, but make no mistake, this attack affects everyone. The point of prosecuting SPLC or others that make the president angry is to send a message: Fall in line or pay the price.

Tennessee Representative Justin Pearson who was apprehended by Alabama police with his brother while fighting against Jim Crow maps took the stage at #AllRoadsSouth and said: "you can rig a map but you can't rig a movement." #FreedomSummer2026

The U.S. government has recently convicted multiple postdocs from China for improper shipments of biological materials. Some see a replay of the 2018 China Initiative. https://scim.ag/4txj2hZ

The confederacy is alive and well and they've already captured DC. Its time for Americans to take it back. We cannot continue to fall for disingenuous theatrics by traitors. They want to take away the right to vote because even after all the damage they done they fear the people.

BREAKING: We're suing Louisiana officials for suspending the state's primary election after voting has already begun. On the heels of a Supreme Court decision that eviscerated protections for voters of color, elected officials jumped at the chance to disenfranchise people — we won't allow it.

Happy May Day. They can’t kill us all.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

I was elected as a democratic socialist, and will continue to govern as a democratic socialist. 100 days in — and we’re just getting started.

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

Absolutely vile. Actions like this against our forests are irreparable to begin with but to then stymie the very people who can minimize the damage is blatantly evil. One thing is certain, long term institutional work must be insulated from executive power. We are ruled by a gang of defilers.

Como a la renovada NASA se le ha olvidado mencionarlo, lo hago yo: la tripulación de #ArtemisII es la más diversa de la historia rumbo a la Luna. Incluye a la primera mujer, la primera persona negra y la primera persona no estadounidense 🚀 🌖

Like a gangster sitting in court to intimidate the court members. It should be impossible for SCOTUS to even consider birthright citizenship to be negociable. But this SCOTUS thinks the Constitution is just clay in search of a sculptor.

It's been 3 months since the Justice Department was supposed to release the full, unredacted Epstein files.

Imagine that everything he promised his base turning out to be a lie. Shocking. Just shocking.

Don't forget Renée Good. #ReneeGood

Read our full response here: outdoorserviceguides.org/news/our-com... #everybodyscouts #diversity #Equity #inclusion

30 years. This video should be on every network.

Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

Wow.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

The Statehouse is moving fast, and so are bills that undermine civil liberties. Read about a few of the bills that passed out of committee yesterday and keep up with our online tracker: https://www.aclu-in.org/legislation/

A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE. It includes: -Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 -The MN AFL-CIO -SEIU Local 26 -UNITE HERE Local 17 -CWA Local 7250 -Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators -Faith leaders And more. 🧵

UNARMED WOMAN: “Shame on you.” ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?” UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?” ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE* (H/T @Mollyploofkins)

When Trump declared “I won’t say cancel the election, they should cancel the election because the fake news will say ‘he wants the elections canceled. He’s a dictator.’ They always call me a dictator,” he was following his standard playbook. Next he'll say "many people are saying..."