Israeli human rights group B'Tselem says that Israeli prisons "continue to function as a network of torture camps"--part of Israel's "coordinated onslaught on Palestinian society." Here's their list of Palestinians killed in custody since Oct 7, 2023. statistics.btselem.org/en/all-fatal...
The government has broad authority to control admission but courts have held *repeatedly*, over more than half a century, that the First Amendment bars the government from denying visas to foreign citizens simply because it dislikes what they have to say. 1/
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
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Different politicians have brandished “common sense” to very different ends—but Trump’s use of the term overshadows all others.
Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.
You're welcome
The right have launched an all-out attack on liberals and the left, in the wake of the Kirk killing, pushing narratives about left-wing violence and the need to investigate liberal nonprofits and Schumer and Jeffries are totally AWOL. The Dems are leaderless.
Shocking.
"Controlled explosions, excavators and bulldozers have obliterated whole areas."
Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions, in what experts are calling a war crime: bbc.co.uk/news/resourc... #Gaza
NRSC, ET AL. V. FEC, ET AL. The motion of Democratic National Committee, et al. for leave to intervene is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted.
NEW: The Supreme Court will review one of the last standing pillars of campaign finance regulations, which limits the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with candidates. The court will almost certainly strike down this restriction. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
The result will be chaos for this Nation’s public schools. Requiring schools to provide advance notice and the chance to opt out of every lesson plan or story time that might implicate a parent’s religious beliefs will impose impossible administrative burdens on schools. The harm will not be borne by educators alone: Children will suffer too. Classroom disruptions and absences may well inflict long-lasting harm on students’ learning and development. Worse yet, the majority closes its eyes to the inevitable chilling effects of its ruling. Many school districts, and particularly the most resource strapped, cannot afford to engage in costly litigation over opt-out rights or to divert resources to tracking and managing student absences. Schools may instead censor their curricula, stripping material that risks generating religious objections. The Court’s ruling, in effect, thus hands a subset of parents the right to veto curricular choices long left to locally elected school boards. Because I cannot countenance the Court’s contortion of our precedent and the untold harms that will follow, I dissent.
Sotomayor, in dissent, correctly says that today's decision in Mahmoud will lead public schools to simply censor books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes, creating "chaos" and stigmatizing children with LGBTQ families. This decision will lead to book bans.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
🎥 Former Congressman Jamaal Bowman stopped by Zohran HQ and spoke with Ryan Grim.
Jamaal Bowman: “There are superstars in the Democratic Party. AOC is one of them. Now Zohran is another…”
And then Ryan asked Congressman Bowman about Rep. Richie Torres. You’ll want to hear the full exchange. ⬇️
One especially irritating tendency left-bashing centrists have is their selectiveness about what they consider “realistic.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/they-al...
!!!! "In a previously unreported development, federal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted U.S. aid funds to the (MS-13) gang..."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ralph-n...
“Shame on Ezra Klein... The problem with Ezra Klein is he doesn’t focus sufficiently on the corporate domination of our political economy, of our culture, of our children, and he’s lost his way."
Mamdani is now ahead of Cuomo with just two weeks until the Democratic NYC mayoral primary, a new poll found.
Trump has tapped Palantir, which has been used by the Israeli government in its war on Gaza, to compile information on people in the United States.
“If you're not freaking out yet, you should be,” says @carolecadwalla.bsky.social.
Cancer drug Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.
Decades later, Revlimid costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply...
Even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.
New: @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @propublica.org
It is wrong to see Hungary hosting Netanyahu or withdrawing from the #ICC as an isolated event.
It's part of a wider assault on basic human rights and the rule of law: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump just issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator”—that is Elon Musk—access to the voter files of every state for the purpose of purging millions of Americans from voter rolls. www.gregpalast.com/trump-musk-o...
Been listening as part of my morning routine since my dad had DN on the radio every day on the way to my elementary school. Truly no better public service/news show in the US!
TODAY: We’re in court in Michigan challenging several medically unnecessary laws that make abortion harder to access and VIOLATE the state’s Reproductive Freedom for All constitutional amendment (RFFA), one of the broadest guarantees of reproductive freedom in the nation.
It is widely agreed that the President does not have the authority to unilaterally impound federal funds.
@seharrison7.bsky.social analyzes potential Impoundment Control Act challenges to Donald Trump's executive actions.
www.justsecurity.org/107885/trump...
To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class | Peter Kalmus
Satellite Imagery is used extensively in open-source investigative research, in this guide tech-fellow Agnes Cameron explains how some satellite images reveal more than the eye can see. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
