Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces a criminal investigation by the Justice Department The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation and faces possible charges over its use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

EU’s top court finds Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law in breach of key values ECJ says law passed in 2021 is discriminatory and ‘contrary to the identity of the union’, in early test for new PM

“The EU’s highest court has found Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law to be discriminatory, stigmatising and in breach of basic democratic values…”

This is a crucial decision. The court rejected the political claim that LGBTQ+ representation is “propaganda.” We must keep fighting politics that dehumanise us.

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

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This is all part of a dismantlement of gay and women's rights in the UK. You can see how the EHRC was stacked with transphobes, and now we can see the same process beginning in Stonewall. Trans rights are small potatoes, they want a repeal of marriage equality and criminalisation of abortion.

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$23 + fees to PTKU for every loss Boise State volleyball was served by San Jose State since the turn of the century.

I’ll go back to donating in BSU’s name when they stop being an enabler of xtian nationalist horseshit.

@hollyanderson.bsky.social

moscow, idaho has been valiantly fighting off his bullshit for a long time now as he tries to take over the town through business ownership, politics, and any other way he can. it ain’t working because those folks have a visceral reaction to him and his church, for a reason

my angry post about this case this morning is now an angry article

Roy Anthony Scott was in a mental health crisis and called 911 asking for help

Cops came and killed him, & now the Court is casting doubt on whether the cops can be held accountable for his death
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For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

Having spent some of my formative years in a subsistence village in one of the harshest climates on earth, I learned that it takes a village to survive. Those reality show “self-sufficient” homesteaders rely on all kinds of technology and supplies and support from outside.

Here's wishing every single hospital administrator who complied in advance a very wakes up in a cold anxious sweat every day until they a) reverse course and b) apologize.

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

I’ll be watching for this! I’m appalled at the influence Wilson has currently 😡

My hot take is that disco hate came from it being super Black & queer.

While we’re still thinking about – and standing with – the people of Minnesota, it's time to take down their state flag & fly something new on my building in downtown #Boise #Idaho.

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F*ckin shameful. Shameful!

And for $20 million you can buy the naming rights to "wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Balmer"

Public pools used to be everywhere in America. Then racism shut them down. In her new book, “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together,” Heather McGhee looks at how racism drained not only public pools, but also public support for universal he...

When people ask me why the US is like this, I tell them about the disappearance of public pools after the civil rights act. White supremacists would rather sweat to death than share a cooling dip near a black person. That's why we're like this.

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A given in this "administration."

LOL.

Living under authoritarianism is horrible, but I feel a certain grim satisfaction that every centrist who bought the idea that people on the left disapproving of things was a threat to free speech has been exposed as a total mark.

Trans Day of Visibility: Most anti-trans adults don’t know anyone trans Most anti-trans young adults don’t even know a trans person, according to research by Just Like Us released on Trans Day of Visibility.

Working alongside gay women, both in the NION collective, and in our wider support network, this week we celebrate the power and solidarity of women of all kinds working together, focusing on the real causes of harm and misogyny in our shared world.

Thank you!

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Sherrilyn Ifill on Rebuilding Post-Trump: Podcast Episode · The Best People with Nicolle Wallace · April 20 · 56m

LISTEN. @nicollewallace.bsky.social had me on her excellent podcast for a candid conversation about how we got here and the opportunity facing us. I really respect her journey and her willingness to have these conversations.

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Famously Sauron's eye never missed any intruders upon his land

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

It is clear that many cis people are not aware just how up to her neck Rowling is in funding and driving anti trans sentiment in the UK.

She's not just a person with a vile opinion.

Sad to see this today, but I completely understand. View from the UK.

An important message from Indigo Girls. We know it’s long, but please listen to it in its entirety if you are able. TikTok video by Indigo Girls

Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls tells fans that she has been diagnosed with two movement disorders as they head out on tour 😭 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkmT6nLs/

If you have no complaints about living in Idaho, then ignore me. But, if you would like to see some improvements... well, the GOP won't listen to you. I will. And I'm on the ballot in November. That's the only way you're going to see our government change.