Remember when the “she was right about everything” candidate was going to make the Starbucks CEO her Secretary of Labor? Good times…

Most US states don't have universal air conditioning in prisons. Climate change, heat waves are maki... It was nearly 100 degrees outside in South Texas the day Quintero Jones died. Inside his cinder-block prison cell in the middle of summer, it felt even hotter.

Most US states do NOT provide universal air conditioning in prisons, producing hellish conditions.

Prisoners die every year from heat stroke in US prisons, and the number will only increase as the climate warms up.

phys.org/news/2022-09-states-dont...

Gives me hope!

Atlanta’s Attack on Cop City Protesters Should Be a Warning to Us All The fight against the militarized police training center dubbed “Cop City” is one of the great struggles of our time.

Atlanta’s Attack on Cop City Protesters Should Be a Warning to Us All. This is one of the great struggles of our time. By

Angela Y. Davis & Barbara Ransby

truthout.org/articles/atlantas-attack...

Apparently cop city protestors are getting arrested for "Domestic Terrorism" because of things like "unlawful use of the internet to disrupt commerce."

They're basically saying failure to cheerlead for capitalism is a form of domestic terrorism. This is mask off fascist fuckery.

Lol

Gender Fascist “Mom’s for Liberty” Conference Met with Resistance in Philadelphia Report from Philadelphia on the recent protests against the 'Mom's for Liberty' conference. What follows is a short blow-by-blow report from the streets of Philadelphia, as people turned out to...

#Philadelphia hits the streets to oppose gender fascist "Mom's for Liberty" conference. itsgoingdown.org/gender-fascist-moms-for-...

a single parent who thinks it is “divisive” to teach kids not to bully their peers could upend an entire classroom of kids whose parents want their kids to hear that lesson

i’ve made this point in a column but these laws are basically designed to facilitate the heckler’s veto and empower the most bigoted and reactionary parents at the expense of the teachers and students

Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights File More than 700,000 COLUMBUS, OH — In a demonstration of overwhelming grassroots support, Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, the non-partisan umbrella organization that is leading the effort to enshrine

Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights needed 413,000 valid signatures to get abortion on the ballot in November. They’ve submitted over 700,000.

“I’m the land of the free!” Over grandma. “Sure America let’s get you to bed” over lady helping.

if you are a member of a DE&I department, then you should probably start talking about unions to your allies in your companies. Like now....

Protesters rallying outside home of Atlas employee, a consultant firm on the 'Cop City' counter-insurgency training facility construction project in Atlanta, Georgia.

An Atlas employee yells at Stop Cop City protesters outside their home in Minnesota. In the video this screenshot was taken from, the individual states that Atlas is no longer involved in the Cop City project and states that this is because activists are "fucking nightmares."

Post on "Scenes from the Atlanta Forest," a hub for reports on #StopCopCity, writes that "[t]wo high-level Atlas consultants claimed Atlas was no longer funding Cop City," due to activists being "fucking nightmares." This weekend, dozens rallied outside homes in Minnesota. Major development if true.

Direct action works! Atlas Consulting employee claims to have dropped out of the Cop City project! #StopCopCity
scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/04/you-guys...

Local Militias Step into Government Gaps - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly Sounding the alarm about the rise of right-wing militia groups in the wake of climate disasters.

“When federal failures prevent those impacted from getting the support they need, it creates a perfect opportunity for groups like Oath Keepers to push anti-government sentiment and strengthen their numbers.”

Very little good news coming out of Ohio, so this is good to see!

Two BIG votes to win in Ohio this year: first for democracy in August, and then for reproductive rights in Ohio

Volunteer with #VoteNoInAugust: https://votenoinaugust.org/act/

Volunteer with #ProtectChoiceOhio: https://protectchoiceohio.com/volunteer

I can't wait for Ana Kasparian's PragerU episode of "Why I left the Left"

8 shot, 4 dead in shooting in Philadelphia's Kingsessing section Eight people were shot and four were killed in a Monday night shooting in the Kingsessing section of Philadelphia.

Most detailed write-up I've found so far on the shooting in Philadelphia

East Palestine residents have been left behind—and they're running out of water "My kids have been sick for three and a half months," Kayla Miller, who participated in TRNN's solidarity livestream, says.

I'm begging people to listen to these residents of East Palestine. Their lives have been blown up, they've been abandoned, they desperately need help. You can watch our whole livestream here:
therealnews.com/east-palestine-residents...

Easily the biggest loss from twitter is not being able to directly cyberbully elected officials anymore

Why ‘Cop City’ protesters are being rounded up as domestic terrorists Protesters in Atlanta were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism as they tried to object to a proposed 'Cop City.'

I wrote about the protesters facing domestic terrorism charges a couple of months ago www.dailydot.com/debug/cop-city-atlanta-d...

Neo-Nazis Wave Swastika Flags Outside Georgia Synagogue; Police Refuse to Intervene Deeming It 'Free... A Sabbath service ended with a protest outside a synagogue in suburban Atlanta, as people waved swastika flags and shouted.

I really need folks to grasp that while cops had no problem arresting an elder for holding a stop cop city sign in front of Home Depot- because Home Depot asked them to- they refused to arrest Nazis with Swastikas at a synagogue deeming it 'Free Speech' https://t.co/HbwVrPPTbI

Just because the anti-protest laws were theoretically written to be content-neutral doesn't mean anyone intended for them to be or that anyone will apply them that way!