Donald Trump's hand-picked SCOTUS majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in LA.

His administration is targeting Latinos — and anyone who doesn't look or sound like Stephen Miller's idea of an American — to deliberately harm our families and economy.

France and New Caledonia reach a deal granting territory more autonomy but no independence | Africanews France announced a sweeping, hard-fought agreement Saturday aimed at granting more autonomy to the restive South Pacific territory of New Caledonia, but stopping short of the independence sought by ma...

Link referenced: www.africanews.com/2025/07/13/f...

Reading international news sources right now, as an American, painfully reminds me that there is an alternative timeline where Trump is not our POTUS and our government is working on serious things with serious people, generating serious news headlines. — www.africanews.com/2025/07/13/f...

Pride 2025 has felt like a constant funeral. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/w...

Microsoft Drops Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Law Firm from a Case (Gift Article) The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president’s executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.

Good.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...

And should we say something to Pam Bondi’s Big Law partner husband at Paul Hastings re his authoritarian-greased path for business development?

Also, meanwhile, Trump is dismantling legal asylum paths to citizenship for non-white people fleeing actual, documented, life-threatening persecution.

Meanwhile, Trump is also targeting so-called “sanctuary cities” in the US who refuse to assist with his agenda of rapid deportation of primarily non-white people without due process.

Not only is this an outright lie (nobody is stealing their land), white South Africans (who are only 7% of the population) still own the majority of private farmland.

Trump says US ending all federal funding to South Africa | Africanews Writing on his Truth Social post, he also reiterated his offer of sanctuary to farmers fleeing the country because they 'fear for their safety'.

Link: www.africanews.com/2025/03/07/t...

Per AF News,
Trump ends life-sustaining humanitarian aid to South Africa, falsely claiming the SA government is stealing white-owned land. Trump also offers “sanctuary” and a “rapid pathway to citizenship” for SA white supremacists fleeing imaginary persecution. Link in comments.

Big Law will not be leading the revolution.

Bezos’ Directive for Washington Post Opinion Pages Leads to Editor David Shipley’s Exit (Gift Article) David Shipley, The Post’s opinion editor, is resigning after trying to persuade Jeff Bezos to reconsider the new direction.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...

WaPo disintegration as member of free press complete. Gift link to article in comments.

Trayvon Martin should've been 30 years old today. "His dream of flight and his flight suit was entered into
The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in 2024"
-Melissa Noel,
Essence Magazine
#blacksky
#blackskyover30
#blackskyover40

#BlackHistoryMonth #DEI #LGBTQIA

As Hearings Begin, Here's What Trump’s Cabinet Picks Mean for Black Americans His selections for his administration have a long history of opposition to policies that support marginalized communities.

Hooray for an almost all white, straight (supposedly), and able-bodied diverse administration! Get rid of discrimination! Meritocracy by idiocracy! capitalbnews.org/trump-cabine...

The US Copyright Office has declared that generative AI art and text generated by prompts cannot be copyright protected.

(Read more: The Verge)

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Notice from the so called "JUSTICE " department
"The defendant YOU testified against is being released from depth.of corrections"
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ADM Fagan by all accounts was a very good head of the USCG, she just wouldn't take a loyalty oath to MAGA and they knew it. This firing is a shot across the bow to all generals and admirals that unless they pledge undying loyalty to Trump, they will be fired.

MORE: news.usni.org/2025/01/21/a...

Clearly the truth about the transatlantic slave trade and its effects/influence on our country

Country Music Almanac 2025: Gardening Lessons A reflection on the Country Music Association rejecting Beyoncé a second time — and how the loss is ultimately theirs.

"One of these subjects holds the record for the most Grammys ever awarded to an individual; the other is Luke Bryan.

Beyoncé isn’t even asking for a seat at the table. After being rejected by the dinner party once, she went out and built her own damn table in true resilient Black-girl fashion."

Per AF News, banning the use of British and French colonial-style wigs by judges is a growing trend across Africa, where countries are revisiting colonial legacies and opting for systems that resonate with their people.

Republicans Do Not Think People Are Entitled to Elections Anymore In North Carolina, Republican state supreme court justices will soon decide whether to overturn an election to seat a Republican who lost it.

Happening in North Carolina right now: A Republican who just lost a state supreme court election is using a horseshit legal theory cooked up by Republican activists to ask the Republican majority *on the same court he wants to join* to overturn his loss and make him a justice anyway

Justice Department can publish Jack Smith report on Trump’s Jan. 6 case, judge rules The special counsel resigned after submitting his two-volume report days before Trump returns to office

On Monday, Judge Aileen Cannon rejected arguments from 45 trying to stop the DoJ from releasing Jack Smith's report.

Her decision clears the way for AG Merrick Garland to release the report once her 3-day injunction expires at midnight Monday.

Read the article for details of what & to whom.

I really wish “simply denying reality” would stop working so effectively for DJT and his sycophants