NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
It’s official. My university who told me for all of the years I have been a faculty person they it valued diversity all of a sudden decided it no longer does without even attempting to resist a legally questionable executive order.
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
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This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Stop calling it a “school choice” bill. It is a privatization bill. They don’t want your kids in their schools. Never have, never will. #TxLege
Today we remember the Porvenir massacre and the lives that were lost. Read more here: refusingtoforget.org/porvenir-mas...
Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps
ICE agents are harassing and threatening Native Americans.
If this has happened to you, call my office at (202) 225-6190.
Trump said you can tell bad immigrants by what they “look” like. Tribal members look like the first Americans. Stop harassing them.
Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Why were the cop unions quiet when he pardoned the people who assaulted cops?
American Muslims voted 65-35 Biden Trump and 64-32 Harris Trump. This is per exit polling by AP and Fox in a joint project.
Majority of White Americans voted for Trump 3 elections in a row.
We need less propaganda and demonization of the American Muslim community and more unity against fascism.
Believe. They’ll be the ones calling ICE on their students
RTF congratulates our member @ccarmona.bsky.social on the publication of this timely new novel! Available now at www.jadepublishing.org
Geriatric Democrats need to get out of the way and let AOC, a real leader, lead us.
I love this so much!
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
He pardoned EVERY SINGLE PERSON... I won't hold my breath for people to be outraged.
Hill County Courthouse, Hillsboro, Texas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_County_Courthouse
#OTD on January 20, 1919, a white mob in Hillsboro, Texas, removed Bragg Williams from the county jail and burned him at the stake at the intersection of Elm and Covington streets on the southwest corner of the courthouse square. /1
I’m not watching. The 13th Amendment specifically says that I do not have to listen to white people on MLK Day. And I respect the Constitution.
Selling Native children to anyone who wrote to them and sent in $10. American history. Repulsive.
Thoughts for the long game on U.S. Education policy. It starts with setting high, common outcome goals, including learning real science and math, and standards uniformly applied across any/all schools receiving public financing. Then, we must fund schools to achieve those outcomes.
“I grabbed the boy. His face was frozen, white, exactly like snow - completely frozen," his father says. He got to the hospital, but it was too late. Jumaa, just 42 days old, had died.
“I swear, my child, I did all I can for you. I begged for blankets.”
#Gaza
www.npr.org/2024/12/30/n...
Unsurprisingly, the majority of corporate media is either wholly ignoring or barely covering President Carter's relentless advocacy for Palestine against Israel's illegal military occupation.
So I wrote about President Carter's calls for justice for Palestine: www.qasimrashid.com/p/president-...
Brite Ranch, from Portal to Texas History
#OTD on December 26, 1917, Army Colonel George T. Langhorne led 200 men, including several Texas Rangers, on an unauthorized raid into Mexico in retaliation for the Mexican raid on the Brite Ranch the day before. /1
3,100+ Indigenous Students Died at U.S. "Boarding Schools": WaPo Native American Journalist Dana Hedgpeth
162 years ago, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history.
The sacrifice of these riders reminds us to recommit to accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2024/1...
A teacher in Round Rock is trying to make her pilot program available statewide.
The chair of the State Board of Education has delayed approval of a similar course about Native Americans. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
