American Oversight released the following statement on the Trump administration’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Read the full statement:
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Statement from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights that says “We will not be intimidated, and we will not abandon our partners. A year ago, civil rights organizations representing millions of people across the country signed the Unity Pact, a commitment to stand together when any of us comes under attack. An attack on one is an attack on all. “What is happening to civil rights organizations right now is the most coordinated assault on our sector since COINTELPRO. We are the people who train poll workers, run food banks, fight discrimination, protect the right to protest, and staff domestic violence hotlines. We are the ones who make sure that everyone can live, love, vote, work, study, travel and simply be themselves, free from discrimination. This administration views that as a threat to its power. In order to have absolute power, it must dismantle our rights. And that’s why they’re coming after us. “The Southern Poverty Law Center has spent decades doing that work, and we stand with them. We are calling on Congress to publicly defend the movement this administration is trying to silence. We are calling on legal and philanthropic leaders, on faith communities, and on every person who believes dissent is not a crime to say so, and to say so now. Silence in this moment is a choice.”
A lot of nonprofits have been holding their breath and waiting for something like what we’re with the SPLC tonight. And to be clear, it’s scary.
But damn it feels nice to see giants in the space call this what it is and refuse to back down.
The statement from LCCHR is worth reading in full.
It’s in the same tone I use when I call my dog “ma’am” when she’s barking at the neighbors.
I’ve mostly tried to avoid stepping in trash cans up to this point, but I’ll give it a shot.
They have it in the books, but some of the other descriptions in there raise questions.
Half of US kids get their health care through Medicaid.
If their families have to think about whether they want ICE to know about it every time they go to the doctor, we’re going to have a genuine public health crisis.
This really is exactly how you undo the deinstitutionalization movement. Cut the care, push people back into institutions.
If any photos were taken by agency staff, I’m pretty sure you can legally FOIA for records connected to the phrase “now let’s do a silly one.”
Come for the smart research on grief and death in the U.S., stay to find out the problem isn’t you, it’s capitalism!
I spent this morning going through videos of federal agents killing Americans.
I gotta say, I don’t think coffee treats are the problem.
Our new DHS Secretary is best known for trying to fight a Teamster on the Senate floor, so that bodes well. youtu.be/CR94QQXO_4s?...
Last week’s firings were because those agents also investigated Trump’s handling of classified documents.
This is one of the most intense cases of painting yourself into a corner I can imagine. americanoversight.org/american-ove...
The argument that Trump needed to attack Iran to protect himself rings a liiiiiittle hollow once you add in the fact that Kash Patel just fired the FBI agents responsible for stopping Iranian attacks on the president LAST WEEK.
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Genuinely worried about the number of people’s mental health you are single handedly holding up at this point.
You think we could just quietly send him some warhammer? Feels like the right vibe.
In all seriousness, that guy has got to find better hobbies.
If the algorithm tries to feed me one more video of the difference between “wearing” and “styling” that amounts to tucking in your shirt and putting on shoes, I will turn this car around.
If you read in the national press about a drawdown, a pivot, a change— bull✨ and lies.
This is where we took Family Pottery classes, our safe community space. And it’s where the big Renee Good March began, near where ICE murdered her.
This is gang behavior, trying to seize the heart of our city.
Highlighted text that reads “Watching the show felt like like finding temporary refuge in a beautiful nightclub during the America disaster. We are taking your queer characters and stories away, the villains had shouted at us in the years leading up to this moment after they made bomb threats at libraries and pursued the erasure of trans people and queer people from public life and trans and queer friends fled the country. The immense popularity of the show has felt as if these characters fought back with an intensity that overran the regime’s various systems.”
This is a huge part of why watching this show feels safe AND like we’re winning.
I’m weeks late, but @alexanderchee.bsky.social wrote the first Heated Rivalry piece I’ve seen that feels right. querent.substack.com/p/i-would-st...
In immigration cases, you have to FOIA the government to get your records.
The folks who are trying to annoy ICE and CBP with a flood of FOIAs are actually just making it hard for people to get their records for immigration court.
New Reuters poll shows Trump's approval on immigration is at an all-time low
-only 39% of Americans approve of Trump's job on immigration
-53% disapprove
-58% say ICE has gone too far in its crackdown
-His overall approval is at a low of 38%, which it was in November
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Bovino’s out, great. But no one said “please reassign one person.”
Stop terrorizing communities. Stop killing people with impunity. Stop trying to redefine who counts as a person.
Then we’ll talk.
It’s worth reading in full, but the part where Bondi fully drops the facade is when she demands the state’s voter rolls.
She’s basically saying that the administration gets to decide whose vote counts, or the state stays under siege. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.
Highlighted text that says “Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states.””
“How bad could it be,” you ask?
Pretty bad!
Oh look, it’s the thing everyone said would happen the second they got access to this data. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Worth mentioning that even if we think training will help, ICE isn’t exactly forthcoming about what its training or policies look like (other than that training is SHORT, and sometimes just virtual).
We’ve FOIAed for it, but they haven’t released anything.
A friend is prone to confusing the containers in their fridge, and taking a swig of cold bone broth when they thought they were grabbing some juice.
I just think it’s neat that that’s our public health policy now. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
A lot of the 1996 welfare laws, but especially the restrictions on LSC grantees that cut so many low-income folks off from courts.