Weather never stops @scomegys.bsky.social! Great turnout to start the kickoff tour in Livonia today. Petitioning starts soon. Candidates like Scott need your help to get on the ballot. Every bit of support puts us one step closer to saving democracy! #ny54 #alpacadems #vote
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Happy Mother's Day, Rochester!
Today we celebrate the love, strength, and dedication of mothers and mother figures across our city. Thank you for the care you give, the values you teach and the communities you help build.
Wishing you a day filled with joy, appreciation, and well-deserved rest.
#tdih 1905 Robert Abbott founded "Chicago Defender."
Goal: “American Race Prejudice Must Be Destroyed”
Paper had a nat'l audience & major influence on Great Migration, culture, & struggle for civil & human rights.
Read ⬇️& see @blackpastonline.bsky.social 🧵
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Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.
ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.
Hadn’t really thought before about you HAVE TO end of birthright citizenship if you want to argue in favor of fetal personhood, otherwise any US visitor who happens to be pregnant is carrying a little tiny citizen who deserves all the rights and privileges thereof (not that they will get them)
Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak
Commitment to the rule of law doesn't seem to be as popular as you would think anymore...
And it means your freedom will always be at risk too.
Say. This.
Want to know why due process is such a big deal?
Tonight, Heather and I discussed its history & significance.
Give a listen.
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The image has a series of paint splotches of different colors. The text reads: Share your art. Please comment your art! And use the hashtag #CreateToLiberate for all protest art. @liberalresistance.bsky.social The bottom right has the resistance symbol.
Please comment your art! Feel free to use the hashtag #CreateToLiberate wherever you post your protest art.
Jonathan Swan, of the NYT, asks Ms Leavitt (all paraphrased) "The President said that it was a terrible abuse of power for the prior Admin to prosecute him. How is it not then an abuse of power when he directed his own DOJ to investigate two people he doesn't like?"
Leavitt: "That's his policy."
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
And you can feel good they lost a few minutes of life they can't get back just to be a jerk to you.
The US Department of Education froze $2.3 billion in federal funding for Harvard University, just hours after the school rejected President Donald Trump's demands that it make deep policy changes on diversity reut.rs/4ie41w1
"What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution"
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Google search results says: National Institute of Justice (•gov) https://nij.ojp.gov › topics › articles › undocumented-im.. immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens. No information is available for this page. Learn why
THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
80+% of both Democrats and Republicans believe America would be better off if more Americans worked in manufacturing, but < 30% say that about themselves.
The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
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Are we really entering an era of relative sovereignty, where only some countries have it, and only when it benefits the goals of the administration?
On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter, launching the four-year Civil War—a national conflict that would ultimately force the abolition of slavery in the United States. 130 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountdowntoSRD
Can't wait for the posterboards. Feels like that's the right medium for this narrative. Maybe in a high school gym in August.
Really fascinating how sovereignty is so important in this case but not when it comes to, say, the sovereignty of Greenland, Canada, etc.
If this administration can pluck random people off the street and deport them without due process — none of us are safe.
Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
Sen. John Kennedy on Morning Joe: "With tariffs, an eye for an eye just leaves both people blind. When a govt imposes a tariff, it's putting its thumb on the scale. It interferes with people's freedom to exchange goods and services."
