Karl Bode Seth Trueger The $ invested by the Kochs, Harlan Crow and their billionaire ilk is paying massive dividends to them. Citizens United was a key early step. Shelby County gutting Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act was another. 6 votes on #SCOTUS are #owned .

History text books that remove actual U.S. history because it upsets white supremacists are no longer history text books — they’re white supremacy fan fiction.

Meet the new author: Conspiracy theorist and founder of a hate group grift.
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Call it fascism, don't call it fascism, I genuinely don't give a shit. We're in the third year of an unprecedented wave of right-wing violence and takeover of local institutions and it does not feel like that reality has been clearly communicated to the population.

First it was just 'protecting women' from the Evil Transes; then, suddenly, abortion-rights were gone; then, oops, blanket censorship of Black & LGBT perspectives in libraries & education; then, hmm, do you REALLY need contraception? And now, wheee, divorce, you want a DIVORCE?!

Just like Rufo admitting “CRT” was a political game, here’s Nashville resident Matt Walsh giving the Pride game away… they will not stop, especially with TN legislators/brands caving to them at every turn…

But they are on the wrong side of history.

11 individual people were responsible for 60% of all book bans. There is NOT a nationwide movement of people calling for censorship — there’s a coordinated + organized effort leveraging attention + targeting key elected officials. wapo.st/423uCDG

This was last week, but Nancy Abudu's confirmation to the 11th Circuit is a big deal: She is a civil rights lawyer who's worked with the ACLU's Voting Rights Project against felony disenfranchisement, & for the Southern Poverty Law Center. GOP fought it. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/na…

A lot of bad things have happened in this country (and continue to happen) but the gutting of the Voting Rights Act has to be somewhere near the top. They’re hellbound on making it 1933 again.

Today I was doing an author talk at a middle school when a lockdown was called. I asked the girl nearest to me what to do. I explained that I'd never done a lockdown before. She looked at me in disbelief and said, 'Did you grow up in America?'

It's been said a thousand times but always worth repeating that 50% of the Senate represents less than 20% of the US population.

The NAACP has joined LGBTQ and Hispanic organizations in warning Americans not to travel to Florida, calling its government 'openly hostile'

If you don’t want to fund the government, you shouldn’t be working in it.

The point of bothsidesing the Debt Limit hostage crisis is that moderates and “sensible liberals” in the media actually want programs and the safety net to be cut in order to shore up the status quo that serves them.

And that’s the outcome they’re going to pressure into being.

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Can't teach Asian Am history w/out Black history.

Watch: Frederick Douglass & Wong Kim Ark fought for immigrants and the right to become Americans bit.ly/3Invigr

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#SolidarityIs #AAPIHM #FreedomToLearn

If I have to read one more unbearably stupid and intellectually lazy piece about wokeness or cancel culture in our year 2023, when abortion is being denied to pregnant people, turning them into incubators of the state—into objects!—I’m going to pop with rage.

DeSantis and this trash bill can go fly a kite. AAPI history is nothing without recognizing the intersection of all of our experiences. How dare you try to use us to sanitize your racism. We are not your wedge 😤

Also AAPI history is entwined with Black history. How would you teach about coolie labor without discussing chattel slavery??

We can't codify Roe unless we unrig the Supreme Court.

The Judiciary Act must be a part of every Democrat's reproductive rights platform in 2024 if they want to be taken seriously as reproductive rights champion. #ExpandTheCourt

I may be overly cynical about our current, carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court, but I am not optimistic about the outcome of this development. trib.al/6YV8WdM