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Allen Coon

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Mississippi lawyer in D.C.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/10/2026
Breaking News: The Justice Department is investigating whether major TV networks violated federal antitrust laws when they briefly suspended pool coverage of President Trump, according to people with knowledge of the department’s action.
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Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was looking into whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is what Christo-fascism looked like — specifically the Romanian fascism of the 1930s. Hegseth is a Christo-fascist. (1/3)
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Allen Coon @allencoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Appreciate y’all’s consistent coverage of felony disenfranchisement in Virginia and beyond. Is there any statewide polling on the issue?
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Jerry Mitchell @jmitchellnews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#OnThisDay in 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer was born on a Mississippi plantation. When she registered to vote, she was kicked off. She burst onto the national scene when she challenged the all-white Mississippi delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. mississippitoday.org/2024/10/06/1...
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1917: Fannie Lou Hamer is born
On this day in 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer was born,the youngest of 20 children on a Mississippi Delta plantation with her sharecropping family.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good line from Frederick Douglass:
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CNN @cnn.com · 22/09/2026
The Trump administration has informed Congress it intends to accept 17,500 refugees, primarily White South Africans, in fiscal year 2027, according to a report submitted Tuesday and obtained by CNN. cnn.it/3SWlr9W
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Nazita Lajevardi @nazita.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So many Islamophobic and racist stories today, but the most recent one I've heard of is just mind bogging is LSAC blocking Iranians from taking the LSAT. www.law.com/2026/09/10/i...
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Iranian Students Prohibited From Taking LSAT Following US-Imposed Sanctions | Law.com
The U.S. Treasury Department announced the suspension of several general licenses in its Iran Sanctions program, including goods and services offered by the Law School Admission Council.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Amazing news, thanks to decades of unrelenting advocacy by the Yurok, Karuk and Klamath Tribes. It’s heartening to see the collaborative nature of the salmon restoration effort reflected in this paper’s authorship, which includes all three Tribes, state & federal agencies, NGOs & private entities.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10/09/2026
#OtD 10 Sep 1962 white supremacists attempted to assassinate Black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi. While staying with her friend Mary Tucker, racists drove by, firing 16 shots at her, all of which missed. Learn more about Jim Crow: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In Feb 1956, the paper of the Citizens' Council printed Westbrook Pegler's column condemning the use of the word "racist" as a "smear word." Racists, he says, are being "persecuted for showing his preference" for "his own race." He complains about the suppression of "controversy." Sounds familiar.
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Allen Coon @allencoon.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
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Eis: Mann tanzt im Smoking
ALT: Eis: Mann tanzt im Smoking
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/07/2026
NEW: DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to its databases which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information — to help ICE investigate “voter fraud”, according to documents reviewed by 404 Media.
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ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’
A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to ...
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
National Intelligence Council 2021 report directly contradicts Trump's lies about alleged Chinese interference: “We assess that China did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US presidential election"
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/07/2026
Israel’s military has attacked several areas across Gaza, with Palestinians filming flames and smoke rising over Gaza City. A nine-year-old girl was also killed by Israeli gunfire in central Gaza.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
#ELB: BREAKING: “Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act” (This is going to be a BFD if Trump Tries to Assert the EAC’s Powers over the Federal Voter Registration Form) electionlawblog.org/?p=157199
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Allen Coon @allencoon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The Roberts Court’s Gutting of the Voting Rights Act Nears Completion washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/10/v...
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The Roberts Court’s Gutting of the Voting Rights Act Nears Completion
Louisiana v. Callais and now Allen v. Milligan have laid bare the court’s fundamental misinterpretation of the Voting Rights Act.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Any trillionaires are a policy failure
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026
Forcing immigrant detainees to work for their captors isn’t just exploitative It’s unconstitutional Trump's policies are dramatically expanding both the immigration detention population and the nation’s Thirteenth Amendment crisis ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Forcing immigrant detainees to work for their captors isn’t just exploitative. It’s unconstitutional. The Thirteenth Amendment explicitly prohibits slavery and indentured servitude, except “as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” But immigration detention is a form of civil confinement. People held in detention centers are simply waiting—behind bars—for the resolution of their immigration cases. This is punitive in practice, but not in law, as they are incarcerated, but not in prison. Only 12 percent of the people who have been detained at Delaney Hall since it opened have ever been convicted of anything.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The lead plaintiff in Callais v. Louisiana said on social media that he was at January 6:
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Exclusive: Bert Callais, lead plaintiff in case that gutted Voting Rights Act, is an election conspiracist who was at Jan. 6 protest
Social media posts exclusively reviewed by Democracy Docket paint a far more troubling picture of Callais — suggesting a man who harbors a deep distrust of the election system, which he has called “ri...
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