Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 29/06/2026And nobody cares except us. I’m on like six unemployed black woman listservs, where everyone’s freaking out, and nobody’s like “I’m running on trying to get y’all jobs.” It’s like we’re being erased from American society. 402574945
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026For non-lawyers wondering what they're missing and how to reconcile the Court's rulings letting Trump fire anybody anywhere *except* at the Federal Reserve: It's money The explanation is money ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...ballsandstrikes.orgSupreme Court Rules Trump Can Fire Any Agency Head Who Doesn’t Make John Roberts WealthierIt is very important for presidents to be able to fire agency heads at will, unless that agency is very important to John Roberts. 8394118
Reposted by Avatara Smith-Carringtonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/05/2026i was asked recently if i thought clarence thomas saw himself as a villain. i said yes and this is a good example. he is totally bloodthirsty and loves the idea of the government executing people. 29455971449
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/05/2026If the Supreme Court is concerned about its declining public legitimacy and thinks too many Americans are calling the Supreme Court illegitimate, the majority could try not issuing bad faith rulings that illegitimately distort law in pursuit of undemocratic partisan power. That’s always an option. 552358493
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics. 6049091126
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader 1612644601
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/03/2026it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online 244114823426
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonAlice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Can you imagine having to participate in a 3hr virtual court hearing while in active labor? It happened in "Florida, a state that has pushed to expand medical freedom for those who wish to avoid vaccines or fluoridated water, while constricting the rights of people in various stages of pregnancy."propublica.orgThey Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a... 13385155
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram... 216102362466
Avatara Smith-Carrington @avatarasc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I don’t get on here often but what I will share is that the decision being made in Kansas to strip transgender people of their valid state identification is not only a dangerously discriminatory act of facism/state violence but also a blatant attempt to rig elections. 021
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonJeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread: 928311263
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonCharlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember. 201200984801
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonBolts @boltsmag.org · 01/01/2026A judge has tossed the racketeering charges filed by the Georgia attorney general against activists who protested against Atlanta's Cop City facility.ajc.comFulton judge dismisses RICO charges against training center protestersIn his order issued Tuesday, the judge said Attorney General Chris Carr did not have the authority to bring RICO charges. 430783
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong? 16251101133
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonHyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 23/12/2025Even in the down year of 1950, Langston Hughes’s Christmas Cards show his writing wit still bristling. For those who may have had a hard year leading up to these winter holidays, there’s some defiant joy to glean from his wry greetings.hyperallergic.comChristmas Cheer from a Lean Year: The 1950 Holiday Cards of Langston HughesThe Beinecke Library at Yale University is exhibiting Hughes's typewritten 1950 Christmas postcards, along with holiday cards he received from friends. 0174
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 22/12/2025It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans. 392311743
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/12/2025A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the universitykoco.comGraduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OUA graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university. 2421639447
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/12/2025Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit 78107702140
Reposted by Avatara Smith-Carrington404 Media @404media.co · 23/12/2025Archivists have saved and uploaded copies of the 60 Minutes episode new CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss ordered be shelved as a torrent and multiple file sharing sites. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/archivists-p... 11640199
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full: 6692721510759
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... 552497791
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21/12/2025In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man." 12327811057
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonOut Magazine @out.com · 20/12/2025Opinion: President Trump forces himself on top of someone who didn't consent — again.out.comStraight Nonsense: The Trump-Kennedy Center would make sense—if I were a nitwit 094
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025The Trump administration’s release of the Epstein grand jury documents are entirely redacted. It’s 119 pages of just black rectangles. 38930681169
Avatara Smith-Carrington @avatarasc.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Trump having his name affixed to every building possible despite the fact that legislation passed by Congress provides for another name is exactly what I would expect a sexual predator. 000
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward. 391214986116
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2025UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago. She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵 282786887
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/10/2025The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...cavalierdaily.comVirginia Senate leaders express “unequivocal opposition” to CompactThe letter calls upon the University to immediately cease consideration of the Compact, and if not, the state will work to negatively impact the University’s funding. 3737141019
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2025My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous. This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking. 18380412653
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonFrank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 05/10/2025One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness 7154371557
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonPaul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+theguardian.comIsrael accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flagsActivist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water 21063183804
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonDavid J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 04/10/2025ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves 22369591832
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonACLU @aclu.org · 05/10/2025BREAKING: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard members to Portland over the governor's objections. This decision reinforces one of our country's core principles: The military has no place policing our communities. 161693395
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Request: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 220561
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US. 638249096798
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/10/2025BREAKING: US President Trump says Israel "temporarily stopped bombing" Gaza as 17 Palestinians killed in new Israeli attack in Gaza City. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/a1y8rg 811856
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonGenevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 03/10/2025The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways. blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...blog.dividedargument.comThe Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for ExcellenceMembers of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities. 5556227
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 02/10/2025We contacted more than 40 Planned Parenthood affiliates for this story on the state of care now that the GOP budget law is fully in effect. Service journalism with @garnethenderson.com: 02922
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2025NEW: Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era. Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America. Today, at Law Dork:lawdork.comJudge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump eraYoung lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America. Also: More court pushback. 231010328
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I think we underestimate the extent to which the right wing has eroded civil society simply by pulling stunts like this that make any public participation extremely unpleasant. 141352324
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Look at what the United States Government is citing in the birthright citizenship case. Non-expert legal scholarship and work done hastily in service of their political goals. 34957280
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonDavid Noll @david.noll.org · 28/09/2025Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy 761182634450
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonJo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Texas to become the 20th state with a law restricting what bathrooms transgender people can use For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...nbcnews.comTexas to become the 20th state with a transgender bathroom lawThe bill, which Texas first attempted to pass in 2015, will require transgender people to use restrooms in public schools and government buildings in accordance with their birth sex. 186629
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonMovement Advancement Project @mapresearch.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Including a new law in Texas, 1 in 3 transgender people now live in the 20 states with a bathroom ban, though they vary in scope. 🔗 Learn more via our map: bit.ly/3LOIUSw Note: TX's law does not go into effect until December 4, 2025, and it will likely be challenged. www.them.us/story/texas-...them.usTexas Gov. Abbott Signs Trans Bathroom Bill Into Law With $125,000 FinesThe legislation covers government-owned buildings, public schools, prisons, and domestic violence shelters. 011
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonACLU @aclu.org · 23/09/2025At a time when the Trump administration is trying to force people to conform to their ideology, last week's ruling is an important reminder that the government can't restrict speech based on its political agenda.playbill.comCourt Rules That NEA 'Gender Ideology' Rule Violates the 1st AmendmentA new policy that required applicants to make supposed anti-"woke" declarations has been struck down. 6384104
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonCayden Mak @catachresis.bsky.social · 23/09/2025As easy as it is to dunk on the acetaminophen announcement today, I just can't stop thinking about how all this claim of a "cure" for autism plays into a fundamentally eugenicist way of looking at the world. Those who diverge are to be cured or purged. 011
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonNicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2025I want you to read one of my 2022 investigations again + understand that the response you’re seeing from your children’s school boards-the harassment + firing of teachers, administrators & staff-is tied to a network of folks who have been in this game for years: www.propublica.org/article/geor...propublica.orgWhite Parents Rallied to Chase a Black Educator Out of Town. Then, They Followed Her to the Next One.Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT gr... 471596709
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Today, the president of the United States of America said that the country's current pediatric vaccine schedule was "too much liquid... going into that baby" and then issued a decree announcing that anti-fascism is terrorism 521727449
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonForeign Bacall @absolutelyahha.bsky.social · 20/09/2025‘Most complaints filed in federal courtrooms do not spend dozens of pages recounting the plaintiff’s “singular brilliance” and “history-making media appearances” in programs like Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson.’ 🤣 08316
Reposted by Avatara Smith-CarringtonDaphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Receipts. Receipts galore. 03912