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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 29/05/2026
The Justice Department tried to erase the history of Jan 6. We restored if. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It
Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/05/2026
Column: New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani attended an Eid al-Adha celebration wearing a kurta modeled after the away jerseys for Arsenal FC. It was a clever wardrobe choice for the 34-year-old politician with the whole nation scrutinizing his every move. wapo.st/4vlY3jC
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us?
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Carrie 💙🐾💜 @stemgal.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Many incidents began over misbehavior such as dress-code violations, vaping or schoolyard scraps. Officers, often summoned by principals or teachers [...] used physical takedown tactics in about 60 situations when students ignored commands, talked back or pulled away."
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loreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Focus your mind => Black rights movements have always been democratizing movements, and history shows this country cannot deny one and maintain the other. gift www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m... @nhannahjones.bsky.social
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The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
EPB: “.. Real personal income per capita is falling apart. .. It's now $3,842 below the 2009-2020 trend and accelerating lower.”
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Absolutely devastating and enraging reporting out of Texas from the @nytimes.com local investigations fellowship. Warning: If you care about children, this one is a hard read. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Texas School Police Pepper-Sprayed, Tackled and Tasered Students (Gift Article)
School officers across the state turned to heavy-handed tactics on children, often in response to minor misbehavior, our investigation shows.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"Black rights movements have always been democratizing movements, and history shows this country cannot deny one and maintain the other," writes Nikole Hannah-Jones.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/05/2026
After the end of Reconstruction, Black political power was decimated. Voting and civil rights experts warn that America sits at a similar precipice, Nikole Hannah-Jones writes. “Now, Black representation may once again disappear in the South, where more than half of Black Americans live.”
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The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes
America is witnessing the greatest decimation of Black political power in over a century.
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Zf...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
“.. What is happening is an assault on democracy, and they’re using the easiest vector, which is anti-Black racism, because it’s the easiest thing you could do, the laziest thing you can do,” Nelson said. @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
“.. an unusually large contribution for a sitting cabinet secretary.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...
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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
this exchange bw @janainelson.bsky.social & @nhannahjones.bsky.social captures, with precision, why pro-democracy movements will not prevail unless they are self-counsciously and outspokenly anti-racist movements. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m...
“It needs to be emphasized again and again: What is happening is an assault on democracy, and they’re using the easiest vector, which is anti-Black racism, because it’s the easiest thing you could do, the laziest thing you can do,” Nelson said. “They are cementing absolute minority control because they do not represent a majority of this country. And when they — if they — get away with the heist, we will be locked out of multiracial democracy for at least a generation.”
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.
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The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Nick Fuentes says that America is "n*gger hell," then realizes he probably shouldn't have said that while wearing a James Fishback for Governor quarter zip: "My apologies to the campaign."
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 02/05/2026
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @nhannahjones.bsky.social explains why the Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act is not just a blow to Black representation. "The loss of this impacts democracy for everyone," she says. #Velshi
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Nikole Hannah-Jones: Gutting the Voting Rights Act isn't just a Black rights issue
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones explains why the Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act is not just a blow to Black representation. It’s a blow to democracy itself. "The Black rights struggle has been a struggle to democratize America for everyone," she says, “and the loss of this impacts democracy for everyone."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Alito has now written two opinions drastically limiting the fundamental rights of ethnic minorities and women, which was the kind of thing you would have expected from a guy angry about both groups being admitted to Princeton, something known at his confirmation www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...
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From Alito's Past, a Window on Conservatives at Princeton (Published 2005)
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Listen to @legaldefensefund.bsky.social President @janainelson.bsky.social, who argued the Louisiana v Calláis case in the Supreme Court, talk about the decision she calls rightly “catastrophic” with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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Bonus: The Worst Voting Rights Decision Since Jim Crow
Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · April 29 · Bonus · Slate Plus Only · 19m
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Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Today is Pub Day! US History at the 250th.This grew out of a conversation about the past a & what it means now @nhannahjones.bsky.social, @agordonreed.bsky.social @sienriquez.bsky.social, @redped.bsky.social Erika Lee Robert Parkinson Marc Stein @william-sturkey.bsky.social y, & Catherine Clinton
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Pat Duggins @dugginsnews.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
To keep the conversation going…Alabama Governor Kay Ivey calls a special session to change the state’s Congressional voting map. Alabama Public Radio’s national award-winning investigation called “…a US house seat, if you can keep it” focuses on the issues. www.apr.org/news/2024-10...
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is what Du Bois meant when he said Black America stepped briefly into the sun and then fell under the veil.
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A SCOTUS that believes that the Constitution protects the political rights of corporations more than it does those of non-White Americans is fundamentally illegitimate and its rulings should be treated as such
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Why worry whether a case has merit when you can screw your enemies just with an indictment?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Tricia McLauglin lied constantly as a spokesperson for DHS/ICE. It’s a national embarrassment that she now appears on TV to say this shit after leaving the administration.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It’s a disastrous day for democracy. The Voting Rights Act made the U.S. an actually functioning democracy. And civil rights activists face impossible odds to gifting it to us. The Supreme Court‘s decision is vile.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is a modern-day Lost Cause campaign to once again white-wash our origin story, erase the true history of the myriad of people who helped build this nation, justify genocide/ slavery by painting an idyllic, racist portrait of an America that never was. You do so to justify the horrors to come.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Y’all think these are dance moves when they really are tactical maneuvers for when they are deployed to suppress us. But keep thinking it’s cute to watch how deftly robots dance.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
“There’s thinking in and around the administration that the politics are a lot better if the Israelis go first and alone and the Iranians retaliate against us, and give us more reason to take action,” said one of the people familiar with discussions. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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White House officials believe ‘the politics are a lot better’ if Israel strikes Iran first
As the administration mulls military action in Iran, officials argue it’d be best ifIsrael makes the first move.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is bigotry, pure and simple. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It’s not “identity politics” to not want to be denied equality or mistreated because of your identity. In case anyone was wondering.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/02/2026
John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way. Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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K Wilde @flowerchildob1.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Interesting. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Unearthed email shows Trump's DOJ described Epstein's death as 'murder'
A 2020 email unearthed from the Justice Department's 3.5 million Epstein files shows a DOJ attorney referring to Jeffrey Epstein's death as a "murder," contradicting the official suicide ruling. Epste...
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Amid Trump crackdown on Chinese students, one US university appears to block them altogether
Purdue says no ban on Chinese students exists, but reportedly rescinded dozens of offers after warnings from legislators
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Perdue banning all Chinese students just for national origin. No other reason. The Harper's Letter crowd must be crafting a humdinger of a new letter over this one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Amid Trump crackdown on Chinese students, one US university appears to block them altogether
Purdue says no ban on Chinese students exists, but reportedly rescinded dozens of offers after warnings from legislators
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
. @nhannahjones.bsky.social: "...the race traitor label evokes an inspiring and hopeful lineage: white people who are willing to give up the protection whiteness offers to stand for justice with those who are fewer in number and have far less power."
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What It Means to Be a White ‘Race Traitor’
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I was really troubled by this Atlantic piece. It was presented as reporting, but it seems more accurate to describe it as speculative fiction based on reporting. It seems like a bizarre choice for a journalistic institution to make. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
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The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig on her “hypothetical,” heavily reported measles essay
"We were attracted to the idea of providing a play-by-play of the progression of measles in granular detail."
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
As I outlined at @nhannahjones.bsky.social democracy summit and elsewhere since, there are 3 kinds of right wing billionaires dialed in on education:
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Trump posting a meme depicting Black people as apes was totally about economic anxiety, y’all.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Watching commentators still refusing to see the white nationalism of this administration and arguingTrump is targeting Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit because they are blue cities is just, it’s got to be intentional at this point. There are a ton of blue cities. These are majority Black cities.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
* US Companies Announce Most Job Cuts for Any January Since 2009 @bloomberg.com
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026
One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...
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Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/02/2026
Among the 300 layoffs was reporter Caroline O’Donovan, who covers tech companies and corporate accountability with a focus on Amazon. The once prestigious newspaper is now fully at the mercy of billionaire owner (and Amazon founder) Jeff Bezos. trib.al/rlWOHyn
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Lol.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 04/02/2026
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13)
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
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