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A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending millions to mobilize GOP voters and purge more than a million people from the voter rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in Trump's favor

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Countrywww.propublica.org The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it ma...

Amnesty International Urgent Action: JOURNALIST AND POET FACES CHARGES AFTER ABDUCTION Send emails on behalf of Ahmad Farhad, a Kashmiri journalist and poet, who was forcibly disappeared from his home in the capital city of Pakistan, Islamabad. www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actio...

Urgent Action: JOURNALIST AND POET FACES CHARGES AFTER ABDUCTION (Pakistan 46.24)www.amnestyusa.org On May 15, 2024, Ahmad Farhad, a Kashmiri journalist and poet, outspoken critic of enforced disappearances and known for his support for social movements, was forcibly disappeared from his home in the...

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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ICE created a fake university in order to defraud, rob, and deport students. The depths of depravity there know no bounds. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Students at fake university in Michigan created by ICE can sue US, court ruleswww.freep.com An appeals court ruled in favor of students who said they were tricked by ICE into enrolling at a fake university in metro Detroit.

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Why GPS Is Under Attack www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why GPS Is Under Attackwww.nytimes.com Satellite signals run the modern world. See just how vulnerable they are.

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I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.

Amnesty International Urgent Action: FREE FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED PALESTINIAN SURGEON www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actio...

Urgent Action: FREE FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED PALESTINIAN SURGEON (IOPT 53.24)www.amnestyusa.org On March 24, 2024, Palestinian Khaled Al Serr was detained by the Israeli military from Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Since then, he has been held in conditions that amount...

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A branch that gave itself a power not granted to it by the Constitution is using that power to amass more power and further weaken the democratically legitimate branches. We're being turned into a monarchy run by judges

This is big: The Supreme Court has overruled the "Chevron" doctrine, which gave administrative agencies leeway to interpret ambiguous laws. This will decrease agencies' regulatory power and give a lot more power to courts. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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It's hard to explain how widespread the repercussions of overturning Chevron deference will be. Even if you narrow the scope down to tech policy, you're left wrangling a super-explainer on a friday afternoon www.theverge.com/24188365/che...

What SCOTUS just did to net neutrality, the right to repair, the environment, and morewww.theverge.com The end of Chevron deference will touch on everything from broadband policy to climate change.

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Texas Supreme Court: hold my beer

Not content to let the US Supreme Court hog all the awfulness, the Iowa Supreme Court weighs in this morning

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Combine these decisions alongside Citizens United and Snyder (facilitating bribery of public officials), brought to you by the Federalist Society, and it’s been an incredible era for translating money, rather than votes, into political power

Long after the debate is forgotten, the 6-3 decisions overruling Chevron via Loper Bright and Jarksey will have fundamentally weakened the ability of the American government to function against the most powerful interests in society.

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Imagine going back in time and telling someone that the day this economic data dropped, most NYT columnists wanted the Democratic incumbent to step aside

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I know we're all tired, but please CALL YOUR REPS. The Kids Online Safety Act is still a super dangerous bill that would censor social media and endanger your privacy online. The GOP supports it because they can use it to drive LGBTQIA+ people off the internet. Please keep calling!

The House has just announced that they will move forward with a Congressional markup of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act, which will lead to privacy-invasive online age verification for social media.

Chair Rodgers Announces Full Committee Markup of 11 Billsenergycommerce.house.gov The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...

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We're going to be hearing a lot about the SCOTUS case on the Chevron defense soon. This is important. And it's one more reason the Supreme Court theocrats are dangerous. www.scientificamerican.com/article/supr...

Supreme Court’s ‘Chevron Deference’ Decision Could Make Science-Based Regulation Harderwww.scientificamerican.com The Supreme Court is considering the fate of Chevron deference, a 40-year legal principle that has shaped the role of government agencies. The outcome could affect medication approval, pollution regul...

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In yet another decision that weakens anti-corruption law, the Supreme Court overturned the bribery conviction of a disgraced former Indiana mayor

Supreme Court Overturns Ex-Mayor’s Bribery Conviction, Narrowing Scope Of Public Corruption Lawwww.huffpost.com The high court sided 6-3 with James Snyder, former mayor of the small Indiana city of Portage.

Amnesty International Urgent Action: DROP CHARGES AND RELEASE GUBAD IBADOGHLU (Azerbaijan 77.23) www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actio...

Urgent Action: DROP CHARGES AND RELEASE GUBAD IBADOGHLU (Azerbaijan 77.23)www.amnestyusa.org On April 22, 2024, after 274 days in detention, prominent Azerbaijani economist and political activist, Gubad Ibadoghlu, was moved to house arrest. The decision to transfer him to house arrest was bas...

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Marcellus Williams was cleared by DNA evidence and the prosecutor is trying to vacate the conviction, but the state of Missouri still scheduled an execution date for him. Please sign and share this petition innocenceproject.org/petitions/st...

Stop the Sept. 24 Execution of Marcellus Williams, an Innocent Man - Innocence Projectinnocenceproject.org DNA evidence not available at the time of trial proves his innocence but has not been considered in court. Act today.

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The current Supreme Court majority is godawful enough, but a Trump win could lock in that majority for a couple decades and would have a decent chance at expanding it to a 7-2 conservative court. Thomas, 75 Alito, 73 Sotomayor, 69 Roberts, 69

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A good write up of the source of the protests in Kenya. Unsurprisingly the IMF pushing austerity is at its heart. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/b...

Behind the Unrest in Kenya, a Staggering and Painful National Debtwww.nytimes.com Kenya, the fastest growing economy in Africa, is on the brink of a fiscal calamity. Across Africa, nations are spending more on interest than on health or education.

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#Sudan is facing the largest famine the WORLD has seen for at least 40 years. www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

Sudan Starves | Joshua Craze, Kholood Khair, Raga Makawiwww.nybooks.com Ninety-five percent of Sudan’s total grain production occurs in November and December. It should be a time of plenty. In the southeastern state of Blue

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I hardly see this crossing the news waves, but this situation is so awfully dire. A Massacre Threatens Darfur — Again www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A Massacre Threatens Darfur — Againwww.nytimes.com Darfur, the region of Sudan once synonymous with genocide, may be on the brink of a new chapter of horror.

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“Today, I regret to inform you that #Sudan continues to spiral into chaos.” - Edem Wosornu, Director, Operations and Advocacy for UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a briefing to the UN Security Council yesterday. www.unocha.org/news/ocha-ur...

OCHA urges Security Council to act on Sudan humanitarian crisiswww.unocha.org Briefing to the Security Council on the Humanitarian Situation in Sudan by Edem Wosornu, Director, Operations and Advocacy for OCHA, on behalf of Mar

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“Sudan is facing a famine that could become worse than any the world has seen since Ethiopia 40 years ago, US officials have warned, as aid deliveries continue to be blocked by the warring armies but arms supplies to both sides continue to flow in.”

‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 yearswww.theguardian.com Millions face disaster as Sudanese army and RSF accused of using food access as a weapon in on-going war

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