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Supreme Court’s ‘Go Ahead And Round Up All The Brown People’ Decision Is Being Challenged In Court
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
In July, a California federal court handed down what should have been considered an obvious decision: of course it violates constitutional rights to consider skin color, spoken language, “accent,” or place of employment sufficient to support a stop, much less…
Oct 10, 2025, 7:58 PM
The Supreme Court Is Ruling on Conversion Therapy. What Could Go Wrong!
Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone
The nation's highest court is hearing Chiles v. Salazar, and could overturn a ban on the discredited practice of conversion therapy.
Oct 7, 2025, 9:43 PM
Why is ADL, the Jewish advocacy group, receiving blowback from MAGA?
Yashraj Sharma, Al Jazeera English
The US nonprofit faces backlash after its online database on extremism included slain right-wing figure Charlie Kirk.
Oct 5, 2025, 3:10 PM
The United Police State of America Has Arrived
Ian F. Blair, The Intercept
The lines between local, state, and federal law enforcement and the military have blurred. The post The United Police State of America Has Arrived appeared first on The Intercept.
Oct 4, 2025, 10:00 AM
From the Cesspool to the Mainstream
Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books
The “new fusionist” intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.
Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
US deportation drive against pro-Palestine students is illegal, judge rules
Ali Harb, Al Jazeera English
Federal judge finds Trump officials misused powers to silence lawful criticism of Israel, chilling free speech.
Sep 30, 2025, 6:04 PM
Federal appeals court reinstates Vermont Christian school after it objected to transgender player
KIMBERLEE KRUESI and AMANDA SWINHART, Yahoo Entertainment
A federal appeals court says a Vermont Christian school can participate in the state's sports league, overturning a previous ruling that upheld a ban on the ...
Sep 22, 2025, 5:35 PM
Dems wave hands, stomp feet about ICE using mobile face recognition app
Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com
Secretive app + unreliable tech + Trump administration policies = ANGRY LETTER A group of senators has penned a sternly-worded letter to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) saying that they're very worried about the agency's use of facial recogni…
Sep 15, 2025, 8:35 PM
MAGA’s plan for a white Christian America is unfolding before our eyes
Heather Digby Parton, Salon
Their ambitions were on full display at the National Conservatism Conference
Sep 13, 2025, 1:00 PM
New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports
Matt Sledge, The Intercept
Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him do it for U.S. citizens. The post New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports appeared first on The Intercept.
Sep 13, 2025, 8:00 AM
Will we even notice when democracy is gone?
Mike Lofgren, Salon
Normal life continues for most of us, most of the time — but everything we took for granted is slipping away
Sep 1, 2025, 1:00 PM
The Inversion Of American Values
Mike Brock, Techdirt
There’s a particular kind of person who cheers when the president deploys military forces against American cities over the objections of their elected leaders. They call themselves patriots. They wrap themselves in the flag while applauding the systematic dem…
Aug 29, 2025, 10:36 PM
70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him
Debbie Elliott, NPR
It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was killed by white men because he whistled at a white woman. Now the gun used in his death is in a museum.
Aug 28, 2025, 9:00 AM
NAACP sues Texas over new maps, calling them racially gerrymandered
Darryl Coote, UPI.com
The NAACP is suing Texas over its new congressional maps, calling them racially gerrymandered in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
Aug 27, 2025, 5:15 AM
They’re Powerful Enough to Resist, But Are Caving to Trump
Andrew Perez, Rolling Stone
When fascism reared its head in America, much of civil society chose to debase itself and accommodate it, rather than fight back.
Aug 16, 2025, 2:00 PM
Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses Of Prisoners And Mentally Ill People
Corey G. Johnson, Techdirt
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people living in South Carolina gro…
Aug 13, 2025, 10:00 PM
DOJ accuses George Washington University of indifference to anti-Semitism
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
Trump administration claims GWU failed to address or remedy anti-Semitic abuses despite student and faculty complaints.
Aug 12, 2025, 5:05 PM
We Asked Pete Hegseth if Women Should Have the Right to Vote. The Answer Was Unsettling.
Molly Olmstead, Slate Magazine
We really, really didn't expect this.
Aug 12, 2025, 4:41 PM
Seventh Circuit Shuts Down Indiana’s Unconstitutional Police Buffer Zone Law
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Although the Supreme Court has yet to say so itself (and probably won’t any time soon, given its current composition), it’s generally accepted that citizens have the right to film public officials performing their public duties. Law enforcement officers, howe…
Aug 12, 2025, 2:53 AM
American neo-Nazis love the Trump era. “[Trump] awakened a lot of people...
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
American neo-Nazis love the Trump era. “[Trump] awakened a lot of people to the issues we’ve been raising for years. H
Aug 11, 2025, 2:13 PM
Trump escalates his racist attacks on Black Americans
Chauncey DeVega, Salon
Failure to connect his comments to our worsening democratic crisis is an act of complicity
Aug 9, 2025, 10:45 AM
Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes
Adi Robertson, The Verge
In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can't learn about periods on Reddit and indie artists can't sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a m…
Aug 8, 2025, 6:22 PM
Trump seeking $1-billion fine from UCLA over antisemitism allegations
Jaweed Kaleem, Michael Wilner, Yahoo Entertainment
The Trump administration has proposed the University of California pay more than $1 billion to settle antisemitism charges and restore frozen grant funding...
Aug 8, 2025, 5:54 PM
GOP Texas map has Austin residents sharing district with rural Texans 300 miles away
Fritz Farrow, Oren Oppenheim, ABC News
It would "suppress the votes of Black and brown Austinites," one Democrat said.
Aug 8, 2025, 9:35 AM