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(8,921 posts) Sun May 31, 2026, 06:33 PM 12 hrs ago

In Trump's Fascist America: "A Moment of Silence for Derek Chauvin"

Minnesota GOP convention has moment of silence for Derek Chauvin You read that right. The Minnesota GOP saw fit to have a moment of silence for a thug masquerading as a Minneapolis cop who put his knee on Floyd’s neck and suffocated him to death.

‘I Did Research on the Blacks’: Fox Host Jesse Watters Goes Full Racist on Live TV, Cracks Vulgar ‘Between the Sheets’ Joke While Mocking the Gutting of the Voting Rights Act “I did some research on the Blacks, as Judge Jeanine would so eloquently say, and the solution to Hakeem’s problem, this gay Obama, is baby-making,” Watters stunningly said.

State Department Needs Additional $100 Million To Whiten America With Even More Afrikaners Apparently the United States doesn’t have money for Medicaid or cancer research or paying teachers a living wage, but it does have $100 million to bring over 10,000 more white people with a victimhood complex. Boy, living in the Trump Reichland is just hit-you-in-the-gonads-with-a-battering-ram levels of fun fun fun.

NAACP urges Black athletes to boycott Southern universities The NAACP’s ‘Out of Bounds’ campaign blasts Southern states over such proposals and calls for Black athletes, their families, and alumni to “withhold athletic and financial support” from major public universities in these states.

A Jackie Robinson moment: Jeffries echoes NAACP calls for college sports boycott over voting rights Hakeem Jeffries, the top US House Democrat, has amplified calls for Black athletes to boycott public universities in states that have moved to limit voting rights, saying an “unprecedented moment, featuring an unprecedented attack on Black political representation” requires an “unprecedented response”.

Dem Lawmaker Slams Trump’s White Supremacist Reparations Fund Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) ripped Donald Trump’s so-called Anti-Weaponization Fund, saying the “almost $1.8 billion sludge fund is really a white supremacist reparations fund... to pay insurrectionists who were pardoned for what they did on Jan. 6 and others for alleged harm done to them by the federal government in prosecuting them,” Johnson said.

Over 145,000 US children separated from parents since Trump’s ICE surge, study estimates The report estimates that about 146,635 children who are US citizens have had a parent detained during the mass deportation campaign Trump embarked on after he retook office in early January. About 36% of children whose parents were detained were younger than six.

After Kneecapping the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court’s Conservative Bloc Kicks Native American Lawsuits Back to Square One The Supreme Court just kicked two major Native American voting rights cases back to lower courts, and the move could gut decades of progress under the Voting Rights Act

Trump just got the American Bar Association to kill the diversity rule that built a generation of Black lawyers the American Bar Association Council that controls law school accreditation voted to repeal Standard 206, the decades old rule that required every ABA accredited law school to show a real commitment to diversity in recruitment, admissions, and student programming.

Epstein reporter flees country as home becomes target of attacks Journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, whose reporting has uncovered a number of previously unknown revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, said on Thursday she will be “fleeing the country” after claiming her home was targeted in "attacks" by those she believes are "unhappy about" her Epstein reporting.

MS NOW host left bereft of words after watching GOP lawmaker’s ad about being white In the ad, a smirking Barr tells Kentucky voters, “You know what DEI really stands for? Dumb evil indoctrination. Woke liberals spew it. Corporate losers fall for it. But thanks to Trump, America is rejecting that trash and I'm leading the fight to end it for good.”

Trump Admin Tries To End 60-Year-Old Rule That Stops Workplace Discrimination Trump’s administration wants end to long-standing federal civil rights requirement of collecting and reporting employee demographic data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to ensure companies are complying with civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination, arguing that collecting and publishing the data is a form of racial discrimination.

Trump bureau ends civil rights-era anti-discrimination protection On a directive from Donald Trump, federal regulations no longer require that lenders prevent policies and practices with unintentionally discriminatory results for borrowers.

Red State Tries To Force College Students To Take ‘Freedom’ Courses Iowa Republicans tried to sneak in a line item in an unrelated government finance bill that would force college students to take conservative courses on “freedom.”

Ron DeSantis banned local governments from supporting Pride events & DEI initiatives He signed a bill banning local governments from “funding or promoting or taking official action as it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion” describing DEI as “an ideological construct” designed to promote a political agenda to the detriment of a certain ‘disfavored group.’

Mike Johnson shrugs off Black voters’ concerns about GOP gerrymandering Johnson said that attempts to redraw his home state of Louisiana’s congressional lines, which would give Republicans a 5-1 advantage while depriving Black voters who make up one third of the state, was ‘about fairness.’

Stacey Abrams Accuses Mike Johnson of Celebrating Jim Crow “He’s saying it brings back 1964, 1963, 1892,” Abrams said, when “race neutral” laws made it harder for Black Americans to vote… laws that said you could have poll taxes and literacy taxes that diminished participation, but were race neutral.