A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.
Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.
The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.
#BREAKING: Lawrence opener 02/23: "The president of the United States calling for the execution of members of Congress because they publicly recited the law is obviously a reason to invoke the 25th amendment to remove that president from office for EXTREME mental incapacity and possible dementia..."
As a woman, I am deeply horrified.
Tennessee Republicans are so “pro-life” that they proposed a bill that would allow the death penalty for women who have an abortion. Let that sink in. The death penalty. For a medical decision.
This is beyond extreme. It’s not about protecting life... it’s about controlling women’s bodies through fear and punishment.
Calling this “pro-life” while threatening women with execution is not just hypocritical, it’s inhumane.
Leave women alone.
Lawrence O’Donnell quotes the scathing takedown of Trump in the NY Daily News: “It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise. It lies, steals, extorts, and murders — all while cloaked in the awesome authority of the state. It is on a crime spree that puts Al Capone to shame.”
WORTH REPEATING:
Texas has 2.1M undocumented immigrants and Florida has 1.2M.
Minnesota has 130,000.
Don't let anyone tell you this is about immigration.
It never was.
Trump lost MN three times. That is what THIS is about, and it’s impeachable.