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.
The mother of missing 16 year old Aysia Banks:
"I am gonna be full transparent and share everything surrounding the disappearance of my daughter , because CMPD is playing it like a runaway case and it’s being taking lightly.
For those wanting answers … here are the answers. I know it’s a lot but I need you all to read and please share.
I am speaking out to bring urgent attention to the disappearance of my daughter, Aysia, and to express my grave concern regarding the current handling of her case.
CMPD is currently classifying this as a runaway; however, the circumstances surrounding her disappearance strongly suggest she is in danger and may have been groomed or manipulated.
HERE ARE THE FACTs:
• Last Seen: Tuesday night ( April 14th -early morning of April 15th)
• I was working a night shift (7 p.m. – 7 a.m.). My 9-year-old son reported that Aysia left with a bag during the night.
• When I arrived home, all of Aysia’s known electronics were left behind. Her phone enters automatic "Downtime" at 11 p.m., restricting her communication to parents only. Her other parent is currently out of the country.
• Because she left her devices behind, I believe she was either using a secondary device I was unaware of to communicate with someone, or arrangements were made prior to 11 p.m.
Aysia is 16 years old and has no history of running away or behavioral issues.
She is a dedicated Honors Student and a member of the National Honors Society.
She values her education and would never willingly miss school or abandon her younger brother in this manner.
And none of her close friends has any answers or any clue about her disappearance.
Between the hours of 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., a 16-year-old girl is extremely vulnerable. Whether she was lured away willingly or forced, she is a minor alone in the middle of the night. I believe she has been targeted and groomed.
Something is wrong.
My daughter is not a "troubled child” she is a child who is missing, and someone else is involved.
I am asking for the community’s help and for law enforcement to treat this with the severity it deserves.
It’s crazy how fast everyone forgot Jeffery Epstein was a jewish spy trafficking children to blackmail American politicians so they did israels bidding
Crazy story out of Qatar:
A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she'd "fall in love" after he slept with her.
The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own WhatsApp messages saying the opposite.
Her husband posted a TripAdvisor review calling the hotel "unsafe for women." The hotel got it pulled, then a hotel employee filed a defamation complaint against him under Qatar's cybercrime laws.
Nearly a year later, when he returned to Qatar for work, he was detained, informed he'd been tried in absentia and fined, and then held for four nights in a deportation centre. The deportation order lasts five years, which severely hurts his career as a Middle East healthcare consultant.
In other words, Marriott International, an American company, used Qatari law to silence a complaint about a woman being sexually harassed at their property.
The media moved on like nothing happened.
A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.
Keep sharing this so it doesn’t get buried.
Look at their faces. What do you see?
I wanted to look them in the eye and say, on the record, that they are attempting to reconstruct this government to undo Black progress. Their targeting of @calvin4clerk is rooted in that reality, and it needed to be called out plainly.
I showed up speaking for myself. No organization in Louisiana sent me. No party asked me to come. I say that to make clear much of this work is being done independently, without formal partnerships, and without the budgets, staff, or institutional backing many established organizations have.
I came because what they are doing is wrong. The court reconstruction happening in New Orleans has been done in different ways already in Baton Rouge and across this state—especially in the largest, Blackest cities—to dilute Black political power.
I started Civics for the People because I know many of us don’t know what is happening inside government or how these systems are used. It’s my way of teaching the game and helping our people move with knowledge.
Their elections are in 2027. We can send them home to frown and chew grass much gum as they please.
If you believe this work matters, support Civics for the People at the link in my bio so I can teach the people and send some on these people home.
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This is how power gets taken from Black communities. Every seat removed is jobs and income removed from a majority Black city.
Louisiana State Senator Jay Morris has filed multiple bills aimed at stripping judicial seats from majority-Black New Orleans.
Pay attention to the clips. Watch how he speaks to Black elected officials — dismissive, disrespectful, like they weren’t chosen by the people of this state. That’s not just tone, that’s intent.
I need you to do more than scroll.
Watch. Share. Call. Email.
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📞 (318) 362-4270
Let him hear from you — since he didn’t think it was necessary to hear from the people before filing these bills.
Democrats, it’s time to call this what it is. If someone can sit in your face, disrespect your constituents, and try to take power from your communities without even a conversation — what do you call that?
And Republicans — this doesn’t make you look strong. It shows exactly what this is really about: power and control, not safety or justice.
You can move bills, but you can’t erase the record.
People are watching. People will remember.
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Meet Calvin Duncan. In Louisiana, they are trying to strip him of the post he was legally elected to in Orleans Parish. This man was jailed for a crime, exonerated, ran for office, and won. Now, the state is attempting to take that office away from him. #DemsUnited
@GaryChambersJr “every legislator that has ever existed in this state has been under majority white control, and you still havent found a way to get yourselves out of the bottom 10 ranking.”
☕️The Met Police Interrogated Me Under Caution. It has long become the enforcement arm of Zionists to suppress & oppress legitimate opposition, outrage & dissent against Israel’s war crimes. Met Police isn’t interrogating & prosecuting over 2000 British Zionist Jews that serve in IDF killing babies, murdering Palestinians & Lebanese but I’m the problem? Let me put all you godless, human waste of space Zionists on notice - as God is my strength I will NEVER stop speaking out against the evil, godforsaken terrorist state of Israel and against your execution of/ complicity in manufacturing consent for its crimes against humanity✊🏾
DC police responding to a domestic assault call documented that Rep. Cory Mills, on a phone call with the victim, instructed her to lie about where her bruises came from. Officers listened.
They still sent an arrest warrant. Trump’s US Attorney for DC, Ed Martin — who calls himself “President Trump’s lawyer” — refused to sign it.
A supervisor reclassified the assault as a family disturbance. The arresting officer told the victim on body cam: “I have bosses making this into a family disturbance instead of an actual domestic assault.”
MPD internal affairs opened an investigation into its own handling of the case. The criminal probe was later closed. The House Ethics Committee investigation remains open.
https://t.co/7RrAG8XNyD
She asked him for SPECIFICS for Black American women and he basically said specifics aren’t the priority of this administration nor his concern.
Where are all those Black people who said this admin was the best choice for our people? 🤨
A group of Asians came to the 360 rooftop bar in St.Louis to celebrate a Birthday & they brought their own cake from Chicago & as the Birthday girl was getting ready to blow out the candles the manager came over & leaned in & blew them out.The cake couldn’t be eaten.Was it racist