@slynhicks
Justice Reform & Voting Rights advocate. Formerly incarcerated peer mentor. 👥️ Disabled Navy veteran.⚓️ Southern born & raised. 💐 Lover of UNIONS 💪🏽 Mom is my bestest friend.💕 Working towards equality in Alabama.✌🏽
Today, the court rightly rejected one of the administration’s very first illegal & consequential acts: abolishing the federal role in education. This decision is a first step to reverse this war on knowledge and the undermining of broad-based opportunity. www.aft.org/press-releas...
Speaking to a Freshman class at Howard university about their biggest fears in today's political climate - political violence.
youtu.be/43KH0PlrPZk?...
I remember when extramarital affairs were described as an "indiscretion", but now the self-appointed arbiters of morality now describe rape is an "indiscretion"🤔
A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo
Trump pardoned Steve Bannon in 2021. Bannon — who once served as Trump’s chief strategist in the WH — was pardoned as he awaited trial on federal fraud charges.
Bannon was one of four individuals accused of defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors in a “We Build the Wall” GoFundMe…
Pretty sure I speak for everyone when I say, respectfully, fuck off, Joe Manchin.
I knew Lawrence O’Donnel would bring the 🔥
“Joe Biden obviously decided his son should not be subjected to a malicious Trump witch hunt, which Donald Trump promises will be malicious and unfair.”
@lawrence-odonnell.bsky.social
"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
Just gonna drop this here…
The political war over the Department of Education is only beginning
'How far will RFK go?' Two experts talk Kennedy's potential impact on child health
South Korea’s president declared martial law today in a surprise late-night televised address, accusing the political opposition of siding with North Korea.
“'We want all of that disclosed because there is a genuine chance that, given the scale of what the Trump administration has planned, people could just disappear into federal custody,' said Sarah Turberville, director of the Constitution Project at the... Project On Government Oversight."
On this day in 1970, Cesar Chavez was sentenced to an indefinite jail term for his work boycotting lettuce produced by farms that had used coercive tactics against the United Farm Workers.
Maddow: That is the behavior on January 6th that Trump is praising and promising to use the pardon power for. So, yeah, tell me all about the scandal of the use of the pardon power.
A thing everyone has forgotten is that Donald Trump basically sprang Roger Stone from prison so he could help with the coup and it was maybe a one day story.
Call me crazy, but I think Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, sending Trump $18 million should be a bigger story
The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post
Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans.
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
I can’t conceive of a man like this running the Pentagon. Hell, I can’t conceive of a woman having to be alone with this man.
Islamophobia, alcoholism, misogyny, alleged sex crimes, alleged fraud...this man sounds, at least per this report, like a one-man twenty-year crime spree. Read for yourself:
Speaking as someone who unfortunately committed a felony and assists others who have, WE have served our time and have had to redeem ourselves. We weren't fortunate enough to escape consequences and still maintain the right to vote while running for the highest office in our country. #privilege
The irony of being at bluesky right now is that we’re building back better.
#freethinkers #stateofmind
Best illustration of how 'the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.'
When the justice system is used for anything other than appropriate and proportionate justice, the citizenry suffers the eventual consequences.
CONSEQUENCES: Citizens becoming desensitized to an unfair and cruel, (un)justice system...until they fall victim.
By then, who will care?
Love it! Head vs. Notebook.
Glad to see you @markelias.bsky.social
