"When we put “winning more seats in the next election” ahead of doing the right thing, we’re not defending freedom."

I Stayed in My Seat—Even When Free Speech Walked In Wearing Heels

What voting for drag history, book rights, and the First Amendment taught me about staying put when everyone else walks out.

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The Politics of Reading

Hark

Politics of Reading: A Roundup of Podcast Moments

Insightful podcast moments about the relationship between politics and reading, including the history of book burning and how reading is a threat t...

Stop the animal abuse.

Animals Shouldn’t Be Weapons for the Police

Horses and dogs don’t understand why they’ve been conscripted into human law enforcement. Forcing them to inflict violence on people, and get h...

wtf

oregonlive

Are you ‘jonesing to fire less lethal rounds’ and ‘launch gas canisters’? Oregon State Police SWAT email misses mark

Oregon State Police tried to conceal this controversial SWAT recruitment email when The Oregonian/OregonLive requested it. Now state police are dis...

Don't be distracted by the spectacles of ICE raids and military reality shitshow - the "One Big Beautiful Bill" is in the Senate, Elon knows who's on Jeffrey Epstein's client list, and promised "trade deals" are far from done. 🙄

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Repeal REAL ID Act already.

A week ago: Elon's bitch, TACO, broke up with his sugar daddy! Oh, and Elon knows about the Epstein file!! And the "One Big Beautiful Bill" is failing! This week: Military dictator!! You know how all this works. #distraction #deflection #darvo #gaslighting

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20 years ago Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner tried to make undocumented immigrants felons, which was a catalyst for the modern immigrant rights movement. When protesters marched waving Mexican flags, the message was diluted and gave GOP a potent imagery to incite a populist, nativist backlash. And here goes again. Optics and visuals mattered in 2005 and they do even more so in this age of real-time social media.

Newsweek

LA riots: How Mexican flag photos are a gift to Donald Trump

Protestors angry at ICE action in Los Angeles waved Mexican flags amid tear gas and burning cars.

They used to "protect and serve with pride," how misguided that may have been notwithstanding.

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