NEW: A huge ruling today. Nebraska's supreme court stepped in to enable as many as *105,000* people to vote in November. Two GOP state officials had unilaterally said in July that they would just stop enforcing two rights restoration laws. Court stopped them: boltsmag.org/nebraska-vot...
Nebraska’s supreme court reversed state officials’ abrupt attempt to impose a lifetime ban on voting for people with felony convictions. But the registration deadline is just days away.
On October 24th at 6pm (UK time), I'll be doing an online event with the University of Warwick and speaking about modern Chinese poetry in translation. Hosted by the Warwick SMLC and SCAPVC. Open to the public. Please register here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
"Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein" Nothing else to add here. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Read The GW Hatchet's original reporting that led to the campus police chief's resignation. “I feel bad for the GW community, because you’ve been lied to,” said Ryan Monteiro, a former sergeant since January 2022 who left in May. “The arming program was a disaster. It was an absolute disaster.”
Former GW Police Department officers said the yearlong rollout of the controversial plan to arm some police officers was riddled with safety violations that went undisclosed to the community.
Improvements I've seen to LAs: recognizing forced assimilation and attempted genocide of the tribes, a deeper dive into how exactly the land was taken, a personal acknowledgement of the role that person's family had in taking the land, and links to donation sites for the Natives in that area.
Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite – erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead theconversation.com/land-acknowl...
Land acknowledgments state that activities are taking place on land previously owned by Indigenous peoples. They’re popular – but they may harm more than they heal, say three anthropologists.
I remember this being mentioned as being a potential problem when QR Codes started becoming mainstream. I know at least 2 family members that were skimmed last month alone. Be careful out there
ProPublica has published one of the first accounts of a woman dying from being denied access to abortion care. Amber Nicole Thurman died in an Atlanta hospital because doctors were afraid of providing her a timely and life-saving abortion. Abortion bans kill women.
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
