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#ScottColom was to be nominated #Federal #Judge in 2022. He was blocked. By #Mississippi #Republican #Senator #CindyHydeSmith Her reason: #Colom's support for #transRights So he ran for the #Senate If he wins, he will be the first #Black Senator from Mississippi since #Reconstruction (1875!). #MS is 37% black, highest % of black residents of any #USA state Now look at this #vote tally so far And tell me your vote doesn't matter

The family of #ReneeGood sued the #USgovernment & several #immigration ofcls Thursday, alleging #WrongfulDeath & other violations of #federal #law in the 37-year-old woman’s killing [ #murder ] by an immigration officer during a federal crackdown in #Minneapolis. The 2 lawsuits were filed by Good’s partner, Becca Good, & Renee’s brother Brent Ganger. #Trump #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #fascism #ICE #CBP

The saga illustrates the stakes as the #Trump admin is completing a set of rules that would provide the president even GREATER CONTROL over more than $1 TRILLION in annual #federal #grants. To critics, the new #regulation would only make it easier for Trump to strike wider tranches of congressionally approved #funding over #political differences. #MafiaState #law #democracy #UNITEDStates #RussVought #Project2025 #RevengePolitics

White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/politics/white-house-federal-grants-political-review.html #Politics #Government #Federal

Unlike #federal #elections, #Victorian elections have #GroupVotingTickets in the upper house – a system that enables the business of #PreferenceWhispering’ – back-room deals where preferences are swapped to elect MPs with a tiny share of the votes. This was being used to game the system. Right wing agitator, #AviYemeni, has been working to #register #fake micro-parties called the ‘Free Palestine Party’ and ‘Muslim Votes Matter’ with the explicit purpose of ChannelingVotes to #OneNation. Another #FakeParty project, #SaveTheEnvironmentParty was announced in February for the same reason: to #trick #voters. This election, that's changing. Instead of backroom deals and dark money deciding where preferences go, voters will rank the parties they want to elect to Victoria's upper house, just as they already do in the lower house. #VicPol #auspol #TheGreens

US War On #Iran Not Helping #BondMarket, Rising rates have driven a $2.6 trillion decline in total economic value of treasuries...Since #HerrDrumpf political stranglehold and threats to #Federal Reserve System chair, the U.S. no longer holds a top-tier #credit rating. Like all his own past #biz ventures, #USA is likely gong down as well wiith #Drumpf ship as deepening trouble in #mideast conflicts create global downward spirals...

The #US government is allowed to work with government officials of foreign countries to coordinate #deportation logistics. However, #federal #regulations passed in the late 1990s PROHIBIT the government from sharing information that could reveal that the individual getting deported applied for #asylum. #law #immigration #Trump #Iran #HumanRights

That hasn’t stopped #Trump or his allies from continuing to “try” to prove their many baseless claims. In the process, they have sowed doubt & distrust in #US #elections [which is the plan], & called for the passage of #federal #election #legislation known as the SAVE America Act, which #VotingRights advocates say would make it harder for many Americans to vote. #law #Constitution #ElectionInterference #BigLie #TrumpCoup #FBI #DOJ

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#DOJ has opened a #federal #CivilRights probe into the death of #AlexPretti [but not #ReneeGood. Neither should have been killed, but I’ll say it again, Pretti was a straight man, Good a gay woman. Both shootings were recorded on video by multiple witnesses showing neither was at fault. Yet the #homophobic #misogynistic #Trump admin is only willing to look into the straight man’s #murder.] #law #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #LGBTQ

“How do I decide when a law enforcement response crosses the line from a legitimate law enforcement response to a response that violates the #10thAmendment?” Judge Kate M. Menendez asks a lawyer for the state of #Minnesota. Brian Carter, a lawyer for MN, tells the judge that “at its heart, the issue is that the #federal government is attempting to bend the #state’s will to its own. And that is not allowed under the #Constitution.” #Trump #law #UseOfForce #authoritarianism #ICE #CBP