Dogs are welcome with their owners at a homeless shelter in Brazil
Nervously watching what's unfolding in Belfast as racist bigots use a stabbing as an excuse to wreck havoc and mayhem, burning cars & buses, homes, and businesses of ethnic minority residents
Meanwhile, Elon Musk is doing his best to escalate the violence. This is a good 🧵 of his efforts on Twitter
USPS will not deliver mail ballots to voters from any state that refuses to turn over voter rolls to the federal government. Twenty-three states and various advocacy groups are suing to block the unconstitutional trump election EO.
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State election officials could soon face a stark choice: hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.
Elon Musk is unambiguously calling for a violent race war.
This is far from unprecedented. The Rwandan Genocide was stoked and enabled by Felicien Kabuga, the wealthy owner of the RTLM radio station that helped coordinate the genocide and used euphemisms like "go to work" to signal attacks.
I’m not going to pretend to be the world’s biggest soccer fan, but I do love global sporting events like the World Cup and the Olympics. And this piece by @lebassett.bsky.social nails the disgraceful, dumb, and racist bullshit we are pulling as a host country. open.substack.com/pub/laurabas...
Locking fans, team staffers and even referees out of the country for the biggest sporting event in the world is embarrassing, insulting, and financially stupid.
not loving the way this worldwide game of mad libs is turning out
Just clip this and run it as an ad
I grew up in Northern Ireland during the conflict. I was nearly murdered once and hospitalised twice. I covered the Troubles as a reporter. Be in no doubt: this is frightening & real. Violence in Northern Ireland is of a type that folk in England, Scotland and Wales don’t understand. This scares me.
Kuya Jojo
This would be so satisfying
Neil Mackay
Nancy Mace just lost her GOP primary for South Carolina governor.
Freelance journalist. Formerly: EIC at Jezebel, columnist at The Cut and GQ, HuffPost politics reporter. Brooklyn via South Louisiana. I write a newsletter called Nightcap: https://www.laura-bassett.com
