Michael Harriot discusses some truths about IAAM:
Right on!
Oh darn, I just posted that in the Supreme Court Affirmative Action thread!
Great minds think alike, and all that.
Spotify was in the wrong there, but Essence is now getting overly litigious with their trademark protection. This year they shut down a local bookstore from celebrating Black authors because it referred to Essence in their ad and are claiming a monopoly in the whole area of Downtown NOLA.
What could possibly be âirreparably harmfulâ to Essence in being associated with a Black-owned bookstore named for James Baldwin?
tldr: The EPA was finally moving ahead on federal enforcement of Cancer Alley when Jeff Landry (current Louisiana AG, likely next governor) sued to stop them. Despite the suit seeming week, the EPA completely folded and gave up trying to do anything to fix even the most egregious environmental racism. 
ETA link about the current situation in Haiti, which was mentioned in the article above.
Ok, it sounds like this guy agrees with DeSantisâ opinion about the NAACP advisory! On top of his travel story that tells me he doesnât bother to do the bare minimum for safety when traveling with his family, heâs going to whatabout the difference between government actions in Florida vs. injustices in the rest of the country? Wow. That line of bs makes him sound like he wouldâve had âgood reasonsâ for riding the bus during the Montgomery boycott, too, if heâd already paid the fare before it started:
The advisory came weeks after we had plunked down a sizable non-refundable deposit for a trip to Floridaâs Emerald coast
Itâs disappointing to see this in the Guardian, especially filed under US Politics and not Opinion. Still, the media never has a problem finding useful idiots to keep the wheels of commerce well-oiled. Just because this family didnât encounter anyone âhostileâ doesnât mean the problems donât exist. It just means they were lucky. Weâve got enough incidents upthread about injured and dead folks from FL who werenât so lucky, as well as the policies enabled by state government that put BIPOC at increased risk. He exposes his willful ignorance about the point of hitting fascists in the wallet, and handwaves encounters with state residents who agree with the intent of the advisory, because that might get in the way of his having a good time.
I was seeing it from the viewpoint of lunch counter protests (go even though they donât want you), but yeahâŚ
This organizations has done a lot of good:
Iâll be cross-posting to GOP FascistsâŚ
It took 4 fucking years to get charges brought against cops that murdered Ronald Greene and covered it up, and after the grand jury charged them a judge is declaring the grand jury was wrong and dismissing charges without trial.
Could they file federal bias crime charges instead? They might get a less racist judge that way.
State legislature and the governor have been repeatedly dropping the ball, but maybe the federal investigation will reveal who is behind all the delays and coverups in this case. As @Scientist pointed out, theyâve had years to work on it, although the DOJ focus is a broader one about the state police:
FTA:
lawmakers ultimately decided to take a back seat to a U.S. Justice Department investigation that predated the committeeâs formation by two years. And he accused the second-term Democratic governor of declining to participate.
On another topic of federal inquiryâŚ
A reminder that Govenor Edwardsâ father and both brothers are Louisiana LEOs. On most issues heâs been good, but on this one he is awful. He will never go against the cops, even when theyâre covering up a murder in plain sight
