'If he was Black, they would have shot him': Buffalo's East Side residents respond to mass shooting

You don’t need to tell the residents of the mostly-Black East Side neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, where 10 people were killed and three were...

Jealous of Obama's Netflix deal, Trump now hiring producers for his MAGA-streaming platform

When the media publishes the truth about you and you don’t like it, if you’ve got the dough, the next best thing is to produce your own content....

Supreme Court decides in favor of Ted Cruz, opening the floodgates to wantonly bribing politicians

Today was a good day for Sen. “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz, as he’s been called . Thanks to a Supreme Court ruling, Cruz can pay himself back for the...

Georgia elections official allowed Big Lie conspiracy theorist to probe Coffee County voting machine

A rural Georgia election supervisor, Misty Hampton, never trusted the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. So she had no issue allowing someone,...

GOP officials in Philadelphia ousted after 'ballot harvesting' scheme uncovered

After two years of unrelenting rhetoric about the dangers of voting by mail—a completely unfounded assault on voting rights, led by former President...

Black-run political organizations using probable Roe reversal to marshal Black voters

Abortion is an issue that disproportionately impacts Black people who can get pregnant. So several Black-run political organizations are using the...

'Marked or unmarked burial sites' at 53 Native American forced assimilation schools, Haaland reports

In an impassioned speech Wednesday, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American cabinet member, announced the findings from an...

Tucker Carlson wastes no time being racist about new White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

Okay, I’ll admit that I rarely watch Fox News, much less Tucker Carlson, but even from what I have watched, his latest attack Tuesday on the new...

Hawley goes after Disney with a 'blatantly unconstitutional' bill likely to go nowhere

Of all the corporations, or dare I say, cultural institutions to go after, the Republicans’ attack on Disney is one of the most surreal I’ve...

New York governor sets aside $35 million to keep abortion providers safe, expand abortion services

The governor of New York announced Tuesday that in light of the news that the U.S. Supreme Court intends to scrap  Roe v. Wade, her state will...

Black Appalachian activist and dissenter of Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation tells her story

Crystal Good is an activist who tells the stories of the Black Appalachians she grew up with. In addition to her work as an author, Ted-X speaker, ...

Abbott chips away at public education in Texas, declaring undying love for private school vouchers

Not surprisingly, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is wildly in support of school vouchers for private schools. Of course he is—he’s just another tool in...

At least he’s consistent? Jan. 6 defendant is also a convicted abortion clinic terrorist

In addition to the violent, right-wing, and white supremacist groups we know rushed the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, there was also a small and...

Beloved Black reading specialist escorted out of classroom by security after filing a grievance

As if our teachers haven’t endured enough in the last couple of years—COVID-19, remote teaching, book banning, and rhetoric about critical race...

Mississippi governor dodges questions about banning all contraception if Roe is overturned

As shocking as it was to read the leaked U.S. Supreme Court opinion indicating that the court would overrule Roe v. Wade , now we have lawmakers...

Thanks to strong privacy laws in the state, Georgia’s Supreme Court could keep abortion legal

Thanks to a law protecting a citizen’s right to privacy, Georgia may very well be able to keep abortion legal in the state following the Supreme...

Majority-Black town in Tennessee reaches deal in takeover by state thanks to help from the NAACP

A tiny, rural, predominantly Black town in Tennessee has gotten a reprieve from a looming threat of a financial takeover by the state, the Johnson...

In Tennessee, Plan B by mail is now a felony carrying a $50k fine

The state of Tennessee just turned its clocks back to a time before clocks, apparently, as the governor signed a law making it a Class E felony with...

Fox & Friends host can't wrap his mind around a pregnant person being hired for a job

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade obviously doesn’t understand the law when it comes to discriminating against people who are pregnant. Well… this is Fox...

Don't look now, but Stacey Abrams is mowing down Gov. Kemp's financial lead

Things are looking pretty good in the Georgia governor’s race. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , Democratic powerhouse Stacey...

Abbott threatens to challenge SCOTUS 1982 decision ensuring free public education for all kids

It doesn’t take the keenest observer to realize that the U.S. Supreme Court’s inclination to reverse Roe v. Wade  was just the tip of the...

‘I chose to have an abortion,’ New York AG tells pro-choice protesters: ‘I make no apologies’

New York Attorney General Letitia James gave a rousing speech at a pro-choice rally in Manhattan Tuesday. She candidly shared with the crowd her...

Newsmax host has the caucasity to accuse Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of leaking Alito opinion

Instead of addressing that the U.S. Supreme Court is contemplating a reversal on Roe v. Wade,  despite the fact that 69% of Americans are in favor...

Alito cites racist eugenics theory to support overturn of Roe v. Wade

If it wasn’t horrifying enough to learn via a leaked draft majority opinion written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that the Supreme...

Data collection company sells the information of people who visit abortion clinics

We all know that our whereabouts can be easily tracked on our cell phones , and that the data can then be sold. But, according to Vice,  there’s...

Supreme Court confirms authenticity of leaked Roe v. Wade draft opinion, opens investigation

The Supreme Court announced Tuesday both its confirmation of a draft decision  indicating a plan to overturn Roe v. Wade and its order to investigate...

Fight back! A list of a few reproductive justice organizations you can support today

While many of us were just getting ready for bed Monday night, we learned of a leaked draft of an opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito...

Registered Republican in Arizona sentenced to probation after casting dead mom's ballot in 2020

A Scottsdale, Arizona, woman who cast her dead mother’s ballot in the 2020 presidential election escaped jail time Friday and was sentenced to two...

Biden suspends Gov. Kemp’s attempt to block ACA site from hundreds of thousands of Georgia residents

A plan by Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to block residents from gaining access to health insurance via the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace...

Game on! Georgia DA impaneling special purpose grand jury for Trump investigation

The investigation into a call former President Trump made to Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger after losing the 2020 presidential election...

Boriqua activist offers classes for people of color to understand and decode ‘colonial mentality'

Educator and activist Constanza Eliana Chinea explains that her decolonization lessons aren’t designed with white people in mind. Rather, the...

Trump's COVID-19 pandemic response was second-rate and deceitful, a new report shows

Anyone paying attention was aware of the ineptitude former President Donald Trump displayed in the first days and months of the COVID-19 pandemic …...

Black D.C. residents comprised 90% of the pregnancy-related deaths in the city, a study finds

The city I grew up in was once referred to as “Chocolate City.” That has changed. Today, Washington, D.C., is less than 50% Black, so, when I...

Herschel Walker didn’t just hawk COVID-19 spray; he’s spent decades touting unproven health products

In addition to his “dry mist” COVID-19 spray, Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker has had other health products he’s promoted over the...

Lawyers in Marjorie Taylor Greene reelection suit file motion to add 'Marshall law' text as evidence

Less than a week after appearing in a Georgia courtroom to defend herself in a reelection lawsuit, and swearing under oath to not remembering a damn...

Barrage of gunshots leaves kids, parents scrambling for cover at a youth baseball game, video shows

A chilling video of an incident in North Charleston, South Carolina, showing dozens of kids and adults scrambling for cover as a barrage of gunshots...

DeSantis signs voter bill officially authorizing Gestapo-like election police force

Despite the fact that it’s been nearly impossible to find actual cases of voter fraud in the 2020 election, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis found a way...

New book reveals moments when McCarthy, McConnell went from damning Trump for Jan. 6 to groveling

What Rep. Kevin McCarthy and Sen. Mitch McConnell said behind closed doors about President Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection and what...

Tulsi Gabbard returns to her anti-LGBTQ roots by supporting Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

Tuesday, former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard appeared on Fox News ’ The Sean Hannity Show and offered her unmitigated support for Florida’s...

FBI sends flawed email in response to media inquiry about the status of Leonard Peltier’s clemency

In a strange turn of events, when HuffPost recently asked for the status of an inmate’s petition for clemency, instead of receiving a response...

GOP making teachers’ lives more difficult with a bill making it easier for parents to sue them

An Arizona bill just centimeters away from passage could make it a lot easier for parents to sue their children’s teachers. The bill gives...

Prominent Armenian Americans call Dr. Oz a genocide denier

I can think of a million reasons why I wouldn’t support Mehmet Oz to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate, and now I can add one more. Oz,...

Legendary reproductive justice activist advises women to start talking openly about abortion

Byllye Y. Avery has fought for the health care needs of women for over three decades. She’s been a stalwart for reproductive health dating back to...

Judge allows challenge by Georgia voters to block Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the ballot

A federal judge will allow a group of Georgia voters to move forward with a case to disqualify Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for a second...

Florida education department rejects 41% of math books submitted, alleging ‘indoctrination’ aka CRT

In a statement released Friday , the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) announced it had rejected 41% of K-12 math books for not meeting Common...

Houston lawmaker threatens Citigroup over its pledge to pay for employees' out-of-state abortions

In response to a mid-March announcement by Citigroup Inc. that it would begin covering travel expenses for its employees living in states that limited...

GOP gubernatorial candidate accused of groping seven women, GOP state senator

Georgia governor signs bill protecting farms from suits filed by neighbors, environmental groups

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill Wednesday making it a lot easier for farms to get away with funking up the environment and forcing residents...

According to unnamed sources, Dianne Feinstein is unable to follow conversations or remember people

After three decades serving as the senator from California, a serious conversation is brewing about whether or not Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein...

Maybe the GOP should be looking at a massive Florida retirement community for the Big Lie

Several residents of a retirement community in Florida seem unable to fully understand this basic rule of voting: You only get one vote per...