California passed a law abolishing money bail. (Hurray.) It also grants sweeping powers to judges to lock up defendants at will, indiscriminately, however. (?!?!) Grassroots prison reform groups were bamboozled—and are now furious.
It appears Democrats and Republicans agree that permanently stripping someone’s right to vote is a bad idea.
Sadly, the country yet again has to confront a deadly shooting. There will be memorials, and necessary news coverage about how students and teachers acted with bravery while their school was being terrorized. And then the country will move on.
Muslim Americans organized like never before during the presidential election. Despite their efforts, Trump won, and their greatest fears became reality.
This paradigm of how people consume news and information and the manner in which its circulated to friends and family shifted a long time ago.
It’s an incredible spectacle, really, to watch the corporate media and their favorite talking heads explore this notion of Trump’s so-called independence. This, only a month after Trump failed to issue a full-throated condemnation of a white nationalist invasion in Charlottesville, Va.
The system that gave us Trump—the very same that may one day contribute to his downfall—is itself part of an infected establishment.
Ironic that the most powerful court in the land decided to hear the travel ban case just days after the supposedly non-Islamophobic administration broke with two-decade-old tradition and decided against hosting an Eid al-Fitr dinner at the White House to celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
