MAGA

 

UPDATE 04/21/2026:

More tools in the push to rig elections

 

And, adding to the fascist takeover of the country...

UPDATE 03/22/2026:

Is February still Black History Month?

So, yeah, I guess so.

It's probably just a matter of time before Trump declares it to now be Trump History Month.

Treat

Instead of investigating the murderer of Renee Good...

 DOJ is investigating Renee Good's wife.

The prosecutors walked because Trump’s DOJ refused to investigate what may be one of the most serious excessive-force killings by a federal agent in decades.

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When career officials resign en masse, they’re sounding an alarm. They’re telling us the rule of law is being bent to protect power—and to shield a brutal immigration enforcement regime from scrutiny.

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Renee Good is dead. Video evidence contradicts ICE’s story about her death. But, instead of doing what the Justice Department has always done, sending in the Civil Rights Division, Trump’s administration slammed the door shut on the case.

  The New Republic

If I remember correctly, they already hollowed out the Civil Rights Division.

Meanwhile, Trump’s FBI has begun digging into Good’s past, apparently attempting to smear her name while shutting local Minnesota authorities out of the investigation.

This is not a judgment call. This is a cover-up.

It's a "fuck you" to us all.

Donald Trump and JD Vance rushed to defend the shooter. Kristi Noem called Good’s interaction with police "domestic terrorism." And DOJ leadership told its own civil rights prosecutors: Stand down. Don’t go to the scene. Don’t ask questions.

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This is how authoritarian systems work: first the violence, then the insulation of the perpetrators, then the silencing of anyone who objects.

The stunning resignations on Monday of four senior career officials from the Criminal Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division confirm that DOJ has gone profoundly off the rails in its handling of what increasingly appears to be one of the gravest federal excessive-force cases in decades.

The resignations reportedly had multiple causes, but the central one was the sidelining of the Criminal Section from the investigation of the January 7 fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross.

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[L]eadership of the Civil Rights Division, under Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, informed the Criminal Section that it would not be investigating the case at all—a spectacular departure from past practice. Multiple career prosecutors offered to go to the scene but were told not to.

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Calling this shooting into question would not merely implicate one agent; it would threaten the legitimacy of a brute-force enforcement regime that is Trump’s pride and joy. And it would come at a moment when the president is reportedly already furious with Attorney General Pam Bondi and senior immigration officials over perceived softness and setbacks.

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Federal authorities reversed an initial plan for a joint investigation with Minnesota officials, shifting the probe to exclusive FBI control and cutting off the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from evidence and access. State officials—including Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty—have said publicly that this move hamstrung their ability to conduct an independent investigation.

Minnesota responded Monday with a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and senior federal officials, seeking to block the massive immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities. The complaint characterizes the deployment of more than 2,000 armed agents as an “invasion” and alleges unlawful tactics—warrantless stops and arrests in sensitive locations, racial profiling, and unconstitutional conduct that has disrupted daily life and eroded public safety. It further asserts that the campaign bears no genuine connection to its stated goals and instead reflects a retaliatory pattern of federal action aimed at Minnesota because of its political leadership and demographics.

  Harry Litman @ New Republic

What's the reason for this?

 

What law? What constitution? What rights?

Good luck. Cruella deNoem doesn't give a shit.   In fact, she apparently agrees with Trump that they should be more brutal. 

They're in trouble for this one.  That's why they're now arresting people who are filming.

(Little mamma fought like a tiger.)

Horrified bystanders filmed as a vehicle driven by immigration police crashed into a car before agents dragged a woman out by her legs and arrested her.

The US citizen, later identified as Dayanne Figueroa, had guns pointed at her by the agents. She says she was moved between multiple undisclosed locations and was not allowed to contact her family or a lawyer.

She was later released without charges. This is the latest violent ICE arrest to shock the US. Reports from the scene suggest that the ICE agents had been trying to escape protestors when the crash happened.

Ms Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before work when she came across an immigration raid in Chicago's West Town neighborhood. People were yelling and honking their horns to alert people of the raid as enforcement agents tried to detain several landscaper workers.

  MSN

The new freedom riders

 

Today in history: Mississippi burning

 

May 28, 1963

 The early days of Civil Rights Activism.

MAGA 

How long will this be allowed to be taught?

Trump 2.0 - Hobble civil rights

The voting section of the U.S. Department of Justice has only three attorneys left on staff, according to an estimate provided by a group working to support the department’s remaining staff.

It’s a severe reduction in the voting section since the start of the Trump administration in January, when it had an estimated 30 attorneys assigned to enforce voting rights laws.

According to the group, Justice Connection, staff attorneys in the voting section either resigned as part of the deferred resignation program, or were reassigned to another department in the DOJ. Justice Connection said it obtained its estimate from employees within the civil rights division, of which the voting section is a part.

  Democracy Docket

MAGA

 

Fuck your civil rights

 Unless you're Christofascist.

Trump 2.0 - Racism

Michael Harriot introduced a website tracking Trump 2.0's racist policies and actions.  It's here.

MAGA

 

Trump 2.0 - Civil Rights

The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or violence.

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The first of two short memos sent by Chad Mizelle, the chief of staff at the department, ordered a “litigation freeze” at the department’s Civil Rights Division to decide whether Trump appointees want “to initiate any new cases,” according to a screenshot of the document viewed by The New York Times.

Mr. Mizelle also barred lawyers working for the division from filing “motions to intervene, agreed-upon remands, amicus briefs or statements of interest,” unless they receive the approval of senior Trump appointees.

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Perhaps more significant, a second memo ordered a similar freeze on department activity involving so-called consent decrees — agreements hashed out with local governments intended to address flawed police practices, or bias based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and disabilities.

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Mr. Trump, who has moved quickly to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion programs, accused the Justice Department under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. of hampering the police, even though nearly all of the law enforcement agencies investigated have admitted fault and many have embraced reforms.

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The president has selected Harmeet K. Dhillon, a conservative lawyer from California, to run the Civil Rights Division, one of the most important, and politically polarizing, units in the department. Ms. Dhillon, who will be responsible for voting rights cases if confirmed by the Senate, was a top figure in the state Republican Party, where she supported Mr. Trump’s false claims of voter fraud.

  NYT

Trump signed an executive order revoking the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, which was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has remained in effect for 60 years. It prohibits discrimination against protected classes in employment by any contractor who does business with the federal government. At least it did for the last 60 years.

  Meidas Touch

Another unsurprising nomination

Prediction:  They won't.

Also...

And it's being reported that Kari Lake is in consideration for ambassador to Mexico.

The best people.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Semi-safe in Illinonis

2024 election

This is why women's rights are under constant attack from the right. (Also, according to what I've seen, 91% of black women voted Harris, and exit polls indicate Harris voters' main issue was democracy.)

UPDATE 11/12/2024:

They're going to need help

The ACLU will be inundated with cases in support of all the people the GOP and its Christian Nationalists will be attacking.  Please help if you can.