MAGA must really love this one

Participants in our National Advocacy Institute for youth and our broader community joined us to honor our collective fight to build a more perfect union and to uplift key individuals' contributions. Our honorees included Bruce Springsteen and Colin Kaepernick for their tireless, powerful advocacy.

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— ACLU (@aclu.org) July 26, 2026 at 12:40 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Fighting the good fight against GOP racism

No matter how states try to spin it, intentional discrimination against Black voters is still illegal — and we'll keep fighting it.

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— ACLU (@aclu.org) May 26, 2026 at 1:11 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Public safety

 Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

Alito's allegiance isn't to the Constution, it's to Trump

In SCOTUS's 7-2 ruling stopping more kidnapped people from being sent to El Salvador, the majority justices didn't wait for Alito to write his dissent. That's odd and suggests they didn't trust him to act in good faith, that his plan was to hold up the order until the prisoners were already gone.

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) April 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

I pay money for this shit

Christ, another point/counterpoint in the Free Press and another reason to question why I give them money every three months to continue my subscription--one Anthony Forlini (who?) writes on why we should drug test Michigan citizens for being poor and the best he can come up with is that liberal groups don't support it, we've over-regulated, and trying a la the great middle class destroyer Ronald Reagan to put this notion in our heads that everyone on welfare is shooting their monthly checks into their arms.  Forlini is a lying prick and an idiot, and one has to wonder how stupid the people in his district are if they think he's the best candidate to represent them in the Michigan House.

Contrast that to the well-reasoned response by Kary Moss of the Michigan ACLU in which she bases her assertions on, of all things, the Constitution of the United States and its guarantee of equal protection.  Well, duh--but it seemed to go beyond the editorial board of The Free Press because had I been a member of it, I would have been embarrassed to put Forlini's piece next to it and call it an op-ed.  More like an oops-ed.

One thing Forlini does make a good case for, though, is drug testing for our members of the Michigan Legislature.  Anyone writing a piece that piss poor is either incredibly ignorant or stoned.

Peace,
emaycee

The wrong side of history

One of the most important stories not being given the heft it deserves by the traditional media is the republican war on voters' rights.  They can't win enough elections on the merit of the arguments (since about 70% either aren't sure or are convinced the republicans are completely full of shit), so they'll suppress Democratic voters.  In a word, cheat. 

And--surprise, surprise--their main targets are the least of their brothers:  the poor and minorities.

George Bernard Shaw famously said, "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."  One has to wonder if the famously dim republicans responsible for draconian voting restrictions thought very much about Indonesia under Sukarno, South Africa under apartheid, Egypt under Mubarak, Libya under Qaddafi, or hell, the American colonies under King George.  Disenfranchising people who have absolutely nothing to lose is a recipe for disaster--as all of the above eventually found out.

Peace,
emaycee