Today's Top Stories:
Former Attorney General Bill Barr unloads on Trump and his "bullsh*t" claims of election fraud
To call out bullsh*t, one must first enable bullsh*t. Apparently.
Take Action: Tell DOJ: No white supremacists in federal law enforcement!
VIDEO OF THE DAY: Fox News's Chris Wallace catches House Republican mid-lie, calls him out to his face
When every last Republican voted against the American Rescue Plan, they voted against $350 billion in state and local funding, money specifically allocated to helps pay for things like — you guessed it — law enforcement. You can't rail against "defund the police" if you won't fund them in the first place.
Take Action: Demand the Senate pass common sense gun safety laws!
Bombshell update on the For The People Act
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Whoa.
Ex-Trump Organization executive says ex-president "deserves to go jail" as lawyers face Monday deadline from prosecutors
Barbara Res, a former vice president at the Trump Organization who wrote a book criticizing her former boss, said nothing happens at the Trump Organization that the ex-president himself "doesn't know about" and suggested he is in real legal jeopardy.
Trump's big lie about 2020 results suffers legal and political blows in key swing states
In one battle ground state after another, it was a very bad week for the ex-president and his bogus efforts to rewrite history.
Take Action: Add your name to tell Senate Democrats to DUMP THE FILIBUSTER!
Situation Room shouting match with Trump, chairman of the joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley detailed in new book
"Goddamnit," an exasperated Gen. Milley said to others. "There's a room full of lawyers here. Will someone inform him of my legal responsibilities?"
Northwest "heat dome" signals global warming's march
The heat wave is shattering all-time temperature records in the US and Canada. Portland, Oregon reached 112°F on Sunday, breaking the all-time record of 108°F set just the day before.
Indiana must continue pandemic unemployment benefits for now, judge rules
Marion Superior Court Judge John Hanley, citing a "preponderance of evidence," ruled that Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb's decision to end the pandemic benefits early violates state law and ordered the restoration of benefits for some 230,000 residents in the Hoosier State.
Take Action: Add your name to demand corporations stop funding Anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans!
Mitt Romney compares Trump's big lie to professional wrestling: "It's entertaining but it's not real"
The disgraced ex-president's "big lie" that he lost the 2020 US election because of voter fraud is "a bit like WWF," Mitt Romney said, referring to the gaudy and artificial world of professional wrestling, an arena in which Trump starred before entering politics.
Ousted Oregon lawmaker Mike Nearman nominated to reclaim seat he lost after helping rioters storm state Capitol
Mike Nearman, who is currently facing charges of official misconduct and criminal trespass, was just ousted by Oregon lawmakers after a video emerged that showed him coaching right-wing demonstrators on how to breach the state Capitol last year.
Retired Black officer, Black Air Force veteran killed in possible hate crime
A man allegedly rammed a stolen truck into a house before fatally shooting a retired Black Massachusetts state trooper and a Black Air Force veteran Saturday, according to police. Authorities said they are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
We've got work to do...
Meanwhile...
Hope...
Today’s Action: Tell Biden to use his clemency powers to reduce drug incarceration!
50 years ago, President Nixon declared drug abuse as "public enemy number one" and set the war on drugs in motion. The Nixon Administration had two enemies at the time: Black people and citizens against the Vietnam war. The goal of policies initiated during the beginning of the war on drugs was entirely to disrupt communities that were a threat to Nixon. 50 years later, these communities are still being persecuted.
It is a racist, devastating cycle. Hundreds of billions of dollars in the last half century have been allocated to keep the cogs in the war on drugs moving. Policies stay in place president after president. Federal drug control organizations, mandatory sentencing, funding the prison industrial complex, no-knock warrants-- the list goes on. We have states legalizing recreational drug use while HALF of our prison systems are filled with people incarcerated for drug abuse, a prison population that is disproportionately Black, Indigenous, and Latinx. We have to do better.
Write President Biden and urge him to be the President who ends Nixon’s failed and racist war on drugs!
The fact is that our leaders will never be able to repair the lives of those affected by the war on drugs. There are those in prison who will never get those years back, there are communities and families who can never be wholly stitched back together. But President Biden must be the President that begins to right those wrongs. President Biden can use his clemency powers to reduce drug incarceration at the federal level-- and he must.
Prioritizing our communities includes prioritizing community members who are wrongly imprisoned. Write President Biden and tell him that 66% of voters support ending criminal drug possession penalties and reinvesting those resources into rehabilitation efforts-- and you’re one of them.
PS — Please don't forget to sign the petition demanding Minnesota legislators repeal the horrific law that makes it legal to rape women if they've been drinking, and be sure to follow OD Action on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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