This was a private event held and paid for by the group for a set amount of time at the park.ย It is a normal occurrence at parks like this.ย If this had been a Christian church doing the event it would have caused no backlash and been accepted.ย But because it was a Muslim sponcered event with mostly clothing of this sect of the Islamic faith that also encouraged the eating of foods not normally eaten by Christians it caused a backlash of Islamophobia.ย Hate for people and customs different from the Christian religion practiced by white people is common in the nearly theocratic Texas.ย Hugs
The park is available for rent at a cost of $5,000 an hour,ย Dallas Newsย reported.
A private event at a Texas city-owned water park has been canceled following backlash and a direct threat by Gov. Greg Abbott to withhold more than $500,000 in state public safety funding.
A spokesperson for the City of Grand Prairie said Thursday the city canceled the DFW Epic Eid Celebration scheduled for June 1 at the Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark.
โAfter further review and in the best interest of the City of Grand Prairie, the June 1 Eid event at Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark has been canceled,โ the spokesperson said.
The event at the city-owned waterpark was initially promoted with flyers describing it as โMuslims onlyโ and included a modest dress code requiring burkinis for women, halal food, a private prayer room and rules encouraging attendees to maintain personal space and โlower the gaze.โ
After backlash on social media, organizers updated promotional materials to state that โall are welcome,โ provided attendees follow the modest dress code.
Abbottโs Public Safety Officeย shared a letterย with The Christian Post that had been sent to Grand Prairie Mayor Ron Jensen warning that the โDFW Epic Eidโ event โwas publicly and openly advertised as discriminating based on religionโ and therefore violated agreements between the city and the Public Safety Office.
The letter from Public Safety Office Executive Director Andrew Friedrichs said the event โpurports to be public facing and discriminatory at the same timeโ and compared it to advertising for a โWhites onlyโ event.
โAll Muslims โ but only Muslims โ may attend,โ Friedrichs wrote. โAn event at a city-owned pool that was publicly and indiscriminately advertised as โWhites onlyโ would surely violate the Constitution.โ
Event organizer Dr. Aminah Knight later updated the online flyer to clarify that the DFW Eid Celebration is a โprivately organized and privately funded event held through a standard rental of Epic Waters, just like many other private gatherings hosted at the park.โ
โAt its core, this event is about creating a space where individuals and families, particularly those who value modest dress and a modest environment, can come together and enjoy a recreational setting comfortably,โ Knight wrote.
Knight added that anyone โof a different faith who wants to celebrate the Eid holiday with us and adhere to the modest dress codeโ is welcome to attend.
A screenshot of an online flyer for a 2025 “Muslims only” event at the Epic Indoor Waterpark in Grand Prairie, Texas.ย |ย Screenshot/Facebook
A Facebookย post shared by Knightย in May 2025 promoting last yearโs event included aย flyerย calling it an โexclusive Muslim-only eventโ and stating that the taxpayer-funded facility was โclosed to the publicโ for โMuslims only.โ
It is unclear whether the City of Grand Prairie approved the flyer or its contents. The city did not respond to CP’s request for comment by Thursday afternoon.
While the 2026 event flyer listed Knight as the organizer, a video shared on social media by Muhammad Abdullah, listed as the director of Outreach & Youth at Al-Hedayah Academy in Fort Worth, claimed he organized the event.
In aย videoย posted Tuesday, Abdullah blamed โIslamophobiaโ for the public response to the now-canceled event and said, โBy the way, Iโm organizing that with my wife.โ
CP reached out to Al-Hedayah Academy, where Abdullah isย picturedย as a member of the mosqueโs โspiritual team,โ seeking clarification Thursday on whether the mosque was involved in organizing the event.
According to Knight, more than 600 people attended the event last year, and all โlovers of modest fashion and those who are curious about Eid and what modesty at a waterpark can look likeโ are welcome to attend.
Owned by the city of Grand Prairie near the Dallas and Tarrant County border, Epic Waters โ which has no ties to the planned Muslim-centric development formerly known as โEPIC Cityโ โ is an 80,000-square-foot waterpark with a retractable roof and the longest indoor lazy river in North Texas, according to its website.
Epic Waters opened in 2017 after voters approved a 0.25% sales tax, according to city documents. The park is available for rent at a cost of $5,000 an hour,ย Dallas Newsย reported.
In this interview Graham Platner responds to his detractors accusations against him.ย He discusses the tattoo and the Jewish times report that says he had talked about it while working at a bar during the time frame he was not working there.ย So there is not any credible evidence that he knew what the tattoo was.ย As he said why would he have danced with it in full display to his extended Jewish family?ย ย He makes sense.ย He understands that people may not like him because he is not polished as a politician.ย He also says he stumbles verbally and struggles to correct and improve himself.ย ย It was a hard hitting interview and Platner came off as very reasonable.ย Hugs
Now, in this must-watch interview, Mehdi Hasan speaks to Platner not just about his vision for a progressive โpolitical revolutionโ in Washington DC but also about some of his controversies, including his social media and his tattoo that resembled a Nazi symbol.
A week before the US went to war with Iran, Pete Hegseth, the war secretary, invited the head of his church to lead prayers at the Pentagon. From his pulpit in Idaho, Doug Wilson, a 72-year-old ultraconservative pastor, preaches that homosexuality is a sin, women who dress immodestly are โslutsโ, and Charles Darwinโs theory of evolution is the โsilliest thing in the worldโ.
Despite Hegsethโs evangelising, Wilson says the Trump administration is far from morally pure. He says the president is โnot someone I would call a godly Christian manโ, and disagrees with Trumpโs appointment of a gay man, Scott Bessent, as his Treasury secretary because homosexuality is not just a sin, it is โa bad oneโ.
Of all his gripes, however, Wilson is most indignant about the 1960s sexual revolution, a moral catastrophe that he condemns frequently in his blog posts, sermons and books. He thinks women should dress modestly. But what is modest dress? โNot what theyโre doing now,โ he says. โI could pick on yoga pants.โ He continues: โMen know what they think of hookers, which is not very much. When youโre just giving it away to every slob on the bus who wants to look, youโre degrading the currency.โ
Does that mean Wilson and his followers sympathise with the dress codes enforced by Shia clerics in Iran? โNo, because wrapping them up in a bedsheet is another way of degrading them. It is possible to be modest and attractive โ attractive withoutย attracting. Bundling them up the way really conservative Muslims do is a different kind of degradation. Like youโre not a person. But for a woman to dress like a slut is a different kind of degradation. Both kinds of degradation play off of each other.โ
Read theย full article. Itโs quite the deep dive.
Wilson appeared here last month when he called for criminalizing homosexuality and outlawing all LGBTQ events.
In March, Wilson declared that under his Christian nationalist theocracy, all non-Protestant public events โ such a Catholic parades that venerate the Virgin Mary โ would be banned.
Also in March, a separate pastor at Hegsethโs church prayed for God to kill Senate candidate James Talarico.
Pete Hegsethโs pastor: โWomen who dress immodestly are slutsโ
Advocates for LGBTQ+ Catholics expressed surprise to see the Vatican publishing the testimonies of married gay men.
Some of the hundreds of LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families who joined a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome, celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church and crediting Pope Francis for the change, walk through the Holy Door of St. Peterโs Basilica at the Vatican, Sept. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
The Vatican released aย reportย on Tuesday (May 5) that included the testimony of two married gay Catholics and acknowledged the churchโs role in โthe solitude, anguish, and stigma that accompany persons with same-sex attractions and their families.โ The report also reflects on the negative impacts of conversion therapy, or โthe devastating effects of reparative therapies aimed at recovering heterosexuality.โ
โโItโs a big deal because they included testimonies and published testimonies from two LGBTQ people, both of them married, which is also unusual for the Vatican to do,โ said the Rev. James Martin, a founder of Outreach, an LGBTQ Catholic ministry. โAs far as I know, itโs the first time that in any official publication of the Vatican, theyโve included witnesses and testimonies and stories from LGBTQ Catholics in any kind of detailed way.โ
The report comes from aย group of theologians, including bishops, priests, a sister and a layperson, convened by the Vatican to study โcontroversialโ issues raised by the Synod on Synodality, Pope Francisโ signature listening initiative, to which Martin was a delegate. Though church reform advocates hoped โ and traditionalists feared โ that the synod would bring major changes to church teaching around gender and sexuality, the decision to relegate contentious issues, such as LGBTQ+ inclusion, to study groups instead of general discussion was widely seen as a damper.
As expected, the synod study group report does not announce major changes to church doctrine, but it does suggest that the Catholic Church address the impasse between โdoctrinal firmnessโ and โpastoral welcomeโ by listening and using a transdisciplinary approach, such as incorporating insights from psychology, alongside the Bible and church doctrine.
โโItโs a really good โ I would even say historic โ document,โ said Yunuen Trujillo, a lesbian lay minister from Los Angeles. โโItโs still calling for all Catholics to engage in a process of discernment that is respectful of peopleโs lived experiences.โ
Trujillo, author of โLGBTQ Catholics: A Guide to Inclusive Ministry,โ said it might take a while for LGBTQ+ Catholics in the pews to feel the impact and noted that the document only focuses on lesbians, gays and bisexual people. โBut I do believe it would be a positive impact, not a negative one,โ she said.
In this Oct. 4, 2023, file photo, Pope Francis, far right, participates in the opening session of the 16th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican.ย (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Marianne Duddy-Burke, a married lesbian Catholic and DignityUSAโs executive director, said, โโThe most significant thing for me was the recognition that top-down trying to dictate behavior and morality on the basis of dogma isnโt working,โ adding she was โhopefulโ to see the report using the language of a โparadigm shift.โ
The โparadigm shiftโ the report proposes is a move away from applying abstract theological principles to on-the-ground realities and instead seeing theory and practice as a โvirtuous cycle.โ For the two to effectively inform each other, the report argues, requires a focus on relationships, transparency and learning. The document offers this theological framework not just for LGBTQ+ issues but for broader use, including in nonviolent activism and protest.
This synod document was written by the study group, not the pope, but its release to the public would have required his authorization.
The reportโs release garnered some blowback, a portion of which fell on Pope Leo XIV. Far-right Catholic news organization LifeSite published a story on the report, raising concerns that the report was questioning โthe sinful nature of homosexualityโ and leaving unresolved the โdebate on same-sex โmarriage.’โ Co-founder John-Henry Westen released a video warning that the reportโs pro-LGBTQ+ stance makes clear the meaning of โsynodalityโ under Leo.
Advocates for LGBTQ+ Catholics expressed surprise to see the Vatican publishing the testimonies of married gay men.
โโI was expecting a rather bland report. And this was not that,โ said Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, which serves LGBTQ Catholics. โโIn days gone by in the church, they would try to tick off the token box by getting someone who had certain traits and characteristics, but who was just not critical of the church in any way.โ
Martin said this is the first time he remembers seeing conversion therapy โcritiqued that stronglyโ in a Vatican document. โThere have been certain bishops who have been very muted in their critique of conversion therapy, but then there have also been bishops who have used organizations whose techniques really verge on conversion therapy,โ he said.
One gay Catholic wrote of โwounds from the Christian communityโ in his Vatican-released testimony. โI cannot ignore the scars I carry. I have witnessed the devastating effects of โconversion therapiesโ and the break-up of families, which felt like an attack on Godโs sensitive and blameless creation. These experiences deeply hurt, because they target the inherent dignity of a person who simply bears the love of another of the same gender.โ
But the married Portuguese man also wrote of his deep faith in the Eucharist and his sharing โa life of faith, service, and loveโ with his husband. โI live my life in profound peace with God, who knows me from my motherโs womb.โ
โI feel the Church needs to move beyond mere โwelcomingโ and โpity,’โ he wrote in the testimony. โWe need to proclaim the unspoken truth: God loves you and desires your wholeness. Sexuality is one part of our life, and difference is a hallmark of Creation.โ
DeBernardo said the testimonies of LGBTQ+ people and their advocates have also been moving for the 17 bishops who have participated inย three different meetingsย with New Ways Ministry in recent years. โWe had a bishop at the end of the meeting in tears because he was so regretful of the way he had thought about LGBTQ people,โ DeBernardo said.
โDialogue really is the first step,โ said DeBernardo. โโThe genius of Pope Francis is that he realized that people had to start talking with one another, and learning about each other and not having the fear and the stereotypes.โ
For Duddy-Burke, who represents a grassroots group led by LGBTQ+ Catholics that was banned 40 years ago from meeting in Catholic spaces โ and who said she has struggled for years as a result to even have these conversations โ the document inspires hope: โWe didnโt have a place at the table and, and this document says that itโs time that we did,โ she said.
At the same time, Duddy-Burke worries about whether those who hold the power will continue to dialogue and be willing to have their โminds and hearts changed.โ
โAnd how will that be managed in parts of the world where itโs absolutely unsafe and itโs sometimes illegal, you know, for people to come forward as queer?โ she asked.
The synod report also addresses โactive nonviolence,โ highlighting the examples of Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Filipino โPeople Powerโ and Polish โSolidarityโ anti-government movements, as well as the experience of a Catholic Serbian conscientious objector. Peace has been a major focus of Leoโs pontificate, and his recent anti-war statements have led to conflict with the Trump administration, which has used theological language to promote its war in the Middle East.
In the Vatican report, the theologians suggest that โjust war theory,โ which Catholic U.S. Vice President JD Vance has referenced to defend the war, is โinadequateโ in the modern context. โSince war can no longer be confined to military targets but overflows into civilian life, taking on new forms (hybrid, asymmetrical, etc.), the recourse to frameworks used in the past for legitimate defence โ and even more so for โjust warโ โ appears increasingly inadequate,โ they write.
On Tuesday, the Vatican also released the report of another Synod study group dedicated to bishop selection and other bishop issues. That report proposed broad consultation โ including the perspectives of lay people, in addition to clergy and religious โ when it comes to potential bishop candidates as well as ideal future bishop qualities.
A Florida man is facing life felony charges after allegedly brutally assaulting a defenseless 5-year-old boy in an act of hate-fueled child abuse. โThis was a brutal and hateful attack on a defenseless child. There is absolutely no excuse for it. We will make sure justice is served and these children get the safety and support they deserve,โ Sheriff Grady Judd said.
The Polk County Sheriffโs Office said that on Sunday, May 3, 33-year-old Andre Brown Jr. from Davenport was arrested for child abuse. According to officials, this charge has been categorized as a life felony because it is considered a hate crime.
During interviews with the children in Browns care, it was revealed that Brown had been physically abusive toward a 5-year-old boy, specifically targeting him because he was โmad at him for being gay.โ Brown reportedly told deputies that he abused the child because of his sexual orientation, claiming he would โbeat the gay out of him if possible.โ
The boy told authorities he was afraid of Brown and did not want to talk much about what happened. He had the worst injuries of the three: marks and bruising on his legs, arms, back, and stomach; a fracture to his right wrist; and a contusion to his forehead. He had marks all over his body consistent with being hit by a belt, the sheriffโs office said.
When deputies attempted to remove Brown from the scene, he pulled away, became loud and began yelling slurs, the sheriffโs office said. He continued yelling and pulling away once placed in handcuffs, according to the release, and also was charged with resisting arrest.
Brown has a lengthy criminal history, including domestic battery strangulation, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, kidnapping with intent to commit a felony, home invasion robbery with a firearm and battery on a law enforcement officer, the release said.
I have appointments throughout today, so I’ve set up a few things to read. This one is interesting in that it ties several things together to show us how not only our government but our companies are selling us into thinking we might actually get some fair treatment. It piqued my interest because of the strike last week; it seems “brands” are trying to work against being seen as part of those needing to understand what we the people don’t like how things are and that we expect change. Resist-
Red Lobster wants your attention. You can tell, because their current ads deploy not one but two separate announcers. Thereโs the expository guy. Heโs a little pushy but at least he sticks to the facts. And then thereโs the loud guy. Heโs got a deep voice. He sounds like heโs broadcasting live from the submerged city of Atlantis. He says it with feeling, and also reverb.
โBecause youโve been askingโฆ a lotโฆ and we made it happen.โ
So claims the not-from-Atlantis announcer. But whatโs he talking about? We have been asking for many things. To be able to afford homes, for example, or not to have war crimes committed in our names, or to have our planet still exist twenty years from now.
Oh, this is about shrimp. Endless shrimp. Itโs back, or so Iโm told, in multiple forms. Every time the less pushy guy shares one of the currently available shrimp offerings, his partner pipes up with a complementary point straight from the bottom of the sea.
โWaltโs favorite shrimp.โ
โ ENDLESS!โ
โGarlic shrimp scampiโ
โENDLESSโ
โShrimp linguini alfredoโ
โENDLESS?โ
โAnd all new marry me shrimpโ
โALL ENDLESS!โ
The duo isnโt wrong. Endless shrimp is back. While the previous iteration didnโt technically bankrupt the chain (the real culprit was private equity and real estate chicanery) it was, by all accounts, an absolute mess. American consumers, who rightfully identified that they were getting ripped off in every facet of their lives, leapt at the opportunity to get one over at least one big business.
Back when Endless Shrimp was a permanent feature, shrimp hoarders would occupy tables for hours at a time, not leaving until they beat the house. The real victim of this behavior was, of course, the chainโs underpaid servers (if you walk into a restaurant with โme against these suckersโ mindset, youโre less likely to view your waiter as a fellow victim of capitalism and youโre definitely not going to tip well). For the C-Suite, though, the larger concern wasnโt the dignity of their employees. It was a jumbo-sized hole in their bottom line.
Itโs like The Boss once sang. Endless shrimp dies baby, thatโs a fact. But maybe the endless shrimp that dies, some days comes back. Put your make-up on, do your hair up pretty, and meet me tonight at the only Red Lobster still open in your city.
Iโm not all that interested in the relative success or failure of chain restaurant promotions, but I do care about the various ways corporations try to win our affection (meaningful cultural signifiers, or so Iโd argue). And contra the two announcer voices, the most interesting thing about Red Lobsterโs promotion isnโt the shellfish, either of the Waltโs Favorite or Marry Me varieties. Itโs whatโs whispered rather than shouted.
You see, the biggest difference between the current iteration of Endless Shrimp and its unprofitable predecessor is that now Red Lobster wants you to know that you (the shrimp-loving consumer) and they (the company) are in this together.
If you want the full story, I highly recommend this piece by Luke Winkie in Slate, but hereโs the truncated version. There are varieties of shrimp on the Red Lobster menu that arenโt officially part of the promotion. Theyโre on the menu, but excluded from the benevolent blanket of endlessness. But if a customer were to ask for unlimited quantities of a non-official item (for example, Crispy Dragon Shrimp, a food item that Iโm assured contains no actual dragon), the server is to welcome them into a cool secret. Their official, handbook-mandated line? โThese items arenโt on the menu for this promotion, but I would be happy to make an exception for you.โ
Itโs like they say, โthe exception is the rule.โ Except literally, and by mandate. Servers are required by corporate policy to act like you and they are cheating the system, in hopes that when you remember the night you rode the dragon (shrimp), you remember it not as a conspiracy-of-one, but a sneaky secret between you and your best friend (Red Lobster restaurants, a subsidiary of the Thai Union Seafood Company).
This is not a new psychological trick. Itโs a classic low stakes confidence game. The most effective way to a mark is to convince them that they are, in fact, in on the con themselves. Itโs the same move that car salesmen use when they leave the room to โtalk to their managerโ before returning with a report that โhe didnโt want me to give you this deal, butโฆโ
Itโs still striking, though, to see the strategy laid out in grandiose internal strategy documents. A beleaguered but iconic American brand name, flailing for its survival, hedges its survival on two bets. First, that you are tired, angry and aware that youโre on the wrong side of a rigged game (correct). And second, that, by offering you a facsimile of camaraderie and a very real pile of seafood, that they can win your loyalty (huh).
โ[This is] about more than just shrimp,โ the document proclaims. An absolute work of art, that sentence.
โ[Itโs] about creating an experience that says, โWe listen to you.โ
โWhen guests see Endless Shrimp back on the menu, they feel heard and valued.โ
I have never addressed a sit-down chainโs internal strategy document, but Iโm sure I speak for all of us when I say, tears in my eyes: Red Lobster, thank you. THIS is what democracy looks like.
As Eli Zeger argued in his 2020 essay about companies that talk like snarky teens on social media, this particular iteration of the โbrand as friendโ canard is the product of the marriage of late stage capitalism (and its reliance on the selling of โideasโ rather than goods and services) and the post-Citizen United codification of corporate personhood. Red Lobster isnโt a restaruant anymore. Itโs your rule-breaking, shrimp loving, newly empathetic pal. It sees you. In fact, it is the only one who see you. It gets that youโre broke, but more so that youโre alone. Itโs no longer offering you cheap shrimp (the price tag for the promotion has risen markedly since its last iteration). Itโs promising you something more importantโ belonging, connection, a port in the storm of alienation and precarity weโre all weathering.
But Red Lobster isnโt alone, in surveying a landscape of mass alienation (economic, relational, spiritual) and seeing a business opportunity. Advertising agencies are publishing unironic blogs chillingly titled โthe loneliness crisis: how brands can step up?โ Silicon Valleyโs greatest minds heard that you wanted community and responded with sycophantic AI chatbots. Apparently, our tech overlordsโ understanding of human relationships is a robot who agrees with you all the time, including when you muse about harming yourself. Even the outright scammers get it. Gone are the days of far flung princes offering you a financial windfall. As you may have experienced personally, the hot new con isโฆ pretending to be an acquaintance and inviting you to a party.
This is a step beyond the classic commodification funnel, as documented in nineties leftist classics like No Logo and The Conquest of Cool. The brands are no longer promising a great deal, or even hipness. Whatโs on offer now is the dream of a welcoming community, one deep enough to solve for the isolation that the companies themselves helped create.
Thatโs very depressing, of course, both the reminder that our economy has always been built on the exploitation of vulnerability, and the reality that thereโs just so much more vulnerability to be exploited at this particular moment.
But thereโs another truth, not a counterpoint, but a complement. How fortunate, for those of us who actually want to connect with other human beings, rather than just make a quick buck off of them. We already have what every corporation in the world wishes they hadโ the fact that, when we offer a space by our side, to either a stranger or a friend, we actually mean it. Weโre not trying to trick you into springing for a Main Deck Margarita Flight to go along with your shrimp. Weโre not trying to mine your data or add you to a marketing funnel or load you up with debt and junk. We just think this world would be more navigable together rather than apart.
And as an organizing opportunity? From union drives to neighbor-to-neighbor activism to the precious few political campaigns that care more about building community than personal brand building? My goodness. Why do you keep hearing about neighborism these days, and not just from true believers like me? Because more people are admitting every day how hungry they are for connection, and then taking the risk of making an offering.
The terrible news right now is that the hucksters are going to keep selling us a flim flam simulacra of belonging. Yes, the consultants, but also (I fear) the politicians. I strongly suspect the 2028 Democratic primary to feature a million text messages about โneighborsโ and โcommunityโ penned by a well-heeled K-Street consultants. But the good news is that we arenโt that dumb. We know the brands arenโt our friends. Weโve lived through the great social media con together. We know what the lie looks like, and now weโd much prefer the deeply imperfect, thoroughly messy alternative.
Sorry this is not as long as I normally do.ย Ron found me sleeping at my desk an d only gave me a few minutes to finish before he forced me to bed physically.ย ย Hugs
The house below was once owned by Scott Bessent the current Secretary of Treasury under tRump.ย I would love to own a home like this or at least be able to afford one like it.ย ย It is a famous home called the Pink House.ย Hugs
These are fake The first three were posted by tRump but the left is the one that has to turn down the rhetoric.
This is the real Obama bowing picture.
And this guy posted 86 46 during Bidens term and the post is still up.ย But Comey is on trial for threatening the cult leader and not Posobiec who did the same to Biden.
And this one is real.ย tRump suluted an enemy general from North Korea.
And this one is real also.
โThe more likely prospect, they say, is that he becomes an independent who caucuses with the GOP, or simply casts his vote to ensure Thune remains majority leader. Ensuring control of the Senate could be especially critical should there be a Supreme Court vacancy http://www.politico.com/news/magazin…
NEW: A Republican U.S. Senate candidate said he's recruiting off-duty police officers to serve as poll watchers in Detroit for the 2026 midterms โ and suggested they could flash their badges at voters.Intimidating voters is illegal. Interfering with someone's right to vote is a federal crime.
๐จBREAKING: Florida voters and pro-voting group Equal Ground Education Fund filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the GOPโs new congressional gerrymander, urging a court to block the map for violating the state constitutionโs ban on partisan gerrymandering. http://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…
Judge mulls contempt over DHSโ โpatently falseโ allegation in deportation caseThe Trump administration attacked a judge for releasing an accused murderer, but it withheld existence of the foreign warrant.www.politico.com/news/2026/05…
You see this press release from DHS about a federal judge? The agency pushed it out 5 days ago. Today, a DOJ attorney admitted to the judge that it โsimply was not true.โ(Itโs also still online at DHS dot gov as of 540 pm Monday)1/
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President Donald Trump threatened Iran, saying it will be 'blown off the face of the Earth' if it doesn't stop attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
More Than 150 Wind Projects Stall as Pentagon Delays ReviewsThe delays, which companies say have worsened significantly in recent weeks, are the latest step in the Trump administrationโs efforts to block wind power.www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/c…
On the last post I made about this I was going to write a long intro.ย ย However when I read the comments every point I would have made is made in the comments in far fewer words than I would have done.ย So if you wish to see opinions on what the government is doing to follow Russia and wipe the LGBTQ+ from society in the name of protecting children / straight people / cis people / and religious privilege to discriminate then please read the comments.ย ย Hugs