legislation
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New York Passes Law Banning Confederate Flags, Hate Symbols From Being Sold on State Property
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law on Tuesday that would ban hate symbols from being sold on state property. According to ABC News, the law describes hate symbols specifically as “symbols of white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideology or the Battle Flag of the Confederacy.” The law will allow for certain exceptions.…
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White Nationalist President to Veto Defense Bill if Military Bases Don’t Keep Confederate Names
Temporary President Trump is on his fuckshit again. Since he didn’t win the election, and it’s looking like he can’t steal the election, he’s now threatening to veto legislation to fund the military unless military bases continue to honor Confederate military leaders. The president is a fucking disaster. I mean, there’s a bipartisan movement to…
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Durham, Washington, D.C., Become Latest Cities to Call for Reparations for Black Residents
Despite its long history as part of abolitionist discourse, reparations for African Americans have, for many years, been considered a “fringe” idea in mainstream politics. But in 2020, more places across the country are considering what reparations would look like on the local, state and federal level, as the need to redress hundreds of years…
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California Is Close to Banning Karens From Weaponizing 911, But What About the State’s Police Reforms?
Earlier this week, California lawmakers passed a bill that would ban residents and visitors to the state from making racist, false 911 calls. It now awaits Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature before it becomes law. The bill was part of an array of criminal justice reforms proposed by lawmakers in the wake of George Floyd’s…
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Kentucky Police Union Predictably Mad Over 'Breonna's Law,' a Bill That Would Ban No-Knock Warrants Statewide
Police unions are the fucking worst. Any request for cops to do their job even slightly more responsibly is met with what can only be described as pouting and temper tantrums. Take, for instance, the Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police, who are big mad over perfectly reasonable legislation to ban the use of no-knock warrants…
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Illinois Lawmaker and Community Leaders Are Working to Suspend Current History Curriculum That 'Leads to White Privilege and a Racist Society'
A group of community leaders in Illinois are working with a state lawmaker to abolish the current history curriculum in their local school districts because they believe it leads to “white privilege and a racist society.” CNN reports that state Rep. LaShawn K. Ford, and several community leaders in Evanston, Ill., said the current history…
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Lawmakers in Minnesota Pass Extensive Police Reform Legislation
It unfortunately took a global pandemic and the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor for the nation to realize that we are long past due for significant policing reforms. Due to the fact we currently have a racist-ass president, it’s mainly been on the individual states to implement these reforms. In Minnesota, where Floyd…
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Berkeley Might Become One of the First Cities to Remove Police From Traffic Stops
Fundamentally, I’m a begrudging optimist. Pessimism just seems counterproductive so, no matter how awful things look, I always hold out hope that perhaps they can be better. As protests for police accountability have consistently occurred for well over a month across the county, I’ve hoped that the result would be some kind of tangible change.…
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San Francisco Official Introduces ‘Caren Act’ Aimed at Holding Racists Accountable for False 911 Calls
I wonder if when Black people came up with the name “Karen” as a moniker for entitled white women who ask to speak to the manager over the smallest inconveniences and call the police on Black people they consider a nuisance, we could have predicted that the term would catch on so universally. Just kidding,…
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Ohio Lawmakers Seek to Remove Slavery as a Punishment From State Constitution
Slavery, for the most part, has been abolished in this country. I say for the most part because the 13th Amendment allows for slavery to be used as a form of punishment. Some states have already elected to remove that clause from their local constitutions and Ohio is working to be next on the list.…