Kimberly Atkins Stohr

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president

A reminder that collapsing the economy is not an unintended consequence of autocracy, it’s a feature.

Please: DO NOT NORMALIZE OR EXPLAIN AWAY ARMED MILITARY ENGAGED IN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AN AMERICAN CITY. If it doesn’t seem that off base or unusual to you, perhaps it’s because you are not the target of this.

Someone should play the video of Fátima Lucas Henrique’s screams as she was kidnapped by federal agents on the way to her early morning nursing shift to Sen Susan Collins wherever she shows her face. This is happening to Mainers on her watch.
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In her screams, the desperation of a community under siege by ICE - The Boston Globe

When ICE arrested of Fátima Lucas Henrique, the video of her screaming as agents pulled her from her vehicle resonated across the state.

Let’s be clear - they’re not just deleting DEI policies and code words, they’re deleting actual people of color and women. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

This is real life: as thousands of federal workers are going unpaid, a ballroom is being built in the White House and the president wants the Justice Department to pay him $230 million. Even Marie Antoinette would find that to be a bit much.

Sen. Padilla: “If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question…I can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country.”

In videos posted on social media, one employee can be heard saying: “This is the Ecuadorian consulate. You’re not allowed to enter.” The agent responds, “If you touch me, I’ll grab you.”

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Update from Max Bearak

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social

English translation of statement from Ecuadorian Consulate regarding ICE’s attempt to enter their building in Minneapolis today:

“Domestic terrorism” in 2026: coming to a complete stop and waving a truck around your car so you can make an apparent u turn. My god.

Imma need everyone who threw a fit over Hunter Biden to keep that same energy about Jared Kushner - who has no government role or oversight - sitting in on this meeting www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Witkoff and Kushner to meet Putin to discuss ending war in Ukraine

A leaked set of 28 U.S. draft peace proposals emerged last week.

I’m just saying, if there was a whole report released by a government body detailing evidence of crimes I committed in multiple jurisdictions including the District of Columbia, I’d be spending my Christmas in lockup

Good afternoon to everyone but especially Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who argued her heart out today in an effort to stop the Supreme Court from destroying the Voting Rights Act.

Good morning to everyone but especially Justice Sonia Sotomayor who 👏🏾has 👏🏾time 👏🏾today to eviscerate the argument that Trump has near unlimited power to fire agency heads for political reasons, given that neither English law at the time of the founding nor the US Constitution supports such nonsense

Any doubts now about how “perfect” that phone call was?

“Hopefully the Republicans may hear us” may be the dumbest sentence I’ve heard uttered since her colleague from Maine said Trump “learned his lesson” after his first impeachment.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social

Democratic Senator Shaheen says "Hopefully the Republicans may hear us."

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This was by design. After Brown v. Board, folks in southern states opened private and religious schools for white students to attend without having to sit next to anyone brown-skinned as they learn. Then states divested in public schools to keep the inequities going.

ProPublica @propublica.org

A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across the Deep South: Alongside about 200 majority-Black public school districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students. @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social, @natlash.bsky.social, @mrsimon22.bsky.social propub.li/3BFytzN

The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation

A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with white students.

A column I wish I never had to write: The SCOTUS has washed its hands of its duty to be a check against tyrannical actions of the executive. As someone who has dedicated my career to protecting the rule of law, I’m profoundly shaken. Heaven help our nation. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/25/o...

The courts will not save us from tyranny - The Boston Globe

The Supreme Court just washed its hands of its role in upholding the rule of law, the foundational principle that laws are meant to be followed by everyone, the government included, if we are to have ...

Trump just said the way he did tariffs was the “fastest, easiest…the least complicated.” For them to survive he has to convince the Supreme Court that they needed due to a national emergency. He is trolling the justices to their faces before they issue a ruling. I hope they are watching this.

Stare decisis is a crucial democratic guardrail. But SCOTUS justices have been chipping it down to nothing - turning themselves into unelected lawmakers in a way the Framers never intended. If that’s the job they wanted, they should have run for office, not taken lifetime appointments on the bench.

The Supreme Court is supposed to apply the law, not make it - The Boston Globe

The slow death of stare decisis is turning the justices into robed lawmakers.

Kavanaugh really, really wants a time limit on remedies for racial discrimination. I really, really want a time limit on racial discrimination in America. But guess what

The maternal mortality rate for Black women was already three times that of white women before Dobbs. Denial of abortion care will make it worse. Which makes footnote 41 of Alito’s opinion even more odious in retrospect.

ProPublica @propublica.org

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all. Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.

Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

This was never about targeting violent criminals. This was always a wind up to the full attack on Black, Brown and Muslim immigrants we’ve seen burst wide open this week. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record

In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.

Autocratic and tacky to boot: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking to spend millions of dollars on SUVs and custom, gold-detailed vehicle wraps emblazoned with the words ‘DEFEND THE HOMELAND.’”

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ICE aims to spend millions on decked-out vehicles for D.C. operation

Documents show the agency is seeking to purchase two dozen SUVs, along with gold-detailed custom wraps.