🚨URGENT: MACON STATE PRISON CRISIS DEMANDS ACTION ​ Recent reports and imagery emerging from Macon State Prison in Georgia reveal an alarming reality: incarcerated men are being forced to sleep on the floor with their mattresses and personal belongings due to reports that gang members are dictating housing access and denying them rooms. Let that sink in gangs are reportedly controlling living spaces within a state correctional facility. ​ This comes on the heels of the U.S. Department of Justice’s damning October 1, 2024, investigation into the Georgia Department of Corrections, which exposed pervasive violence, rampant gang activity, severe understaffing, and a systemic failure to protect individuals from serious harm. ​Now, two years later in October 2026, conditions like this prove that critical questions remain unanswered. ​If gangs dictate sleeping arrangements, who is truly running our state prisons? ​How can vulnerable individuals find protection against ongoing intimidation? ​What tangible reforms have followed the DOJ’s warnings? ​The state of Georgia carries a legal and moral obligation to protect the safety of everyone in its custody. Families deserve peace of mind, and taxpayers deserve full transparency. ​Public statements and empty promises are no longer enough. Georgia’s prison crisis requires rigorous independent oversight, strict accountability, and immediate intervention. We urge state lawmakers, community advocates, civil rights groups, and national media outlets to turn their focus toward Macon State Prison. ​The warnings have been issued. The alarm has been sounded. Now, we demand answers and action. ​MACON STATE PRISON NEEDS HELP. GEORGIA NEEDS ACCOUNTABILITY. Marcus Johnson Administrator, Georgia Prison Reform Coalition (GPRC) [email protected] ​ #MaconStatePrison #PrisonReform #GeorgiaPrisons #GPRC #DOJInvestigation #PrisonAccountability #HumanRights #CivilRights #TransparencyNow

The disproportionate criminalization of Black people starts at a young age. While Black and white kids use drugs at similar rates, Black youth make up 24% of kids confined for drug offenses, despite comprising just 14% of the general youth population.

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Elon Musk has cemented his record as the largest individual political donor in modern American history. Musk poured $446 million of his own money into this year’s midterm elections, mostly aimed at preserving the Republican Party’s control of Congress. wapo.st/4igb5Kq

The @GOP must be thrilled that 11 days before elections, we learn that the Trump family secretly orchestrated a deal to allow Russians to drill Alaska in exchange for a $25 billion "investment" funneled through their proxies.

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“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet. Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed. Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: vanityfair.visitlink.me/Q5_W…

NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Skerritt, a durable character actor with roles in 'Picket Fences,' 'Alien' and 'Top Gun,' dies.

"Most states spend less than $3 per person per day on prison food — and some as little as $1.02 — according to the analysis by Impact Justice. Even Maine, widely seen as a model for providing good quality food in its prisons, only spends $4.05 per person" themarshallproject.org/2025/…

Arrested For Being in a McDonald's Bathroom Too Long… Full video 👇🏼

🚨BREAKING: Federal Power Grid Emergency Declared ​The federal government has issued an emergency order across 13 states and Washington, D.C., impacting the PJM grid that serves 65 million people. ​Affected Regions: Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and D.C. ​Duration: Active from October 13 through October 16. ​Why is this happening? Persistent, intense heat is placing extreme strain on the power system. To maintain basic service and prevent widespread failures, power plants have been authorized to exceed pollution limits if necessary. ​Emergency Measures: As a last ditch effort to avoid rolling blackouts, PJM can mandate that major power consumers including massive data centers switch over to backup generators, helping the grid retain roughly 900 MW of crucial reserve power. ​This is far from normal. #PowerGrid ​#PJMEmergency ​#BreakingNews ​#EnergyCrisis ​#BlackoutRisk

BREAKING: Ansar Allah (Houthis) have just released a formal evacuation order for Saudi Arabia at: - Headquarters of Aramco Company in Dammam - Khaled Airport in Riyadh - Riyadh Refinery affiliated with Aramco Company This comes directly following Saudi Arabia’s own evacuation order of Yemen’s oil sites pending a forthcoming announced strike by Saudi coalition forces.

The right to vote was not freely given. It was secured through extraordinary courage, sacrifice and perseverance. As early voting begins in Georgia today, I urge you to make your plan and make time to cast your vote. We honor those who fought for voting rights by exercising the right they helped secure and protecting it for generations to come. Your voice matters. Your vote matters. Visit Georgia’s My Voter Page to check your county’s early voting locations and hours and review your sample ballot. mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/ #VoteEarly #VotingRights #MLK

🚨 A judge ordered police shooting footage locked away. The owner released it anyway. ⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING!!! ​In North Carolina, a State Highway Patrol trooper responded to a car break in and ended up shooting and killing two dogs, Bonnie and Clyde. ​The owner, Lydia Nikac, fought to get the footage. The court finally let her and her attorney view it under one strict condition: they were legally barred from releasing or distributing it to the public. ​The reason given? Ongoing investigations and protecting the "fair and orderly administration of justice." ​Ask yourself: ​Was this restriction about protecting an investigation? ​Or was it to shield law enforcement from the public backlash of looking really bad on camera? The backstory of this incident stems from events that took place on October 5, 2024, in Washington, North Carolina: ​A man broke into a vehicle on the property of Lydia Nikac, who is a professional dog trainer. Nikac called 911 and used her two trained Belgian Malinois dogs, Bonnie and Clyde, to help corner and detain the suspect to keep him from fleeing. ​North Carolina State Highway Patrol Trooper Justin Matt Maness arrived at the scene. According to accounts of the incident, the trooper instructed Nikac to control her dogs, but quickly opened fire, discharging multiple shots that killed both Bonnie and Clyde. While the Highway Patrol contended that the trooper acted in self defense, witnesses and advocates argued that the dogs were running away or that the use of lethal force was entirely unjustified. When Nikac sought accountability, she fought to obtain the dashcam and bodycam footage. ​A trial judge permitted Nikac and her attorney to view the recordings under North Carolina's strict law enforcement recording statutes, but placed a strict gag order prohibiting them from releasing or distributing the footage publicly without further court approval. ​The Appeal: Nikac’s legal team challenged the restriction on First Amendment grounds, arguing that once she possessed the footage, she should have the right to share it. However, the North Carolina Court of Appeals upheld the restriction, ruling that the trial judge acted within his legal discretion because law enforcement recordings are not automatically open public records under state law. The bodycam footage was released anyway. This legal clash sits at the center of ongoing debates regarding police accountability, transparency, and the strict hurdles citizens face when trying to make public evidence involving law enforcement conduct. #NorthCarolina #PoliceAccountability #Transparency #FirstAmendment #LawEnforcement #PublicRecords #DogShooting