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1/ Jeff Sessions is out as Attorney General. What does this mean for the world of hate – specifically, federal hate crime prosecutions?

Reporter @willcarless explains ...
2/ Long before he took office, Sessions was vehemently opposed to the expansion of the federal hate crime law to protect LGBTQ victims.
motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
3/ Indeed, his hiring as AG appalled civil rights groups, who worried that he would order his staff to cut down on hate crime prosecutions – and roll back Obama-era police reforms.
4/ Yet the Justice Department under Sessions instead quickly vowed to prioritize prosecuting hate crimes, as we reported last May: revealnews.org/blog/the-hate-…
5/ That same month, the Justice Department secured its first conviction on federal hate crime charges for an attack based on gender identity: npr.org/sections/thetw…
6/ And by last March, there were signs that the department under Sessions had continued to prosecute federal hate crimes: revealnews.org/blog/hate-repo…
7/ We’ll be watching closely to see how Sessions' resignation affects the world of hate in America.

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1/ Tech cos @Oracle, @PalantirTech & others gave some weak excuses for trying to keep their diversity numbers secret.

They said:

*Other companies would steal their workers.

*It would invade employee privacy.

*And the kicker: They'd face bad PR. revealnews.org/article/oracle…
2/ We challenged those excuses, suing the government. We won.

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3/ It also means we can see the wild arguments they have made for hiding their numbers.

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