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Opinion: Rittenhouse Verdict Consistent with Right Wing’s Effort of Destroy Democracy
The Rittenhouse verdict is one piece of this larger campaign to destroy democracy and energize white supremacy.
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History Won’t Smile Well on Him: Watch as GOP Rep. Kinzinger Blasts Ron Johnson
Over the last few months, Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson has become one of the most talked about lawmakers in America. He recently said that he won’t be getting the COVID-19 vaccine because he already has the illness. But more striking has been his attempts to gaslight people on the January 6th insurrection. The Wisconsin senator recently…
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Opinion: Biden’s Support For Labor Unions Is Unprecedented Promotion Of Democracy Itself
When President Joe Biden recently voiced support for unions, encouraging workers at Amazon currently involved in a vote to unionize or not to take part in this process, Biden was really just standing up for democracy itself.
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Battle to Exclude Undocumented People from Census Exemplifies Trump Agenda: Make Many Lives Not Count
Last Friday the Supreme Court indicated that on November 30 it will hear arguments in the Trump administration’s appeal regarding its efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in the census numbers used to calculate the apportionment of congressional districts. Last September a federal appeals court in Manhattan rejected the Trump administration’s bid to…
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Opinion: Can Progressives Harness “White Rage” to Defeat Trump?
Rage has, no doubt, been a powerful political force in U.S. history. Dr. Carolyn Anderson demonstrates this fact most fully and compellingly in her book White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, in which she analytically chronicles how white racist rage has implicitly informed social policy throughout U.S. history to disable African Americans,…
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Tucker Carlson: Country Won’t Survive Unless We Defeat Black Lives Matter
The principles of the Black Lives Matter movement are clearly stated on the organization’s website. The BLM website reads, “Our intention from the very beginning was to connect Black people from all over the world who have a shared desire for justice to act together in their communities.” Still, Conservative media has painted the group…
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Trump Says Mitt Romney “Couldn’t Be Elected Dog Catcher” in Utah Despite His 56% Approval Rating
Donald Trump mocked Mitt Romney on Thursday, claiming the Utah senator would struggle to win an election in the state. This is despite Romney’s huge popularity there. The President made the comments, apparently unprompted, during an appearance in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He’s often taken aim at the Republican senator after he voted in favor of impeachment….
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Opinion: Biden, Dems, BLM Must Embrace and Re-define “Law and Order”
Donald Trump has repeatedly declared himself the “law and order” candidate, wearing this mantle proudly. At last week’s Republican National Convention, the array of speakers trumpeted this slogan again and again as the dominant chord of Trump’s otherwise ill-defined policy platform. “Law and order” isn’t just the definitive slogan on Trump’s candidacy; it’s deployed as…
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Dolly Parton Comes Out in Support of the Black Lives Matter Movement
Many, many fans of country music lean Conservative politically. Who could ever forget the treatment of the Dixie Chicks (now just the Chicks) after they criticized the Presidency of George W. Bush. But many of today’s country music stars are willing to talk about their Liberal beliefs. This includes major names like Jason Isbell, Kacey…
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Trump Says He’ll Lose the Election If He’s Wrong About Black Lives Matter: “That’s OK With Me”
Donald Trump said he’s fine with losing the election in November if he’s wrong about Black Lives Matter. The President harshly criticized the movement and athletes kneeling for the national anthem. Trump gave a long and rambling interview to Fox News on Wednesday where he touched on a variety of subjects. At one point he…
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Has Black Lives Matter Brought Us Closer To The Tipping Point On Class Inequality?
The Black Lives Matter movement, in demanding that we reconsider how Black lives have been valued, or rather de-valued, in U.S. culture, society, and political economy, essentially asks us as well to interrogate our entire system of economic and cultural values. On what basis do we in our socio-economic system and culture assign different values…
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WATCH: Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal Tears Into William Barr
William Barr makes a lot of controversial decisions, but he is not frequently challenged on them. The Attorney General, like others in the Trump administration, tends to appear mostly on friendly news channels like Fox News. That changed on Tuesday when Barr was called to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. The Attorney General faced…
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Oregon Judge Issues Temporary Restraining Order Against Federal Agents in Portland
A judge in Oregon has issued a temporary restraining order against federal agents in Portland. The move comes amid growing criticism of federal law enforcement in the city. District Judge Michael H. Simon issued a 14-day order to stop federal agents “arresting, threatening to arrest, or using physical force” journalists and legal observers. The order…
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Portland Mayor Accuses Trump Administration of “Urban Warfare” and “Occupation”
The Mayor of Portland has lashed out at the Trump administration after he was teargassed in the city on Wednesday night. He accused the federal government of running an occupation. Ted Wheeler spoke to protesters in Oregon and was later teargassed along with them by federal agents. He made some remarks to the New York Times which…
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Kevin McCarthy Wants to Withhold Money from States That Don’t Protect Statues
Kevin McCarthy wants to withhold federal funds from any state that does not protect statues from protesters. The Republican will offer a bill to give legal effect to his idea. The House Minority Leader is reacting to recent protests following the death of George Floyd. Demonstrators have targeted several statues, particularly those depicting slaveholders and…
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Trump Calls Black Lives Matter a “Symbol of Hate”
Donald Trump has called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate.” The President took to Twitter to attack New York City and Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday. “NYC is cutting Police $’s by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the NYC Mayor is going to paint a big, expensive, yellow Black Lives Matter sign on…
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Will Trump’s Genocidal Administration Push Americans to Address History, Make All Lives Matter?
As many have pointed out, making Black lives matter is a precursor to making all lives matter. To make all lives matter, we have to address the ways certain lives, particularly those of people of color in the United States, have been devalued. Put another way, we can’t create a culture and society that values…
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Trump Goes Full Racist And Accuses Black Lives Matter Of Treason
Trump is testing out his racist messages by accusing Black Lives Matter of committing treason against the United States.
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Mike Pence Declines to Say “Black Lives Matter,” Declares “All Lives Matter” During Interview
Vice President Mike Pence was repeatedly asked to say the words “Black lives matter” during an interview with 6ABC Action News in Philadelphia. The vice president declined. “Let me just say that what happened to George Floyd was a tragedy,” he said, referring to the unarmed black man whose death in police custody last month…
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Trump Responds To Black Lives Matter By Defending The Confederacy
Trump tried to give a speech on policing reform that turned into a ramble about the economy and closed with a defense of the Confederacy.
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Trans Lives Matter, Too: November 2020 Will be a Reckoning on Civil Rights for All
Amidst the recent mass nationwide uprisings, dominated by the sentiments of the Black Lives Matter movement, an effective reincarnation of the Civil Rights Movement, the Trump administration has continued its efforts to deny transgender people civil rights, denying them equal protections under the law. Let’s look at just two recent examples of the Trump administration…
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Opinion: Alicia Garza and William Barber Explain Why Black Lives Matter is the Ultimate Antidote to Trumpism
Recent polling indicates that an overwhelming number of Americans, close to 75%, support the protests, inspired by George Floyd’s murder, against racism and police brutality. This approval, polls reveal, stretches across party lines and racial lines. The polls, of course, don’t reveal in any precise way the psychological dynamics at work in the American mentality…
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Mitt Romney Joins Religious March On The White House To Support Black Lives Matter
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) joined 1,000 Americans of faith in a march to the White House in support of Black Lives Matter and ending police violence.
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Opinion: Racist Contradictions in Defining Freedom in Trump’s America
Last May, the conservative group Michigan United for Liberty organized protests in the state capitol against Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders. While the group, composed of roughly 8,000 members, had already formalized its complaint against the orders in a law suit, the protest provided a forum for a defiant public expression against what the group…
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Trump Spends His Morning Going After Biden and His “Radical Left” Supporters as Protests Rage
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President Donald Trump railed against his Democratic opponent, former vice president Joe Biden, on Twitter this morning, falsely accusing him of using his influence to bail “Anarchists”––his word for protesters with the Black Lives Matter movement––out of jail. “Sleepy Joe Biden’s people are so Radical Left that they are working to get the Anarchists out…
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Can an Economy be “Amazing” if it Promotes Sexual Violence?
When he resigned his position as Labor Secretary in the Trump administration yesterday, Alexander Acosta explained, “It would be selfish to stay in this position and continue talking about a case that’s 12 year old, rather than the amazing economy we have right now.” For his part, Trump hailed Acosta as “a great labor secretary,”…
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Chicago officer unjustified in killing black teen, prosecutor says
By Robert Chiarito and Suzannah Gonzales CHICAGO (Reuters) – The white police officer who shot to death a black teen in 2014 fired 16 shots without justification, prosecutors told a Chicago jury on Monday, as the trial began in a decisive case for race relations and policing in the United States‘ third-largest city. “What he…
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Killing Spree: Police Are Killing Three Men Per Day in the United States
Police in the United States are on a killing spree. According to a new study from the American Public Health Association (APHA) officers in U.S. police departments kill more than 1,000 men per year, or almost three men per day. According to APHA estimates, police are responsible for about one out of every twelve (8…
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Roman J. Israel, Esquire, a Film that Connects Us to Our Radical Past to Challenge Trump’s Malevolence
Dan Gilroy’s 2017 film Roman J. Israel, Esquire, starring Denzel Washington and still lingering in theaters, has either been critically panned or just plain overlooked.
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Trump Cares More About NFL Players Protesting Than People Dying In Puerto Rico
It is scandalous that the President of the United States of America has given more time and attention to whether football players are standing or kneeling during the national anthem before a football game than to the citizens he is accountable for who are dying in Puerto Rico.
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Republicans in Congress Forgot That “All Lives Matter” When Crafting Trumpcare
If Republicans in Congress wanted to demonstrate that indeed all lives mattered to them they would not be making drastic cuts to Medicaid, the largest insurance provider in the country.
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‘Women’s Protest’ Sent Trump Republicans A Powerful Frightening Message
The diverse protesters said that what is about to happen to any American at the hands of Trump Republicans “should never happen to anyone.”
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Trump’s Homeland Security Prospect Portends a Real Constitutional Crisis
About a million people should be scooped up, “charged with treason, and under habeas corpus, detain them indefinitely at Gitmo.”
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It’s Seriously Perilous To Be Black In ‘Trump’s America’
Whatever perceived progress on race relations was wiped out when Donald Trump made racism the centerpiece of his presidential campaign.
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GOP Says Exercising First Amendment Rights is Terrorism but Domestic Terrorism is Not
“The U.S. government should never subject Americans to surveillance for exercising basic Constitutional rights.”
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A Weaponized Drone On American Soil Portends the End of Due Process
The only thing separating a tyrannical police state from a free society is due process that too many African Americans have already lost.
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Bill O’Reilly and Rudy Giuliani Claims That BLM is Racist Projects Their Own Racism
Fed by a racist, “constrictive ideology,” O’Reilly and Giuliani project an invisible “only” before “Black Lives Matter”
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Oath Keepers’ Crazy Idea to ‘Reestablish the Militia System’ to Defeat ‘Marxist Agenda’
Stewart Rhodes wants “patriotic Americans” to “go armed at all times” and to “reestablish the militia system” against “Marxist terrorism”
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America Has Had A One-Sided Race War For Decades
“We feel powerless to keep you from killing black people in front of their loved ones. That we cannot halt you; that is our curse.”
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Don’t Listen To Those Using The Dallas Tragedy To Divide Us
We should be listening to and emulating those who bring us together, not using this moment to deepen tensions that were bad enough before this week began.
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Joe Walsh Warns ‘This is now war. Watch out Obama. Real America is Coming After You’
“3 Dallas Cops killed, 7 wounded. This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you.”
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Snyder Sent Flint Emergency Manager To Poison Detroit School Children
The poisoning of Flint’s school children is what is expected when Republicans abolish democracy to provide more money for the rich
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Clinton, Sanders Stand With Planned Parenthood. Republicans Stand Silent After Shooting
The Democratic candidates stood with Planned Parenthood on Twitter, while Republicans mostly tried to ignore the shooting.
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Trump Claims 100 Black Religious Leaders Will Endorse Him Monday
Donald Trump has shown what he thinks of African-Americans, yet he claims to have 100 black religious leaders lined up to endorse him Monday
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This Is Why White Supremacists Opened Fire On Peaceful Black Lives Matter Protestors
white racists with guns, cops or otherwise, lust to shoot human beings who are African American and peaceably protesting.
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Senator Sanders’ Criticism Of President Obama Is Baseless Historical Revision
Obama “failing to directly engage millions of voters” is not a valid complaint against the Obama Administration but revisionist history
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Scott Walker Dismisses Black Lives Matter As Not One Of The “Things That Matter”
Scott Walker dismissed the Black Lives Matter movement on Friday, by saying it was ridiculous to ask him to meet with members of the group.
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Jeb Bush Completely Lied About Meeting With Black Lives Matter Activists
Jeb Bush’s campaign said he met with Black Lives Matter activists before his Las Vegas campaign event, but he didn’t.
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Black House Democrats Support Black Lives Matter Disrupting Bernie Sanders Events
Two African-American House Democrats have voiced their support for the Black Lives Matter activists who have disrupted the campaign events of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
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Bernie Sanders’ “Racial Justice Platform” Wins Praise From Black Lives Matter
As racial justice platforms go, even though it appears to have taken some pressure from desperate activists, it is beyond dispute that Senator Sanders hit a grand slam; it is no wonder he won praise.
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Heavily-Armed White Oath Keepers Roam Ferguson Streets As Police Order Protesters To Disperse
On the anniversary of Michael Brown’s murder, a group of heavily armed white militiamen paraded around playing army, and looking for trouble
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Black Lives Matter Protesters Shut Down Bernie Sanders Rally In Seattle
Two Black Lives Matter protesters shut down a Bernie Sanders rally on Social Security and Medicare today. The Senator did not get to address the crowd after protesters stormed the stage after he began speaking and hijacked the event that was ended by the disruption.
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Sanders And O’Malley Appear Politically Tone Deaf To Black Lives Matter Protest In Phoenix
Sanders and O’Malley both failed to address the “Black lives matter” protesters in a substantive or even symbolically meaningful way.
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The Tide Is Turning: Time Magazine Puts ‘Black Lives Matter’ On Its Cover
But this time, things were different. Here’s what happens when things start to change. Time magazine, one of the most mainstream publications there is, puts “Black Lives Matter” on its cover.