Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
Spyware has been used repeatedly against journalists and other members of civil society worldwide. New cases highlight risks of privacy and accountability.
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The words of an authoritarian.
Directly violates what Levitsky and Ziblatt call one of "[t]wo basic norms have preserved America's checks and balances in ways we have come to take for granted: mutual toleration, or the understanding that competing parties accept one another as legitimate rivals"
Alexander Butterfield, who revealed Nixon White House tapes, dies at 99 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."
Grift upon grift upon grift
According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.
This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”
Independent tech researchers accuse the Trump administration of trying to silence them with threats of visa revocations and deportation. It's leading some to change the focus of their work, self-censor, and even leave the country.
The Espionage Act has been used to criminalize whistleblowing and newsgathering for years.
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“The Times analysis found 300 billionaires and their families donated more than $3 billion—19% of all contributions—in federal elections in 2024. The billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined.“ Gift:
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Trump has abused the pardon power of the presidency like no president before him. Just shameless corruption.
"Over the past decade, the Boring Company has dug only a few miles of operational tunnel. It has never cracked $23 million in reported annual revenue.... Yet, for reasons inexplicable to anyone who doesn’t worship at the altar of high finance, it is valued at $7 billion."
I believe the phrase for this is “eating the seed corn.”
"None have been convicted at trial. Yet names, mug shots and other identifying details posted by the government put a bull’s-eye on them."
From promoting Mein Kampf reading groups led by Ann Coulter’s white nationalist niece one day, to getting face time with the Secretary of State the next. America! We’re still the country where anything is possible!
State media watch:
The image of Trump saluting - without his baseball hat that you can buy at his website - is falsely labeled as Trump acknowledging the soldiers killed on March 1.
This was not a mistake - its also on the Fox News website.
"Shifting objectives, an exaggerated threat, an ambiguous mission: The many Russian echoes in the White House’s messaging on Iran underscore the risks of a vaguely defined, open-ended war in which the attacking party pins its hopes on regime change."
Thread. My dad was a US diplomat. Breaks my heart. “Whatever happens, even miraculous Venezuela-like stability in Iran and/or Cuba, the end of US diplomacy as we knew it weakens the US. Diplomacy is a tool of power, we had the best, and we blew it up deliberately.“
Inspiring Change for International Women’s Day 2016
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Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.
ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community
“Donald Trump said he was going after criminals...They were safe enough to tour the White House. And yet, the Trump administration has them sitting in a prison.”—Rep. Joaquin Castro [D–Texas].
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Immigration Agents Detain a Reporter in Nashville
"The arrest of...an immigrant who was seeking asylum in the United States after she said she received threats for her reporting in her native Colombia, prompted an immediate outcry"
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