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I considered his mother’s film, “Mississippi Masala” one of thee greatest credits to him because that film is a Black famous and an absolutely classic.

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This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

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Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.

submitted 10 hours ago • 230 comments

THIS IS FUCKED UP: Sae Joon Park took bullets for America in Iraq. The thanks he got? A one-way ticket out of the country he nearly died for. He’s being deported to South Korea—after surviving spinal injuries, PTSD, and addiction. He fought for America. Now America throws him out like trash.

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James: His critics said that he should wait his turn. His critics said that he did not have the experience. His critics said they did not have the right name. Well, now all of them know his god damn name.

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CE officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans. Immigration law experts say directives for strict immigrant enforcement have cast away practices of deference previously afforded to military families.

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Brad Lander via @jfrejnyc.bsky.social on Insta: “I am proud as a Jewish New Yorker to be on that slate alongside a Muslim New Yorker. Jewish New Yorkers and Muslim New Yorkers are not going to be divided against each other. Our safety, our freedoms, our thriving are bound up together.”

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

not supporting trump bombing iran is a fun new way to be told you’re a bad jew

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

A fiery dissent from the newest justice warns that the Supreme Court is doing grievous reputational harm to itself by playing favorites with “moneyed interests.” https://trib.al/eGQaXFe

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a sitting federal judge — appointed by trump of course — awarded a student for a paper that basically says dred scott was right and should have gone further

submitted 4 days ago • 179 comments

Damning. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

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🚨Watch out for this story tomorrow (FRI). A group of Catholic bishops, priests & faith leaders are going to the federal court building in San Diego to stand in solidarity with migrants at their hearings. ICE has already assaulted elected officials. Will they beat up priests next?

submitted 6 days ago • 87 comments

Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

🧵 Happy #Juneteenth, y’all! Original text of General Order No. 3:

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160 years after enslaved people were freed in Galveston, Texas, myths remain about Juneteenth. Learn about the federal holiday and its place in U.S. history. ➕ Also, check out our @flipboard.com collection of articles: zurl.co/DkGhY #Juneteenth #NewsLiteracy

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70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. This collection is at the Library & contains moving narratives & photos. #Juneteenth Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/... Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Time for the annual schoolhouse rock style history lesson about slavery and the origins of Juneteenth from The Roots

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

"Subways are good. In a subway you might get a mariachi show. In a subway you might fall in love. In a subway you might see a dog. You’re scared? You’re scared of this? You’re scared of the beating heart of New York City’s magical essence?"

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I’m urging all New Yorkers to support Immigrant Arc, the legal services organization I’ve been volunteering with. Even $10 helps provide asylum seekers with the legal resources and support that are so desperately needed. Please donate if you can. 🙏 secure.givelively.org/donate/immig...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Fuerza responds to scenes where alleged ICE enforcement is reported. If officers are indeed with ICE, they hit record and spread the word. They also speak directly with those being detained. They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N

submitted 7 days ago • 369 comments

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

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Major Erica Vandal served 14 years, deployed to Afghanistan, and earned a Bronze Star. She led with honor—and was forced out because she’s transgender. “I do not have a single derogatory mark on my record.” Trump didn’t care. Bigotry mattered more than battlefield service.

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Thousands of medically retired veterans are eligible for additional retroactive combat disability pay following a Supreme Court decision that ends a cap on compensation for individuals with less than 20 years of service.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country

submitted 8 days ago • 285 comments

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

submitted 9 days ago • 856 comments

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

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Ross told me he enlisted in the Marines when he was 17 because he loves his country and to help his parents get a path to citizenship. protesting directly in front of Marines deployed by President Trump he told me "it makes me feel sad... a lot of Marines, they’re all Hispanic."

submitted 10 days ago • 65 comments

There a reason the protests are being covered differently from the Tea Party The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes Hope that helps

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If you stand with @padilla.senate.gov, stand with @replamonica.bsky.social. Tell your Reps & Senators how you feel about the charges against her. 202-224-3121 And call the DOJ comment line: 202-353-1555

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

submitted 11 days ago • 179 comments

Gov. Tim Walz says Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed last night in “a political assassination.”

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Trump is sending Marines trained for war into American streets. Not to protect the public — but to serve his political agenda. “He is attacking not just the Constitution but also the morale and mission of the United States Marines.” — Rep. Jake Auchincloss, USMC Veteran

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"This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution," one commander told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. "This was shameful. I don't expect anything to come out of it, but I hope maybe we can learn from it long term."

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BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 13 days ago • 213 comments

SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day. My report:

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"When Harvard treats criticisms of Israeli violence as antisemitism or of Israel as a state for Jews above the other people who live there, it reduces Jewish identity to a political litmus test – one that erases the rich diversity of Jewish thought and experience."

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Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

submitted 13 days ago • 710 comments

Put this on a billboard.

submitted 13 days ago • 100 comments