By nightfall, people all over America had seen the footage. It was barely a month into President Donald Trump’s second term, and a team of black-clad private security officers was violently dragging a woman out of a Republican town hall meeting in Idaho. One agent mumbled that things would get “a hundred times better” if […]
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Last year, shortly after his second inauguration, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on January 31 to mark the start of Black History Month the next day—just as presidents before him had done, beginning with Gerald Ford in the bicentennial year of 1976. He invoked “heroes such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Justice […]
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Can He Really Do That? Black History Month in the Age of Trump Read Post »
Late on Thursday evening, President Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social that depicts former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. The post, which was online all of Friday morning, appears to have been removed from the president’s page. Toward the end of an unrelated video alleging interference in […]
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Trump Posts Video That Depicts Obamas as Apes Read Post »
My heart was in my throat as I watched the video emerging late Tuesday. A disturbed, angry man had just rushed Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar during a town hall in Minneapolis and assaulted her. He sprayed her in the chest with vinegar from a syringe, then was tackled by security and arrested. Omar reacted defiantly, […]
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The Attack on Ilhan Omar and Trump’s Destructive Politics of Violence Read Post »
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Ms. Magazine. The brutality we are witnessing in Minnesota, at the hands of thousands of poorly trained, heavily armed and trigger-happy men who have full reign to hunt and harass anyone who is non-white, is nothing short of state-sponsored terror. It is a horrific illustration of what unfettered power […]
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ICE Violence Is Fueled by Misogyny and White Nationalism Read Post »
Elon Musk took to his social media site on Friday to decry New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the city’s fire department, claiming that she couldn’t do the job. The commissioner-to-be, Lillian Bonsignore, is a 31-year FDNY veteran who led the department’s emergency medical services during the Covid-19 pandemic. She will be the […]
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Sometime this week in an undisclosed location, two powerful figures sat down for tense negotiations, hoping to end a cold war that had, in recent days, turned very hot. The talks were not a success, with one participant dubbing some of what the other side presented as “fake and gay.” Tensions, it’s fair to say, […]
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MAGA Is Eating Itself Alive Read Post »
Earlier this year, it looked like the world had perhaps heard the last from Kyle Rittenhouse. After a jury acquitted him in November 2021, the famous teenage shooter, who killed two people and wounded a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the Black Lives Matter protests, had tried to rebrand himself as a Second Amendment influencer. […]
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A Florida Sheriff Had a Message for Kyle Rittenhouse: “I Think You’re a Joke” Read Post »
Four days after a shooting at Brown University killed two students and wounded nine others, neither the shooter’s identity nor motive is known. But that hasn’t stopped internet sleuths from insisting that they know who did it. Now, powerful influencers are amplifying their claims. Almost as soon as the shooting happened, conservative influencers were quick […]
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Powerful Influencers Are Spreading a Vile Rumor About the Brown Shooting Read Post »
Six weeks ago, Jack Posobiec asked me to comment on whether I have a “creepy fetish for Asian women.” That was one of several false and wildly personal allegations that the far-right pundit and newly minted member of the Pentagon press corps said that he planned to include in “a story that I’m writing about you.” […]
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I Asked the Pentagon About Pete Hegseth’s Mentor. Then the Threats Started. Read Post »
Even in the house of horrors that is vaccine-preventable illnesses, polio stands out as particularly terrifying. Before the rollout of the vaccine in the 1950s, the disease paralyzed or killed more than 500,000 people worldwide every year. The disease was especially catastrophic for children, some of whom were confined for years to wheelchairs or a […]
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The Anti-Vax Movement’s Wildest Claim Yet: Polio Wasn’t So Bad Read Post »
In late September, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced a crackdown on a relatively new foe: antifa, which he said would be designated as a “terrorist organization.” This was, on its face, ridiculous, given that antifa is an ideology, not an organization, and not one that Orbán has previously spent much time denouncing. But the move […]
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Is America Contagious? Read Post »
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