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New York Sues Anti-Immigration Group For Multimillion-Dollar Charity Fraud

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Peter Brimelow, founder of the vehemently anti-immigrant website VDARE.com, is being persecuted. That’s what he’s been telling followers, anyway. In a video posted on X last July, Brimelow announced his resignation and the suspension of VDARE, claiming the organization “has been murdered by New York State Attorney General Letitia James,” who “is quite obviously aiming […]

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On Trump’s Orders, Missouri Republicans Plan to Gerrymander a Black Lawmaker Out of Office

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Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterms through a series of unprecedented mid-decade gerrymanders shifted from Texas to Missouri on Wednesday, as the GOP-controlled Missouri legislature began a special session to pass a new redistricting map that would eliminate one of two Democrat-held US House districts and net Republicans an additional seat. If successful, […]

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Being Black in America Almost Killed Me Part 1

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee was in the middle of writing his first book when the unthinkable happened. At 38, a massive heart attack nearly took his life. That near-death experience forced him to reckon with the toll his reporting has taken on his life, including the years he’s spent chronicling gun violence involving Black […]

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Putting Military Lawyers in Charge of Immigration Courts Is Problematic—and “Unlawful”

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The Trump administration has decided to get more immigration judges from an unprecedented source: the military. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Pentagon plans to send up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to temporarily run immigration courts around the country. Some of them could receive their new assignments as early […]

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Leading Genocide Scholars Say Israel’s War in Gaza Fits the Definition

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Leading genocide scholars have ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide. In a resolution issued Sunday by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), the scholars argue that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide under the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the […]

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Vinay Prasad, Who Is Making It Harder to Get the Covid Vax, Barely Comes Into Office.

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Vinay Prasad, the FDA Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, has been critical of the Covid vaccine, to put it lightly. Not only that, he has a history of minimizing mask wearing, an effective tool in limiting the spread of infectious diseases. He also compared Covid public health measures to Nazi Germany. […]

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Hurricane Season Begins with Trump Gutting the “Gold Standard” Weather Services That Save Lives

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As a native Floridian, the six-month slog of hurricane season that begins June 1 and ends November 30 triggers a certain sense of impending doom. Whether you live by the beach or farther inland, the threat of a storm this time of year is always possible. I’ve experienced several hurricanes at this point, most recently […]

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Make America Israel Again?

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In a speech at last year’s Republican National Convention, then vice-presidential hopeful JD Vance shared his philosophy of national identity. “America is not just an idea,” he told the crowd. “It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.” As I wrote last year, […]

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Hurricane Season Begins With Trump Gutting the “Gold Standard” Weather Services That Save Lives

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To a native Floridian, the six-month slog of hurricane season that begins June 1 and ends November 30 triggers a certain sense of impending doom. Whether you live by the beach or farther inland, the threat of a storm this time of year is always possible. I’ve experienced several hurricanes at this point, most recently […]

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Republicans Keep Getting Booed at Their Own Town Halls

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It hasn’t been a great last week of the August recess for Republican members of Congress. At town hall events across the country, attendees booed, laughed, jeered, and demanded answers as their GOP representatives tried to defend President Donald Trump’s agenda. The list of issues angering their constituents is long—everything from the Trump-backed cuts to […]

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Amid a Wave of Mass Shootings, Florida Cracks Down on Chalk

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As the nation reels from last week’s horrific school shooting in Minnesota, authorities in Florida seem to be doing everything in their power to re-traumatize a community victimized by a different mass attack. That now includes arresting one protester, apparently for leaving temporary chalk footprints in a crosswalk that has become a flashpoint in Republican […]

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Setting an Oyster Apocalypse to Music

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A university professor has set her team’s research on the plight of Florida’s declining oyster population to music, aiming to inform a receptive new audience about the “catastrophic” scale of the crisis. Heather O’Leary, professor of anthropology at St. Petersburg’s University of […]

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