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The Haitians of Springfield Are Under Attack Yet Again

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The people of Springfield, Ohio, are exhausted. It’s been one hit after another lately. Some of the trouble started back in 2024, when Donald Trump claimed during a presidential debate that Haitian immigrants in this small blue-collar city were eating their neighbors’ cats and dogs. It was a false, racist rumor, but it thrust the […]

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The Man Who Taught Nonviolence to Martin Luther King Jr.

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Back in February 2010, the radio show State of the Re:Union, created by Al Letson, produced an award-winning episode looking at civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. The episode was called “Who Is This Man?” because while Rustin was not well known, his work supported the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. Rustin was a man […]

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ACLU’s Lawsuit Over ICE Raid at an Idaho Racetrack Could Be a Game Changer

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In a small Idaho town, a 10-year-old girl I’ll call A.S.P. was cozied up in her family’s pickup truck outside La Catedral racetrack, where she and her dad were looking forward to a day of festivities. It was a Sunday in October, and families in this predominantly Latino town, Wilder, were there to cheer on […]

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Trump’s Twin Cities Onslaught Feels a Lot Like the British Tyranny in Colonial Boston

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A version of this story was originally published by The Watch, Radley Balko’s Substack publication, to which you can subscribe here. Conservatives are fond of invoking the American founding, the framers of the Constitution, and the principles that drove the fight for independence. Those invocations have always been selective and opportunistic, but they’ve grown downright farcical as right-wingers contort themselves into knots […]

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How a Violent, Warrantless ICE Raid Devastated a Memphis Family

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A few weeks before Christmas, six siblings huddled around a phone in their mom’s bedroom to talk with their dad and grandpa, who’d just been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Memphis. Camila, 16, the oldest girl, seemed tense as she sat next to Saraya, 13. Their grandpa tried to lighten the mood, at […]

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How Sports Became a Battleground Over Trans Rights

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During an NCAA women’s swimming championship in March 2022, two seniors tied for fifth place. The race was unremarkable except for one fact: One of the swimmers, Lia Thomas, was a transgender woman. The swimmer she tied with, Riley Gaines, believed the NCAA never should have allowed her to participate. The matchup, and Gaines’ subsequent […]

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They Fled Venezuela to Escape a Regime of Fear, Only to Relive It in Trump’s America

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A little girl can’t go to the park with her parents. A mother trembles while taking out the trash. A father peeks through the blinds to see if anyone is watching. Years earlier, this family faced persecution in Venezuela, but now they’re living in terror in the United States. They traveled thousands of miles on […]

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ICE Has Stopped Paying Contractors for Detainee Medical Treatment

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This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. During the second Trump administration, the population of migrants held at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities has exploded—from below 40,000 in January 2025 to over 73,000 today. Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for this population. While ICE employs […]

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She Fought for Indigenous Voices at the UN. Now She’s in a Russian Jail Cell.

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Russian authorities have detained an Indigenous climate advocate, accusing her of participating in a terrorist organization in what international observers are calling “retribution” for her United Nations advocacy on behalf of Indigenous peoples.  Daria Egereva, an Indigenous Selkup woman from the city […]

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Minnesota US Attorney’s Office Is Bracing for a New Wave of Resignations

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More resignations of federal prosecutors are expected at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota amid ongoing frustration over the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of Renée Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.“I have heard there may be more people leaving, people I would consider senior and respected career prosecutors,” said Anders Folk, […]

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