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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-jd-vance-and-a-virulent-neo-nazi-group-inflamed-tensions-over-migrants-in-springfield
It was one of the most shocking and disturbing lines in the...
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/11/debate-in-nuclear-armed-former-colony-fails-to-reassure-global-community
The chaotic face-off between Trump and Harris added to concerns over the state of US democracy.
https://haitiantimes.com/2024/09/11/haitian-immigrants-in-ohio-under-racist-attacks/
Racist claims by right-wing Republicans about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are fueling attacks against the immigrant community. Some families were keeping their children from school to protect them the day after the presidential debate.
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-28-election-story-nobody-talks-about-neiwert-qa/
A Q&A with David Neiwert, America’s foremost writer and thinker on far-right extremism, on what might happen if Trump wins—or loses
https://reductress.com/post/trans-peoples-issues-alienate-the-working-class-says-democrat-whos-never-met-either/
In an incredible display of just kind of saying stuff, 52-year-old liberal Isaac Shawn has announced that focusing on “trans issues” alienates the working class from the Democratic party, though he does not personally know a trans person, a working-class person, or anyone at the intersection of thes
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-the-dark/the-haditha-massacre-photos-that-the-military-didnt-want-the-world-to-see
When U.S. Marines killed twenty-four people in an Iraqi town, they also recorded the aftermath of their actions. For years, the military tried to keep these photos from the public.
https://thehardtimes.net/blog/opinion-the-fact-that-the-muppets-only-took-manhattan-means-theyll-never-be-real-new-yorkers/
At the risk of pointing fingers, the Muppets and their apparent unwillingness to branch out beyond pockets of Manhattan means they’ll never be able to lay claim to being genuine New Yorkers.
https://thehardtimes.net/music/slippery-slope-funk-singer-asking-you-to-give-it-to-him-one-time-probably-going-to-ask-you-to-give-it-to-him-two-times/
Several hundred fans were torn Friday night over whether to give it to funk singer G.T. Stone and his band again after having given it to him once already during a set out of fear that he would ask for more.