Maggie Black

Trump Intensifies Use of 'Race-Baiting' Anti-Immigrant Language by Calling People from Somalia 'Garbage' - Bucks County Beacon “He is far from the first politician to embrace race-baiting xenophobia. But as president of the United States, he has more impact than most,” said César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a civil rights la...

Trump Intensifies Use of ‘Race-Baiting’ Anti-Immigrant Language by Calling People from Somalia ‘Garbage’ | “He is far from the first politician to embrace race-baiting xenophobia. But as president of the United States, he has more impact than most.”

After Louisville UPS plane crash, AI-generated slop was everywhere After a UPS plane crashed in Louisville killing 14 people and injuring dozens more, AI-generated posts flooded social media with disinformation.

After a UPS plane crashed in Louisville killing 14 people and injuring dozens more, AI-generated posts flooded social media with disinformation. @justinhicks.lpm.org of KPR looks at the growing phenomenon:

What we are watching - as U.S. citizens are dragged out of cars and illegal war is waged in the Caribbean - is the corruption of the most sacred power we give the President - the power of violence.

We are no longer a democracy if the regime can use violence without restraint.

ICE Denies Pepper-Spraying Rep. Adelita Grijalva in Incident Caught on Video Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.”

Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.”

The Best of Big D 2025 Winners - D Magazine In a world where megastores and restaurant chains reign supreme, an elite squad of Dallas editors, critics, writers, and tastemakers joined forces to celebrate the local people and places that make ou...

"Writing for the Texas Observer, the Dallas-based journalist, with help from Tristan Lee of Bellingcat, has exposed several neo-Nazis, including an ICE prosecutor who was operating a White supremacist X account."

That's right

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RFK Jr. blames pills—not guns—for school shootings There is no credible evidence that antidepressants cause violence, but the health secretary now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.

He's not just a lunatic about vaccines. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently rhapsodized that US air strikes on Venezuelan civilians would be good for business, if only it were legal.

Opinions that confirm the public's intuition that Silicon Valley leaders are evil: "legalizing US war crimes would open up a whole new market."
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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.

DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family. Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

Trump has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after himself.

Earlier in the year, we reported on how Trump sent a DOGE team to the institute, where they publicly outed a sensitive Afghanistan program and prompted a Taliban crackdown.

Revisit our investigation ⤵️

BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee They’re questioning how 31,000 additional votes appeared with 99.4% votes counted - and that's not all.

Election advocates demand recount in Tennessee

A Navy warship mistook US fighter jets for enemy missiles and opened fire. The targeted pilot saw his life flash before his eyes. New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.

So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
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The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society has issued the following statement on our deep concerns regarding the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices December meeting and its impact on public health in the United States.
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Trump knows he’s losing Americans. So he’s setting the stage to keep control. That’s why he stashed $175B in his ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ to turn ICE & CBP into a police force.

I introduced a bill to redirect the $175B into a housing boom. We’re choosing homes over hate & democracy over dictatorship.

Secretary Hegseth is not fit to serve.

It looks like giant zombies reaching out from hell to subsume planet Earth. Which is a better fate for it than a Trump third term.

Generative AI puts squeeze on creative community Fewer commission jobs, content theft among new technology wave of worries for writers, artists, designers

For Samantha Mary Beiko, it’s a typewriter.

If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...

Get your holiday shopping done while supporting Palestinian artists, musicians, and writers!

I mean who even dreamed this up? Depraved.

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order

BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

It’s your war. You’ve just outsourced the dying. A Ukrainian's message to Europe from 400 km east of Warsaw

Europeans refuse to acknowledge that they're already at war with Russia - and Ukrainians are protecting their freedom and dying in their stead.

Oleksandr Yakovenko has a wakeup call: treat the invasion seriously before it's too late.

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Biden Says Republicans Aim to Turn L.G.B.T.Q. Identity Into ‘Something Scary’

Here's my account of what I found to be an unexpectedly fiery speech by the former president at the @lgbtqvictoryfund.bsky.social conference. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

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The "War on Christmas" is coming from inside the house.

Get ready for the official government videos of Santa on Christmas Eve deploying cutting edge Palantir technology to distinguish between the children asleep in their beds who are naughty/deportable, and those who are nice and can stay.

Ahead of Kristi Noem’s visit to Chicago Saturday, immigration agents make show of force in west suburbs Federal immigration agents detained at least three people in the western suburbs Friday in a sudden burst of aggressive action.

Federal immigration agents detained at least three people in the west suburbs Friday in a sudden burst of aggressive action, chasing workers who tried to hide on top of a truck before running through a Menards parking lot in Cicero and questioning people walking in Berwyn.

Boat Strike Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them “There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”

“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”

FIFA peace prize

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.

How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.

Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.

Pure, mindless, barbarism.
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Me: *makes a single small purchase from a brand*

Brand: We are now betrothed

Turkey breeder supplying luxury stores investigated over welfare Farm workers are suspended over animal welfare and biosecurity concerns at a turkey breeding site.

Hockenhull Turkeys in Lincolnshire is being investigated by Red Tractor after welfare campaigners secretly filmed workers not following biosecurity measures, throwing birds and, in one case, a staff member urinating in a pen of birds. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...