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Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.

ICE DEPORTED THREE U.S. CITIZENS, ages 2, 4 and 7, with their moms early Friday per @efelton.bsky.social @maeganvaz.bsky.social. They were seized during a routine check-in and not allowed to call family or lawyers. The 4-year-old, with Stage 4 cancer, was removed without medication
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

There’s an interesting lie going around conservative circles that 65% of Black women with college degrees work in government. Even if it were true it seems really telling that they’re using that as evidence for the necessity of Elon Musk’s purge of government workers who they say have no real skills

And just a few days later Republican Governor Jeff Landry announces Louisiana is adopting a similar protocol

Eyewitness reports coming out of Alabama’s most recent execution

The New Orleans warehouse for homeless people, out of sight of Super Bowl visitors The location is only seven miles from the Superdome, home of Sunday's NFL title game, but it might as well be in a different galaxy

The story I’ve been waiting for. I was just home and couldn’t help but notice the disappearance of everything city and state officials thought might upset visitors. I told my sister it looked like everything had been power-washed. It felt like Disneyland. www.nytimes.com/athletic/612...

DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

If you’re writing about the issues facing New Orleans and the paradoxes it presents and don’t mention race, you’re doing it wrong.

When the Feds Are Still Watching Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right.

For years, former Black Panthers have feared that the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after its notorious COINTELPRO program.

Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.

Missouri Gov. Parson commutes sentence of former KCPD Ofc. Eric DeValkenaere On Friday, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson commuted the sentence of former Kansas City, Missouri, police officer Eric DeValkenaere for the death of Cameron Lamb.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson was fine letting Marcellus Williams be executed. Meanwhile, he just committed the sentence of a white cop who killed an unarmed black man.

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More Than a Crash a Day as NYPD Keeps Pedal to the Metal on Car Chases Police car chases and crashes spiked after Eric Adams promoted two allies to leadership roles in the NYPD.

“The number of car crashes following police chases has skyrocketed under Mayor Eric Adams, with more than one collision per day recorded on average this year, according to an analysis of NYPD data by THE CITY.” @haidee.bsky.social @yoavgonen.bsky.social

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Los Angeles Times Owner Wades Deeper Into Opinion Section Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s public comments and actions, including recently blocking an editorial weighing in on President-elect Trump’s cabinet picks, have concerned many staff members.

LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong continues to meddle in the work of his staff.

@katierobertson.bsky.social reports that he killed an editorial board piece criticizing Trump's cabinet picks, including RFK Jr., and the push for recess appointments.

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Why aren’t Black women in the conversation to lead the Democratic Party? As the Democrats choose a new chair, Black women want to be valued not just for their output, but for their input.

“Georgia performed better than every battleground state in the country, but I’m being asked to resign and other people are being floated for DNC chair." - Georgia Rep. Nikema Williams, who chairs her state’s Democratic Party. 19thnews.org/2024/12/blac...

Same people too.

US Senate inquiry into Chicago’s housing of migrants at airports likely to heat up after Republican election wins U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is expected to escalate an investigation into Chicago’s policy of having migrants sleep at the airports.

Another potential impact of the GOP wave in November. US Sen Cruz’s attempts to leverage the migrant crisis might have an impact on fed airport funding. By @aliceyin.bsky.social: www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/01/s...

This sort of democratic backsliding, where Republicans seek to overturn the effect of an election by reallocating powers away from positions they have lost, has become almost routine now. But it should remain shocking.

400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.

Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Quiet as kept, the most reliable Republican outreach effort to young black men is football.

Susan Smith, who drowned her sons in 1994, is up for parole. Here’s what to know. Smith spent 30 years in prison for murdering her two sons by driving them into a lake in a case that drew worldwide attention.

Smith — who is White — first told police a Black gunman had carjacked her while at a stoplight, made her drive several miles, forced her out of the car and drove away with her sons inside. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...

NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found.

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The daughters of Malcolm X sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader's assassination Three daughters of Malcolm X are accusing multiple law enforcement agencies in a $100 million lawsuit of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader.

Three daughters of Malcolm X are suing the CIA, FBI, the NYPD and others, accusing them of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader

These headlines saying that both Latino and Black men moved toward Trump are making it sound like the two groups acted in similar manners. Black men went from D+60 to D+56, Latinos went from D+23 to R+12. Lumping these two groups together feels like purposefully obfuscating a story about race.

Palm Springs tests who should pay when a Black community is destroyed The city burned scores of homes owned by Black residents, and victims and descendants are demanding reparations. But what about the tribe that owned the land?

Palm Springs has voted to pay $5.9M to Black families whose homes were burned and bulldozed in the 60's. I wrote about how while city officials carried out the destruction, it was the local tribe that owned the land and became rich because of the destruction.
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