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February 15, 1988: For the second game in a row, Philadelphia's Gerald Henderson is without his #12 76ers jersey, and instead wears a spare Albert King #17 jersey—modified with tape to look like Henderson's #12.

Policing A Free Society The year was 1972, President Nixon was running for reelection; violent crime was  rampant, as poorly trained police officers were outgunned by gangs in

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"We the People, acting together, have the power to generate the collective “wisdom of the crowd;” thinking and working together, we will always be smarter and better than any one individual, no matter how rich, famous, influential, or charismatic they may be."

Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt That Decided History One of the most important and least remembered events in the history of Arab-Zionist relations has recently been brought to life on the page and screen

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NYT's Bari Weiss Falsely Denies Her Years of Attacks on the Academic Freedom of Arab Scholars Who Criticize Israel The New York Times columnist and editor spent years crusading for the type of censorship she claims to loathe. Instead of acknowledging this, she denies it.

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Zelensky won't announce elections on war anniversary amid talks of US-driven timeline Editor's Note: The article was updated following President Volodymyr Zelensky's comments. As of now, President Volodymyr Zelensky does not plan to announce presidential elections or a referendum on a...

⚡️Update: US not tying security guarantees to Ukrainian elections, Zelensky said.

The U.S. is not pressuring Ukraine to hold elections by threatening to withdraw security guarantees, President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on Feb. 11.

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Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think While pandering to business elites, the California governor has slashed health care, housing and food assistance for the poor and near-poor.

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Anti-Abortion Groups Try a New Intimidation Tactic: Make Abortion Records Public Abortion rights opponents want Indiana to use reporting rules to expose abortion providers and recipients to targeting.

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"And if they can’t ban every abortion, they want any and all potential pregnant people to fear that someone is watching."

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View: Why Fela Kuti lives on Nigeria’s late Afrobeat pioneer won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award nearly 30 years after he died because his music is still relevant today.

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"In our current era, there is often plenty of talk about Africa benefiting from its “soft power,” but Fela fused his sound and struggle to show us that culture is not soft — it is powerful."

Former Israeli Defense Minister: Israel’s ideology of ‘Jewish supremacy’ resembles Nazi race theory Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon says the “ideology of ‘Jewish supremacy’” has become dominant in Israel, and it “is reminiscent of the Nazi race theory.”

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"While there is clearly a genocide taking place in Gaza, that is not what inspired Ya’alon to draw a comparison to Nazis. No, he’s focused on the colonialist violence taking place in the West Bank."

Biden, Trump, the media, the public—we have all failed the residents of East Palestine, OH “I'm pissed at how many people have forgotten about what happened here. I'm pissed that everybody thinks we're doing fine, that everything in East Palestine, OH, is good. It's not.”

“I’m pissed at how many people have forgotten about what happened here. I’m pissed that everybody thinks we’re doing fine, that everything in East Palestine, OH, is good. It’s not.”

BREAKING: An Arizona state court permanently blocked several abortion restrictions, including a law forcing patients to make two trips to a provider and a ban on telemedicine abortion.

This is a big win for reproductive freedom in the state.

NYT's Bari Weiss Falsely Denies Her Years of Attacks on the Academic Freedom of Arab Scholars Who Criticize Israel The New York Times columnist and editor spent years crusading for the type of censorship she claims to loathe. Instead of acknowledging this, she denies it.

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Black graphic with a shape of a child's head filled with red dots to symbolize kids in ICE detention. White and red text reads "ICE has detained at least 3,800 children under the second Trump administration."

The average public school in the U.S. has 500 students. ICE is currently detaining over 7 schools' worth of children, many of whom are being held in inhumane conditions.

Children do not belong in government detention.

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"The updated information indicates that Israeli prisons continue to function as a network of torture camps for Palestinians, with the systematic abuse even more extensive than before"

Welcome to Palestine, Minnesota: Life Under Occupation Israel has come home to roost in Minnesota. The people of Minneapolis and St. Paul have become the Palestinians of Minnesota. The residents of the Twin

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"A nation that condones the “crime of crimes,” the ultimate human atrocity, fosters a culture of violence that inevitably turns inward. "

“This Is Not America” Is the Most Dangerous Lie We Keep Telling Ourselves The idea that large-scale state violence and repression are foreign to US soil is a dangerous fiction.

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"The truth is simpler and more unsettling: The U.S. has always governed through violence."

Seven Legal Questions That Will Shape Democracy in 2026 - Bolts Courts are set to decide a host of cases that will determine the fate of the VRA, confront the latest restrictions on direct democracy, and affect ballot access and redistricting.

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On Iran’s protests, Israeli hypocrisy knows no limits Only moments ago, Israelis were cheering on a holocaust in Gaza — and now they dare to celebrate the valiant uprising of the Iranian people.

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"Freedom for the Iranian people. Freedom for the Palestinian people. And freedom also for Jewish Israelis from the shameful role of masters in a regime of supremacy."

From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent playbook Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her, died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and political structure exists to ensure those agents...

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"Qualified immunity in the United States functions exactly like the impunity Israeli soldiers enjoy when they kill Palestinians, creating a closed legal loop that makes accountability structurally impossible."

I agree with the first part

The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?

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For Me, a Jew, a Painful Truth: Israel Is a Perpetual Crime Against Humanity Masquerading as a Nation I hold joint US/German citizenship due to the historical fact that my maternal family was stripped of their German citizenship by The Reich Citizenship

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"In my view, the son of a survivor of The Shoah, the dismal and deranged trajectory, via from Europe to the Zionist state, from proceeding from victims of genocide to the perpetrators of the abomination is a betrayal of Judaism."

It seems fitting that we're about to enter the, '30s'...

Imagine how a world, for whom this has been the experience of living with USA for 2 centuries, feels!

I'm old enough to remember the campaigns to save the Condor and Bald Eagle and the Ozone Layer... If we counted all the species lost and damage done during the same period...How would the balance sheet look?... Not a rhetorical question

There are also innocent doomed by our continued presence

Is it also, "obsessing", if one focuses principally/primarily on the positive?

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