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Jesse Jackson’s political legacy in the Trump era – podcast Jenna Amatulli speaks to George Chidi about how US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson transformed the Democratic party and empowered minority communities at the ballot box, and what Jackson might have ...

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We will revisit these comments when the World Cup begins, I suspect. This is a spectacularly bad idea even by the standards of the Trump Administration. It's how you make the images that eventually get Ossoff reelected and either he or Warnock elected president.

This is ICE as a Jack Doherty video.

Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: ‘We are Americans after all’ Social Circle, a mostly Maga town, builds strange bedfellow coalition against plans to convert warehouse

Went to Social Circle, Ga. to report on the strange bedfellow coalition forming against what cd. be one of largest ICE det'n centers in US:

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This person has lied to me, directly, more than once. One can only assume her replacement will do the same.

Money pays for lawyers and therapists and funerals.

Jesse Jackson ran for president, lost, and didn't dissappear. That is more than I can say for most people who do.

That said, I wasn't a big Jackson fan. I'm not religious. I'm skeptical of the nonprofit activist complex. But I know what's coming.

I met him twice. The first time was during the Occupy movement here in Atlanta. The second was at the trial of the murderers of Ahmaud Arbery.

The thing that enraged white racist asshats is that he always brought a small army with him, physically and financially. Yeah, he raised money. Money helps.

The waving of the bloody shirt in the killings of Iryna Zarutska or Laken Riley is embraced, of course, and the deep pervasive fraud and grift associated with Trump and the like can be ignored.

Jackson was their vision of Black outrage as illegitimate. We are going to read the ugliest things today.

The hollow right wing derision of Jesse Jackson has illuminated my sense of politics and race. Whenever a white person does something terrible to a Black person, someone would say "well, here comes Jesse Jackson" - usually followed by Al Sharpton - implying untoward media attention and race grift.

I ask because my wife and I at Valentines Day dinner were discussing how fortunate we are to not have to deal with this. We have no idea what Atlanta looks like to a 25 year old.

Serious question. If you were going out to dance, listen to music and look for love in Atlanta ... where is that? I've been married too long to know the answer to this question today.

Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth’s crackdown on ‘biased’ schools | CNN Politics Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign again...

Boko Haram has to get on our level.

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DHS has lied to me often enough in unambiguous ways that I only record their responses for whatever future tribunal follows this insanity.

DHS has lied to me often enough in unambiguous ways that I only record their responses for whatever future tribunal follows this insanity.

Mike with the story you need to read.

We are torturing children so far right assholes can laugh.

Jesse Watters: "Epstein got his money from two Jewish billionaires" and "the Jewish banking dynasty"

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When the right goes alt-right.

Nazis.

Sushi, at Five Points. Place below the Coca Cola sign. Seriously, this is going to blow up as a space. Surprised it hasn't happened yet.

Do we hear these arguments? No. We get people who can barely speak English blather about whatever political noise they think they can make, ineffectively flailing at the point. Because it doesn't matter. Everyone walked into the room with their mind made up.

It's kabuki theater. I am stupider now.

Somehow, without tariffs, fentanyl deaths started falling in 2023. Largely that's because the US and Mexico started getting serious about curtailing production and smuggling.

They're arguing fentanyl and the Canadian border. Virtually all the fent coming to the US comes from Mexico, from precursors made in China. Not Venezuela. Not Canada. Fent is a war crime, and we should be doing what we can to stop it.

But Canada isn't the fucking problem.

Partisanship means there's no point to public argument. It shows. Floor debate in Congress should be the highest form of argument in our democracy. I've been listening to it as I work, and it is the most useless empty bullshit around. We get better arguments in the stupid 20-vs-1 Hasan Piker things.

US to deploy additional 200 troops to Nigeria under expanded counterterrorism cooperation Additional US troops not to 'carry out isolated operations' but to partner Nigerian forces 'to ensure terrorists are flushed out,' Nigerian military source tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı

I'm all in favor of killing Boko Haram terrorists. Understand though that our military activity in northern Nigeria is at least as much about blunting the influence of Russia as it is about terrorism.

The Russians have flipped governments across the Sahel, and nearly have Nigeria surrounded.

Here's the thing: the First Offender Act was made for circumstances like this. I get it. I should not be arguing against mercy.

My problem is that I don't see this kind of justice being meted out when the defendant is Black and poor.

Hannah Hackemeyer, the teen drunk driver who killed Sophia Lekiachvili in 2024 has been sentenced to 2 years of house arrest and 10 years of probation.

You get three guesses about her socio-economic status. You'll get it in one.

Had this warrant been brought through a transparent process in which the county could have offered evidence, it would never have been granted.

The assertions about tabulator tapes and unfolded absentee ballots and what not were addressed in several cases, including the one heard by Judge Brian Amero, which concluded that there wasn't enough evidence to prove a meaningful error, much less a crime.

I've just gone through the affidavit that the FBI used to obtain the ballots and documents from 2020 in Fulton County. It relies entirely on assertions found wanting in several lawsuits by election denialists who have been getting laughed out of court for five years. Kevin Moncla. Joe Rossi. Others.

Reports Emerge Claiming M23 Detained Blackwater Founder Erik Prince in Eastern DRC

Big if true.

They Want The Machines The specific laws and executive orders invoked by the FBI and Tulsi Gabbard to raid Fulton County's election documents are part of a bigger plan. We need to get ready now.

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Connecting the dots.

Maybe it's this shit that lost Moore the Trump endorsement.

Other news organizations *cough cough* are going to be picking off the talent the Washington Post just shed.

Don't be shy about telling people you're looking for work on social media, people.