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Karen Attiah: America is giving dying mall vibes
On the dangers of social and political nostalgia.
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Many times, we have to fight nostalgia in order to pursue justice. It’s worth overcoming our wistful memories of bopping to Diddy in the 90s so that we can hold him accountable for terrorizing the women in his life. We are already seeing White Political Nostalgia play out in our politics. The roll-back of affirmative action, the purging of Black voices from education and journalism, and now the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act are all fueled by white nostalgia for an America where Black people were kept from power and authority. It is nostalgia for a time when the only socially permissible roles for Black people in America were under the foot of White people. While billionaires outsource jobs overseas, or to AI, white people are being sold the idea that they can return to power, to a carefree time with more opportunities, as long as they get rid of the Blacks and immigrants first.
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Jesse Hagopian @ truthout:
500-Year-Old Slave Revolt of 1526 Redefines Freedom as US Turns 2501619 is a vital date to understand because it marks the first documented arrival of enslaved Africans to an English colony in North America.
But even this vital reframing stops short of a more complete history: The first enslaved Africans did not arrive in North America in 1619. They arrived nearly a century earlier, when Spanish ships brought enslaved Africans to North America in 1526.
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Jason Easley: Trump’s Iran War Killed Spirit Airlines, So The White House Is Blaming Joe Biden
According to Spirit Airlines, rising fuel prices caused by Trump’s war was the final blow for their business, but the administration is blaming Joe Biden.
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Hans Christensen: Europe is Warming Faster Than Global Average
If warming continues at the present rate, the Paris Agreement’s limit of 1.5°C for long-term global warming could be reached in 2030, more than a decade sooner than predicted in the Agreement.
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Katie Surma, Kiley Price @ Inside Climate News: Florida Opens Criminal Probe Into Sloth World After Dozens of Animal Deaths
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Norman Eisen, Bryan Fair, Lauren Groh-Wargo, Juan Proaño @ Contrarian:
15 Ways to Fight Callais
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Home of the Brave: Trump Doesn’t Understand What “86” Means
A fact check on a bit of restaurant industry slang that Trump calls “a mob term.”
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 2, 2026
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
April 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide - January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
Suffering Under President Obama
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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