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… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Brian Klaas:
Who becomes a white nationalist?
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“No nobler young men ever lived” than those who took up the battle cry for white dominance, Carr proclaimed. He read poetry in their honour, called Robert E. Lee “the world’s greatest hero,” and lamented how young men paid too little attention to how the Confederates “saved the very life” of the Anglo-Saxon race.
Then, Carr departed from the lofty and abstract values of white supremacy into a personal memory that apparently warmed his heart, an episode that took place shortly after he returned from the frontlines of the Confederate army. “One hundred yards from where we stand,” Carr reminisced, “I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds.” Carr, wistfully thinking of that moment, called it “a pleasing duty.”
A little over a century later, the statue was toppled by protesters who denounced its symbolism of white supremacy. That statue, along with the dedication speech extolling the “noble young men” of the Confederacy, provide a compelling and disturbing framework for understanding modern white nationalism in the United States under Donald Trump.
There is a resurgence under Trump of those who wish to celebrate America’s racist past, glorify a movement that was motivated by human bondage, and make the United States a place where white hoods that conceal the racist beneath are no longer necessary. …
(Brian Klaas more…)
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Sharon Otterman @ NY Times:
The Cornell Rape Investigation: Five Takeaways- The summary of Jane Doe’s statement sent to the district attorney left out key context.
- Her thinking about the incident evolved.
- The accounts of the men emerge.
- She documented her injuries and evidence.
- Her view on whether she consented to sex appears to shift.
“I was a sex doll for all intents and purposes, which is sad.”
(Sharon Otterman @ NY Times more…)
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – October 1, 2026…
The State Department told Hudson that Trump is prioritizing the Western Hemisphere and that the money would be better spent in Latin America than where Congress wanted it.The U.S. Constitution is clear that only Congress can appropriate money and that the president must execute the laws as Congress passes them, but the Trump administration has been aggressive about its intention to take control of the power of the purse from Congress. Yesterday Tarini Parti, Marianne LeVine, and Michelle Hackman of the Wall Street Journal reported that the administration appears to have taken $20 million from the funds Congress appropriated for the Department of Homeland Security to pay for the ads boosting Trump before the midterms.
That destruction of the fundamental separation of powers at the heart of our government has gotten very little pushback from Republican lawmakers. And senators left Washington, D.C., today for a recess until after the midterms; the House is already in recess.
…The fact that the United States Constitution and foreign affairs appear to be at the mercy of one man and the loyalists he has around him undermines the principles at the heart of our democracy. The fact that that one man’s mental acuity has collapsed is an immediate calamity.
…Although the outrageous chaos of the Trump years has numbed us, it is not acceptable for the president of the United States to threaten another nation with annihilation.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Jess Piper:
The Only Race We Can’t Win…Is the one we don’t run
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Joyce Vance:
Finally. Volume II.
Another Bad Day in Court for Trump
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Lili Pike, Faseeh Mangi @ Bloomberg:
China’s green exports collide with coalThe rise of solar and batteries is highlighting challenges as renewable energy advances globally
About an hour’s drive east of Karachi, Pakistan’s coastal mega-city of more than 20 million people, a coal-fired power station hailed as a flagship project in China’s $1.5 trillion Belt and Road Initiative is being engulfed by a sea of solar.
Glinting arrays crown steel plants and manufacturing sites across a vast industrial zone of about 400 companies flanking the Arabian Sea at Port Qasim, part of a rapid — and largely unplanned — advance of renewable energy that’s added new risks to the nation’s already precarious energy economics.
“There are solar panels almost everywhere one sees,” says Zaheer Allana, owner of a packaging factory, where the rooftop is crowded with photovoltaic modules that generate about a fifth of the facility’s electricity needs. “We have utilized almost all available space,” he explains, as workers load burlap sacks onto delivery trucks. “If we had space, we would take it to 100%.”
(Lili Pike, Faseeh Mangi @ Bloomberg more…)Hans Christensen:
Swiss Glaciers Melting in the Hot SummerSwiss glaciers lose a further five per cent of their volume
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James Eagle:
Beef is the primary driver of deforestation
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Lomi Kriel, Eddie Gaspar @ KWTX:
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identifiedThe federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon after the incident.
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Gabriel Velasquez Neira @ KUT:
Wilber Garces Perez has undergone surgery 11 days after ICE shooting in Austin
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Autumn Billings @ Reason:
Cops Used AI Surveillance To Detain an Innocent Texas Driver. His Lawsuit Just Got the Program Struck Down.AI-powered license plate readers flagged an abnormal driving pattern. Then officers made up reasons to pull him over and interrogated him, and they faked a K-9 alert to justify a nonconsensual search.
A federal jury found Bexar County, Texas, liable for violating thousands of Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights through a criminal interdiction unit.
(Autumn Billings @ Reason more…)
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Decoding Fox News:
Fox News – Where Have All the Diners Gone? When Republican Voters Give Up on Trump…
I suspect the network doesn’t trust how even pre-screened human beings might react on live television if they were asked about the state of the country right now.
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Climate Solutions Explorer
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Apocalypse Early Warning System
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Mike Ludwig @ truthout: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
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- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
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Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
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