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<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: The Transformative Power of the White \u2018Race Traitor\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nFrom Schwerner and Goodman to Good and Pretti, white people putting themselves in harm\u2019s way has helped galvanize Americans for justice.<\/em>
\n…<\/p>\nThe first person<\/em> to be executed for treason in the United States was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown.<\/p>\nA religious man, Brown had long opposed slavery on moral grounds, becoming a conductor on the Underground Railroad and training Black communities in free states how to arm themselves against slave catchers. But as slavery continued to expand across the West and with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Brown came to believe that the only way to end slavery was to overthrow it by force.<\/p>\n
In October 1859, Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in what was then Virginia, intending to arm enslaved people to rise up against their enslavers. Brown\u2019s group killed several people before he was captured and charged with murder and conspiracy to incite the revolt. The Commonwealth of Virginia considered a white man\u2019s taking up arms to liberate Black people an act of treason, punishable by death.
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\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – February 13, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nAt midnight tonight, most of the agencies and services in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will run out of funding, as popular fury over the violence and lawlessness of federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Border Patrol made Senate Democrats refuse to agree to fund DHS without reforms. And yet, because the Republicans lavished money on ICE and Border Patrol in their July 2025 budget reconciliation bill\u2014the one they call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act\u2014those agencies will continue to operate. The 260,000 federal employees affected by the partial shutdown will come from other agencies in DHS, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), and the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n
A measure to fund DHS passed the House by a majority vote, but in the Senate, the filibuster allows the Democrats, who are in the minority, to make demands before the measure can pass. …<\/p>\n
Those demands are pretty straightforward. …
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nAustin American-Statesman: Federal Judge orders Trump administration to return deported Austin college student<\/a><\/h2>\nJoyce Vance: Judge Boasberg\u2019s Most Recent Decision<\/a><\/h2>\nJack Hopkins: They Didn\u2019t Get Their Insurrection. That\u2019s the Story.<\/a><\/h2>\nA disciplined city refused to hand over the excuse\u2014and now ICE is reportedly drawing down.<\/em><\/p>\nCharlie Sykes: Trump’s Confederacy of Incompetents<\/a><\/h2>\nThe three scariest words in the English language right now are \u201cThree more years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nSteward Beckham: Are we just in another moment of baseless hopium?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nAnd still, I can\u2019t shake the sense that we\u2019re confusing motion with safety.<\/p>\n
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CNN: A year in, it\u2019s official: Americans, not foreigners, are paying for Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/a><\/h2>\nA new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York confirms what economists have long warned about: The burden of tariffs is borne almost entirely by the people living in the country that imposes them.<\/p>\n
That simple fact \u2014 now learned experientially in 21st century America \u2014 is an Econ 101 lesson as foundational as supply and demand. \u2019Twas ever thus!<\/em><\/p>\nUS businesses and consumers last year paid for nearly 90%<\/a> of 2025\u2019s import taxes, the Fed branch found. That\u2019s hardly surprising: The National Bureau of Economic Research and the Congressional Budget Office recently found<\/a> roughly the same thing<\/a>.
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USA Today: Bodycam contradicts DHS story of Border Patrol shooting Chicago woman<\/a><\/h2>\n“It’s time to get aggressive,” an agent says moments before Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez, a Montessori school teacher.<\/em>
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\n…<\/p>\n
The first person<\/em> to be executed for treason in the United States was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown.<\/p>\n A religious man, Brown had long opposed slavery on moral grounds, becoming a conductor on the Underground Railroad and training Black communities in free states how to arm themselves against slave catchers. But as slavery continued to expand across the West and with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Brown came to believe that the only way to end slavery was to overthrow it by force.<\/p>\n In October 1859, Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in what was then Virginia, intending to arm enslaved people to rise up against their enslavers. Brown\u2019s group killed several people before he was captured and charged with murder and conspiracy to incite the revolt. The Commonwealth of Virginia considered a white man\u2019s taking up arms to liberate Black people an act of treason, punishable by death. At midnight tonight, most of the agencies and services in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will run out of funding, as popular fury over the violence and lawlessness of federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Border Patrol made Senate Democrats refuse to agree to fund DHS without reforms. And yet, because the Republicans lavished money on ICE and Border Patrol in their July 2025 budget reconciliation bill\u2014the one they call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act\u2014those agencies will continue to operate. The 260,000 federal employees affected by the partial shutdown will come from other agencies in DHS, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), and the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n A measure to fund DHS passed the House by a majority vote, but in the Senate, the filibuster allows the Democrats, who are in the minority, to make demands before the measure can pass. …<\/p>\n Those demands are pretty straightforward. … A disciplined city refused to hand over the excuse\u2014and now ICE is reportedly drawing down.<\/em><\/p>\n The three scariest words in the English language right now are \u201cThree more years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n … A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York confirms what economists have long warned about: The burden of tariffs is borne almost entirely by the people living in the country that imposes them.<\/p>\n That simple fact \u2014 now learned experientially in 21st century America \u2014 is an Econ 101 lesson as foundational as supply and demand. \u2019Twas ever thus!<\/em><\/p>\n US businesses and consumers last year paid for nearly 90%<\/a> of 2025\u2019s import taxes, the Fed branch found. That\u2019s hardly surprising: The National Bureau of Economic Research and the Congressional Budget Office recently found<\/a> roughly the same thing<\/a>. “It’s time to get aggressive,” an agent says moments before Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez, a Montessori school teacher.<\/em>
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\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – February 13, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nAustin American-Statesman: Federal Judge orders Trump administration to return deported Austin college student<\/a><\/h2>\n
Joyce Vance: Judge Boasberg\u2019s Most Recent Decision<\/a><\/h2>\n
Jack Hopkins: They Didn\u2019t Get Their Insurrection. That\u2019s the Story.<\/a><\/h2>\n
Charlie Sykes: Trump’s Confederacy of Incompetents<\/a><\/h2>\n
Steward Beckham: Are we just in another moment of baseless hopium?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nAnd still, I can\u2019t shake the sense that we\u2019re confusing motion with safety.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nCNN: A year in, it\u2019s official: Americans, not foreigners, are paying for Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(CNN more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nUSA Today: Bodycam contradicts DHS story of Border Patrol shooting Chicago woman<\/a><\/h2>\n
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