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Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and More Than 50 House Dems Tell Biden the American People Need Recurring Stimulus Checks
I gotta tell you, I love the squad–i.e. Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. These four Democratic representatives in the House often feel like the only ones willing to vocally advocate for the needs of everyday people across the country, no matter how this might play politically. The…
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10-Year-Old Wins Big on GameStop Shares His Mother Got Him for Kwanzaa
Here’s a heartwarming story that’s come out of the drama between hedge funds and retail traders (many of them from Reddit) who drove GameStop shares up in the stock market this week. The rise and fall and rise again of the stock price for GameStop (or GME) over the past couple of days sent everyone…
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Union Calls Out Capitol Police Leaders for Leaving Cops Vulnerable to Insurrection Attack; Another Police Officer Has Died by Suicide
The fall-out from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol continues. A second police officer who responded to the attack has died by suicide, and the union head representing Capitol Police officers have called out the force’s leadership for failing to adequately prepare officers for the violence that ensued during the insurrection. NPR reports…
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San Francisco Will Rename 44 Schools—Including Ones Honoring Abraham Lincoln and George Washington
The San Francisco Board of Education has decided to kick some presidents’ names off of public school buildings in the city, in an apparent bid to challenge racism and oppression. The school board recently approved a resolution to rename 44 of the 125 schools in its district because their names honor people with ties to…
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9-Year-Old From Haiti Detained by Immigration in Trump’s Final Days in Office Is Released Home to Family
Vladimir Fardin, a 9-year-old boy who was separated from his family and held in a shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children in the final days of the Trump administration has been released and is now back home in Haiti. Vladimir had flown into the U.S. last Sunday with his older brother, Christian Laporte, a 19-year-old who…
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Homeland Security Issues Bulletin Warning That the Threat of Domestic Terrorism Is Still Alive and Kicking
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a bulletin flagging that there is a “heightened threat environment” across the U.S. and that in the coming weeks, extremists could carry out further violence like the kind that erupted ahead of President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Last week, the Biden Administration announced that it had directed the Office…
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The New Colonial Frontier? Rich White People Traveled to Indigenous Community in Yukon and Schemed to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
If I ever say I am past being surprised by the depths of mendacity that people can exhibit, please quickly disabuse me of that motion. “Surprise” is an understatement for how I felt reading about a millionaire Canadian businessman and his actress wife who hired a private plane to fly into a small, isolated indigenous…
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Biden Signs Order Halting Federal Private Prison Contract Renewals, But Falls Short on Ending For-Profit Immigration Detention Centers
We have to give President Joe Biden credit. One week in office and he’s making moves towards establishing a government that defends the kind of values most of us support, the same ones the previous administration was outright hostile towards. You know, values such as racial equity, believing in science, and most recently, the proliferation…
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Michigan Cop Fired For Arresting Black Man Who Was Collecting Petition Signatures in His Neighborhood
A video captured by a witness to the arrest that took place on her property shows an unidentified officer falsely accusing Marshall.
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Federal Law Enforcement Might Let Some Capitol Attackers Get Away Without Charges for Insurrection
It shouldn’t come as that much of a surprise, yet it’s still very disturbing to hear that federal law enforcement officials are considering not even charging some of the people who broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a violent attempt to stop the rightful certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral win. Sources…
