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“I am a woman, and I am Italian. We are all the same: human beings, children of God.” Mother Cabrini Cabrini is an impressive movie, a poignant depiction of America’s long history of xenophobia and racism. The film’s trailer opens with a powerful...
by tony a
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 10:38 AM PDT
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People’s choice of words can be revealing. That’s certainly the case with respect to one of Donald Trump’s favorite slogans, “America First.” In April 2016, Trump initially used the term in a campaign speech, proclaiming that “America First” would be...
by Lawrence S Wittner
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on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 11:17 AM PDT
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis attacked the infamous Libs of TikTok social media account, operated by right-wing troll Chaya Raichik, on Wednesday, writing , “Truth shouldn’t be a casualty of ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 03:15 PM PDT
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Donald Trump ramped up the fearmongering, dehumanizing rhetoric around immigrants during a Monday interview with Right Side Broadcasting Network host Brian Glenn. The conservative Glenn took time ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 01:00 PM PST
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Republicans frequently use the phrase “the crisis at the border”. I don’t know whether or not there is a true crisis at the border; but I’d say that the ongoing nationwide problem of frequent mass shootings is a definite crisis, and immigrants have...
by Perlinator
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 05:54 PM PST
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Just last week, Kelly Wong became a member of San Francisco’s Election Commission. Originally from China, Republicans are obviously taking issue with her being put into this position. Since coming to America in 2019, she has been an immigrant rights...
by satrebil
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 04:14 PM PST
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As most Daily Kos readers know, disgraced ex-President Donald Trump has 91 indictments. As far as I know, none of those 91 indictments include one of his most widely-reported criminal acts: child abduction. The Trump administration took thousands of...
by Perlinator
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 03:51 PM PST
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The Guardian Angels roughed up and detained a man during a live television interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News Tuesday. Guardian Angels founder and failed mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa was being interviewed during Hannity’s prime time show about...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 12:44 PM PST
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Sen. Mike Lee of Utah seems to be ginning up a division among Republicans in the Senate after a group of senators released its bipartisan deal on the border and Ukraine on Sunday. The $118 billion package, which includes wartime aid to Ukraine, Israel,...
by Walter Einenkel
153 comments
on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 11:17 AM PST
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appeared on right-wing gun fetishist Dana Loesch’s “The Dana Show,” recently to talk about his inhumane border policies. When Loesch asked about the “maximum amount of pressure” he could apply in his border policy, Abbott...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 02:33 PM PST
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Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York went on CNN Monday evening to defend Donald Trump’s recent fascist rhetoric. Specifically, Trump’s transparent use of Nazi references to racial impurity, saying things like immigration is “poisoning the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 10:23 AM PST
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There are few families more consequential to the rise of fascism in this country than the Mercers. Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah have been the big-money funders behind most of the most ...
by Hunter
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 07:00 AM PST
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Back about a century ago, my father’s father was a district attorney in the city of Pittsburgh. He was one of those who believed the law should apply equally to everyone. That wasn’t always popular in the 1920s. He was a career politician, but he was...
by MeJean
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on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 01:08 PM PST
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow interviewed former Univision President Joaquin Blaya about the new centrist direction the Spanish-language network has taken in their interview with disgraced former president Donald Trump. Blaya took exception with the idea that...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 03:15 PM PST
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On Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. With recent events in Israel hanging over ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 02:10 PM PDT
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“America First” anti-immigrant extremists on Staten Island have been targeting families seeking asylum using tactics that include street protests, legal action, and harassment that verges on ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Oct 06, 2023 at 09:19 AM PDT
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Desantis doesn’t get the presidency, does he get to just rule Florida like a nominal king with a rubber stamp state legislature? What is the goal here? Like in the long term. What will his goal be when the writing is on the wall and he isn’t a...
by Angry Pidgeon
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on Thu Aug 03, 2023 at 06:32 PM PDT
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As a society, we’ve spent decades arguing the morality of immigration, the value of asylum, the economic impacts, and the racism and fear of “replacement” that drives much of the anti-...
by kos
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on Mon Jul 17, 2023 at 02:45 PM PDT
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Ohio Republicans have introduced a sweeping bill to undermine higher education. SB 83 eliminates training about diversity, tries to manage history education, and injects right-wing politics into subjects defined as “controversial” including foreign...
by UnionProf
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on Sat Apr 29, 2023 at 12:21 PM PDT
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For many years, a portion of the world public has sought to wall itself off from people abroad by hiding behind national borders. In the United States, this tendency became an important element in American politics. During the 1920s and 1930s, the...
by Lawrence S Wittner
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on Sun Apr 09, 2023 at 10:57 AM PDT
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