Evan Hurst, who lives in Nashville, says that he grew up among middle-class and well-heeled Southern white Republicans, and he can explain why hard data about how dismally Southern states perform in education, healthcare, standards of living, etc., mean absolutely nothing at all to white Southern Republicans.
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April 4, 1968, #CivilRights leader Reverend #MartinLutherKing Jr., was shot & killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in #Memphis, #Tennessee. Considered one of the greatest Americans to ever live, he was assassinated 56 years ago today.
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#Trump's #Racist Attacks on #KamalaHarris Are Part of a Larger, #Unhinged Plan
Team Trump believes questioning #Harris' racial identity is smart #politics — & is behind him "100 percent," says a person close to Trump
#deranged #weird #racism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #misogyny #MAGA #Republicans #USpol
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-kamala-harris-racist-attacks-larger-plan-1235073171/
REVEALED by Correspondent @stevanzetti: We identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as #ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/
#SocialMedia #extremism #immigration #border #politics #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #Fascism #Trump #news
#Venezuelans granted #TPS sue #Trump admin for revoking protected status
#DHS Secretary [& serial dog killer] #KristiNoem terminated protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans. A new lawsuit alleges that the revocation was illegal & motivated by #racism.
#immigration #law #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteNationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/20/venezuela-tps-trump-lawsuit-deportation/
#Google Calendar users no longer see default entries for events like #Pride, #BlackHistory Month
#nazi #hate #TrumpCoup #whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #Heterosexism #MaleSupremacy #law #CivilRights #tech #SearchEngine #techbros #technocracy #plutocracy #broligarchy
https://apnews.com/article/google-calendar-pride-black-history-month-8c499cfbe399b1eccc436032b3c4ced0
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#Trump Admin Knew Vast Majority of #Venezuelans Sent to #ElSalvador Prison Had Not Been Convicted of US Crimes
#DHS records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having NO #criminal record in the US & had only violated #immigration laws.
#law #AlienEnemiesAct #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #judiciary #FactCheck #TrumpLies #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/30/trump-el-salvador-deportees-criminal-convictions-cecot-venezuela
Amid anti-#DEI push, #NationalParkService rewrites history of #UndergroundRailroad
Since #Trump took office, the #ParkService -- an agency charged with preserving #AmericanHistory -- has changed how its website describes key moments from #slavery to #JimCrow
#whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #History #racism #lies #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #USpol
https://wapo.st/4jdXL8m
Mike Masnick compares how the Free Press covered the (misleading-to-false) story of the #Biden admin’s "censorship" of #SocialMedia [actually trying to combat harmful #disinformation like #election & #COVID #lies & #ConspiracyTheories or #HateSpeech like #WhiteSupremacy], to how they handled the very real #censorship attack on #Wikipedia by #Trump’s DC #USAttorney #EdMartin.
Spoiler: there are differences.
#law #tech #moderation #dictatorship #FourthEstate #journalism
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/government-actually-threatens-wikipedias-editorial-freedom-self-proclaimed-free-speech-warriors-suddenly-have-other-plans/
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"Great Replacement Theory, or the idea that White Christians are being outperformed demographically by non-Whites, threatening the survival of the race and 'civilization,' was central to Fascist ideologies and practices and it is central to anti-immigrant and other racist platforms of far-right parties and governments today."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#racism #eugenics #SocialEngineering #pronatalism #immigration #Musk #Vance #GreatReplacement #WhiteSupremacy
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/fascist-population-engineering-yes
"Just for clarification, there is no such thing as a white South African refugee. And the Episcopal Church is well aware of that fact. Because there is nothing that a white South African needs to be refuged from. ...
South Africa's wealth distribution is heavily influenced by race, with white South Africans historically and currently holding a disproportionate share of wealth."
~ Keith Owens
Edited 117d ago
"I’m with New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, who posted on social media: 'i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet.'”
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #racism #SouthAfrica #WhiteSupremacy #media
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-inches-closer-to
Edited 110d ago
Uncle Sam’s new message to young #BlackAmericans: I don’t want you
Opinion by Phillip E. Thompson, a fmr judge advocate in the Marine Corps & lawyer in Virginia.
“I am a proud Marine #veteran w/deep ties to #military service. My wife served in the #AirForce, my father fought with the #Marines in WWII, & my grandfather served in the #Army in WWI.
#USpol #hate #discrimination #bigotry #racism #WhiteSupremacy
https://wapo.st/3Hd4MZq
A #Venezuelan musician released a song critical of #Trump, then he was arrested by #ICE.
The Criminalization of Venezuelan Street Culture
#law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #AlienEnemiesAct #pretense #FigLeaf #Bullshit #authoritarianism #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy #dissent #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-criminalization-of-venezuelan-street-culture
US #DOJ to probe hiring practices at #UniversityOfCalifornia
The #Trump *#Justice* Dept will investigate hiring practices at the #University of #California system to examine whether its efforts to boost #faculty #diversity run afoul of *anti-discrimination* laws, the DOJ said in a statement on Thurs.
#law #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #RevengePolitics #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #bigotry
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-justice-dept-probe-hiring-practices-university-california-2025-06-26/
WTAF?!?
#Trump #DOJ seeks ONE-DAY sentence for officer in raid that killed #BreonnaTaylor
In November, a federal jury found officer Brett Hankison #guilty of violating Taylor’s #CivilRights during a March 2020 #police raid in which she was fatally shot.
#law #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #WhiteSupremacy #racism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/17/doj-sentencing-police-officer-breonna-taylor/
