Wooed by Trump’s promises, opioid advocates now worry they were all empty – CNNPolitics
Fucking sheeple morons. Buy the snake oil? Get bitten.
Advocate hopeful Indigenous newborn taken by authorities to be returned to family this week
A total of 354 infants were removed from their families in Manitoba in 2017, 87 per cent of them First Nations; and 259 remained in care 12 months later, putting them on the fast-track for permanent wardship.
The members of the baby’s family, including the mother, said in a news conference Friday that officials with Manitoba’s CFS told them she was removed from St. Boniface Hospital because her mother appeared intoxicated when she arrived at the hospital. The mother vehemently denied this, saying doctors and nurses allowed her to breastfeed, which they would have stopped had they believed she had been drinking.
Screwing over indigenous peoples, it’s not just an American thing!
Ex-RNC chair rips GOP senators for allowing Trump to lift Russia sanctions: ‘It’s all collusion’
The time for you to speak out was in the fall of 2106, motherfucker. You didn’t. You chose party over country and you did not speak up. You missed your chance to act with honor and patriotism! Sit down and shut the fuck up, collaborator!
Antonio Race, 14, shot, killed by police in Tempe, Arizona while holding replica airsoft gun
Mother of god, when we will stop giving these murderers badges???!
$11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private ICE lock-ups
The Fiji Times » $11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private ICE lock-ups
Jeezus christ…. Kafka would be so proud
Civil rights icon meets with marshal who escorted her to school
Civil rights icon meets with marshal who escorted her to school
All hail the child-shero, Ruby Bridges!
Covington Catholic video: RunSwitch PR helped Nick Sandmann
Covington Catholic video: RunSwitch PR helped Nick Sandmann
With respect to anyone who is trying to be fair and give these boys the benefit of the doubt, it’s this exact naivety that elected Trump. Don’t be sheeple, you asses!
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, remembering the women civil rights leaders left out of spotlight
Those unsung women activists included: Daisy Bates, Ella Baker, Septima Poinsette Clark, Diane Nash, Fannie Lou Hamer, Gloria Richardson, Amelia Boynton Robinson, and Anna Arnold Hedgeman.
They led Freedom Rides; organized citizenship and freedom schools; persuaded poor, rural blacks to try to register to vote; fought for economic justice; organized political parties; lost their jobs; went to jail — and were beaten while there.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, remembering the women civil rights leaders left out of spotlight
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The Trump administration quietly changed the definition of domestic violence.
The previous definition included critical components of the phenomenon that experts recognize as domestic abuse—a pattern of deliberate behavior, the dynamics of power and control, and behaviors that encompass physical or sexual violence as well as forms of emotional, economic, or psychological abuse. But in the Trump Justice Department, only harms that constitute a felony or misdemeanor crime may be called domestic violence. So, for example, a woman whose partner isolates her from her family and friends, monitors her every move, belittles and berates her, or denies her access to money to support herself and her children is not a victim of domestic violence in the eyes of Trump’s Department of Justice.
The Trump administration quietly changed the definition of domestic violence.
aghhhhhhhhh
8 Surprising Facts About Martin Luther King in New England – New England Historical Society
The New Hampshire thoroughbred Dancer’s Image won, then lost, the Kentucky Derby in 1968 because his owner supported the civil rights movement. Peter Fuller, who owned Dancer’s Image, said resentful white Southerners stripped him of his prize. The horse had won the Derby on May 4, 1968, a month after King’s assassination in Memphis. Two days after King died, Fuller gave $62,000 won by Dancer’s Image to his widow. Three days after Dancer’s Image won the Kentucky Derby, Fuller had to return his purse. The racetrack claimed the horse tested positive for a banned substance. Fuller maintained to his death they’d framed him because of his gift to Coretta Scott King.
8 Surprising Facts About Martin Luther King in New England – New England Historical Society
huh
Officials identify Americans killed in Syria terror attack
The bombing, for which ISIS claimed responsibility, came less than a month after President Trump declared the terror group defeated and ordered all 2,000 US troops in the country to be withdrawn.
Officials identify Americans killed in Syria terror attack
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The High Stakes of BuzzFeed’s Story on Trump Tower Moscow
The statement, issued by a spokesman, Peter Carr, said: “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate.”
No further details were provided. In response, BuzzFeed also issued a statement, which said: “we are continuing to report and determine what the special counsel is disputing. We remain confident in the accuracy of our report.”
The High Stakes of BuzzFeed’s Story on Trump Tower Moscow | The New Yorker
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Donald Trump Told Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About Moscow Tower Project
On the campaign trail, Trump vehemently denied having any business interests in Russia. But behind the scenes, he was pushing the Moscow project.
…Trump was even made aware that Cohen was speaking to Russian government officials about the deal. The lawyer at one point spoke to a Kremlin aide as he sought support for the tower.
Trump also encouraged Cohen to plan a trip to Russia during the campaign, where the candidate could meet face-to-face with Putin.
BuzzFeed News has previously reported that text messages and emails show Sater — a real estate developer, convicted stock swindler, and longtime asset for US government intelligence agencies — worked furiously to arrange a trip for Cohen to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, where he was supposed to meet with top Russian bankers and government officials. Cohen told Sater that to advance the deal, Trump himself would also go to Russia, after the Republican National Convention in July 2016.
…As Trump told the public he had no business deals with Russia, the sources said Trump and his children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., received regular, detailed updates about the real estate development from Cohen, whom they put in charge of the project.
…Cohen acknowledged that the conversations he had about the project with Trump exceeded the three short briefings he testified that he gave the president and that he also held more extensive discussions about it with other members of the Trump family. The sources said Cohen gave Trump’s children “very detailed updates.”
…After the election, the president personally instructed him to lie — by claiming that negotiations ended months earlier than they actually did — in order to obscure Trump’s involvement.
The special counsel’s office learned about Trump’s directive for Cohen to lie to Congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. Cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office.
…It is the first known example of Trump explicitly telling a subordinate to lie directly about his own dealings with Russia.
…Cohen will testify publicly before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Feb. 7.
Donald Trump Told Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About Moscow Tower Project
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Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Cherokee ancestry is a form of violence?
Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Cherokee ancestry is a form of violence — High Country News
Ummm, Nope!
No, it’s not.
If she was claiming Cherokee heritage or identity it would be though.
The issue is this. Other people should not define what it is to be [insert ethnicity, etc. here], only people of that background are able to define their experience.
Another big looming issue is that white people have dominated the narrative for far to long and should not be the arbitrators of what is and what isn’t defined or discussed. That is a wrong that should be righted but if we are to right it as a society we have to be consistent. If for no other reason than being inconsistent is what got us here in the first place….
For example, the people of the Cherokee nation are the only ones who can define what it is to be Cherokee, just like only Jewish people can define what it is to be Jewish.
A member of my father’s ancestry was Jewish. Does that make me Jewish? Hell, no. For one thing it travels down the matrilinear side. For another, I was raised as a mostly-Christian person in a largely Christian community. My experience with Judaism is as an outsider and and an observer.
It does make me someone whose ancestors were Jewish though. Their experiences escaping persecution in Europe and living in the United States are part of how my family (and I!) came to be. Along with the experiences of all my ancestors, they are part of me and who I am. To pretend I had no Jewish ancestry would be to deny those members of my family tree their story and that’s not something I think I should do.
It would be very different if Senator Warren was claiming to BE Cherokee, but she is not. Instead she is just affirming that she has a Cherokee ancestor, an ancestor that she is as proud of (if not more) than she is any of the rest of her forebearers.
And isn’t that the goal here? For people of all background to be able to define themselves as members of their own communities?
Whitewashing and eradication of native cultures in the United State is a horrid injustice. One that deserves to be confronted, stopped, and turned right around. I just don’t think blurring the line between those who claim ancestry and those who claim membership does us any good.
Transgender Asylum-Seeker Who Died In ICE Custody Was Beaten, Autopsy Shows | HuffPost
A transgender asylum-seeker who fell sick and died while being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement may have been beaten while in federal custody, according to an independent autopsy report released this week.
The body of 33-year-old trans woman Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez was marked by “deep bruises” and “contusions” consistent with “blows and/or kicks and possible strikes with a blunt object,” The Washington Post reported on Monday, citing the autopsy commissioned by Hernández’s family. Her wrists showed signs of extensive hemorrhaging, which the report said was “typical of handcuff injuries.”
…According to the Union-Tribune, ICE has yet to release a detainee death report for Hernández, even though Congress now requires the agency to finalize such reports within 60 days. It has been more than 180 days since Hernández died, the paper noted.
Transgender Asylum-Seeker Who Died In ICE Custody Was Beaten, Autopsy Shows | HuffPost
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Trump deletes tweet after confusing Nashville for New Orleans
“Getting ready to address the Farm Convention today in Nashville, Tennessee,” Trump tweeted.”Love our farmers, love Tennessee – a great combination! See you in a little while.”
…Trump confused Nashville for New Orleans, where the event is actually being held.
Trump deletes tweet after confusing Nashville for New Orleans – NY Daily News
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The Pure American Banality of Donald Trump’s White House Fast-Food Buffet
There is a particular awfulness to McDonald’s or Burger King once it’s gone cold. By the time America’s greatest collegiate football players arrived, in their navy blazers and Sunday shoes, to pick up porcelain plates and work their way through this cardboard buffet, the French fries would have grown cold and mealy, the burger buns soggy, the precise half slice of American cheese on each Filet-o-Fish sandwich hardened to a tough, flavorless rectangle of yellow.
…Trump, in typical form, spun Monday’s catering as ultimately the fault of his political opponents, an inevitable result of his own elective government shutdown, which has left hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed—including, presumably, the White House kitchen staff. Trump, a purported billionaire, made a big deal out of the fact that he paid for the fast food out of his own pocket.
…“We went out and we ordered American fast food, paid for by me,” Trump boasted to the reporters gathered before the fast-food spread, grinning his fast-food grin beneath a brooding portrait of Abraham Lincoln, painted in 1869, by George Peter Alexander Healy, and praised by Lincoln’s eldest son as the greatest likeness ever captured of the man. “Lots of hamburgers, lots of pizza. Three hundred hamburgers. Many, many French fries.”
The Pure American Banality of Donald Trump’s White House Fast-Food Buffet | The New Yorker
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