“Protesters waved Nazi flags outside a community theater production of The Diary of Anne Frank in Michigan, leaving performers ‘understandably shaken’ by the hateful and antisemitic display.”
“Experts on terrorism and extremism said the lineup is particularly concerning because it brings together more mainstream conservative speakers with fringe figures who have close links to neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists.”
“Callers also reported the group was using racial slurs toward people of color on the street, shouting about Jewish people and white power and appeared to be armed, [Columbus, Ohio] police dispatchers said.”
“Just hours after President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency last week, dozens of Black K-12 and college students across the country began receiving racist text messages telling recipients to ‘return to the plantation and pick cotton.'”
“Donald Trump appeared to confirm that he is willing — even eager — to declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out his plans for mass deportations.”
“Homan swears he is going to carry out Trump’s plan to deport 15 to 20 million people, or about 4 to 6 percent of the entire American population. There are only perhaps 13 million unauthorized immigrants in total.”
“The Haitians who filled thousands of jobs at area packaging and auto plants have helped rejuvenate once-blighted neighborhoods and contributed to the local economy in myriad ways.”
“I don’t think there is any way Gabbard could pass a normal background check to authorize her to see highly classified information, but Trump doesn’t care.”
“The group is called Science of Identity Foundation (SIF), founded by an acid-dropping white surfer guy named Chris Butler, AKA Guru Dev Srila Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa, AKA Jagad Guru, AKA Sai Young, in the 1970s, as an offshoot of the Hare Krishnas, AKA the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.”
“The woman who was at the center of a yearslong Justice Department investigation into sex trafficking allegations surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz testified to the House Ethics Committee that the now-former Florida congressman had sex with her when she was 17 years old.”
“Are you shittin me, that you just asked that question? No! But hell, you’ll print that and now I’m going to be investigated.”
“The steps illustrate how seriously some potential targets of Trump’s retribution are taking the possibility that he or his allies could use the U.S. legal system against them, or that vigilante actors could take justice into their own hands.”
“She finds Hegseth’s fixation on the Crusades “really troubling — but also it’s completely consistent with the Christian Reconstructionists. That’s particularly troubling for someone who might have the biggest military in the world under his control.”
“They need to give states more flexibility on what segments of the population are covered and which ones are not.”
“Oklahoma public schools superintendents received an email Thursday night from Walters ordering them to show the video … to their students. In the email, which contained multiple grammatical errors, Walters wrote, “We are in a dangerous time for this country. Student’s (sic) rights and freedoms regarding religious liberties are continuously under assault.”
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“Detectives executed a search warrant and found the bear costume — complete with a furry snouted head, paws and metal tools in the shape of claws — in the suspects’ home.”
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