[FBI\White Supremacy]
The Nation: “the FBI issued an intelligence report warning of an imminent ‘violent extremist threat’ posed by a far-right militia that includes white supremacists—identifying the 2021 inauguration as a ‘potential flashpoint.”
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President Trump
Muslim Advocates Denounces Trump’s Racist Attacks on Rep. Omar, Refugees
[Rep. Ilhan Omar]
Muslim Advocates: “President Trump’s racist attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar and Minnesota’s Somali community are a dangerous incitement to violence…One night, he is rallying violent, white nationalists, and the next night, he is whipping up hate.”
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AFT’s Weingarten Responds to Trump’s Hypocrisy on Reopening Schools
[Reopening Schools]
Weingarten: ” It seems the lives of kids and teachers are less important to the president than those of GOP delegates.”
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Reported Press Freedom Violations near 500 in Black Lives Matter Protests
[Committee to Protect Journalists]
CPJ: “The data right now is terrifying: The Tracker has received reports of nearly 70 journalists arrested, more than 200 assaulted, and at least two photographers with grievous eye injuries.”
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Democrats and Biden Beating Trump’s Republicans on Identity Politics
[2020 Elections]
Five-Thirty-Eight: “America is talking about identity and race, and so are both presidential candidates. And all that racial talk seems to be helping Democrats, not Republicans.”
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Jamaal Bowman on “Incompetent” Trump’s Threat to Cut School Aid
[School Reopenings\COVID-19]
Bowman: “As Donald Trump aims his fire at school districts that won’t haphazardly reopen, we don’t have to keep accepting his failures as the best we can do. Just because he is too incompetent to lead, doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t.”
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New Book: White Christian Privilege Pervades US Political, Social Institutions
[“White Christian Privilege”]
Joshi: “As long as we treat our foundational ideals…as if they are realities rather than aspirations, the dominance of Protestant Christianity and Whiteness over the political and social institutions of the United States will remain invisible.”
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George Floyd’s Murder Forcing Some Whites to Consider White Privilege
[George Floyd\White Privilege]
Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, captured in witness videos showing then-Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck, has led white Americans to call out racism against Black Americans more vigorously than at any moment in recent memory.
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Rep. Norton Praises Passage Of House Bill To Make D.C. 51st State
[D.C. Statehood Bill]
Rep. Norton: “We are buoyed by the priority the House gave D.C. statehood at a time when COVID-19 has meant that only essential bills are coming to the floor this year. We are undaunted by the lack of support in the Republican-controlled Senate.”
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Congressman Calls For Reversal Of DeVos’ “Borrower Defense Rule”
[Secretary Betsy DeVos’ Borrower Defense Rule]
Rep. Bobby Scott: “Borrowers Defense is a valuable tool to provide relief to student borrowers who are defrauded by predatory institutions.”
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