- theintercept.com Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears
After 170 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.
- truthout.org Indigenous Water Protectors Warn of Line 5 Pipeline’s Looming Dangers
Despite a decade-long fight, permits for a reroute threaten Wisconsin’s Bad River watershed and treaty rights.
- www.earthisland.org Unthanksgiving Day
A celebration of Indigenous resistance to colonialism, held yearly at Alcatraz.
- truthout.org CAIR Calls for Protection of Reps. Tlaib and Omar After Florida Sen. Randy Fine’s Threats
The Council on American-Islamic Relations calls for investigations after Florida Sen. Randy Fine's threatening remarks.
- capitalandmain.com Can Democrats Get Their Voters Off the Couch?
Dorian Warren argues that cynicism and disillusionment among the party's base helped Trump win.
- truthout.org Thanksgiving Myths Aim to Silence Indigenous Voices. We Won’t Be Silent.
Let’s reject all settlers myths this Thanksgiving and honor Indigenous resistance.
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- www.counterpunch.org What Lee Fang Gets Wrong about Immigration and the Left
Journalist Lee Fang has an admirable track record for exposing authoritarian tendencies within the Democratic Party and in progressive spaces. His work is
- www.motherjones.com A super-PAC backing RFK offers paid access to him at Mar-a-Lago
“Cocktails and dinner” with the man who could lead HHS—and who used to decry the scourge of money in politics.
> “Cocktails and dinner” with the man who could lead HHS—and who used to decry the scourge of money in politics.
- www.kenklippenstein.com Public Trust in the Military Collapses
Pentagon plans social media blitz, ignoring the true reasons
> Pentagon plans social media blitz, ignoring the true reasons
- www.jurist.org Ohio governor signs bill restricting transgender students’ access to school restrooms
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Wednesday signed a bill into law that restricts transgender students from using bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. Senate Bill (SB) 104 requires public...
> Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Wednesday signed a bill into law that restricts transgender students from using bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity.
- www.rawstory.com Drone firm that decried tariffs sees stock surge after appointing Don Jr. to board
A drone company that stands to be hit hard by Donald Trump's proposed tariffs surged in stocks Wednesday, reported NBC News — right after appointing Donald Trump Jr. to serve on their board."Unusual Machines, an Orlando, Florida-based firm born just two years ago as it acquired a drone manufacturer ...
> A drone company that stands to be hit hard by Donald Trump's proposed tariffs surged in stocks Wednesday, reported NBC News — right after appointing Donald Trump Jr. to serve on their board.
- theintercept.com Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings?
With Donald Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations by Biden will stop another federal execution spree.
- jacobin.com Analysis: Kamala Harris Turned Away From Economic Populism
Pressed by influential corporate advisors, Kamala Harris ran away from a winning economic populist message and ended up losing a campaign. We have the proof.
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> FTC expands Telemarketing Rule to cover technical support scams, which drove $175 million in losses among consumers 60 and older last year
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‘You know why I’m interested’: Wiretaps, secretly recorded videos show Madigan recruiting business to his law firm
> For the second time in the span of seven months, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan called up Chicago Ald. Danny Solis after reading about a proposed real estate development in the alderman’s ward.
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Trump Doesn’t Need Congress To Make Abortion Effectively Unavailable
kffhealthnews.org Trump Doesn’t Need Congress To Make Abortion Effectively Unavailable - KFF Health NewsPresident-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail not to sign a nationwide abortion ban. But he wouldn’t need to do so to make abortion difficult, or illegal, writes KFF Health News’ chief Washington correspondent, Julie Rovner.
- www.propublica.org Landlords Evicted Maui Residents and Housed Wildfire Survivors for More Money. FEMA Didn’t Take Basic Steps to Stop It.
FEMA officials said they didn’t want their housing program for survivors of Maui’s 2023 wildfires to displace any residents. But they didn’t bar the agency’s contractors from leasing properties previously occupied by long-term tenants.
> FEMA officials said they didn’t want their housing program for survivors of Maui’s 2023 wildfires to displace any residents. But they didn’t bar the agency’s contractors from leasing properties previously occupied by long-term tenants.
- www.hcn.org Why did Nevada vote to ban slavery, when California didn’t? - High Country News
Both states require incarcerated people to work — often for critical and dangerous jobs.
- www.motherjones.com The plot against birthright citizenship
The incoming Trump administration wants to take away citizenship for the US-born children of undocumented immigrants. Here's how.
