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DeSantis’ immigration stunt echoes nation’s antisemitic legacy

DeSantis’ immigration stunt echoes nation’s antisemitic legacy

Ja’han Jones writes: Ken Burns’ latest documentary series for PBS, chronicling our country’s posture toward Jews fleeing the Holocaust, is chock-full of comparisons to present-day America. To be clear, “The U.S. and the Holocaust” was conceived with modern-day parallels in mind. Burns told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Monday that it’s important to reckon with that past, because “in this story are the seeds of what’s going on now.” But even that doesn’t fully brace viewers for the language Americans used…

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How Judge Cannon broke with conservatives in Trump documents case

How Judge Cannon broke with conservatives in Trump documents case

Politico reports: When Donald Trump flooded the federal bench with judicial appointments, a leading critique was that they were Federalist Society clones who favored muscular executive power and rejected what some perceive as meddling by the courts in executive branch affairs. Judge Aileen Cannon’s recent orders in the fight over the classified records the former president is accused of keeping at Mar-a-Lago have turned that perception on its ear. A 41-year-old former federal prosecutor and Trump nominee, Cannon issued a…

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Special master to Trump’s lawyers: ‘You can’t have your cake and eat it’

Special master to Trump’s lawyers: ‘You can’t have your cake and eat it’

Politico reports: The senior federal judge tasked with reviewing the materials seized by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate sharply questioned the former president’s attorneys Tuesday during their first hearing in his courtroom. Judge Raymond Dearie repeatedly challenged Trump’s lawyers for refusing to back up the former president’s claim that he declassified the highly sensitive national security-related records discovered in his residence. “My view of it is: you can’t have your cake and eat it,” said Dearie, the “special…

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These male politicians are pushing for women who receive abortions to be punished with prison time

These male politicians are pushing for women who receive abortions to be punished with prison time

CNN reports: A businessman turned state representative from rural Oil City, Louisiana, and a Baptist pastor banded together earlier this year on a radical mission. They were adamant that a woman who receives an abortion should receive the same criminal consequences as one who drowns her baby. Under a bill they promoted, pregnant people could face murder charges even if they were raped or doctors determined the procedure was needed to save their own life. Doctors who attempted to help…

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Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice says America needs another bloody revolution

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice says America needs another bloody revolution

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman told a group of Republicans this month that a revolution against government officials over the 2020 election has become necessary but said people have become too comfortable to water the “tree of liberty” with blood. “For the first time in my life I am beginning to wonder if America’s best days are behind us,” Gableman said Sept. 9 at a dinner hosted by the Republican Party of Outagamie County,…

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Erdoğan to Putin: Return Crimea to ‘rightful owners’

Erdoğan to Putin: Return Crimea to ‘rightful owners’

Politico reports: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Russian President Vladimir Putin must return all land that Russia has occupied, including Crimea. The Black Sea peninsula should be returned to its “rightful owners,” Erdoğan told PBS NewsHour on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in comments likely to provoke ire in Moscow. Asked whether Russia should be allowed to keep Crimea in a negotiated end to the war, Erdoğan said, “These are our descendants…

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Putin’s new Ukraine problem: Even the war’s biggest supporters are growing dissatisfied

Putin’s new Ukraine problem: Even the war’s biggest supporters are growing dissatisfied

NBC News reports: Russian President Vladimir Putin has a problem. For more than two decades now, Putin’s expanding grip on power has been predicated on his portrayed strength and justified as essential to Russia’s existence. Over time, as the political opposition and the independent media were gradually whittled away, Kremlin propagandists fostered a sense of inevitability underpinning his continued stewardship. “Russian society, just as the Russian army, is decaying and falling apart because of corruption.” From the start, Putin’s invasion…

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Ken Burns: ‘We’re in perhaps the most difficult crisis in the history of America’

Ken Burns: ‘We’re in perhaps the most difficult crisis in the history of America’

David Smith writes: Over six hours, [Ken Burns’ new docuseries, The US and the Holocaust] examines America’s flawed response to the Nazis’ persecution and mass murder of Jews, asking what could have been done differently to halt the genocide. Voice actors include Liam Neeson, Matthew Rhys, Paul Giamatti, Meryl Streep, Werner Herzog, Joe Morton and Hope Davis. It may be Burns’s most didactic film yet as it ends provocatively with images of Dylann Roof, who shot and killed nine African…

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Massachusetts seeks human trafficking probe targeting Florida Gov. DeSantis over asylum seekers

Massachusetts seeks human trafficking probe targeting Florida Gov. DeSantis over asylum seekers

Judd Legum reports: Popular Information has obtained documentary evidence that migrants from Venezuela were provided with false information to convince them to board flights chartered by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R). The documents suggest that the flights were not just a callous political stunt but potentially a crime. Last Wednesday, two planes landed in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and dropped off about 50 migrants from Venezuela. DeSantis quickly took credit. The migrants were used as political pawns in the hopes of…

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How Russian trolls helped keep the Women’s March out of lock step

How Russian trolls helped keep the Women’s March out of lock step

Ellen Barry reports: Linda Sarsour awoke on Jan. 23, 2017, logged onto the internet, and felt sick. The weekend before, she had stood in Washington at the head of the Women’s March, a mobilization against President Donald J. Trump that surpassed all expectations. Crowds had begun forming before dawn, and by the time she climbed up onto the stage, they extended farther than the eye could see. More than four million people around the United States had taken part, experts…

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Proud Boys memo reveals meticulous planning for ‘street-level violence’

Proud Boys memo reveals meticulous planning for ‘street-level violence’

The Guardian reports: The document is so dowdy and formal it resembles the annual minutes of a society of tax accountants. Its index lists sections on “objectives” and “rules of engagement” and carries an “addendum” that provides recommendations for hotels and parking. On the cover, two words give a clue to the notoriety of the group that produced it: “MAGA” and “WARNING”. That and the date: 5 January 2021, the day before the US Capitol attack. What goes unsaid on…

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Congress is running out of time to prevent Trump, if re-elected, gaining the power to fire key federal workers

Congress is running out of time to prevent Trump, if re-elected, gaining the power to fire key federal workers

The Daily Beast reports: In the final days of his presidency, Donald Trump quietly attempted what might have been his most brazen play yet to reshape the federal government in his image: He issued an executive order giving him the power to fire essentially any civil servant at will. That attempt was thwarted by the election of Joe Biden. But in laying out a 2024 presidential bid and a White House comeback, Trump has vowed to enact that order again…

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Trump’s embrace of QAnon is becoming increasingly explicit

Trump’s embrace of QAnon is becoming increasingly explicit

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump appeared to more fully embrace QAnon on Saturday, playing a song at a political rally in Ohio that prompted attendees to respond with a salute in reference to the cultlike conspiracy theory’s theme song. While speaking in Youngstown in support of J.D. Vance, whom he has endorsed as Ohio’s Republican nominee for the Senate, Mr. Trump delivered a dark address about the decline of America over music that was all…

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As Trump inquiry heats up, AG Garland says divisions imperil the rule of law

As Trump inquiry heats up, AG Garland says divisions imperil the rule of law

The New York Times reports: An emotional Attorney General Merrick B. Garland addressed new citizens on Saturday at Ellis Island, the site of his family’s American origin story, and warned that the country had become dangerously divided by political factionalism, which has imperiled the democracy and the rule of law. Mr. Garland was presiding over the oath of allegiance for 250 naturalized citizens at the iconic immigration processing center, on the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution in 1787….

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‘Huge mistake’: DeSantis’ migrant relocation stunt could undercut support in South Florida

‘Huge mistake’: DeSantis’ migrant relocation stunt could undercut support in South Florida

Politico reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to transport mostly Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard earlier this week could hurt the Republican governor in November with a key constituency that the GOP has sought to win over. The move by DeSantis dominated the radio and television airwaves in South Florida — where large swaths of Hispanic voters live. One Spanish radio host loudly denounced the move and even compared DeSantis’ actions to that of deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who relocated…

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Top Arizona Republican warns of fascist threat posed by Trump-backed candidates

Top Arizona Republican warns of fascist threat posed by Trump-backed candidates

CNN reports: The outgoing Republican speaker of the Arizona House says Trump-backed GOP candidates might send the country “back into the dark ages” if they win key midterm races and help enact laws to make it easier to overturn elections — which he said was tantamount to “fascism.” Rusty Bowers made the comments in an interview for an upcoming CNN special report by Jake Tapper, “American Coup: The January 6th Investigation.” The documentary, which details the major bombshells from Congress’…

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