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For all his youth and naivete, Jack Teixeira represents a sizable government-skeptical force that works in or adjacent to the U.S. government. Many of these right-wing and extreme libertarian individuals can be found in the military.

Since 2005, “stand your ground” laws have spread to around 30 states, transforming the legal landscape. Enacted in the context of deep racial biases, they encourage armed citizens to use deadly force against any perceived threat – real or imagined.

Los Angeles educators and support staff made clear, solidarity gets the goods.

Colorado poet Josh Lefkowitz reads the writing on the wall, asking what it means.

The right has compiled a glossary of words like “abolition” and “equity” that it deems suspect in classroom contexts.

A huge number of his members have no idea what they’re doing. Legislating is a skill—maybe even an art — for which it’s useful for members to have experience with something beyond mouthing off and posing for cheesy photos with their favorite firearms

A group of progressive Democrats in the United States Congress has called on President Joe Biden to “shift” American policy on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, saying that US aid should not be used to fund abuses of Palestinian rights.

The new chief of the BRICS bloc’s New Development Bank, Brazil’s leftist ex-President Dilma Rousseff, revealed they are gradually moving away from the US dollar, promising at least 30% of loans in local currencies of members.

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