The capital has for most of its history been a largely-to-mostly-Black city run by open racists. This takeover by white federal officials is something many in the Black community have been anticipating for decades. There’s even a name for it-The Plan
Ezra Klein interviews Mahmoud Khalil
The New York Times
The Palestinian activist discusses the Columbia protests, ICE detention and free speech in the U.S. The government wanted others like him to fear them. It wanted noncitizens and immigrants to stop speaking out. If they could do this to Khalil...
Readers Comments: Not Just Texas, It's Voting Rights and Democracy Under Assault; ICE Block; GOP Cover-Up: Ultra Rich Power Grab and Child Sex Trafficking; Gaza is Time to Remember Hiroshima - War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things;
Readers Comments: Trump Screwing Country, World, Climate, Gaza, Now Ready to Make Deal with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell; McCarthyism and Its Victims: Here We Go Again; Keep ICE Out of MLB Stadiums; Israelis Call for Crippling Sanctions on Israel
With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold. Inspiring terror, as a tactic, is openly acknowledged.
Readers Comments: GOP Budget ‘Total Betrayal’ of Working Class; Immigration and Health in Rural America; Story behind removal of Univ of Virginia president - eliminate DEI as fight against anti-Semitism; David Schwartzman-RIP; Announcements; more...
William Turton, Christopher Bing and Avi Asher-Schapiro
ProPublica
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
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