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Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.

Ilhan Omar The New York Times
On Tuesday, President Trump called my friends and me “garbage.” This comment was only the latest in a series of remarks and Truth Social posts in which the president has demonized and spread conspiracy theories about the Somali community and me.

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America

Laurents, Bernstein & Sondheim
It’s Thanksgiving, and, oh, don’t we have so much to be thankful for?

The Long Arc of Immigrant Power in New York

Waleed Shahid Waleed's Substack
What Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech shares with the Irish ward bosses and Jewish socialists who built the city’s first immigrant-powered coalitions.

Tidbits-Oct 30 -Reader Comments: How To Treat Your Neighbor; After No Kings-Can Nonviolent Struggles Defeat Dictators; Migrants Have Always Been Welcome; Study Shows Workforce Needs Migrants; Nuclear Weapons Testing Again; Black Labor Activism

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Reader Comments: How to Treat Your Neighbor; After No Kings-Can Nonviolent Struggles Defeat Dictators; Migrants Have Always Been Welcome; Study Shows Workforce Needs Migrants; Nuclear Weapons Testing Happening Again; 100 Years of Black Labor Activism

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents

Nicole Foy ProPublica
“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen,” Justice Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.” But in fact Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

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Raid of Hyundai EV Plant in Georgia

Jessica Corbett Common Dreams
A spokesperson for South Korea's foreign ministry said that "the economic activities of our companies investing in the US and the rights and interests of our nationals must not be unfairly violated."

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Deporting Immigrants Kills Native Jobs Too

Doug Henwood LBO News
Deporting immigrants will lead to job loss for immigrants - but as Ben Zipperer shows in work for the Economic Policy Institute, almost as many native-born workers could lose their jobs as deported immigrants as industries contract.
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