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The man who mapped the ultra right

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) has ordered the termination of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agreements with law enforcement on Wednesday in an attempt to establish principles for agencies and divisions, to not being a tool for ICE.

The Trump regime’s deportation monomania has left far more people dead and wounded than it wants you to know. ICE doesn’t share its violent incidents with the public. So here’s our list.

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

Readers Comments: National Guard to Washington, DC, Where Next?; Standing Up to Fascism - Learning from Martin Niemöller; Killing Medics and Journalists; RFK Gutting Our Defense Against Future Pandemics; New Book About Alger Hiss; Cartoons; lots more

Readers Comments: Trump-Putin Summit; Trump White-Washington Slavery; Trump's DC Takeover; Zohran Mamdani - the “Commie Corridor”; Zoom this Sunday: Gaza & the West Bank: Views from the Israeli and Palestinian left; Cartoons and more...

Trump doesn’t care about “crime.” He cares about the right white people being in charge. On his first day in office in 2025, he pardoned 1,500 people convicted of assault and property destruction on January 6.

Readers Comments: Police State Take-Over of Washington, DC; Israel Continues to Murder Gaza Journalists; NYC Mayor’s Race - Call for Universal Childcare; Chick-fil-A Fined for Child Labor; New Resource - Social Security FAQ; Cartoons and lots more;

Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’

As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.