Steve Fraser | Class Dismissed, Red State Teachers Teaching Us All a Lesson
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Steve Fraser | Class Dismissed, Red State Teachers Teaching Us All a Lesson
Steve Fraser, TomDispatch
Fraser writes: "Teachers in red-state America are hard at work teaching us all a lesson. The American mythos has always rested on a belief that this country was born out of a kind of immaculate conception, that the New World came into being and has forever after been preserved as a land without the class hierarchies and conflicts that so disfigured Europe."
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Steve Fraser, TomDispatch
Fraser writes: "Teachers in red-state America are hard at work teaching us all a lesson. The American mythos has always rested on a belief that this country was born out of a kind of immaculate conception, that the New World came into being and has forever after been preserved as a land without the class hierarchies and conflicts that so disfigured Europe."
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Neil Gorsuch. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Neil Gorsuch Sides With Liberals to Tip Decision to Immigrant in Supreme Court Deportation Case
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
Wolf writes: "The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a law subjecting immigrants to deportation for crimes of violence is unconstitutionally vague, handing the Trump administration an early defeat - thanks to the vote of Justice Neil Gorsuch."
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Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
Wolf writes: "The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a law subjecting immigrants to deportation for crimes of violence is unconstitutionally vague, handing the Trump administration an early defeat - thanks to the vote of Justice Neil Gorsuch."
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Anniston, Alabama police Sgt. William Parris speaks to first-shift officers during a roll call in 2015. (photo: Stephen Gross/The Anniston Star)
Sessions Punishes Everyone
Simone Weichselbaum, The Marshall Project
Weichselbaum writes: "Anniston, Alabama, a city of about 22,000 residents, is in sync with the Trump administration's views on immigration. Police Chief Shane Denham has no reservations about assisting federal agents by handing over undocumented immigrants who are in police custody."
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Simone Weichselbaum, The Marshall Project
Weichselbaum writes: "Anniston, Alabama, a city of about 22,000 residents, is in sync with the Trump administration's views on immigration. Police Chief Shane Denham has no reservations about assisting federal agents by handing over undocumented immigrants who are in police custody."
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Alex Jones from Infowars.com speaks during a rally in support of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump near the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 18, 2016. (photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
Sandy Hook Parents Sue Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones for Defamation
Reuters
Excerpt: "The parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre have sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for defamation, accusing him and his website InfoWars of engaging in a campaign of 'false, cruel, and dangerous assertions.'"
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Reuters
Excerpt: "The parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre have sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for defamation, accusing him and his website InfoWars of engaging in a campaign of 'false, cruel, and dangerous assertions.'"
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ICE. (photo: Getty Images)
ICE Is Trying to Deport a Journalist for Reporting on Them, His Lawyers Say
Emma Roller, Splinter
Roller writes: "Lawyers for a Memphis journalist say he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and sent to a detention facility hundreds of miles away in Louisiana as retaliation for his critical reporting on law enforcement, the Associated Press reported on Monday."
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Emma Roller, Splinter
Roller writes: "Lawyers for a Memphis journalist say he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and sent to a detention facility hundreds of miles away in Louisiana as retaliation for his critical reporting on law enforcement, the Associated Press reported on Monday."
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Nicaraguan Campesinos during a 2004 protest to demand access to land. (photo: EFE)
International Day of Campesino Struggle Marked in Latin America
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Every year, on April 17, social movements and Campesinos commemorate the International Day of Campesino Struggle to honor the 19 Campesinos of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement murdered by Brazilian military in the northern state of Para on April 17, 1996 during a protest to demand their right to land."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Every year, on April 17, social movements and Campesinos commemorate the International Day of Campesino Struggle to honor the 19 Campesinos of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement murdered by Brazilian military in the northern state of Para on April 17, 1996 during a protest to demand their right to land."
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Migrating tundra swans. (photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS)
The Trump Administration's Awful New Migratory Bird Policy Undermines a Century of Conservation
Amanda Rodewald, The Revelator
Rodewald writes: "The Trump administration has announced a position on protecting migratory birds that is a drastic pullback from policies in force for the past 100 years."
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Amanda Rodewald, The Revelator
Rodewald writes: "The Trump administration has announced a position on protecting migratory birds that is a drastic pullback from policies in force for the past 100 years."
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