Led by President Trump, the Republican Party has disgracefully embraced white Christian nationalists and is working to turn back the clock on progress America has made in the struggle against racism and other bigotry. Some 83 percent of Black voters are Democrats or lean Democratic, according to the Pew Research Center. Because of this, Trump has demanded Republican officials make it harder for African Americans to vote and elect candidates of their choosing. Trump has repeatedly insulted Black people who criticize him by calling them "low-IQ" and with other slurs about their intelligence, such as referring to then-Vice President Kamala Harris as "dumb," "mentally unfit," "slow" and "stupid" when she ran against him in 2024. Trump even outrageously posted an AI-generated racist video on the social media site he owns that portrayed Barack and Michelle Obama " America's only Black president and first lady " as apes.
Iranian strikes have caused greater damage to U.S. military assets in the Middle East than the Trump administration is willing to admit. Analysis by the BBC, published Monday, reveals that attacks by the Islamic Republic have cost millions of dollars in damage to at least 20, and possibly as many as 28, American military sites across eight countries in the region since Donald Trump launched his war on Iran at the end of February. Trump has repeatedly claimed that U.S. forces have "destroyed," "obliterated," and "shattered" the regime's military capabilities. The Pentagon has meanwhile tried to limit assessments of the impact on U.S. assets by pressuring Planet, a major satellite-imaging provider, to restrict public access to new images of the region. read more
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday called President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund a "bad idea" and urged the president to "drop it." "Let's get rid of this fund," Pence said in an interview with NBC's Meet the Press. "I mean, it's deeply offensive to me that you could have a fund that could even possibly compensate people who assaulted police officers or vandalized the Capitol on January 6th. And I think that's broadly held by most Republicans and most Americans."
Evidence tied to last week's deadly attack on a California mosque illustrates a violent ideology and playbook that is all too familiar to counterterrorism and extremism experts. A 75-page typewritten document, attributed to the teenage suspects, and a livestreamed video showing the attack show extensive grounding in far-right, neo-Nazi thinking. But one facet of the ideology behind this attack has, so far, been left out of much mainstream coverage. "He just flat out says he hates women and that they're the devil and they're destroying everything. And this is an important thing, because that kind of misogyny did not exist in white supremacist circles, say, 10, 15 years ago," said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.
A Democratic National Committee staffer has taken a "I said what I said" stance in continuing online feud with White House adviser Stephen Miller. read more
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