"Trump wishes to make Ilhan Omar the face of the Democratic Party heading into the 2020 elections—and now he has provoked Democrats to comply," argues @DavidFrum: https://t.co/QlwqUls9UD
[....] the dehumanization had started long before RTLM urged its listeners to “exterminate the cockroaches.” The killings in 1994 were a culmination of decades of hate-mongering, the indoctrination that began even before independence.
@ Radio Free Asia, April 10, brought my attention by:
“North Korean authorities staged a public trial and shot two female fortune tellers to death last month, forcing tens of thousands of people to watch.” — a report this week https://t.co/3A3rPL4zsvhttps://t.co/5hF3PVCIh9
[....] the Supreme Court’s next case. Iancu v. Brunetti is a trademark dispute in which Los Angeles artist Erik Brunetti sued the government, saying it violated the First Amendment by refusing to register the trademark for his “subversive” clothing line: FUCT.[....]
The suspect accused of burning down three historically black Baptist churches in St. Landry Parish has ties to the "black metal" music scene, a Scandinavian subgenre whose enthusiasts espoused anti-Christian beliefs and were linked to a string of Norwegian church fires in the 1990s.
A new surveillance video shows Chicago police officers push and drag a student down a set of stairs at Marshall High School on the West Side before punching her and shocking her with a stun gun multiple times.
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said he’ll subpoena documents on Monday from an accounting firm tied to President Donald Trump.
Rod Rosenstein at private lunch today at Metropolitan Club said don’t forget what Mueller probe was about: cyber crimes. When it comes out, lot of what we see will deal with *that*; it’ll clear up questions about Russian election interference, he said, people in room told me. pic.twitter.com/OH3Bs4swp4
Pompeo has privately urged Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to cut ties with his close adviser Saud al-Qahtani, whom the US has sanctioned for his alleged role in the murder of Jamal #Khashoggi. https://t.co/vrQyKliwHj
Over the last few weeks, “Old Town Road” — a strutting and lightheartedly comedic country-rap tune by the previously unknown 20-year-old rapper Lil Nas X — has lived an improbable number of lives.
NASA scientists compared the astronaut to his earthbound twin, Mark, and found changes down to the molecular level. The results hint at what humans would have to endure on long journeys through space.
[....] The Communist Youth League (CYL) has promised to despatch more than 10 million students to “rural zones” by 2022 in order to “increase their skills, spread civilisation and promote science and technology”, according to a Communist party document.
Compare and contrast: blackface in college. Who pointed these out to CNN? This is what enquiring minds should also want to know.
In a series of newly unearthed letters from Joe Biden, the strength of his opposition to busing comes into sharper focus, particularly how he followed the lead of--and sought support from--some of the Senate's most fervent segregationists. Via @jeffzeleny: https://t.co/vXVNjShjT8
