If you're wearing blackface in the year of our Lord 2006, you are not by any definition a "student of history." I'd guess you probably slept through most of the classes, in fact.
NY GOP rep Mike Lawler wore blackface as part of a Michael Jackson Halloween costume as a college student in 2006, per photos obtained by NYT. Lawler says he meant it as a sincere tribute. âI am a student of history and for anyone who takes offense to the photo, I am sorry,â he said (gift link)
Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican locked in a tight race for re-election, dressed as the pop star for Halloween as a college student in 2006.
Sometimes they glitch when theyâre looking at a POC and you have to press their restart button
Idaho senator tells Native American candidate to go back to where she came from, storms out of public event
A bipartisan forum in a small Latah County community took a turn when Republican Senate incumbent Dan Foreman stormed out of the event, following a racist outburst directed at a Native American candid...
DETROIT (AP) â Source: Union for 45,000 US dockworkers agree to suspend strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate new contract.
âSheâs a lady with an economics degree and Iâm a man who studied political philosophy and is a libertarian in 2024, and we all know math is hard for womenâ
i feel comfortable saying that at least four members of the court probably outright believe that donald trump is the legitimate president of the united states
This is so smart, letting voters know that the admin cares and WILL mobilize to help them in times of crisis.
sobering numbers, hopefully, for those without a moral center
NEW FROM THE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: A mass deportation op would cost the US government an estimated $315 billion. "Starting" at 1 million/year? That's $88B annually. It'd cut GDP by 4.2-6.8%. That's the Great Recession on the LOW end. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...
The mass deportation of millions of undocumented individuals would be tremendously expensive and would have a catastrophic impact on our economyâone that would be expansive and impact every American. ...
Mainstream outlets gave Trump the *exact* headline he was looking for, congratulations. Now ask him if he'd veto a 'minimum national standard' - and ask him how that's different than an abortion ban. Hint: It's not. Do your jobs.
it really is not an exaggeration in the slightest to say that the trump vance plan for reducing housing costs is ethnic cleansing
đđŻ Those of us who've lived in Wisconsin & elsewhere under subnational competitive authoritarianism for years know clearly what it means to have "normal" elections that are meaningless as mechanisms of accountability & democratic participation. I fear folks in blue states have no idea what's coming.