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These Racist Collectibles Will Make Your Skin Crawl
WEBA ceramic figure from the 1950s Courtesy of David Pilgrim/PM Press. Pilgrim writes that historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. found this the most disturbing image in the Jim Crow Museum of Racist ...
Talking to a Former Madam About Using AI and Big Data to Help …
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Its biggest donations have included $500,000 contributed in July 2023 from Planeta Management, a company tied to Nicole Shanahan, who Kennedy named as his running mate in March, and $300,000 from ...
Chicago’s Mayor Owes His Career to Activism. How Will He Handle ...
WEBAug 17, 2024 · Front: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks at City Hall; Back: Chicago police officers train in preparation for the Democratic National Convention.
What to Know About Donald Trump’s New $60 Bible
WEBMar 27, 2024 · What to Know About Donald Trump’s New $60 Bible – Mother Jones. We’ve been offered a $50,000 digital matching gift by a generous board member, and to make sure we get every dollar of it. Any ...
As the Voting Rights Act Nears 60, Conservative Judges Are …
WEBAug 6, 2024 · “Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield,” President Lyndon Johnson declared 59 years ago today, as he signed the Voting Rights Act into ...
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the …
WEBIn an analysis of Trump’s 2016 victory, political scientists John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck reached an identical conclusion: “He capitalized on an existing reservoir of ...
The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would …
WEBOn the afternoon of February 1, 2016, as Iowa voters prepared for that evening’s caucuses, Bandy Lee sat by the bedside of her mother, who was terminally ill with cancer. An assistant professor ...
It Came From the Basement – Mother Jones
WEBJust like every city in America, the crime is out of control!”. Anger over public health measures provided a way to launder more extreme and racist positions—and to tap into his audience’s ...
RFK Jr. admits he falls for online misinformation “all the time”
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Falls for Online Misinformation “All the Time” Here’s what happened after his campaign invited an antisemitic conspiracist to host an AI panel.