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I’m not a movie critic, but here’s a must-watch on PBS

It tells the story of an 1890s #fusionvoting alliance between recently enfranchised Black voters & poor White farmers

Together, they passed reforms, & built progress—until the Klan violently overthrew them

This history needs to be remembered
January 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Breaking news: The Justice Department said it will roll back Biden-era efforts to criminally charge demonstrators who interfere with patient access to reproductive health clinics, calling those prosecutions an example of the “weaponization” of law enforcement.
Justice Dept. to cut back prosecution of abortion clinic protest cases
The change reflects President Donald Trump’s position that abortion clinic protesters have been unfairly prosecuted under the FACE Act.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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January 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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This should be standard for all businesses and organizations.
Over 60 German and Austrian universities, the German Federal Court of Justice and multiple top German football clubs have announced that they will be withdrawing from Twitter (X), due to US oligarch Elon Musk's "discussion" (collaboration) with Germany's neo-Nazi party (AfD) Alice Weidl.
January 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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I don't really use TikTok that much, but I find it fascinating that our government is on the verge of banning an app for national security reasons that are still unclear in the same week that Meta, the largest social media company, says it's now fine to hate LGBTQ people and call us mentally ill.
January 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM