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Conservatives will use Jussie Smollett to hide the truth about hate crimes: They can't
One false police report: Sure, it's bad. But it can't hide the steady drumbeat of violence coming from the right
Amanda Marcotte
salon.com/2019/02/22/con… The story about Christopher Hasson coming out this week demonstrates the sad reason why the right can’t exploit Jussie Smollett to cover up the truth about hate crimes: They’re happening too frequently and with too much violence to ignore.
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Brazilian court rules Ryan Lochte can be prosecuted on charge of filing false report
Brazil's Superior Court of Justice has ruled that U.S. Olympian Ryan Lochte can be prosecuted on a charge of filing a false police report.
Amanda Marcotte
espn.com/espnw/sports/a… Helpful reminder that people file false police reports for all sorts of reasons. But it’s only when the false crime is rape or a hate crime that people argue it somehow discredits the vast majority of real crime reports.
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Hill Democrats say Education Dept. tried to interfere in probe, remove investigator
Democrats say they've seen evidence of "troubling efforts" to influence investigation of Education Secretary DeVos.
Amanda Marcotte
nbcnews.com/politics/polit… DeVos’s devotion to predatory for-profit colleges isn’t a surprise. The DeVos family got rich from Amway, which is basically the same scam: Exploiting working class people’s desire for economic opportunity to basically defraud them.
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If Jussie Smollett is a hoaxster, what do we call Donald Trump?
Jussie Smollett and Donald Trump both pushed race-baiting hoaxes, but only one is facing real consequences
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Amanda Marcotte
salon.com/2019/02/21/if-… February was dominated by stories of two hoaxes: Smollett’s alleged hoax assault and Trump’s ongoing hoax falsifying an “invasion” on the southern border. Both are bad, but Trump’s is far more serious — but also less likely to result in consequences.
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El Paso County is suing to stop Donald Trump's national emergency declaration
El Paso County sues Trump over emergency
Laura Ingraham attacks critics of "I believe in white supremacy" quote from John Wayne in 1971 interview
Raymond Arroyo: Critics of John Wayne "are impugning America"
Amanda Marcotte
People were upset by a John Wayne interview extolling white supremacy. Laura Ingraham equates them to ISIS.
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Going meta on Jussie Smollett
The lazy and/or dishonest reaction to the Jussie Smollett affair is that “the Left” instantly and collectively leapt to the conclusion that the incident proved that Trumpism is inciting bigotry in America, and that was a bad thing to do because he...
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Amanda Marcotte
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/02/going-… The claim that progressive journalists flocked unskeptically to Smollett’s side is….not really true. You might call that claim, in fact, a hoax.
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Indiana Senate strips hate crime bill, scrapping gender identity and other protected traits
The Indiana Senate voted to amend a hate crimes proposal Tuesday, completely scrapping the enumerated list of protected characteristics.
You Don't Have to Like Bernie Sanders to Like Bernie Sanders
I remember when I first realized I didn’t really like Bernie Sanders, which felt different from when I first realized that I didn’t always like his politics. It was that viral moment from a campaign event in early 2016 when a small bird landed on...
Amanda Marcotte
theslot.jezebel.com/you-dont-have-… This kind of labored, painful argument is particularly pointless when Elizabeth Warren is in the race. You don’t have to talk yourself into supporting Sanders! Warren is better and more capable of enacting the left-leaning agenda.
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Prada, Gucci and now Burberry: Are brands under fire for offensive designs doing it on purpose?
Why are these companies all making the same awful mistakes at the same time?
Amanda Marcotte
salon.com/2019/02/20/pra… At a certain point, the “accidental” racism stops looking like an accident and more like a troll.
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Click here to support Help Sam come home to his daughter organized by Vanessa Bertelli
On January 17th Sam was picked up by ICE and brought to a detention center pending deportation. He urgently needs your help right now to hire an immigration attorney to represent him on February 25th (IN 4 DAYS' TIME!) and for the rest of the...
FBI Arrests White Nationalist In Coast Guard Allegedly Planning Terror Attack
A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant who is an alleged white nationalist with a hit list and a plan “to murder...
Amanda Marcotte
Remember when the Obama administration was bullied into retracting a completely accurate intelligence assessment warning that domestic terrorists would focus on recruiting veterans and servicemen?
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Numb to corruption: How Republicans trained their base to ignore Trump's criminality
How we got here: Republicans spent decades indoctrinating their supporters to ignore scandal and corruption
Amanda Marcotte
salon.com/2019/02/20/num… It’s easy to blame Trump and Trump alone for his base’s unwillingness to believe in his corruption.
But the GOP has been training that base to dismiss corruption for decades.
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Covington Catholic student’s family hits the Washington Post with $250 million lawsuit
They say it’s not political.
Amanda Marcotte
vox.com/policy-and-pol… The fact that the suit is directed at the outlet that has done the best reporting exposing Trump doesn’t help the case. “I’m not a racist” is a claim nullified by voting for Trump, and certainly by attending to Trump’s obsessions.
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Help! I Had a Tough Pregnancy, but My Sisters-In-Law Keep Insisting I Have More Kids.
It has gotten to the point where I cry if I see their names on caller ID.
Amanda Marcotte
slate.com/human-interest… This letter illustrates really well how female complicity with patriarchy develops. Women cannot have equality, so instead they seize power by oppressing other women, becoming a patriarchal police force controlling and oppressing other women.
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The Covington Catholic Student Who Went Viral In The Confrontation Video Has Filed A $250 Million Lawsuit
A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday accused the newspaper of defaming 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann.
Every Democrat Should Talk About Health Care Like Amy Klobuchar Does
Other candidates have preferred to muddy the waters. This is the much better approach.
Amanda Marcotte
slate.com/business/2019/… Medicaid buy-in, which Klobuchar supports, is a great policy and might even lead to single payer more successfully that the tear-it-up-and-start-over proposal. That said, I see the argument for why you don’t start from the compromise position.
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CNN’s baffling, self-sabotaging hire of Sarah Isgur
The network’s new political editor is a former Trump official who has never worked in journalism
Amanda Marcotte
mediamatters.org/blog/2019/02/1… When people say it’s all too easy to imagine fascism happening here, this is the sort of thing they’re thinking about.
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Democrats need to make childcare funding the 2020 priority
Elizabeth Warren's childcare plan would save lives, save money, and help women get closer to economic equality
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Amanda Marcotte
salon.com/2019/02/19/dem… Federally subsidized childcare may not rate as a sexy issue in our male-dominated media landscape, but Warren’s plan could be more impactful than marquee ideas like free college or even single payer health care.
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