Advocacy organizations have sued the Trump administration to stop a 16-year-old boy from being summarily sent back to Honduras after he crossed into the U.S. last week to join his father. It’s the first challenge to the Trump administration’s policy of mass expulsions of border-crossers, under which nearly 45,000 migrants — including 2,000 children — have been pushed out of the U.S. Continue reading
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- June 11, 2020
Thousands of Georgians had their registrations put on hold and weren’t sure if they’d be able to vote. Some voters were wrongly flagged as non-citizens; others had their ballots rejected because poll workers told them they had the wrong ID. Hundreds of polling places were shuttered before the election, and other precincts had four-hour lines. Absentee ballots were rejected because of signature mismatches or other minor errors. Continue reading
- June 11, 2020
It seems that the lines of Trump’s election campaign are solidifying — poll rage, praising the Confederacy and COVID-19 denial. Continue reading
- June 11, 2020"On the Deaths of Friends"
- June 10, 2020
Medical professionals agree unanimously that wearing a mask in public prevents the spread of COVID-19. Trump refuses to wear one. Continue reading
- June 10, 2020
“Democracy was dying of too many lies long before this murder,” Moyers tells Amanpour. “Unless we see the truth and act on it, we are going to run out of oxygen.” Continue reading
- June 9, 2020
The day started with Trump tweeting that the 75-year-old Buffalo, New York, man shoved to the ground by police and left bleeding and unconscious “could be an ANTIFA provocateur” who might have been part of a “set up.” Continue reading
- June 8, 2020Esper and Miley: Too Little, Too Late
- June 8, 2020The post office could be key to people voting during the pandemic but perverse financial rules and Trump’s hostility put that at risk