This story was originally published by ProPublica. Members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in Texas on Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Rep. Alexandria …
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Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton didn’t make the debate stage this week but he’s been pushing bold policy proposals about mental health during his campaign for the presidency. Moulton’s advocating for a 511 national mental health hotline, pushing mental health as an essential part of basic health care, advocating for regular …
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The Stonewall Riots weren’t the beginning of the gay civil rights movement — they weren’t even the first gay riots in the United States. And when the plainclothes police officers walked in the Stonewall Inn at 2 a.m. and shut down the bar, it was the second time they’d raided …
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The ladies of Litchfield prison try to carve out the best possible future they can in the trailer for the final season of Orange Is the New Black, which premieres July 26th on Netflix. Much of the clip focuses on Piper (Taylor Schilling) as she tries to adjust to life …
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For Lady Gaga, a crowd of 1,500 people may seem miniscule. She explained just as much during an emotional part of her set on Monday night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, saying she hadn’t played a venue this small for over 10 years. “I was playing for 30 people, …
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America’s profiteer-in-chief is at it again. Sunday on Meet the Press, what seemed like an offhand question that, under any other president, wouldn’t elicit a controversial answer, President Donald Trump proved once again that nothing is normal anymore. Host Chuck Todd asked Trump if he’d thought about a presidential library. …
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“Consensus is the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead.” This quote didn’t …
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The government is not required to provide migrant children in custody on the border with soap, toothbrushes, or adequate bedding, a lawyer for the Trump Justice Department insisted in court Tuesday. A consent decree guaranteeing “safe and sanitary” conditions, the government argued, is too vague to be enforceable. The assertions …
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When Toni Natalie spoke to Rolling Stone on the morning of jury deliberations for the Keith Raniere trial, she predicted the jury would reach a guilty verdict by, “3, 3:30.” The former girlfriend of Raniere, the leader of the spiritual organization Nxivm, was only about an hour off. After six …
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Since his arrest last year in Mexico on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, tabloids have referred to Keith Raniere, the head of the self-help organization NXIVM, as the leader of an all-female “sex cult” called DOS. The 58-year-old spiritual leader known as the “smartest man alive” was worshipped by followers, …
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