Evening Roundup, February 17
Featuring the Legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson; Trump & White Supremacy; Munich Security Conference; Pablo Torre and Jen Rubin on The Olympics; Meredith Blake on CBS Censorship; Talking Feds, & The Pod
Honoring A Civil Rights Icon
Trump & His Regime
Trump's Government Mainstreams White Supremacy
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ICE, DHS, and other government-run social media channels are continuously, and explicitly, referencing white supremacist dogma, songs, imagery, and phrases. For example, last October, the Homeland Security account on X posted a single word: “remigrate
Last week’s Munich Security Conference Confirmed Uncertainty, Not Unity
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The Winter Olympics, currently underway in Italy, bring anticipation and a sense of shared purpose. The annual Munich Security Conference is more bureaucratic than celebratory, but it usually carries its own undercurrent of anticipation and teamwork.
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We Can Fight Back Against White Supremacy
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We face the constant scourge of white supremacy under the Trump regime.
RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson.
He truly was "somebody."
I'm proud to say that I was a member of Operation Breadbasket, the financial arm of the SCLC back in the day, run by Jesse Jackson. Not that I actually did anything useful. Just a little white face in the crowd. But I was there through some significant events, sponsored by my housemate Cora, who was a mover and shaker. I was not mover and shaker material, but I learned a lot about the black community and about the ways in which structural racism worked its damage. They did much more for me than I ever had a chance of doing for them. But farewell, Jesse. And thank you. You made history rhyme!