A New Chinese Exclusion Act - Demonizing China allows Republicans to unite around an authoritarian agenda at home—and provides a convenient rationale for unfettered Pentagon profiteering. (www.thenation.com)
Turns out the Epoch Times was a giant money laundering operation (www.justice.gov)
Police Attack Peaceful Student Protestors at Columbia University (youtu.be)
Texas GOP tries to argue that the Rio Grande is simultaneously nothing and also super important (apnews.com)
In a hearing before the 5th Circuit court of appeals, lawyers on behalf of Texas tried to argue both that the giant buoys the state has deployed in the Rio Grande are necessary to ward off an “invasion” of immigrants, and that the Rio Grande is more of a creek than a river—because if it is “navigable” then the federal...
Imprisoned workers sue to abolish neoslavery in Alabama’s prisons (www.workers.org)
“We chose to file this case on May 1, in solidarity with workers around the world, because ending forced prison labor in ADOC isn’t just about stopping the state’s extractive profiteering from the labor of Black people — both inside and outside of prisons. It’s also about eliminating the control that forced prison...
