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Editor, America’s Voice. Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats. Cancer survivor. Views here my own.

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The Florida crash that resulted in the deaths of eight farmworkers harkens to the Baltimore bridge collapse, which killed six immigrant workers. These men were among millions of essential workers.

But they shouldn’t have to die to have their work honored. Their labor should be recognized every day. More at America’s Voice:

https://americasvoice.org/blog/essential-immigrant-workers-shouldnt-have-to-die-to-have-their-work-recognized-and-respected/

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In 2022, these workers helped make Florida number one in the US in the value of production of bell peppers, sugarcane, tomatoes, and watermelons, just to name a few. Florida is also one of the top producers of all oranges. Their backbreaking and skilled labor sustains the agricultural industry and feeds the nation.

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The Farmworker Association of Florida has organized a GoFundMe to aid survivors and families.

"Farmworkers tend to be forgotten, but it's important not to forget farmworkers, especially during such difficult times”: https://www.gofundme.com/f/8-farmworkers-dead-and-over-dozen-injured-after-accident?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

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The Republican nominee for president reiterates that he doesn’t give a shit about dead children.

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Alito “can act like a brain-poisoned hack on the bench for the same reason that he can shrug off his own household’s association with the most dangerous and demented MAGA conspiracy theorists: There will never be consequences for his offenses.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/alito-flag-supreme-court-justices-stop-the-steal-ethics-rules-pitiful.html

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“Trump’s mass deportation plans: Why 2025 will be different,” writes former American Immigration Lawyers Association president David Leopold.

"The restraints held back the worst excesses that soiled the previous promises of mass deportation will no longer be in place.”

https://americasvoice.org/blog/trumps-mass-deportation-plans-why-2025-will-be-different/

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"Dreamers may have long histories in America, but they have no place in MAGA’s color-coded vision of the American future,” Francis Wilkinson writes. “In the White House, Trump tried to phase out .”

That was blocked in a 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court in June 2020. But that slim majority is now gone. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-16/dreamers-likely-to-face-deportation-in-a-trump-administration

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Good morning. Immigrants are .

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“During these conversations Christian is secretly taking photographs of women in the bars and sending them to Bridget”—Bridget as in Moms For Liberty cofounder Bridget Ziegler—“asking her if she wants this one or that one. Bridget is telling him to pretend to take pictures of his beer … She tells him ‘Don’t come home until your dick is wet.’”

https://floridatrident.org/sex-barflies-and-videotape-report-details-how-gop-power-couple-prowled-pubs-for-threesome-partners/

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I mean what else is there to say except expand the mfing court✨

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This wk marked two yrs since a gunman motivated by white nationalist and antisemitic “replacement” and “invasion” conspiracy theory murdered ten Black Americans in Buffalo.

Despite this death toll, this rhetoric has been fully adopted by the GOP. See our report: https://americasvoice.org/press_releases/on-two-year-anniversary-of-buffalo-white-nationalist-attack-on-black-americans-replacement-theory-has-only-gone-more-mainstream/

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Key toplines from the America’s Voice report:

• 165 Members of the 118th Congress have employed replacement theory rhetoric and done so 584 times in their official capacity.

• In the first four months of 2024, there have been 46 unique TV and CTV ads from Republican-aligned campaigns, which have spent $10.7M on ads that push the “invasion” rhetoric, according to data assembled from AdImpact.

• We have further identified 202 unique Facebook ads that use the “invasion” language this year.

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“At the highest level of leadership in the Republican Party, including the Speaker of the House and the Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, there is an aggressive use of talking points that is actively courting more racist political violence,” said America’s Voice Senior Research Director Zachary Mueller 👇🏽

https://americasvoice.org/press_releases/on-two-year-anniversary-of-buffalo-white-nationalist-attack-on-black-americans-replacement-theory-has-only-gone-more-mainstream/

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In recent days, top Republicans have openly refused to pledge to respect the results of the upcoming election if it doesn't go their way.

Tim Scott, for example, was pressed three times on whether he’d accept the results – and refused to directly answer each time.

Virginia’s Jen Kiggans, meanwhile, is nodding along.👇🏽

https://zacharymueller.substack.com/p/rep-jen-kiggans-friends-are-spreading?r=u9dt4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post “largely failed to cover Trump’s plan to deport 11 million immigrants, among other extreme immigration policies, mentioning it in only 10% of all the articles Media Matters examined."

https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/mainstream-print-outlets-fail-adequately-cover-far-right-agenda-laid-out-trump-time

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A group of Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren sent a letter Tuesday night urging the Department of Homeland Security and ICE to shut down four private detention centers.

Contracts for two of those facilities are up for renewal this week: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senators-shut-down-ice-detention-centers_n_6644d192e4b00df0c6b6b41a?tyq

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"Two years after Buffalo mass shooting, Trump's GOP is all-in on racist theory that motivated it.

It’s typical now to hear MAGA Republicans spewing the toxic bigotry that forms the basis of the 'great replacement theory.'"

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/shows/reidout/blog/rcna152246

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“The gag order bars Trump from continuing to attack Merchan's daughter (although he is free to attack Merchan). But many of Trump's surrogates attacked Merchan's daughter over the last few days, using very similar language … The similarity of the comments suggests an organized campaign.”

https://popular.info/p/is-trump-orchestrating-a-new-criminal

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“I don’t find anything unusual about a fundamentalist theocrat who thinks the Bible is the supreme law of the land attending the legal proceedings of an adjudicated sexual assailant and world-class fraudster and con-man for cooking the books to cover up hush money payments he made to a porn star to conceal his adulterous affair,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin. “Do you?” https://www.thedailybeast.com/speaker-mike-johnson-is-the-next-suck-up-to-visit-trump-trial

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Throughout the GOP, there’s been a widespread and deliberate effort to use deadly white nationalist rhetoric to incite fear and violence—which puts everyone at risk of another tragedy like Buffalo, which took the lives of ten Black Americans on May 14, 2022. View the report here: https://bit.ly/3K1SUr6

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Good morning. Immigrants are .

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World Central Kitchen: "We have 276 trucks, with the equivalent of almost 8 million meals, ready to enter through the Rafah Crossing. Dozens of these trucks have already entered Gaza this week. To date we have distributed more than 46 million meals and we are eager and ready to deliver millions more." https://wck.org/news/resume-work-gaza

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"Trump’s attorney then accused her of profiting off Trump’s trial by 'shilling merchandise,' prompting Daniels to fire back: 'Not unlike Mr. Trump.'"

"Trump sat nearby, often closing his eyes. But he became so incensed by Daniels’ testimony that the judge urged his attorneys to warn him against making his feelings so obvious in front of the jury."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stormy-daniels-testimony-trumps-hush-money-trial_n_663be115e4b0c38baf0ec262

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Oh just thinking about this again.

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“It's a racist conspiracy theory with roots in 1930s Nazi Germany that is being fully embraced and strategically deployed by the Republican Party from top to bottom.”

Excellent and important read from Kerry Eleveld: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/10/2239995/-GOP-embraces-racist-replacement-theory-to-anger-white-voters?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_1&pm_medium=web

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