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As Groundwater Dwindles, Powerful Players Block Change
1 year, 1 month ago

As Groundwater Dwindles, Powerful Players Block Change

New York Times  

Here are some of the people fighting efforts to conserve a vital resource that’s disappearing across the United States. Matthew Hamon for The New York Times Montana has declared this area a “closed basin,” meaning there isn’t enough surface water, like rivers and lakes, for new users. Groundwater level change, 2002–22 –80 ft. –60 –40 –20 0 +20 District 4 …

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Opinion: Why March 2 is the true birthday of modern America
1 year, 9 months ago

Opinion: Why March 2 is the true birthday of modern America

LA Times  

Crews work to remove one of the country’s largest monuments to the Confederacy, a towering statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., on Sept. 8, 2021. This was the day in 1867 when Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the first Reconstruction Act, which created a new republic by wiping out the governments of …

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Confederate flag-toting man, son convicted in Capitol riot
2 years, 6 months ago

Confederate flag-toting man, son convicted in Capitol riot

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday convicted a Confederate flag-toting man and his son of charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol together during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, to obstruct Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden delivered the verdict from the bench after hearing two days of testimony without a jury …

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Judge to decide trial for Confederate flag-toting dad, son
2 years, 6 months ago

Judge to decide trial for Confederate flag-toting dad, son

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A man carrying a Confederate battle flag stormed the U.S. Capitol with his son because they intended to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory, prosecutors argued Tuesday at the close of the men’s trial. Widely published photographs showed Kevin Seefried carrying a Confederate battle flag inside the Capitol after he and Hunter Seefried, then …

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Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers
2 years, 11 months ago

Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania had been installing historical markers for more than a century when the racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 brought a fresh round of questions from the public about just whose stories were being told on the state’s roadsides — and the language used to tell them. State government took down a marker in Pittsburgh’s …

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Years of white supremacy threats culminated in Capitol riots
3 years, 11 months ago

Years of white supremacy threats culminated in Capitol riots

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Amid the American flags and Trump 2020 posters at the U.S. Capitol during last week’s insurrection were far more sinister symbols: A man walking the halls of Congress carrying a Confederate flag. The hateful imagery included an anti-Semitic “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt created years ago by white supremacists, who sold them on the now-defunct website Aryanwear, said Aryeh Tuchman, …

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‘We will exterminate you’: Proud Boys and other right-wing Trump diehards confront counter-protesters at Raleigh rally
4 years ago

‘We will exterminate you’: Proud Boys and other right-wing Trump diehards confront counter-protesters at Raleigh rally

Raw Story  

A band of COVID deniers, neo-Confederates and pro-Trump diehards, augmented by a 50-strong Proud Boy security detail, marched around the Governor’s Mansion in downtown Raleigh on Saturday, firing up a far-right coalition to carry on the fight as their president faces the reality of leaving office. Exterminate you!” Bertino kicked off a chant of, “Fuck antifa.” Another Proud Boy wore …

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Mississippi approves flag with magnolia, ‘In God We Trust’
4 years, 1 month ago

Mississippi approves flag with magnolia, ‘In God We Trust’

Associated Press  

— Mississippi will fly a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase “In God We Trust,” with voters approving the design Tuesday. Many furled the Mississippi flag after mid-2015, when a white man shot and killed nine Black people worshiping at a church in Charleston, South Carolina; he had previously posed for photos with the rebel flag. Reginal, …

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US: Far-right groups and counter-protesters clash in Georgia
4 years, 4 months ago

US: Far-right groups and counter-protesters clash in Georgia

Al Jazeera  

The far-right groups had gathered, in part, in support of a Confederate sculpture in a nearby Stone Mountain park. Several dozen far-right demonstrators, some waving the Confederate battle flag and many wearing military gear, gathered on Saturday in central Stone Mountain, where they faced off against a few hundred counter-protesters, many of whom wore shirts or carried signs expressing support …

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Confederate Groups Are Thriving on Facebook. What Does That Mean for the Platform?
54 years, 11 months ago

Confederate Groups Are Thriving on Facebook. What Does That Mean for the Platform?

Slate  

This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech. “I don’t know if Mark appreciates that hateful speech has harmful results, and that Facebook groups have real-world consequences,” Jonathan …

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Look away, Dixie: Mississippi to lose rebel emblem from flag
4 years, 5 months ago

Look away, Dixie: Mississippi to lose rebel emblem from flag

Associated Press  

— Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War. Religious groups — including the large and influential Mississippi Baptist Convention — said erasing the rebel emblem from the state flag is a moral imperative. …

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Native Americans protesting Trump trip to Mount Rushmore
4 years, 5 months ago

Native Americans protesting Trump trip to Mount Rushmore

Associated Press  

— President Donald Trump’s plans to kick off Independence Day with a showy display at Mount Rushmore have angered Native Americans, who view the monument as a desecration of land violently stolen from them and used to pay homage to leaders hostile to Indigenous people. “Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that’s still alive and …

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Noose found hanging in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage at Talladega
4 years, 6 months ago

Noose found hanging in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage at Talladega

LA Times  

A noose was found hanging in Bubba Wallace’s garage stall Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, and NASCAR has launched an immediate investigation into the incident. In a statement Sunday, NASCAR said it was “angry” and “outraged” and promised to find whoever was responsible and “eliminate them from the sport.” The incident comes less than two weeks after Wallace, who is Black, …

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Juneteenth takes on new meaning amid push for racial justice
4 years, 6 months ago

Juneteenth takes on new meaning amid push for racial justice

Associated Press  

DETROIT — Protesters marched over the Brooklyn Bridge, chanted “We want justice now!” near St. Louis’ Gateway Arch, stopped work at West Coast ports and paused for a moment of silence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, as Americans marked Juneteenth with new urgency Friday amid a nationwide push for racial justice. In California’s Port of Oakland, …

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Hernández: NASCAR finally bans flags of the Confederacy
4 years, 6 months ago

Hernández: NASCAR finally bans flags of the Confederacy

LA Times  

Driver Bubba Wallace prepares for the NASCAR Cup series race with his newly painted Black Lives Matter car on Wednesday at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia. “The presence of the confederate flag at NASCAR events run contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans, our competitors and our industry,” NASCAR said in a statement. “Bringing …

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