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"I’m with New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, who posted on social media: 'i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet.'”
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #racism #SouthAfrica #WhiteSupremacy #media
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-inches-closer-to
"It’s quite something for the media to demand Democrats take responsibility even as the corporate media ignore their own obtuseness while refusing to engage Republicans on the latter’s astounding deceit and lack of constitutional loyalty in enabling Trump to trash our economy, democracy, and national character."
"The utter refusal to systematically reveal, analyze, and hold [Trump] accountable for his divorce from reality constitutes the worst media malpractice imaginable."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Biden #MentalDecline #dementia #media
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-spanish-historical-lesson
"It’s very hard to have a serious conversation about whether Joe Biden had cognitive decline when the current president is ranting about groceries to the dictator in the UAE. If someone got onto the metro… sat next to you and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen’s skin or about being lord of the world or the reincarnation of Jesus – which is stuff that Trump has said –"
~ Mehdi Hasan
As Gary Legum reports, Sean Rowe, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal church in the US, has announced that the church is ending its four-decades-long association with the US Refugee Admissions Program.
#Trump #immigration #refugees #SouthAfrica #Afrikaners #racism #WhiteSupremacy #Episcopalian
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"For years, Trump has indirectly platformed the 'white genocide' conspiracies of South Africa’s far right. That rhetoric — recently manifested in concrete policies and actions — lays bare the white nationalism at the heart of Trump’s agenda."
~ Schuyler Mitchell
#Trump #immigration #refugees #SouthAfrica #Afrikaners #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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"Now, we learn that Trump has made an exception to this policy for Afrikaners, the white minority who led South Africa’s apartheid regime for generations.
59 such refugees arrived in the United States today, and will resettle here."
#Trump #immigration #refugees #SouthAfrica #Afrikaners #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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"Early in the term, Trump indefinitely suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. This shut down the resettlement of refugees from numerous countries, including Afghanistan, as well as: Somalia; Congo; Myanmar; Venezuela; Nicaragua; Iraq and Sudan."
~ David Pepper
#Trump #immigration #refugees #SouthAfrica #Afrikaners #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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