The New Republic | The Justice Department Sides With the Ku Klux Klan by Matt Ford

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The Justice Department, led by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, has brought a rare “Klan‑friendly” indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, accusing the civil‑rights nonprofit of fraud, money‑laundering and “manufacturing” racism by paying informants within extremist groups; the article argues that the SPLC’s undercover work was aimed at exposing and dismantling hate groups, has been publicly known for decades, and that the charges—especially those involving false statements to a bank—are legally shaky and appear motivated by a broader conservative effort to cripple an organization historically tasked with fighting the Ku Klux Klan, effectively turning the DOJ’s original anti‑Klan mission on its head.

Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/209432/justice-department-klan-splc-suit

#UlyssesGrant #Trumpadministration #law #UlyssesS.Grant #ToddBlanche #Trump

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Poignant note from one of my favorite historians, about an event 161 years ago

"On April 8, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant was having a hard night.

His army had been harrying Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s for days, and Grant knew it was only a question of time before Lee had to surrender. The people in the Virginia countryside were starving, and Lee’s army was melting away."

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-8-2026

#civilwar #robertelee #ulyssesgrant #appomattox

Hope, this July 4 is not our last 🤨

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other."
— President Ulysses Grant

#July4th #July4 #UlyssesGrant
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-3-2024-aea

IF WE ARE TO HAVE ANOTHER CONTEST IN THE NEAR FUTURE OF OUR NATIONAL EXISTENCE, I PREDICT THAT THE DIVIDING LINE WILL NOT BE MASON’S AND DIXON'S, BUT BETWEEN PATRIOTISM AND INTELLIGENCE ON ONE SIDE, AND SUPERSTITION, AMBITION, AND IGNORANCE ON THE OTHER.

ULYSSES S. GRANT
SPEECH AT THE ANNUAL REUNION OF THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE AT DES MOINES, IOWA
(29 SEPTEMBER 1875)

#UlyssesGrant