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Haitian immigrants flee Springfield, Ohio, in droves after Trump election win

City subjected to false rumors from Trump loses residents integral to community over mass deportation fears

The Guardian
Here's an oped about Sprinfield. There are so many levels to the story there - and sick wins for MAGA. https://maggiewashburne.medium.com/red-herrings-intimidation-and-threats-in-springfield-ohio-d009e0be8def
Red Herrings, Intimidation, and Project 2025 in Springfield, Ohio

Springfield, Ohio, is a small city of about 60,000, settled by Europeans after the Revolutionary War. It has a history of both abolition and interracial conflict. Losing manufacturing in early 2000…

Medium
Imagination is the soil for curiosity, of seeing things we were not taught and of using solutions from different scales to make discoveries. Imagination is how we free our souls and disrupt walls and how we see the world and ourselves. If we fail it will be because we choose not to open the door.
If I believe in anything it is the power of imagination over fear. We panic when we don’t trust we can overcome unexpected challenges. Imagination is a muscle, it might be where God lives, but I know it is a space I can fly in and look from nanoscale to stars, from history to fiction, without limitations - seeking truth.
Important decision. All you have to do is make sure there’s no evidence of a pre-arranged kickback to make bribery legal - saving Alito and Thomas at the very least. The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/27/supreme-court-bribes-gratuities-snyder-kavanaugh?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery

By sheer coincidence, this ruling concerns the sort of generous ‘gifts’ and ‘gratuities’ that justices have been known to accept

The Guardian
The Supreme Court doesn't take phone comments - so time only to say, "Shame." We need to write letters - copy to your Reps. This country deserves a better and more ethical Supreme Court now.
5 more Trump attorneys, aides publicly named in Az fake elector indictment https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042624_trump_attys_indicted/5-more-trump-attorneys-aides-publicly-named-az-fake-elector-indictment/
Attorney General Kris Mayes has released the names of five more people who were indicted by a grand jury for the part they played in Arizona’s 2020 fake elector scheme to keep former President Donald Trump in the White House.
#Tucson #Arizona
5 more Trump attorneys, aides publicly named in Az fake elector indictment

Attorney General Kris Mayes has released the names of five more people who were indicted by a grand jury for the part they played in Arizona’s 2020 fake elector scheme to keep former President Donald Trump in the White House.

TucsonSentinel.com

If a woman is hemorrhaging from liver failure in Idaho, she will get care - but miscarriage - no.

“I think the premise of the question would be that the state of Idaho can declare that she cannot get to the stabilizing treatment even if she’s going to die.” — Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar, arguing for the federal government.

States have declared pregnant women are no longer persons. What is next? SCOTUS needs religious/spiritual diversity-one religion should not dictate our rights.

The BRAINS program is now accepting applications for its 2024 cohort! For this cohort, they are interested in early-career applicants from any area of neuroscience and early-career researchers who have expertise at the intersection of neuroscience and society. Deadline to apply is April 18: https://brains.uw.edu/
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Lawrence on what they don’t tell you about the Dump Biden ‘fantasy’

Pundits suggest replacing President Biden as the Democratic nominee because they don’t understand the job of the presidency or how conventions work. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell gives a history lesson in governing in the age of television.

MSNBC