AP FACT CHECK: Trump declares emergency with faulty claims By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency at the southern border while acknowledging that rapid construction of a wall is not a necessity, but rather his preference. In justifying the extraordinary step, he brushed aside his administration’s… Read more »
How exactly does immigration detention work? (updated)
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Parkland shooting survivors win Children’s Peace Prize
“Children can move the world.” By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press A group of young Americans who campaigned against gun violence after surviving a deadly shooting at their Florida school have received a prize from former South African archbishop Desmond Tutu. The Parkland students who created an international movement to raise awareness for gun violence after a… Read more »
Women’s Show 8/16: Red and Green “Monsters;” Kavanagh Hearings
Red and Green “monsters” continue… Who? What? Why? How dangerous? Nutrient enhanced? …300 tons of dead fish and aquatic life… The tragedy is compounded by the fact that when we most need science and epidemiological data, there is none because it was discontinued. In the guise of frugality, the scientists and engineers were dismissed and thus… Read more »
Social media anonymity may not be guaranteed as free speech
Judge: Social media user isn’t entitled to anonymity By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press A social media platform can be compelled to divulge account information belonging to a woman who anonymously chatted online about plans for last summer’s deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a federal magistrate judge ruled Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero’s 28-page… Read more »
Voter registration in Florida ahead of the primaries
Today was the last day to register to vote/change registration, to be able to vote in the August 28th primary. The deadline for voter registration for the November election is October 9, 2018. There are 12,927,318 people registered to vote in Florida as of June 30, 2018, according to Florida’s Division of Elections: 4,562,533 registered… Read more »
US administration says nearly half of the small children are still separated from their families
US: Nearly half of youngest children not rejoining families By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Thursday all eligible small children separated from their families as a result of its zero-tolerance immigration policy have been reunited with their parents. But nearly half of the children under 5 remain separated from their… Read more »
Congress battles again over family separations policies
Battle over family separations flairs anew in Congress By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress’ fight over President Donald Trump’s now abandoned policy of separating migrant families stirred anew Wednesday, drawing fresh attention to an issue that has divided Republicans and that Democrats hope will propel voters their way in the midterm elections. The… Read more »
“I’m not a radical, and I’m not an activist” ~ Moms become protest leaders
Moms outraged by family separations become protest leaders By GILLIAN FLACCUS and AMY TAXIN, Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Immigrants who have spent years fighting to change the country’s immigration system are getting newfound support from liberal activists, moms and first-time protesters motivated by a visceral narrative: President Donald Trump’s administration separating children from their… Read more »
Update on the separation of families at the border on World Refugee Day
The Latest: Justice Dept. calls executive order ‘stopgap’ WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and immigration (all times local): 5:40 p.m. A senior Justice Department official says President Donald Trump’s executive order is a stopgap measure to end the separation of families as they cross the border illegally and face criminal prosecution…. Read more »
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FL Senator Nelson & Rep. Wasserman Schultz barred from migrant children detention center
Lawmakers barred from child migrant facility in Florida By JOSHUA REPLOGLE and BEN FOX, Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson accused the Trump administration of a “cover-up” after officials denied him entry Tuesday to a detention center for migrant children in South Florida where he had hoped to survey living conditions. Nelson… Read more »
Felon voting rights fix deadline is tomorrow: Scott meets with clemency board tonight (UPDATED)
Update: From the Orlando Sentinel: …the Atlanta-based U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals prevented a late-night meeting of the Florida Clemency Board, which was called by Gov. Rick Scott to comply with the lower court’s Thursday deadline to adopt new voting rights restoration rules. A felon voting rights fix will appear on Florida’s November ballot, but a court… Read more »
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Investigative Reporter Greg Palast Says There’s No Proof Widespread Illegal Voting in US Exists
Radioactivity 4 20 18 Today on WMNF’s Radioactivity investigative reporter Greg Palast (The Guardian, The BBC, Rolling Stone Magazine) says that while FOX News and President Trump say that millions of people voted illegally in the last election there is no evidence that is true. In fact he says a trial on the matter currently… Read more »
ESPN’s Jemele Hill’s message to some news consumers: ‘Your emotions are not facts’
ESPN’s Jemele Hill says the news business has changed dramatically since she first got into the industry in the late 1990’s, with the most significant difference being that instead of getting the news to inform themselves, many people are now doing it simply to confirm a lot of their own truths, a change that she… Read more »
Atlanta marks 50 years since King’s funeral service
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr., Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Relatives of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led more than 1,000 people on a march Monday in downtown Atlanta, where large crowds gathered 50 years earlier for the slain civil rights leader’s funeral procession as a mule-drawn wagon pulled his casket through the streets. On Monday,… Read more »
