Are Black Voters Leaving Democrats Behind?
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Even more insanity is folks will hold up Ginsberg, who knew what time it was as a 2x cancer survivor in her mid 70's under Obama, as some kind of hero for womens Lib.
Ginsburg didnt care about anything but Ginsburg.
#OnThisDay in 1966, James Meredith was shot a day after he began his one-man, 220-mile March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith survived, and the sniper was arrested. Meredith did the march to encourage Black Mississippians to vote in the wake of the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. After Meredith’s shooting, Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders and activists decided to continue the march in Meredith’s name. People from all over the nation came to join the march, which resulted in 4,000 new Black voters. The march ended at the state Capitol in Jackson, where 15,000 gathered, including Meredith, who had recuperated from surgery. It was the largest civil rights march in the state’s history. (The photo by Associated Press’ Jack Thornell, which captured the shooting, won the Pulitzer.)
#OnThisDay in 1963, while returning from a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee training session in South Carolina, Fannie Lou Hamer and nine other civil rights movement activists dared to ride in the “white” section of a Greyhound bus and sit at the “whites-only” lunch counter inside the bus terminal in Winona, Mississippi. The police chief had them arrested. Inside the jail, activists Fannie Lou Hamer, June Johnson, Annell Ponder and Lawrence Guyot were all beaten. Jailers brought in two black inmates to torture Hamer, who called the violence “the most horrifying experience I’ve ever had in my life.” Euvester Simpson, who witnessed the brutal beating, nursed Hamer’s wounds and became even more dedicated to the movement. Six months later, the Justice Department charged the police chief and sheriff with depriving the activists of their civil rights. Prosecutors held up the bloodstained clothes of Johnson and Hamer as evidence, while the defense lawyer declared, “You have agitators on one hand, and elected officials on the other, who shall you believe?” Some students from the University of Mississippi School of Law cut classes to watch, marveling at Hamer’s courage. “It was plain to us that she was telling the truth, and that the defense witnesses were lying,” recalled Avery Rollins, who became an FBI agent. Although the all-white jury acquitted the law enforcement officers on all counts, Hamer refused to stay silent. Months later, she testified before the Democratic Credentials Committee about her beating, moving a nation.
ICE arrests 8 with suspected ISIS ties
ICE agents have rounded up eight individuals from Tajikistan who are in the U.S. and have suspected ties to ISIS, according to U.S. officials.
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ICE arrests 8 with suspected ISIS ties
By Robert Legare, Nicole Sganga, Andres Triay
Updated on: June 11, 2024 / 4:06 PM EDT / CBS News
Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have rounded up eight individuals from Tajikistan who are in the U.S. and have suspected ties to ISIS, U.S. officials told CBS News.
The arrests took place in the New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles areas, and the individuals are alleged to have arrived in the U.S. after crossing the Mexican border in 2023 and this year.
This large Department of Homeland Security operation was carried out in close coordination with the Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF), according to two sources familiar with the operation. There is no active plot, but derogatory information about the individuals surfaced after they crossed into the U.S. and came to the attention of law enforcement.
All of the men underwent an intense screening and vetting process, but no derogatory information was found when they first crossed the U.S. border. The New York Post first reported the arrests.
In April, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that human smuggling operations at the southern border were bringing in people who could have possible connections to terror groups.
The chinese love the current administration. Dr. Toof Even defending child rapists.
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Republican legislators have introduced a bill that would end all federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and end funding for government agencies, contractors, schools and other organizations that have their own DEI programs.
Introduced Wednesday, the proposed “Dismantle DEI Act” is the latest in a cascade of challenges that have arisen over the past year to programs that give preferences to minorities and women, including a disaster aid program for minority farmers and the Minority Business Development Agency. Scores of state legislatures across the country are considering anti-DEI bills, and private-sector initiatives have been challenged in court.
These challenges have come in the wake of the Supreme Court decision last June that struck down affirmative action in college admissions.
The federal bill was introduced by Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and backed by Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Kevin Cramer (N.D.), Eric Schmitt (Mo.) and Rick Scott (Fla.), and more than a dozen Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Its chances of passage seem unlikely as long as Democrats control the Senate and White House. But the bill offers a window into the pressure DEI initiatives could face if Donald Trump returns to the presidency and Republicans gain a majority in the Senate.
DEI encompasses a wide range of practices that advocates describe as ways to diversify companies, schools and organizations, their ranks, and ensure equal access to opportunity. It includes efforts such as recruiting and mentorship programs geared toward underrepresented groups, anti-bias training, and employee resource groups.
Critics of DEI programs say preferences based on race and gender are themselves discriminatory.
“I’m proud to introduce this legislation, which would root out DEI from our federal bureaucracy by eliminating such programs and stripping funding for DEI policies anywhere it exists,” Vance said in a statement. “Americans’ tax dollars should not be co-opted to spread this radical and divisive ideology.”
The bill seeks to rescind executive orders related to DEI, such as the 2021 order by President Biden that declared that “as the Nation’s largest employer, the Federal Government must be a model for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility”
It also would wipe out DEI-related federal roles and offices, end trainings, and revoke all funding for DEI programming in federal agencies. The legislation would bar federal contracts from being awarded to “entities that employ DEI practices,” according to the press release, and bar accreditation agencies from requiring DEI in schools.
Some of the Biden administration’s DEI efforts have already been unwound: The federal spending measure enacted in March to avert a government shutdown included a provision that stripped funding for the U.S. House Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The office was established in March 2020 to help develop a federal workforce that mirrors the diversity of the nation.
Introduced Wednesday, the proposed “Dismantle DEI Act” is the latest in a cascade of challenges that have arisen over the past year to programs that give preferences to minorities and women, including a disaster aid program for minority farmers and the Minority Business Development Agency. Scores of state legislatures across the country are considering anti-DEI bills, and private-sector initiatives have been challenged in court.
These challenges have come in the wake of the Supreme Court decision last June that struck down affirmative action in college admissions.
The federal bill was introduced by Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and backed by Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Kevin Cramer (N.D.), Eric Schmitt (Mo.) and Rick Scott (Fla.), and more than a dozen Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Its chances of passage seem unlikely as long as Democrats control the Senate and White House. But the bill offers a window into the pressure DEI initiatives could face if Donald Trump returns to the presidency and Republicans gain a majority in the Senate.
DEI encompasses a wide range of practices that advocates describe as ways to diversify companies, schools and organizations, their ranks, and ensure equal access to opportunity. It includes efforts such as recruiting and mentorship programs geared toward underrepresented groups, anti-bias training, and employee resource groups.
Critics of DEI programs say preferences based on race and gender are themselves discriminatory.
“I’m proud to introduce this legislation, which would root out DEI from our federal bureaucracy by eliminating such programs and stripping funding for DEI policies anywhere it exists,” Vance said in a statement. “Americans’ tax dollars should not be co-opted to spread this radical and divisive ideology.”
The bill seeks to rescind executive orders related to DEI, such as the 2021 order by President Biden that declared that “as the Nation’s largest employer, the Federal Government must be a model for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility”
It also would wipe out DEI-related federal roles and offices, end trainings, and revoke all funding for DEI programming in federal agencies. The legislation would bar federal contracts from being awarded to “entities that employ DEI practices,” according to the press release, and bar accreditation agencies from requiring DEI in schools.
Some of the Biden administration’s DEI efforts have already been unwound: The federal spending measure enacted in March to avert a government shutdown included a provision that stripped funding for the U.S. House Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The office was established in March 2020 to help develop a federal workforce that mirrors the diversity of the nation.
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