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☆ Opinion: Is the US on the brink of another civil war?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Opinion Bruce Hoffman | Jacob Ware | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The most dismal assessment, though, is that of Canadian journalist Stephen Marche who, in his 2022 book, The Next Civil War: Dispatches form the American Future, contends that a new American civil war is inevitable. Remember that the United States leads the world — by far — in the number of firearms in private hands. There are an estimated 393 million privately held firearms in the United States — more than one gun per person. In fact, there are more civilian-held guns in the United States than the other top 25 countries in the world combined. Indeed, more guns were purchased in the United States in 2020 — nearly 23 million — than any other year on record.

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CNN —“Ireland, we are at war,” UFC star Conor McGregor declared to his millions of social media followers on November 22, 2023. This comes after the Garda – as Ireland’s police are known – told CNN there were 231 anti-immigration related public gatherings in 2023. A working-class boy from Dublin, McGregor was driven by a desire to become world champion in a sport relatively unknown in Ireland. Political analysts and far-right experts have told CNN that McGregor’s unique brand of Irish patriotism that won him supporters as a fighter has mutated into a strand of “far-right” Irish nationalism. O’Keefe regularly writes to McGregor on X, calling him “President McGregor.” O’Keefe did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.

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Dearborn, Michigan CNN —In 2020, Eman Hammoud was one of thousands of Michigan Muslims who helped President Joe Biden beat Donald Trump. A month ago, the Palestinian American immigration lawyer had no doubts she would support his campaign again in 2024. Michigan has more than 200,000 Muslim American voters — 146,000 of whom turned out to vote in 2020 –— according to an analysis by Emgage, an organization that seeks to build the political power of Muslim Americans. “That just proves that the Biden administration needs the Muslim vote to win,” said Nada Al-Hanooti, the Michigan executive director of Emgage Action. “We felt that the rhetoric, including from the White House, was very unhelpful and in fact potentially dangerous,” Alzayat said.

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☆ Newly Published, From Susan Sontag to the Black Working Class
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

AMERICAN WHITELASH: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress, by Wesley Lowery. (Yale, $35.) A historian explains how California “welcomed, honed and legalized” human bondage for 250 years, from the legalized enslavement of Native Americans to forced labor in today’s prisons. RIVERMOUTH: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration, by Alejandra Oliva. Reflecting on her family’s fluid relationship to the southern U.S. border and her experience working with asylum seekers, Oliva meditates on the seemingly insurmountable barriers migrants face today.

Persons: Wesley Lowery, Barack Obama, Lowery, Jean Pfaelzer, California “, Itamar Vieira Junior, Johnny Lorenz, Alejandra Oliva, Oliva meditates Organizations: Yale, Astra House Locations: CALIFORNIA, California, Brazil, U.S

☆ Lydia Polgreen on ‘Survivor’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

America Is ... We asked 17 columnists topick the one piece of culture thatbest captures the country. The show had grand ambitions: Jeff Probst, the host, repeatedly referred to “Survivor” as “the greatest social experiment.”Scroll to watch and read moreIt’s also a uniquely American experiment. Most strikingly, the show takes on — admittedly, in a ham-fisted way — the biggest divides in American society: gender, sexuality, race, age, class. One of the most admired and rewarded feats on “Survivor” is the blindside: voting off someone who thinks you are an ally. “Survivor” reminds us that living in our panopticon, with cameras in every pocket, we are content creators all, delivering a performance of ourselves.

Persons: topick, ”, Jeff Probst, MeToo, Probst, can’t, Erving Goffman Organizations: Survivor Locations: America

☆ How School Integration Upended a ‘Most Tolerant Little Town’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Samuel G. Freedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

A MOST TOLERANT LITTLE TOWN: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation, by Rachel Louise MartinIn the dozen years since I read “The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson’s narrative masterpiece about the Great Migration, one passage has remained embedded in my mind. It is a description of Black men, women and children picking cotton in the 1920s. I was put in mind of that passage as I read Rachel Louise Martin’s “A Most Tolerant Little Town,” her unsparing account of an early effort at school desegregation in the Jim Crow South. It is another to be confronted with a meticulous, day-by-day reconstruction of relentless bigotry in action. To read “A Most Tolerant Little Town” is to be flooded with cross burnings, mob riots, night-riding raids, bombings, street-corner ambushes and racial slurs.

Persons: Rachel Louise Martin, ” Isabel Wilkerson’s, Wilkerson, boll, Rachel Louise Martin’s “, Jim Crow, Martin Organizations: School, Suns Locations: Little, Clinton, Tenn

☆ A DEI exec at Uber was placed on leave after hosting an event about white women who don't like being called a 'Karen'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The news came after employees brought up concerns about a DEI event on "Karens," per the NYT. The term has been used to call out white women who act racist in public. A DEI executive at Uber who upset employees by hosting an event that highlighted the "spectrum of the American white woman's experience" has been put on leave, according to reports. Lee hosted a pair of events this over the past few weeks called "Don't Call Me Karen" — an exploration of the Karen persona that featured white women speakers, the Times reported. "Karen" has long been used as a term to call out problematic white women who commit racist acts in public.

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Formal organizations like the Oath Keepers no longer define the American right-wing landscape. If Biden’s election was illegitimate, the Oath Keepers were ready to defend Trump’s legitimate one. And indeed, the trial has revealed the brazenness of the Oath Keepers, as well as some profound shifts happening in the American right. The evidence of a seditious conspiracy introduced in the Oath Keepers’ trial was damning, yet obvious. While certainly more polished, some of Masters’ talking points would not be out of place at an Oath Keepers meeting.

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