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Trump’s racist postings get more vivid every day: President Donald Trump raised the prospect of a dystopian future in the future if he fails to win reelection – hours after saying he held back warnings about the nature of the coronavirus to avoid sowing ‘panic.’ Trump made the claim as one of a barrage of tweets Thursday as he fended …

“There’s no escape. Remember, the left is totalitarian. I’ve said it all my life, most people think I’ve engaged in hyperbole. Maybe now you realize that is literally accurate. “All leftists are totalitarian. Liberals are not, conservatives are not, leftists are. Total. Our control must be total. You cannot escape leftism. Not even on an American Airlines flight, that little …

Eugene Robinson writes for the Washington Post: For more than five decades, the rule in U.S. politics has been that you’re supposed to whisper the racism, not shout it at the top of your lungs. But President Trump is running the most openly racist national campaign since that of George Wallace in 1968 — a repellent ploy that will do …

The Washington Post reports: President Trump is moving to revamp federal agencies’ racial sensitivity trainings, casting some of them as “divisive” and “un-American,” according to a memo by the White House Office of Management and Budget. In the two-page memo, OMB Director Russell Vought says Trump has asked him to prevent federal agencies from spending millions in taxpayer dollars on …

From a press release published by Christian Newswire: The Knights of Columbus today announced it will participate in a National Day of Prayer and Fasting to End Racism on Sept. 9, the Feast of St. Peter Claver, a 16th century Catholic saint revered for his ministry to slaves. Bishop Shelton J. Fabre, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic …

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) said he’d be more than willing to shoot any armed demonstrators in Louisiana in a Facebook post Tuesday that was accompanied by a picture of Black men with guns. “One way ticket fellas,” he wrote on his campaign account. “Have your affairs in order. Me?… I wouldn’t even spill my beer. I’d …

The Washington Post reports: Virginia Republican Bob Good dropped his first congressional campaign ad Monday, showing Cameron Webb, his Democratic opponent, against images of rioting in an unidentified location and trying to paint Webb as a “radical” who supports forced government health care and defunding the police. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee condemned the ad as a “racist dog whistle.” …

NBC News reports: In early May 2018, after weeks of phone calls and private meetings, 11 of the president’s most senior advisers were called to the White House Situation Room where they were asked, by a show-of-hands vote, to decide the fate of thousands of migrant parents and their children, according to two officials who were there. Trump’s senior adviser, …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: An unidentified woman hurled racist, xenophobic remarks at a San Francisco Recreation and Parks employee Sunday, as she cut through ropes blocking off the children’s play area in Dolores Park that has been closed for weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. Public outreach coordinator Andrés Patino captured the incident on video and posted the footage …

CBS News reports: Pressed on whether he accepts that Kamala Harris is a qualified candidate, Jared Kushner said, “I personally have no reason to believe she’s not.” “She was born in Oakland, California,” said “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason. “Yeah,” Kushner replied. “Makes her a qualified candidate. Why didn’t the president take the opportunity to debunk that theory?” Mason …

From the editors of Newsweek: This op-ed is being used by some as a tool to perpetuate racism and xenophobia. We apologize. The essay, by John Eastman, was intended to explore a minority legal argument about the definition of who is a “natural-born citizen” in the United States. But to many readers, the essay inevitably conveyed the ugly message that …

From the editorial board of the New York Daily News: Kamala Harris is a California-born American citizen. There is no question about this fact, just as there is no question that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. That didn’t stop Trump from becoming the nation’s leading racist birther. Andrew Jackson, a president Trump reveres despite his strong support for slavery …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump is known to long for the 1950s—when women were expected to be subservient and quiet and presidents could just deport people en masse. Now, he’s plucked a campaign message straight from his favorite era by telling “suburban housewives” he’ll protect them from an entirely imaginary “invasion” of poor people led by Sen. Cory …

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports: A Hanover County man and avowed Ku Klux Klan leader boasted on social media shortly after he drove through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in Henrico County in June, according to video shown during a trial on Monday. “They scattered like cockroaches,” said Harry H. Rogers, 36, in a Facebook live video he posted …

Politico reports: Facing possible electoral calamity, Republicans are now turning to a familiar playbook: stoking fear by trying to redefine the Black Lives Matter movement as a radical leftist mob looking to sabotage the white, suburban lifestyle. Republicans are using two lines of attack: the Trump administration, candidates in safe red seats and right-wing social media channels seek to label …

Politico reports: House GOP leaders raced to disavow a Republican congressional candidate who made racist Facebook videos and embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory. But less than two months later, the party has done little to block Marjorie Taylor Greene from winning a seat in the House. Now, Republicans could be days away from adding their most controversial member yet to …

The Washington Post reports: It was a selfie by Del. Mark Cole that first caught Sookyung Oh’s eye. Cole (R-Fredericksburg) tweeted an image showing off a bright red face mask he said he’d purchased from the congressional campaign of Del. Nick Freitas (R-Culpeper) Oh, who is Virginia director of the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC) Action Fund, …

“Just go read the two or three backup documents for Black Lives Matter. Black people get salaries for the rest of their lives. Nobody else. “It’s a very, very strange society they want to set up. And so far, they haven’t said a single word, even when the terrible violence is taking place by antifa or by Black Lives Matter, …

Law & Crime reports: The United States Navy SEALs announced Sunday that they are investigating the use of a “Colin Kaepernick” stand-in for a K-9 demonstration at the Navy SEAL Museum in St. Lucie County, Florida. Footage caught attention earlier that day from the Twitter account of filmmaker Billy Corben. He linked to the Instagram account “twogunterry.” The video is …

CNN reports: The Trump administration is dramatically increasing fees for dozens of immigration and work applications, including a more than 80 percent increase on naturalization applications and a first-time fee for asylum applicants. US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency responsible for the country’s immigration and naturalization system, updated and finalized its fee structure after a nearly nine month review. …