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Rick Santorum's 'Native American culture' crack was racist. But here's why he thought it was OK.
Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 17 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago • LOCKED
“Indigenous people's contributions have been erased from the stories white men tell about this land because acknowledging their genocide is...”
Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, spewed what has become his trademark nastiness Friday when he said during a speech that there was "nothing here" before white people stumbled on what they later renamed "America." "We came here and created a blank slate," he said to a room of...
AOC among most ineffective lawmakers in Congress, according to study
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 178 Comments • 3 years ago • LOCKED
“Among all Democratic lawmakers, AOC was ranked 230th out of 2040 Congressional Democrats in terms of effectiveness.”
A study has found that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic member of Congress from New York City and a young face in the party, has not been an effective politician in the legislature, based on a survey from the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking. Ocasio- Cortez, popularly known...
Justice Department working with tribes on missing persons
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
“The Justice Department has finalized its first plan to help address the problem of missing and murdered Native people on one of the largest...”
Jermain Charlo vanished in June 2018. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribal member hasn’t been seen since. Valenda Morigeau, Charlo’s aunt, reported her missing to the Missoula Police Department in the days after her disappearance. But Morigeau said the detective initially assigned to the...
The Border-Crisis Deniers
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 46 Comments • 1 Like • 3 years ago
“The defenses of Biden’s performance at the border are tendentious or dishonest.”
It should be perfectly obvious what’s happening at the border, but the Biden administration and journalistic allies are denying it all the same. Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been leading the way with a haze of misrepresentations. On Sunday, he said that Title 42, the...
Majority of Americans disapprove of Biden's immigration and gun violence policies: Poll
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 25 Comments • 5 Likes • 3 years ago
A new poll shows a majority of Americans disapprove of President Biden’s handling of the surge of migrants at the U.S. border. Fifty-seven percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s approach to the border crisis, according to the latest ABC News/Ipos poll. Broken down by partisan affiliation,...
A Minnesota man can’t be charged with felony rape because the woman chose to drink beforehand, court rules
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 3 years ago
After a 20-year-old woman took five shots of vodka and a prescription pill, she said she was standing outside a Minneapolis bar in May 2017 when a man invited her and a friend to a party. She agreed but soon found out there was no gathering, she later testified. She “blacked out” instead,...
‘Warrior Restaurants?' How the Army hopes to boost DFAC usage
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 20 Comments • 1 Like • 3 years ago
Base cafeterias will always be “chow halls” for many, while others call them DFACs. But the Army is trying to add a new term to the lexicon: warrior restaurant. In an effort to change how and what soldiers eat, the service has begun rebranding its dining facilities, modernizing them and...
Biden administration limits what Border Patrol can share with media about migrant surge at border
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 19 Comments • 4 Likes • 3 years ago
“Restrictions on what border agents can share with the media were passed down verbally, say officials. Some have released videos of the border surge...”
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is restricting the information Border Patrol agents and sector chiefs can share with the media as a surge of migrants tests the agency's capacity at the southern border, according to four current and two former Customs and Border Protection officials....
White House says it must ‘work more’ to discourage illegal migrants coming to US
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 32 Comments • 6 Likes • 3 years ago
Thousands of illegal immigrants are being set free across the country as the crisis on the southern border escalates — and the White House admitted Monday it isn’t doing enough to discourage people from seeking unlawful entry to the United States. Speaking to reporters during a press briefing,...