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Saturday, May 17, 2025


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** Pet-Eating Lies to Deportation Fears: Haitians in Trump’s Crosshairs
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** Credit: Rebecca Blackwell/AP
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You probably remember the moment when Donald Trump falsely accused Haitian immigrants of eating cats and dogs. In a campaign full of outrageous accusations, this one stood out: At its core was the racist notion that people from countries like Haiti are somehow unfit to be in the US.

An estimated 10,000 Haitian immigrants live in Springfield, Ohio. And today, Trump is attempting to revoke their legal status.

One immigrant living there is Lindsay Aime, co-founder of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center. On this week’s episode of More To The Story ([link removed]) , host Al Letson sits down with Aime to discuss that ugly moment during the election, how the community is coping with the threat of deportation, and why returning to Haiti for him personally is not an option.

- Josh Sanburn, More To The Story producer

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** Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother
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** Shooters Paradise, an indoor shooting range in Oxnard, Calif. Credit: Philip Cheung for Mother Jones
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In 2014, in the college town of Isla Vista, California, a 22-year-old man killed six people and injured 14 others before killing himself. He didn’t suddenly “snap” one day out of the blue; he planned the attack and spiraled into crisis in the years leading up to it. The horrific incident left violence prevention experts wondering: What were the missed warning signs?

One person who held some of the answers was the killer’s mother, Chin Rodger. She has long avoided the media, fearing that speaking publicly would only hurt the victims’ families more. But more than a decade later, she’s come to see a greater purpose—that sharing what she knows about her son’s behavior before the attack could help others identify similar warning signs and prevent further violence.

“I hope that my hindsight will be your foresight,” she says.

This week on Reveal ([link removed]) , an update of an episode that originally aired last May, Rodger talks publicly for the first time with Mother Jones reporter Mark Follman. By confronting and sharing the painful memories and evidence her son, Elliot, left behind, Rodger has contributed to the field of threat assessment—teams of people who specialize in collecting information on possible threats, connecting the dots, and intervening before tragedy strikes.
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** 🎧 Alabama’s Threats to Prosecute Abortion Helpers ([link removed])
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When Roe v. Wade was overturned and abortion became illegal in Alabama, helping people get out of state came with the threat of jail time.

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** 🎧 Nikole Hannah-Jones: Trump Is Erasing Black History ([link removed])
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and creator of The 1619 Project argues that Trump’s civil rights rollback is returning the US to the 19th century.
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** 🎧 In Fallujah, We Destroyed Parts of Ourselves ([link removed])

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Twenty years after the Battle of Fallujah, Marines still wrestle with what they were asked to do in Iraq.

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** 🎧 Teaching Kids to Read: How One School District Gets It Right ([link removed])
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An elementary school in Ohio has some of the best little readers in the nation. How they did it—and how a new law put it all at risk.

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