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News & Views | 12/24/20

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"I feel like she wanted to insert a choice expletive in the middle of that."

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Laurel Grindy and Paul Nixon, both volunteers with Green Valley-Sahuarita Samaritans, a group that offers humanitarian aid to migrants in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands shared by the U.S. and Mexico, speak to a Border Patrol agent who was manning surveillance equipment near Nogales on July 14, 2019. (Photo: Daniel Woolfolk for AFP/via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
One volunteer noted the cruel irony of such actions "on the eve of a holiday meant to celebrate hospitality towards travelers from distant lands."



President-elect Joe Biden announces Miguel Cardona as his nominee for Education Secretary at the Queen theatre on December 23, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
While the president-elect continues to question his ability to terminate up to $50,000 in loan debt, experts say "the authority is clear."



House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) arrives for a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on December 18, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The House GOP is spending this holiday season trying to block $2,000 survival payments for families struggling to keep food on the table."


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A Palestinian man using Facebook. (Photo: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Sada Social Center says visits to some pages have plummeted by as much as 80%.




by Julia Conley, staff writer
Voting rights groups on Wednesday accused officials in at least two Georgia counties of voter suppression, pointing to the closures of several early voting locations in majority-Black and Latino communities ahead of two key runoff Senate elections.



Roger Stone walks through the crowd by his hotel as Trump supporters and Proud Boys held a rally in Washington, D.C., United States on December 11, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump is pardoning his political allies while he's executing people on death row at an unprecedented rate. His deeds are unconscionable."



Dr. Susan Moore said she experienced medical racism in an Indiana hospital before being prematurely discharged. (Photo: Facebook/GoFundMe)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"This is how Black people get killed, when you send them home and they don't know how to fight for themselves," said Dr. Susan Moore in a video she posted on Facebook.



Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a briefing on November 10, 2020 at the State Department in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
A spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry called the U.S. president's accusation "baseless" and "fabricated."



An Iranian citizen reads a newspaper in Tehran following U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election, which many hope will lead to a restoration of the 2015 nuclear deal and a lifting of economic sanctions. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Biden has a narrow window of opportunity at the start of his presidency to undo Trump's mess."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
The powerful company is now reportedly pushing for an in-person vote on unionizing, despite federal guidelines urging mail-in voting due to the coronavirus pandemic.


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US President Donald Trump tours a Honeywell International Inc. factory producing N95 masks during his first trip since widespread COVID-19 related lockdowns went into effect May 5, 2020, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

by Jeff Hauser
A Christmas poem and a plea for congressional oversight in the New Year.



The Biden administration has an opportunity to make historic gains in our country’s continuing quest to finally secure the fundamental right to vote for all our citizens. (Photo by Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Sonia Gill
Trump’s assault on our democracy reinforces the Biden administration’s obligation to do everything within its power to protect the right to vote.



Protesters at Jagel Air Base, the key Bundeswehr drone base in northern Germany. (Credit: DFG-VK)

by Elsa Rassbach, Nick Mottern
"People are saying they cannot think of any peace movement struggle in recent years that has won such a striking victory. This brings hope to the whole peace movement."



Trump has defied conventional wisdom, expert forecasting, and the Constitution itself time and time again these past four years. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/cc)

by Jeffrey C. Isaac
The question at hand is not what the law says, but whether it is possible for a tyrant to violate and overturn the rule of law.



As a last-ditch attempt, he could call his MAGA warriors to take to the streets with their deer rifles and assault weapons. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

by Al Martinich, Tom Palaima
American exceptionalism lulls us into thinking that what has happened in other countries cannot happen here.



Parents should be allowed (and encouraged!) to stay home and take care of their own kids. We should literally pay them to do so!  (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

by Steven Singer
The economy is what they’re really worried about. They want to keep it chugging along so they can continue siphoning profit off of the working class and into their pockets.


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