AZ Dems Close Harris Office After Three Shootings

AZ Dems Close Harris Office After Three Shootings:

USA Today reports:

Arizona Democrats closed their field office in Tempe, Ariz. after three shooting incidents. The office served as a base for the Sun State’s congressional campaigns and Vice President Harris’s presidential effort in recent weeks.

The Tempe Police Department said the latest incidents on Oct. 6 involved gun shots fired at the Democratic campaign office at around 12:30 a.m.

Lauren Kuby, a state Senate candidate in Legislative District 8, told USA Today that candidates and staffers quietly moved operations to an undisclosed location to ensure the team’s safety.

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Franklin Graham Threatens To Sue Over Anti-Trump Ad

Franklin Graham Threatens To Sue Over Anti-Trump Ad:

Religion News Service reports:

The ad begins with a clip of renowned evangelist the Rev. Billy Graham, wearing glasses, a gray suit and tie, leaning in toward a pulpit. “But you must realize that in the last days, the times will be full of danger,” Graham declares. “Men will become utterly self-centered and greedy for money.”

Suddenly, a clip of former President Donald Trump is spliced in. Standing before a row of American flags at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Trump says: “My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy. I’ve grabbed all the money I could get. I’m so greedy.”

That ad, the result of a $1 million ad campaign by Evangelicals for Harris, is now the subject of a potential lawsuit from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based nonprofit that supports the ministries of Billy Graham’s son and grandson.

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Read Susan Stryker's foreword to Nico Lang's book on trans youth, American Teenager (exclusive)

Read Susan Stryker's foreword to Nico Lang's book on trans youth, American Teenager (exclusive):

Queer journalist Nico Lang's new book American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era is out now. Below is an excerpt from the book: Its foreword, which trans studies scholar Susan Stryker wrote. The book is available at major books retailers.

Sally Field tells horrific story of illegal abortion in Instagram video

Sally Field tells horrific story of illegal abortion in Instagram video:

Oscar-winning actress Sally Field has posted a video to Instagram detailing her harrowing experience of having an illegal abortion in the 1960s and exhorting voters to support Kamala Harris for president and reproductive rights in referendums around the nation.

Ta-Nehisi Coates & Jon Stewart: Understanding the Humiliation of Oppression

Ta-Nehisi Coates & Jon Stewart: Understanding the Humiliation of Oppression:

I got a lot out of this interview with The Message author Ta-Nehisi Coates by Jon Stewart for The Daily Show.

Best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates sits down with Jon Stewart to talk about his latest book, “The Message,” and reconciling past and present vestiges of oppression. They discuss his visits to Senegal, South Carolina, and The West Bank, how past atrocities like slavery and the holocaust can create a zero-sum game of control, the need for safety and statehood despite morally problematic systems, his exposure to Palestinian stories that have been hidden in American media, understanding the physical traumas of the Black community, and the purpose in writing to shape the world around us.

See also his interview with Chris Hayes on MSNBC:

And with Terry Gross on Fresh Air.

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New Video Shows Vance Claiming Trump Won In 2020

New Video Shows Vance Claiming Trump Won In 2020:

Mediaite reports:

GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance was grilled by comedian Jason Selvig [in 2022] about who actually won the 2020 presidential election in a clip posted to X on Thursday.

“Who won the 2020 election? Could you just answer? Did Donald Trump win?” Selvig asked Vance as he walked. “Yes,” Vance clearly replied. “He did win?” shot back a surprised Selvig. Vance then added, “Yep.”

“Will you concede if your opponent gets, if your opponent gets more votes, will you concede?” Selvig pressed. “I really feel bad for you, man,” Vance replied.

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What the Bundy Bunkerville standoff foreshadowed

What the Bundy Bunkerville standoff foreshadowed:

Ten years after the impasse between the Bundy family and the BLM, the doctrine of white oppression is widely embraced.

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