Racism

Forbes reports: One of the workers at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency most involved in the agency’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment system reportedly resigned Thursday after racist social media posts tied to him surfaced—the latest in the line of controversy and criticism surrounding DOGE. Marko Elez, one of the two primary DOGE emissaries embedded in the Treasury …

Reuters reports: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he won’t attend a Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg later this month, citing among his reasons South Africa’s efforts to address inequality. “South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change,” Rubio said in a …

Baltimore’s NBC affiliate reports: The city of Baltimore is suing the Trump administration, alleging the president’s executive orders ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs violate the First and Fifth amendments. The city is part of a broad coalition that includes higher education officers to file a lawsuit Monday in a Maryland federal court. The suit alleges the executive orders violate …

The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk has appeared to endorse a message about race-based emigration from his native South Africa, after President Donald Trump threatened the country over new land expropriation laws. Trump railed against the new law, calling it a “human rights VIOLATION” and threatening to cut funding to the country in response. Musk quoted an X message by …

Mediaite reports: Trump’s State Department is hiring first-term Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie to a top job just 15 weeks after he submitted that “competent white men must be in charge” in one of many controversial, resurfaced tweets. Semafor broke the news on Sunday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will appoint Beattie as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy at …

The Grand Forks Herald reports: “Wonder if the CIA would help Trump overthrow and kick this Jew out of power in Mexico?” state Rep. Nico Rios, a Republican from Williston, wrote in a post on X on Sunday, Feb. 2. Rios writes many stupid things on social media. He recently argued that an economy where women with children work outside …

The Arizona Mirror reports: As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement intensifies its efforts to apprehend and deport undocumented immigrants throughout the country, concern is rising among Indigenous communities residing in urban areas about reports of Indigenous people being detained in the Valley. Navajo tribal leaders reported that they have received calls and text messages from Navajo people living in urban …

Courthouse News reports: Louisiana officials asked the Fifth Circuit Tuesday to overturn a lower court finding that the state’s congressional map illegally dilutes the Black vote and must be redrawn. In 2022, the Louisiana Legislature drew a new congressional map that included only one majority Black district. A group of Black Louisiana voters and civil rights organizations sued, arguing the …

ABC News reports: Officials in Lincoln County, Oregon have received an anonymous letter urging people to report “brown folks” they suspect are undocumented immigrants, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office. “The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office recently learned about a letter being circulated throughout Lincoln County which encourages community members to track and report information regarding people of color, specifically …

ABC News reports: A text messaging service said today that it discovered “one or more” of its users allegedly sent out racist text messages to phone numbers across the country and that the service quickly shut down the accounts. A representative from TextNow, a mobile provider that allows people to create phone numbers for free, told ABC News that the …

The New York Times reports: A wave of racist text messages summoning Black people to report for slavery showed up on phones across the United States, prompting the scrutiny of the F.B.I. The N.A.A.C.P. said that messages were received in dozens of states, and attorneys general in two other states reported the same on Thursday. The F.B.I. said in a …

Hampton Roads’ ABC affiliate reports: On Wednesday, the Virginia Attorney General’s Office condemned racist text messages from an unknown source sent to people across the state. The text message asked people to report to a plantation to pick cotton. It arrived on people’s phones a day after Election Day. Greetings, Samuel, You have been selected to pick cotton at the …

“So, remember when JD Vance pointed out that the Haitians were eating animals in Springfield, Ohio? So that’s based on reports to that effect. Now it may not be true. It may be exaggerated. It may be insane. It may be whatever. “But here’s what it accomplished. It brought attention to Springfield, which is overwhelmed with traffic accidents, including a …

“This Puerto Rican has something to say about the island that I love, where my family is from. Puerto Rico is trash? We are Americans, Donald Trump. Americans. We voluntarily serve disproportionally high in the military, while you have bone spurs. “And we vote. We vote, Donald Trump. Trash? And by the way, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Bad Bunny, Luis …

The Huffington Post reports: The archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico, called Monday for former President Donald Trump to personally apologize for a series of racist remarks made by a comedian at his campaign rally in New York City. “I enjoy a good joke,” the archbishop, Roberto O. González Nieves, wrote in a letter posted to Facebook. “However, humor has …

The Independent reports: CNN has said it will no longer feature appearances from writer Ryan Girdusky, after he made a comment amid a chaotic and bad tempered panel discussion appearing to say he hoped that a Muslim journalist got blown up in a bomb attack. The incident began during a panel on Monday, when Girdusky and fellow panelist Mehdi Hasan …

“I’ve heard about the joke. I haven’t actually seen the joke that you mentioned. But I think that it’s telling that Kamala Harris’s closing message is essentially that all of Donald Trump’s voters are Nazis. And you should get really pissed off about a comedian telling a joke. “That is not the message of a winning campaign. And most importantly, …

“It would behoove him to hire a few great comics to just tour with him, and just write one-liners about all these different fuckin’ people. If he could remember them. I know he likes to go off his own head, but if he could remember a few Hinchcliffe bangers. If he hires Hinchcliffe to take him on the road! You …

“Dems are more offended at a comedian making a bad joke about Puerto Rico than Walz giving tax dollars to a corporation using migrant children to clean slaughter houses or Kamala loosing [sic] over 300,000 migrant children.” – Florida GOP US Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, whose given name is Anna Mayerhofer. While serving in the Air Force, Luna reportedly made …

“Kamala Harris is the least qualified candidate to ever run for any political office in American history. She makes her boss look competent. She’s a fake. I’m not here to invalidate her. She’s a fake, a fraud. She’s a pretender. Her and her pimp handlers will destroy our country. They will. This election has to be more than a victory …