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Media Matters has the transcript: The game ended up being a clash between America’s fading woke culture and a return to normalcy that Americans have been begging for since the plague of wokeness arrived. But woke, of course, is a hard stain to remove. Last night, the NFL gave us unquestionably the worst halftime show we have ever seen. A …

The Military Times reports: The Army and other service branches are abandoning recruiting efforts at a prestigious Black engineering event this week, turning down access to a key pool of highly qualified potential applicants amid President Donald Trump’s purge of diversity initiatives in the military. Until this week, Army Recruiting Command had a long-standing public partnership with the Black Engineer …

“I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern. My kids, god willing, will be risk takers. They won’t think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives. “They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views that they later think are wrong …

The Latin Times reports: Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced today she will introduce a bill to declare English as the country’s official language. USA.gov confirms that the U.S. does not have an official language, although “English is the most widely used language” in the country. Greene has also demanded Congress pass a bill to use “force” in renaming the …

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 …

CNN reports: Authorities in at least three states have arrested individuals allegedly impersonating ICE officers at a time when real ICE agents have ramped up immigration enforcement efforts under the Trump administration, adding to existing fears of law enforcement among migrant communities. In South Carolina, Sean-Michael Johnson, 33, was charged with kidnapping and impersonating a police officer after allegedly detaining …

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 …

Charleston’s ABC affiliate reports: Police say a Huger man that harassed Hispanic men in a now viral video, has bonded out of jail. Sean Michael-Emmrich Johnson was arrested after turning himself in to the Sullivan’s Island Police Department Friday. Saturday, Johnson appeared in court virtually from the Al Cannon Detention Center. Johnson is charged with felony kidnapping, impersonating a law …

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 …

Newsweek reports: The Costco Board pushed back against its anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) shareholders, who had suggested the wholesale corporation re-evaluate its “illegal discrimination” program. The Costco board responded to a group of shareholders, unanimously recommending a vote against the proposal to “report on the risks of maintaining DEI efforts.” The shareholders had suggested Costco employees would potentially become …

The Associated Press reports: A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying “This is Trump’s America now,” according to court documents. Patrick Thomas Egan, 39, was arrested Dec. 18 in Grand Junction, Colorado, after police say he followed KKCO/KJCT reporter Ja’Ronn Alex’s vehicle …

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 …

Newsweek reports: Trump’s deportation plan is causing widespread “panic” among farmers at risk of losing staff and business. Agricultural output will fall between $30 and $60 billion if Trump’s flagship policy is carried out, according to the American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC). Business leaders, backed by the ABIC—a lobbying group focused on immigration policies that support industries dependent on immigrant …

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 …

Posted to Facebook by the Mt. Pleasant Fire Department: We, the members of the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department, want to take a moment to sincerely apologize for allowing the offensive participants to take part in the Mount Pleasant Annual Halloween Parade last evening. We do not share in the values represented by those participants, and we understand how it …

“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 …