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A placard states "ABOLISH POLICE" during a march to protest the death of Daunte Wright on April 13, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. People have taken to the streets to protest after Daunte Wright, a 20-year old black man, was shot and killed by police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Dismantle the current system of policing

Sirry Alang
Japanese-Americans Interned at Santa Anita (Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Anti-Asian hate crimes are nothing new

Matthew Rozsa
The facade of the New York Stock Exchange is seen in the New York financial district on Wall Street (Jeff Hutchens/Getty Images)

Wall Street went all in on '20 elections

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
A woman protests outside the Hennepin County Government Center, where the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin is being held, on March 31, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - A store clerk said on March 31 at the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin that he regretted accepting the fake $20 bill from George Floyd that led to his arrest and eventual death. "If I would have just not taken the bill, this could have been avoided," Christopher Martin said on the third day of Chauvin's high-profile trial. (KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Chauvin trial: Questions we need to ask

Lewis R. Gordon - The Conversation
An Amazon-sponsored billboard urging employees to return their unionization ballots is seen on March 28, 2021, in Bessemer, Alabama. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Union votes are tough for labor to win

Kelly Candaele - Capital & Main
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., conducts a news conference with members of the House Freedom Caucus outside the Capitol to oppose the Equality Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, on Thursday February 25, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

MTG forced to abandon "Anglo-Saxon" plan

Jon Skolnik
Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Gaetz ex panicked over taped calls

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story
United Nation's Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, Denis Halliday (L), walks with UN chief Kofi Annan's special assistant Shashi Tharoor of India, Annan's political advisor Rolf Knutsson of Sweden (2nd L) and the head of the Iraqi foreign ministry protocol, Qais al-Karkhi, 19 February in Baghdad. Annan sent a UN advance team to Iraq ahead of a last-ditch effort to end a standoff over weapons inspections and avert a military strike. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)

UN rebel on the collapse of world order

Nicolas J.S. Davies
US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, holds up a "Stop the Steal" mask while speaking with fellow first-term Republican members of Congress on the steps of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 4, 2021. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

MTG's latest stunt sparks GOP turmoil

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story
American And Israeli Flags Waving With Wind On Blue Sky (Getty Images)

Israel and the U.S.: A tie that destroys

Doug Neiss
Activist Nola Darling talks on the megaphone in front of the Brooklyn Center police station at a protest over the police killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, U.S., on April 13, 2021. (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Right-wing media defends Wright killing

Zachary Petrizzo
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images)

"Pro-BLM" firms fund anti-voting GOPers

Igor Derysh
Reusable medical masks from multi-colored cotton fabric (Getty Images)

Michigan parents protest masks at school

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
U.S. President Donald Trump Donald speaks during a campaign rally on November 2, 2020 in Traverse City, Michigan. President Trump and former Vice President Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are making multiple stops in swing states ahead of the general election on November 3rd. (Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

Trump defies presidential customs again

Shannon Bow O'Brien - The Conversation
US Special forces | QAnon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Special forces #QAnon

Jon Skolnik
Roger Stone, a former advisor to President Donald Trump, speaks to the media after leaving the Federal Courthouse on January 25, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Biden DOJ sues Roger Stone

Zachary Petrizzo
Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MTG and Boebert mocked over marrow vote

Zachary Petrizzo
Sean Hannity appears on FOX News Channel's "Hannity" at FOX Studios on May 11, 2015 in New York City. (Rob Kim/Getty Images)

Fox News justifies Adam Toledo killing

Zachary Petrizzo
A press pass and tape recorder on a chair (Getty Images)

Let's get rid of political reporters

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch
A crime lab technician (L) works in the parking lot of the site of a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 16, 2021. - A gunman has killed at least eight people at the facility before turning the gun on himself in the latest in a string of mass shootings in the country, authorities said. The incident came a week after President Joe Biden branded US gun violence an "epidemic" and an "international embarrassment" as he waded into the tense debate over gun control, a powerful political issue in the US. (JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images)

America's deadly minority rule problem

Amanda Marcotte
FedEx trailers are parked at the site of a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 16, 2021. - At least eight people were killed at the facility late April 15 by a gunman, who is believed to have then turned the gun on himself, police in Indianapolis said. Four people with gunshot wounds were transported by ambulance, including one in critical condition, police said. Three were transported with other injuries, while two were treated at the scene and then released. (JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images)

“We can’t afford to wait"

Jon Skolnik
Pat Robertson demonstrated the difference between a Glock handgun and a Taser on air (700 Club)

Less-than-lethal is the wrong standard

Heather Digby Parton
Fox News host Tucker Carlson (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Carlson called out for "propaganda"

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
Pro-Trump protestors clash with police outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. | Police in riot gear toss a projectile at protesters after they refused to leave the area after the police killing of Duante Wright during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center near where Derek Chauvin is on trial in the death of George Floyd, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, United States on April 11, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Crackdown in Minn.; restraint at Capitol

Chauncey DeVega
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