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1. Ex-Memphis officer took photo of Tyre Nichols after fatal beating and shared it 11 times, investigator says | NBC News
Despite the grim details of officers laughing on video and snapping pictures of Tyre Nichols in the moments leading up to his death, three former officers have been acquitted in the 2023 fatal beating of Nichols, who was 29 at the time.
2. Sesame Street Was Designed for Black Kids. Now Trump Wants to Defund It. | Substack
Following Trump's executive order to cease federal funding for NPR and PBS, Kahlil Greene gives a short history of the beginning of Sesame Street and why it’s so threatening to this administration.
3. Supreme Court allows Trump to implement transgender military ban | NBC News
On Tuesday the Supreme Court allowed Trump’s transgender military ban to move forward, even while litigation continues in lower courts. The three liberal justices dissented.
4. Rodney Hinton Jr. stares down cops in court after allegedly avenging his son’s death | The Grio
Rodney Hinton Jr. did not let 50 cops intimidate him and instead held his chin high and made eye contact with them in court at a bond hearing for allegedly killing a Cincinnati sheriff after a police officer shot and killed his 18-year-old son, Ryan.
5. How Ohio became a hotbed of white supremacism, spreading its tentacles globally | The Guardian
The U.S. far right movement going mainstream has had vast consequences both at home and abroad, and Stephen Starr investigates one American state as a case study in this article.
6. Cops Are Already Unleashed. Trump Is Telling Them to Run Wild. | The Intercept
Last Monday, President Trump signed “STRENGTHENING AND UNLEASHING AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PURSUE CRIMINALS AND PROTECT INNOCENT CITIZENS," meaning less accountability, more loyalty to him, and increased brutality.
7. Fundraiser allegedly for woman who used racial slur against child draws racist comments of support | NBC News
A Minnesota woman has admitted to calling a 5-year-old child the N-word at a public park and, in response, has amassed more than $700,000 in donations on an online Christian fundraising platform. Many donors in comments on the fundraiser page are, unsurprisingly, spewing white supremacist ideals.
8. Justice Department will switch its focus on voting and prioritize Trump’s election order, memo says | AP News
The Justice Department that focuses on compliance with voting rights laws will now switch its focus to investigating voter fraud, despite no evidence of any widespread fraud occurring in the 2020 presidential election, which is the basis for President Trump’s switch in mission focus.
9. How a Seattle hospital erased racial disparity in unnecessary C-sections | The Seattle Times
Over the past two and a half years, a Seattle hospital, Providence Swedish First Hill, has effectively erased a racial disparity in unnecessary C-sections for Black and Brown patients by employing "cultural navigators, educators, and 72 birth and postpartum doulas, 45 of whom are people of color".
10. Meet the 64-Year-Old Social Worker Who Was Booted From a Republican Town Hall | Mother Jones
From the beginning of the town hall when attendees were greeted with a list of rules, “including demands to provide their proof of residence and prohibitions on photography or filming," Emily Feiner knew it would be different.