“For many people of Indigenous descent, celebrating Thanksgiving would be akin to feting the arrival of Dutch slavers in Africa in the 17th century.”
- CANADA: As a senator calls for a nationwide review of the forced sterilization of Indigenous women, a lawyer representing a proposed class action detailed the women’s accounts of being sterilized without proper and informed consent. CBC
- Swastika defaces Duke University mural honoring synagogue shooting victims. NPR
- Tweet by Soledad O’Brien. @soledadobrien
- Brian Kemp’s win in Georgia is tainted by voter suppression. Mother Jones
- Under Ben Carson, more families live in HUD housing that fails health and safety inspections. NBC News
- ‘Unwanted subject’: What led a Kirkland yogurt shop to call police on a Black man. Seattle Times
- Tweet by Red T Raccoon. @RedTRaccoon
- The number of undocumented immigrant children in government custody has topped 14,000 for the first time, a rise that shows no signs of slowing as the Trump administration enforces policies that are keeping them in government facilities longer. San Francisco Chronicle
- Tweet by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. @IBJIYONGI
- “Christine Blasey Ford has had to move 4 times since she came forward, pay for a private security detail, she has yet to return to her job as a professor at Palo Alto University, and she keeps receiving death threats.” @jbendery
- Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith posed for a photo wearing a confederate soldier’s hat and holding a rifle in a Facebook post. Politico
AND NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Proclamation Targeting Some Asylum Seekers
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Captions Instagram Stories From D.C. For The Deaf Community
Neo-Nazis Have No First Amendment Right to Harassment, Judge Rules
Progressives unseated all 59 Republican judges up for re-election in Houston in the midterms
Cicely Tyson is the First African American Actress to Receive Honorary Oscar
Right-wing Proud Boys forced to walk home from Philadelphia rally after taxi drivers refuse them
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