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🟢 Hamas condemned Trump's statements "in the strongest terms." "We affirm that these statements are hostile to our people and our cause and will not serve stability in the region. Rather, they will pour oil on the fire. We will not allow any country in the world to occupy our land or impose guardianship over our great Palestinian people who have offered rivers of blood to liberate our land from occupation and to establish our Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital."

Hamas called on Trump to retract his statements, which they deemed irresponsible and at odds with international law. They called on the Arab League and UN to address these comments.

⚫ Palestinian Islamic Jihad considered that Trump's comments, made while receiving the wanted Netanyahu, "are nothing more than a new version of the ill-fated Balfour Promise—where those who have nothing are promised to those who do not deserve it."

They called the event "a meeting between the war criminal and the arrogant real estate mogul, which epitomized the reality of the American-zionist project in our region." This project works through intimidation, brute force, and genocide, "flouting all laws, regulations, and the will of our peoples."

PIJ affirmed that these statements leave no doubt that the US is leading a war of genocide, displacement, and the expansion of occupation. They considered Trump's plans, from ending UNRWA to seizing land, are a dangerous escalation that threatens regional security.

PIJ concluded: "Our Palestinian people, who have been resisting for over a hundred years, will not succumb to the dictates of Trump or anyone else. His foolish statements will only serve as motivation for us to reinforce our resistance until we achieve our objectives of liberating our land and ending the occupation. Our Palestinian people and their resistance forces are more determined and resolute than ever in confronting these conspiracies, and we call on the Arab and Islamic peoples to stand against this conspiratorial project, which targets all the peoples of our region and portends serious impending threats."

🔴 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was similarly direct: Gaza is not a real estate project.

They considered the statements "nothing but an extension of the genocide war waged by the Zionist enemy under the direct American cover, and an attempt to establish a new colonial project based on ethnic cleansing and the uprooting of our people from their land."

They added: "Gaza is not a commodity in the hands of a war merchant like Trump or anyone else; rather, it is an integral part of historical Palestine, which stretches from Ras al-Naqoura to Rafah, and it is the gateway upon which the forces of colonialism have repeatedly crashed throughout history."

"Any dream of controlling Gaza is merely an illusion that will shatter against the rock of the steadfastness and resistance of our people, and the fate of any American occupation force in the Strip will be no different from that of the zionist enemy; our people will confront it with all their strength and determination, just as they repelled the zionist aggression."

"Gaza will forever remain a graveyard for invaders and an oasis of steadfastness and resistance for its free and dignified people."

The PFLP called on all people to "confront this colonial scheme." "We especially urge the active forces in the United States to take to the streets and declare their rejection of this new crime, which reflects the true face of American imperialism that colludes with the zionist occupation. Our struggle against this colonial, extirpatory project is the battle of all free peoples who reject colonialism, displacement, and the uprooting of a free people from their land."

The Deputy Secretary-General, Dr. Salem Attallah, suggested moving zionist settlers to an American state, as "no zionist invader will ever have our security and safety on our land as long as there's a people and the determines resistance committed to reclaiming all its legitimate rights." He noted that the international system has become a tool of American-zionist hegemony and arrogance.

The Movement also noted that Trump's reception of the criminal Netanyahu represents contempt for ICC decisions, and they rejected his statements that "expose the ugly face of the United States." They stated, like other factions, that Trump's plans are a serious threat to the region and world. Yet, they noted that a people who faced American weapons for 15 months will not kneel to American words: "his plans will fail due to the steadfast resistance of our people."

⚔️ The Popular Resistance Committees saw the statements as embodying American values. They considered Trump's reception of Netanyahu as a reward for his "fascist entity's genocide against women, children, and the elderly...with American support."

They called for popular action rejecting Trump's statements globally to confront their danger.

Abu Mujahid affirmed that the Palestinian people and their resistance will thwart the goals of the zionist enemy, remaining steadfast and again foiling displacement plans.

"The plan to displace and eradicate our people has fallen and failed under the feet of our displaced people who returned to their land from which they were displaced under the bombing, destruction and war of zionist-American genocide."

He added that "Egypt and Jordan will not allow the existence of an alternative homeland for the Palestinians..." and that American administrations have not broken the will of the Palestinian people despite their unlimited resources.

Abu Mujahid noted: "If Arab countries refuse to normalize with the zionist entity and submit to the American decision biased towards the criminal zionist entity, and stop paying the billions of dollars with which America finances its aggression against our peoples, then the criminal Trump will not be able to implement his malicious criminal plans."

There is nowhere else for you to go but Tegucigalpa, where you can work trying to wash car windows or selling snacks to passing cars for a handful of lempira a day. Or perhaps you could work for a few dollars a day in one of the maquila factories making textiles for the American and European market, which are set up in special economic zones called Charter Cities where the constitution and labour laws do not apply, which can close down and spirit away whenever they like to another country when they are more willing to sell their people for even less. And then you have to factor in the hurricanes that sweep through the country, destroying everything, that the rains no longer come when they used to but when they do they come in flooding torrents. Much of the north of Honduras is currently underwater; most of the banana and coffee plantations have been destroyed.

And then you factor in when you tried to change this via electing a better government in 2006, he was overthrown in 2009; when you tried to get organised and resist the coup, your friends, your loved ones, your trade union leaders and peasant resisters all turned up mysteriously dead while the military and police worked with drug gangs disguised as agribusiness like the Dinant coproration to burn down villages that opposed them. For trying to change things in the way that you were supposed to, through non violently protesting, organising, and voting for something better, you were subjected to a decade of counterrevolutionary terror and violence that the “international community” not only ignored but gave its active approval to. All of the factors listed above have not only been ongoing for the last 10 years, they’ve been intensified, hothoused by the global counterrevolutionary terror that was the response to the 2011 wave of post-financial crisis uprisings and revolutions and accelerating climate apocalypse.

And at the same time, all of this is being done so more of the country can be turned into a massive cash cow for the benefit of foreign corporations and domestic oligarchs. The wealth of your country is siphoned off and flows around the American and European financial system, benefiting them and building a consumer disneyland that looks like paradise compared to your situation. That could, even if you are worked for nothing, give you a few dollars to send home that could build your abuela in the countryside a nice home for her to live out her days. What other option is left for you and your family other than joining the exodus of people heading north, to the countries where the wealth and profits and rewards of your homeland’s suffering are being kept. And after you cross mountains and rivers which freeze you to death and sweep you away, you are faced with a massive border wall of ahte and soldiers on horses which hit you with sticks. You are faced with an immigration detention centre that will chain you to your bed while you give birth and separate you from your baby who will be given away for adoption to a white couple. When you make a charge against the border fence in Melilla, fed up with being kept in shacks with nothing while the Northerners debate what to do about the problem people their greed has forced to move, the Moroccan police will beat 35 of you to death.

And then when you get there to that golden paradise, you end up doing work not dissimilar to the work you were doing back home, working for pennies (though pennies that are valuable enough back home to buy the family that remain the tiniest slice of comfort) for an agroindustrial giant that supplies supermarkets with cheap produce picked by cheaper people. While you work in the fields, a crop duster plane will spray you with paraquat; when support organisations try to raise this with OSHA they will ask for the plane’s number, and when this can’t be provided they will say nothing can be done. In fact, inspectors are ordered to stay away from the plantations on the Texas border. A member of the Border Agricultural Workers Project says she hasn’t seen a normal child born on the border in 20 years, such is the effect of agrichemicals. If you fuck up in the slightest, have any interaction with the state, you will be deported and sent back to square one. There are a 14 million migrants in the US in the same precarious state, effectively without any way of enforcing their rights. My aunt is a Mexican migrant in California. Her son was deported because he got a speeding ticket. It was 15 years before she saw him again, other than through the bars of the border fence, when she finally got her green card.

The public can’t believe anything Virginia Prison officials tell them. Lies about dog attacks. In an August 1st, 2021, article about two lawsuits filed by Virginia prisoners who had been mauled by prison attack dogs, a spokesman for the Virginia Prison System was cited as saying, “K9 units are used solely for purposes of detecting drugs and other contraband, not for attacking or intimidating prisoners.” This quote came from the article by Keith Sanders titled, “Virginia Prison Guards Dogs Attacked Prisoners with Dogs,” from Prison Legal News, August 1, 2021. An outright lie.

In contradiction of this claim that dogs aren’t used to intimidate, Rick White, past warden of Virginia’s Notorious Red Onion State Prison, was quoted in a 2023 Insider Report on uses of dogs in US prisons, as stating that dogs are, in fact, used frequently in Virginia prisons for “presence,” or, “in other words, the implied violence of their growls and bared teeth is sufficient to frighten people into compliance.” So dogs are definitely used to terrorize Virginia prisoners. They’re also used, no less often, to attack them. In total contradiction of the denied use of dogs to attack Virginia prisoners, the same Insider Report, “…was able to document 271 dog attacks in Virginia State Prisons from 2017 to 2022 through court filings and incident reports.” This is from the Insider Report dated July 23rd, 2023, by Hannah Beckler titled, “Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United [States].”

Why is indeed would Virginia officials’ lie about using attack dogs? Well, exposing the practice has many implications, including the hidden history of widespread uses of dogs to hunt, terrorize, maul and kill Black people in slavery, including in Virginia. This practice was one of the main outbreaks that motivated the slavery abolitionist movement. The barbarian use of dogs to maul humans was recognized even then, prompting British officials who used dogs in this manner against slaves in Jamaica, to do exactly what Virginia officials are doing now. They lied. As one article noted, “Their public defense insisted that dogs primarily intimidated rather than attacked.” That quote came from the article by Tyler Perry titled, “Slave Hounds and Abolition,” from the publication Past and Present, number 246, February 2020.

Indeed, the practice was criminalized and punished by execution when the same slave hounds were used by the Confederates against White Union soldiers. It’s because this practice is inherently barbaric and was recognized to be so as far back as 200 years ago, during the era of slavery, and has a racist history which continues, that Virginia officials have lied about it, trying to hide it from the public. Which brings me to another campaign of lies projected by them to the public, a lying documentary.

This came with the airing of a December, 2016 HBO documentary titled, “Solitary Inside Red Onion State Prison,” which can be seen on YouTube. This documentary was used to whitewash the abuses within the prison and its image. The program has never been shown to Virginia prisoners, and with good reason. It was a cover up. Through considerable maneuvering, I was able to watch it however, and immediately recognized it as lying propaganda meant to clean up Red Onion’s sordid image.

The film began with two dogs, two guards, one Black, one White, escorting a handcuffed White prisoner to a solitary confinement cell. This was the first lie. I was confined at Red Onion for 14 years, from when it first opened in 1998 until 2012 and several times since then, up to present. The prison, which is located on a mountain in a rural region of the state, has never had more than three Black guards on the entire otherwise White staff, who come from segregated White communities that have no prior contact with urban Blacks. And its prisoner population has always been almost totally Black.

This racial dynamic has always been behind the prison’s notorious history of extreme racist abuses of its prisoners. This is the dynamic of history: These fabricated and opening images were meant to hide and continue throughout the documentary with the interviews of prisoners at Red Onion. Four were White, one was Black. Again, a dishonest representation of the actual demographic makeup of the prison’s population. One of the interviewed White prisoners, Dennis Webb, whom I’ve known for decades and am in the block with as I write this, revealed to me that he and others were given free television by Red Onion’s administrators for doing the interviews.

okay so i didn't want to answer this while kamala was still running because for most of my posts i have tried to maintain people have a right to vote for whatever they think is right, as opposed to what i (non-american citizen) would do, and just focus on what the democratic party is doing and how it might be possible to stop it

and this question is specifically focusing on a post i made where i pointed out one of the strategies to stop the genocide was the uncommitted movement, where democratic party voters (during the primary) clearly stated they would not vote for the dem nominee without a ceasefire or an arms embargo—they mean the same thing—and the democratic party completely ignored that. actually, i have it on good authority they more or less told the uncommitted movement "we've run the numbers and we can win without you" and that was that. when i said "she fucked her constituents over to continue a genocide and deserves to lose" i mean that i would not have been bluffing. and evidently most voters were not.

now that kamala's lost and nobody can accuse me of being responsible for voting trump in, let me explain my reasoning a little bit.

just to make the record clear, i did not want trump to win. i understand voting in america is a binary choice. the difference between me and the other browbeaters on this platform is that i consider this the democratic party's fault and not the voters' fault. if i were to hold voters accountable for anything, it would be whoever led the democratic party to believe that they could ignore their base, international humanitarian law, basic moral decency and still win, but that's quite unfair, isn't it? there was probably no way to convince them.

personally, my perspective on this is not accelerationist. i don't really think accelerationism is a reliable theory, and i also think people underestimate how frightening it will be and who will pay the steepest cost. unfortunately i do think we are in an accelerationist timeline whether we like it or not, but i didn't base my perspective on that and i don't particularly hope for it.

trump is an unpredictable entity who leans towards chaos and profit, and the democratic party are a predictable entity who lean towards stability and profit. i've agreed previously that i think in the short-term life is going to be substantially more difficult under trump. i saw no electoral solution for the genocide in the short term, which is why i didn't begrudge people who voted in any way they felt was right.

the reason why i, personally, felt like kamala (and the democratic party generally) should lose is because i think there is a threshold for 'lesser evil' and 'harm reduction' and i think the democratic party passed it.

let me give you an example: egypt is currently a dictatorship. life is objectively not good. if an opposition was to emerge that would challenge this dictatorship (and this is extremely plausible) but this opposition mandated and was indeed carrying out the genocide of another people, whether in egypt or elsewhere, i would not be voting for them. this seems pretty straightforward to me. the dictatorship would not be my responsibility any more than it is now.

there is no kind of political strategy or long game that would get me to back someone who is not only promising to carry out a genocide but in fact actively carrying it out, even if the current dictatorship is doing so as well. this is a red line to me because it is not only a crime against humanity, but it is also indicative of what kind of regime this opposition represents. there is no genocidal liberation movement. it simply doesn't exist. this kind of violence extracts political, social and cultural costs from society. you can't build a future with it—at least not one worth building.

the absolute worst thing trump is threatening—mass deportation camps—has been the best case scenario under biden in gaza. like you understand we are all raising money to ethnically cleanse people from their homes, right? i think the people who don't think this way either don't realize the extent to which the biden administration was culpable in the genocide, or they simply don't consider people in the middle east to be as important as they are. neither of these applies to me.

but let's put this personal line aside for a second and consider actual strategy. the realpolitik of it all, as they say. let's say you were voting for the dems because you had very specific goals in mind with US domestic policy, and you wanted to stop trump whichever way was possible.

i don't consider myself a particularly radical person but i am a progressive in my country, and i think americans have such a deep cynicism around politics they have lost sight of what it means to vote entirely. neither trump voters nor kamala voters seem to believe either of them will carry out their election promises. and they have good reason to think so: american politicians are corrupt and dishonest.

when it comes to strategy, the kamala voter who is against genocide but believes kamala will make it easier to organize under is no less contradictory than the trump voter who is against white supremacy but wants to fix the economy. both of them are voting for vibes. nobody has any real idea of what these vibes are because neither of them believe the campaign promises of either politician.

you could argue that this is true but there is no equivalence between the democrat vibes and the republican vibes, and that democrats would absolutely protect certain freedoms the republicans wouldn't. sure.

but in reality, the dems have been shifting right. in terms of record and policy, biden made some nominal gestures to the left and then took a sharp turn into interventionist american policy after 2022 that culminated in a genocide. unlike americans, i can't afford to look at vibes. i look at your parties and i see a bipartisan consensus on decimating my region, with actual funding, military equipment and troops in place.

to put it succinctly, kamala was running a campaign of a seventh george bush adminstration. this isn't vibes: she was literally running with liz cheney and talking about a more lethal military. but when george w bush was in power in the US, the democrats were the opposition. and obama ran on ending his wars and restoring the shattered legacy of US foreign policy. of course, obama didn't do jack shit, gave the war criminal architects of the iraq war total immunity, and so here we are.

but what it means nominally for the opposition party to have become the neocon party was that there was no avenue for opposition at all. to me, this was the most frightening aspect of a kamala win. not only that it meant the complete absence of any real progressive options within US politics, but also that it required the consent of the governed to consider this as an acceptable price as long as trump was out of office. it was also a price extracted from specific communities: climate actvists, homeless people, immigrants, abolitionists, and pro-palestine activists. these are the groups vilified under the dems, the groups that they created the infrastructure to suppress that trump will now exploit, and these were going to be sacrificed regardless of who won. i have been in the US a few times the past year. i can tell you that whoever compared the atmosphere for muslims as the same as post-9/11 is not exaggerating. this is a kind of fascism that has gone totally unremarked upon under biden, and was still threatened for trump. the levels of surveillance and targeting these communities are experiencing shouldn't be endorsed by anyone, let alone the democratic party base.

that's not to say trump will be better, but in the most cynical terms possible: if the accelerationist bullshit of the next four years is under trump, then there is room for dems to run against that platform. if it had happened under kamala, then the US would be more of a one-party country than it is now (that is, if you had gotten past the inauguration). this isn't me saying "they're going to move left" because i have no faith whatsoever in such a thing happening, but this is me saying "there is a chance they might that would have been demolished if she won."

and the funniest thing is this is not my opinion. this is why she lost. she ran on a republican platform, and republicans saw right through it and voted for the real thing, while democrats stayed home. any whining about her not being woke enough is cope, because there is no universe in which she could have run a more right-wing campaign, and it still wouldn't have mattered. democrats will always be woke to republicans, and it's actively stupid to try and out-conserve your opponent at what they do best. so they can try to move further right, if they want to, but odds are they'll continue losing.

and that is a good thing, because the concessions the democrats offered for your votes were too low and the price they extracted (endorsement of a literal genocide) was too high.

ironically most people find an argument like "they just didn't talk enough about the economy" to be a more acceptable answer for why someone didn't vote democrat than "they've killed vast swathes of my family and friends" but this is also what it means to be in the 7th george bush administration of US empire. this is also an indication that fascism has been present within american society, and that liberalism was not in any way preventing it.

this is my assessment of the situation, but it is by no means comprehensive. i'm aware it's colored by my own personal bias, which is why i didn't respond before the election. i also understood people with different perspectives, and there is enough uncertainty in the future that it warrants the doubt. this is why i felt like there was no point in believing or assessing electoral vibes. there is only reality and how we deal with it.

the reality right now is there is a genocide, and many liberties in america are under threat, and many people are vulnerable. the other reality is that even in the worst dictatorships in the world, people still organize and find solidarity with one another, and the US is far from being the worst dictatorship in the world. your institutions are robust and they will face a very difficult test over the next four years, which is why it's important to continue being principled.

the truth is once you lapse on your principles for one community, you can expect the rest to follow and you will end up struggling to stay afloat alone. you will also end up disengaging and falling victim to political apathy. you'll stop finding out who's running in your local elections because 'what's the point.' there is no need to make trump's mandate a self-fulfilling prophecy, and there is no need to make it easy for them. everything is going to get harder because it will be designed to silence you and also depress you. the worst people in society will be emboldened, and you will want to avoid them, and you will avert your eyes.

but if you behave like a human being, and respect other human beings, if you continue pointing out the absurdities and having the audacity to demand things like "children should stop being massacred with my taxes" you will have a much easier time of the next four years. this isn't the hunger games. you don't need to kill other people's children to win. don't throw anyone under the bus. we all understand that the options were bad. remember to maintain your dignity, join a union, keep up with what's going on, and point out the obvious every single day. that's how we all do it in our shitty countries (except some of us can't join unions). it's fine.

It's antisemitic to defend yourself.

The declassification of a 1957 memo from Brookhaven National Laboratory’s medical researcher Dr [R.C.], the doctor in charge of testing and caring for the hundreds of Marshallese exposed to radiation, has confirmed suspicious that it was the islanders as much as the environment that were subject to an AEC experiment. To his colleagues he wrote, ‘The habitation of these people on the island will afford most valuable ecological radiation data on human beings.’ Arguments like this appear elsewhere in AEC records. For instance, the director of the AEC Health and Safely Laboratory described neighboring Utirik Atoll in 1956 as ‘by far the most contaminated place in the world’ but that it will be ‘very interesting’ to get data from the environment and islanders when they are returned there. Referring to genetic tests about the impact of radiation on fruit flies and mice, he observed of the Marshall Islanders:

‘While it is true that these people do not live, I would say, the way Westerners do, civilized people, it is nevertheless also true that these people are more like us than mice.’ […]

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In claiming Micronesia and expanding the American exclusive economic zone, Truman tripled the territorial size of the United States. Although the land-base of Micronesia is 846 square miles, the oceanic territory, vital to US naval and airforce transit, represents three million square miles. […] With the advent of the far more powerful hydrogen weapons, the AEC in 1954 cordoned off an enormous area of the Pacific, banning the passage of ships or planes for 400,000 square miles. […] Estimated at one thousand times the force of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki […] [in] addition to spreading lethal levels of radiation over 5000 miles of the Pacific, Bravo’s fallout was detected in the rain over Japan, in lubricating oil of Indian aircraft, in winds over Australia, and in the sky over the United States and Europe. It caused the radiogenic illness of the crew of a Japanese freighter 1200 miles away. […]

When Rongelapese women began giving birth to babies without skulls and without skeletons (‘jellyfish babies’ and ‘grape babies’), infants with severe brain damage and missing limbs, scientists informed them that these miscarriages and defects were ‘to be expected in a small island population.’

Although scientists from the AEC Division of Biology and Medicine had ample evidence of the extensive radiological contamination of Rongelap, they allowed the islanders to return in order to deflect criticism of the AEC’s atmospheric testing program, and thus exposed the islanders to another 22 nuclear tests on Enewetak […]. The US military films of Micronesia [from 1951] […] juxtapose the modernity of America […] to ‘distant and primitive’ yet vitally important ‘test islands … a giant lab in the middle of an ocean.’ To quote this Hollywood-produced film: […] [A]n outdoor laboratory: Entewak Atoll in the Pacific. […] [T]hree years have passed, three years to bring new and improved atomic weapons to this secluded equatorial land […]. [Image of an American man with suitcase entering his car and waving goodbye to son and dog]. Now the proving grounds come alive like a university campus […] individual test islands, seemingly like so many science buildings on college grounds. […] Even the foilage has been bulldozed 'for elbow room’ as one AEC film declares […].

[T]he narrator declares, 'the islanders are a nomadic group, and are well pleased that the Yanks are going to add a little variety to their lives.’

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The Wall Street Journal has an incredible story today. The National Archives museum, under Biden-appointed U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan, has been working to reshape its narrative of American history in order to make white conservatives more comfortable. The Journal describes a pattern of efforts to shape its newest upcoming exhibits to better fit right-wing narratives of U.S. history. The museum has removed references to Martin Luther King Jr., Japanese internment, Native Americans, union organizers, and birth control, because presenting American history honestly would make Republicans upset. 

The changes to the new exhibits are remarkable. A photo of King was replaced with one of Richard Nixon meeting Elvis Presley. A “proposed exhibit exploring changes to the Constitution since 1787,” including “amendments abolishing slavery and expanding the right to vote,” was reduced in size, and employees were told that “focusing on the amendments portrayed the Founding Fathers in a negative light.” Shogan “told employees to remove Dorothea Lange’s photos of Japanese-American incarceration camps from a planned exhibit because the images were too negative and controversial, according to documents and current and former employees” and her aides “also asked staff to eliminate references about the wartime incarceration from some educational material.” An exhibit on coal communities “cut references to the environmental hazards caused by the mining industry.” Shogan’s aides “also ordered the removal of labor-union pioneer Dolores Huerta and Minnie Spotted-Wolf, the first Native American woman to join the Marine Corps, from the photo booth, according to current and former employees and agency documents.” A photo of Betty Ford wearing an Equal Rights Amendment pin was removed from a video, and in an exhibit of “patents that changed the world,” the birth control pill was replaced with, of all things, the bump stock. The Journal notes that "Shogan’s changes have delayed the opening of new exhibits, initially set for next summer, and are expected to add at least $332,000 to costs."

The explicit justification here was that the facts would hurt the feelings of guests who didn’t want to hear about union organizers and Native Americans. Visitors shouldn’t “feel confronted,” the Archivist said, but rather “welcomed.” Of course, Japanese Americans or Native Americans are unlikely to feel “confronted” by exhibits on their history, so the archivist was clearly referring to making white conservatives feel more at ease. In fact, an employee was specifically “told to look for success stories about white people.” And, looking over an exhibit about westward expansion, Shogan asked a staffer “Why is it so much about Indians?”

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