Returning to America: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to U.S. soil to face federal human smuggling charges in Tennessee, a dramatic reversal in a case that had come to symbolize the coarseness and incompetence of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, writes Jordan Rubin. A judge in 2019 had ordered Abrego Garcia not be removed to El Salvador, but federal officials detained him in March and sent him to a notorious prison without being convicted or even charged with a crime. The administration had previously resisted bringing him back. Read more. |
Best frenemies forever: The power struggle that emerged last week between the most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world was almost inevitable. But the two allies-turned-enemies aren't just building themselves up, they're also tearing each other down, writes Hayes Brown. As public figures who can use their own, personal social media platforms to drive entire news cycles, they can both do some real damage before this whole thing is over, both to each other and to the rest of the country being held hostage to their whims. Read more. |
Hit parade: It was already absurd that Trump wanted a massive military parade on his birthday, even as he has been firing federal workers in the name of efficiency, writes Ja'han Jones. But the costs of the event keep going up, too. Apart from the official $45 million price tag, which keeps fluctuating, it's now estimated that the parade will do $16 million worth of damage to D.C. streets, even as the district faces a $1 billion budget shortfall thanks to a provision tucked into a Republican bill earlier this year. Read more. |
Naval attack: The Pentagon is marking Pride Month this year by undermining the legacy of a gay rights trailblazer who served in the U.S. Navy. As part of a broader effort to whitewash the role of women and minorities in American military history, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USNS Harvey Milk to be renamed, writes columnist Michael A. Cohen. But the ship named for the former San Francisco politician may not be the last, as the Navy is also considering renaming ships named for Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg and legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Read more. |
(Baseball) diamonds are a girl's best friend: Women's sports are having a moment, and Major League Baseball wants in. The MLB has reportedly invested a significant amount of money in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League in an effort to fan interest in women's sports and create a pipeline for women ballplayers that it currently lacks, writes journalist Lindsey Adler. That could eventually help it catch up to the NBA, which created the WNBA back in 1996 and is now reaping the financial benefits as interest in women's sports has skyrocketed. Read more. |
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In 1871, a New Orleans doctor gave a college professor the crania of 19 formerly enslaved African American and mixed-race individuals. The goal was to study the racist hypothesis that a person's morality or intelligence could be determined by the crevices and bumps of their skull. On a recent Saturday, the remains were returned to New Orleans, where they were given a proper burial. New Orleans-based poet and journalist Donney Rose was at the three-hour service, which led him to reflect on what this powerful moment meant. "I couldn't help but think about the history of Black Americans being the guinea pigs for experimentation or examination or the subject of incomplete theories, under the guise of scientific advancement," he writes. Read the column here. — Ryan Teague Beckwith, newsletter editor |
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