On Sunday, Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister of Scotland, dropped her name from a conference being co-hosted by the BBC, citing Steve Bannon’s presence on the billing. In an attempt to justify their invitation, the BBC wrote to Stergeon’s office that Bannon was “a powerful and influential figure.”
Jacqueline Pata, the executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, was placed on leave on Saturday over her handling of sexual harassment claims lodged against longtime NCAI general counsel John Dossett.
Not that it’s anything new, but this week’s news cycle has been an especially long one to follow as a Native American; by all indications, the next two years won’t feel any shorter.
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker issued an official apology to Native Americans on behalf of the state at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention held in Anchorage on Thursday, per KTVA 11 News:
“Shredding the Constitution,” “Abolishing ICE,” and “socialist policies” are all among the warnings of an impending Democratic uprising found on the back of a flyer being distributed by the Florida Republican Party. In block letters running across the top banner, the ad urges citizens to “Vote Republican to protect…
“A whole new world.” Those words—a damn Aladdin quote—are how The Atlantic’s new, ultra-cushy profile of Heidi Cruz, wife of Sen. Ted Cruz, opens. The piece closes with the words, “dazzling places she never knew.” I am not kidding.
Here’s some old news made new again: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a shady guy.
Just a week after Georgia’s own attempts to suppress thousands of black votes surfaced, Tennessee’s people of color also find themselves struggling to gain access to the voting rolls.
Audio reviewed by the Turkish government provided troubling new details about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post who’s been missing since he entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul more than two weeks ago.
Selma, AL, will lay off 68 non-union city employees Nov. 5, the Selma Times Journal reported. Per the paper, Mayor Darrio Melton claims the City Council didn’t account for $1.2 million in debt payments in next year’s budget. In 2016, Alabamans voted to add a right-to-work amendment to the state constitution.
I am so very tired.
Voting in Georgia’s potentially historic gubernatorial election somehow just got considerably more complicated for tens of thousands of voters.
In the latest installment of a genre I will never tire of, The Hollywood Reporter spoke with White House ghoul Stephen Miller’s third grade teacher, who revealed that—to no one’s surprise—he was a weirdo “loner” who ate glue.
On Wednesday, the folks at USA Today thought it would be a good idea to let President Donald Trump ‘write’ a column on healthcare. It was great, really, and you do hear—you hear the people say it, more and more, that it was maybe the best column they’ve ever read.
In the latest case of white politicians attempting to stifle the myriad of rising Native 2018 candidates, a local Republican official in Kansas was apparently itching a little too hard to say the quiet part out loud, calling congressional candidate Sharice Davids a “radical socialist kick boxing [sic] lesbian.”
In what may be the most shocking political development of the year, a bombshell report found that Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis—seriously, are you sitting down?—wrote some insanely racist shit.
Fernanda Jacqueline Davila was taken from her grandmother when they approached the U.S. border in late July. Just two years old, Davila has spent the past two months communicating with a caseworker and translators before finally being brought before a judge.
Heidi Heitkamp’s road back to the Senate was never going to be simple.
The Norm Respecters never sleep.
