Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey Easterling remains astonished by the Confederate history still memorialized on the storied academy’s campus – the six-foot-tall painting of Confederate Gen.

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Racism plagues US military academies despite diversity gains

Dr. Anthony Fauci, now 80, joined the National Institutes of Health back in 1968 and has worked with a long list of Republican presidents — from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush to Gerald Ford. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, he has become an object of irrational hatred in the far-right MAGA movement.

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MAGA hatred of Anthony Fauci goes from bad to worse

ccording to The Daily Beast, the latest Make America Great Again (MAGA) intraparty feud involves Trump-loyalist and conspiracy-driven attorney Lin Wood and former U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

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This 'MAGA Civil War' is growing uglier by the minute: report

MAGA media and allies of former President Donald Trump, including his former adviser Kellyanne Conway, haven’t been shy about promoting the conspiracy theory that a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio on August 4, 2019 was linked to the militant Antifa movement.

An FBI probe has totally debunked the MAGA claim that a 2019 mass shooting was linked to Antifa

Following former President Donald Trump's election loss, his lawyer Sydney Powell filed dozens of frivolous lawsuits in hopes of overturning the 2020 presidential election.

Investigative journalist explains how Sydney Powell could face disbarment for lying in court to protect Trump

Far-right social conservatives who rail against “critical race theory” are often likely to be the same people who also believe the United States should be a Christianist state governed by strict fundamentalist ideology.

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North Dakota school superintendent calls for CRT ban and a 'devout Christ-centered republic'

An analysis by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services' explained the effectiveness of mask mandates and how they actually do aid in mitigating the spread of COVID-19. However, according to St. Louis Public Radio, this document was not made available to the public.

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A transgender woman was fatally shot in downtown Oakland, Calif., on Friday, December 3. According to the Oakland Police Department, the woman, identified as 
	Nikai David of Hayward, Calif., was found suffering from a gunshot wound that reportedly took place on Castro Street in West Oakland.
	David was pronounced dead at the scene.

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