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A New Orleans Police Department recruit was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Wednesday morning.

Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.

Leon Bass was only 20 when he walked through the gates of the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp with his all-Black US Army unit. Having endured the sting of racism in the very country he was fighting for, he was horrified by what he witnessed there, calling it “the ultimate” extreme of racism. For decades he couldn’t talk about what he saw, yet he kept fighting bigotry in all its forms. Watch Dr. Bass share his story of courage, trauma, and his unyielding commitment to equality in his own words.

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

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