What Exactly Did These Racists Think Would Happen?

Newsletter Top Stories What Exactly Did These Racists Think Would Happen? [Splinter]( April 12, 2019 [What Exactly Did These Racists Think Would Happen?]( [Both the Washington Post and the New York Times reported the incredible story last night of the Trump administration’s proposed plan to bus detained immigrants to sanctuary cities, a way, as the Times put it, “of punishing Democrats for resisting budget requests for more money to detain undocumented immigrants.”]( [WHITE HOUSE]( [This Is Some Extremely Evil and Incredibly Dumb Shit]( [The Washington Post reported Thursday night that White House officials twice proposed a plan to Immigration and Customs Enforcement that would have bused migrants detained at the border to Democratic-controlled sanctuary cities in order to retaliate against political rivals.]( [HEALTHCARE]( [Healthcare Lobbyist Tells Other Goblins That Pelosi Won't Do Medicare for All Vote]( [Since the start of the 116th Congress, Nancy Pelosi has made it abundantly clear that she is not interested in Medicare for All and does not think it’s a good idea. According to Maplight and Sludge, that message has been clearly received by the goblins at the American Hospital Association,...]( [ELECTIONS]( [When Joe Biden Chose the Wrong Side of History]( [In November 1976, at the height of Delaware’s decades-long fight over desegregation in schools, Sen. Joe Biden spoke to a class of about 120 schoolchildren from Newark, DE, who were visiting Capitol Hill. As the Wilmington Evening Journal reported the following day, Biden told the all-white crowd of fifth-graders, chaperones,...]( [WHITE HOUSE]( [Trump Confirms He's Definitely Thinking About Just Dumping Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities]( [President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday that his administration is indeed looking at shipping undocumented immigrants en masse into sanctuary cities— where local police don’t cooperate with federal immigration authorities—a cruel and purely punitive measure to use human beings as pawns in his anti-immigration agenda.]( [MEDIA]( [Boston Globe Yanks Anti-Kirstjen Nielsen Op-Ed After Fox News Outcry]( [On Wednesday, the Boston Globe published an op-ed by journalist Luke O’Neil about former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Neilsen. O’Neil argued that Neilsen’s enabling of the horrific family separation policy, among other DHS atrocities, should disqualify her from polite society.]( [TRUMPLAND]( [Trump Calls Ivanka 'Baby' In Meetings and Wants Her to Run Basically Everything]( [On Friday, The Atlantic published a deep dive into first daughter and presidential advisor Ivanka Trump’s tenure in her father’s administration, and as you’d probably expect, it’s pretty bonkers.]( [YOU MAY ALSO LIKE]( [IO9]( [In the Jawdropping First Trailer For Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the End of a Saga Begins]( [The force has awoken. The last of the Jedi has relit the spark for a new generation beyond him. And now it’s time for the Skywalker Saga to come to a close with The Rise of Skywalker, 42 years after we first stepped into the galaxy far far away—and we...]( [THE ROOT]( [MAGA-Loving, Colin Kaepernick-Hating Top NFL Draft Prospect Seems to Hate Everything Black]( [When NFL owners, conservative pundits and generic, store-brand white people denigrate NFL protesters for using their sportsball platform to highlight social issues, what they really mean is they don’t like it when black people do it. When white people inject politics into sports, it’s perfectly fine.]( [JEZEBEL]( [Kristin Cavallari Says Jay Cutler Unclogged Her Milk Ducts By 'Sucking Harder Than He's Ever Sucked']( [Reading the headline pretty much gives all the information to which I am privy, but the manual siphoning of blocked milk ducts is a thing that happened in the Cavallari/Cutler household.]( [THE CONCOURSE]( [Michael Avenatti Did Everything Wrong]( [You wouldn’t want a news cycle to pass without something to read about Michael Avenatti, and lord knows he wouldn’t either. Because he cares, and because he’s apparently been on an IRS watch list for a decade, that will never happen.]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Splinter]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( © 2019 Gizmodo Media 114 5th Avenue, Floor 2 New York, NY, 10011