Christopher Rhodes
Senior Politics Writer at Blavity
Teach: Boston University, Harvard Write: @Blavity, @AJEnglish, freelance Study: Identities, Politics Follow: Christ, best I know how https://t.co/Btxj3p3pnH
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6 days ago |
blavity.com | Christopher Rhodes
The family of a teenager being held in a notorious prison in El Salvador claims that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knowingly arrested the young man by mistake but detained and deported him anyway. The family of Merwil Gutiérrez is seeking answers as he and others remain imprisoned without being convicted of any crimes based on dubious accusations of gang affiliation. ‘He’s not the one’ but deported anywayMerwil was detained by ICE agents on Feb.
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6 days ago |
blavity.com | Christopher Rhodes
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is under fire for what critics are calling a cover-up of a deadly E. coli outbreak that spread across more than a dozen states and left scores of people ill. Now, controversial Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being accused of a cover-up, even as the agency defends its decision not to publicize more information about the disease outbreak.
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6 days ago |
blavity.com | Christopher Rhodes
As the controversial Republican-led crackdown on immigration continues to grow despite legal challenges, a new situation has developed: the detention of an American citizen as an “unauthorized alien.”Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez’s arrest adds another wrinkle to the story of who is being targeted and how the government is exceeding its authority.
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1 week ago |
blavity.com | Christopher Rhodes
For the second time this year, many Puerto Ricans find themselves without electricity as a major blackout plunges the island into darkness and chaos. With danger and inconvenience spread across the island ahead of Easter weekend, many Puerto Ricans are again demanding answers from government officials and electricity providers.
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1 week ago |
blavity.com | Christopher Rhodes
An official within the Trump administration has accused New York Attorney General Letitia James of fraud, claiming that she misrepresented information relating to a housing loan. With this accusation, James — who successfully prosecuted Trump and his business organization in a nine-figure lawsuit in 2024 — becomes the latest Trump adversary to face scrutiny or retribution since the president returned to office.
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So much this - relying on high tariffs rather than domestic income taxes for revenue is a sign of state weakness (it's easier to collect taxes for goods that have to come in at fixed points of entry than from citizens scattered throughout the country) and/or a weak economy.
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