Martin Pengelly
Writer at Freelance
Freelance Writer at The Guardian
Investigations editor, Raw Story. News. Books. Own book, BROTHERHOOD: WHEN WEST POINT RUGBY WENT TO WAR, published by Godine. Substack: THE NATIONAL MAUL.
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1 day ago |
theguardian.com | Maanvi Singh |Martin Pengelly
Donald Trump has signed a proclamation banning travel from 12 countries and restricting travel from seven others, reviving and expanding the travel bans from his first term. The nationals of Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be “fully” restricted from entering the US, according to the proclamation.
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1 week ago |
alternet.org | Matt Laslo |Martin Pengelly
WASHINGTON – Veteran members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) say the Trump administration has moved from offensive to straight racist with its decision to welcome white South Africans as refugees.
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2 weeks ago |
alternet.org | Matt Laslo |Martin Pengelly
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to attempt to persuade moderates and the hard-right to back his “Big Beautiful Bill,” a controversial package of tax cuts and spending reductions leaders want done and dusted by the coming Memorial Day weekend. The president failed to sway either group. “I’m a no on the bill at this point,” Andy Harris (R-MD), the chair of the hard-right Freedom Caucus, told reporters.
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3 weeks ago |
rawstory.com | Martin Pengelly
Democrats hit out at Derrick Van Orden after the Wisconsin Republican representative called for the Trump administration to implement cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs. “So when are we going to cut the VA?” Van Orden asked at a U.S. House hearing on Thursday. “Derrick Van Orden isn’t even trying to hide it – he wants to cut the VA,” Katie Smith, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told Raw Story on Friday.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Martin Pengelly
The Afterlife of Malcolm X is a new book about the great Black leader who was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, 100 years ago; who in the 1950s converted to Islam and dropped his “slave name”; who rose to fame as the militant voice of the civil rights era; and who was assassinated in New York in 1965, aged just 39. The book is not a biography.
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Upside of having DVT and being immobile: a weekend on the porch, writing two pieces: on Robert Paylor and his battle back from rugby injury, and on Mark Whitaker's superb new book, The Afterlife of Malcolm X. Rugby and history, innit. Nothing else needed.
How does a transcription ap, spoken into directly, make “biographers” into “biograpoperahers”? Middle-Class English, vaguely northern accent?
Late as ever, I have realized that Barry is quite brilliant.