Migration
[Anthony] York also criticized the [Ron] DeSantis administration for using Florida taxpayers’ dollars to send migrants from “Texas through New Mexico to California to get votes in Iowa and New Hampshire” — a swipe at the Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate campaigning in those pivotal states to secure the GOP nomination.[1]
Connor Sheets and Ruben Vives, “Migrants’ trip to Sacramento aboard private jet appears to have been arranged by state of Florida, officials say,” Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2023, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-03/california-investigating-who-sent-16-migrants-from-texas-to-doorstep-of-sacramento-diocese
Ruben Vives and Connor Sheets, “Second plane carrying migrants lands in California, with officials blaming Florida,” Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2023, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-03/california-investigating-who-sent-16-migrants-from-texas-to-doorstep-of-sacramento-diocese
Melanie Mason, “Florida says it’s responsible for transporting migrants to Sacramento,” Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2023, https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-06/florida-migrants-sacramento
Gilead
Donald Trump
Coup attempt
Fig. 1. “Jake Angeli (Qanon Shaman), seen holding a Qanon sign at the intersection of Bell Rd and 75th Ave in Peoria, Arizona, on 2020 October 15.” Photography by TheUnseen011101 [pseud.], October 15, 2020, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Jacqueline Alemany et al., “Trump lawyers meeting with Justice Dept. on classified documents case,” Washington Post, June 5, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/05/trump-lawyers-meeting-justice-doj/
Josh Dawsey and Amy Gardner, “Trump-funded studies disputing election fraud are focus in two probes,” Washington Post, June 5, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06/05/trump-funded-studies-disputing-election-fraud-are-focus-two-probes/
Rozina Sabur, “Flood at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort raises suspicions in classified documents case,” Telegraph, June 5, 2023, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/05/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-resort-flood-pool-documents/
Chris Walker, “Trump’s Lawyers Have 2-Hour Meeting With DOJ Over Mar-a-Lago Documents Case,” Truthout, June 5, 2023, https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-lawyers-have-2-hour-meeting-with-doj-over-mar-a-lago-documents-case/
Casey Newton, “The platforms give up on 2020 lies,” Platformer, June 6, 2023, https://www.platformer.news/p/the-platforms-give-up-on-2020-lies
Pennsylvania
Higher Education
Fig. 1. The Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh (“Pitt”). Photograph by “RealNordyNed,” December 17, 2015, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maddie Aiken, “New report finds enrollment and state funding at Pennsylvania colleges continue to decline,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 5, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2023/06/05/new-enrollment-finds-enrollment-and-state-funding-at-pennsylvania-colleges-continues-to-decline/stories/202306030068
Emma Folts and Betul Tuncer, “The high cost of higher ed: Pitt is one of the nation’s priciest public universities for local families,” Public Source, June 5, 2023, https://www.publicsource.org/pitt-tuition-raise-affordability-public-university-pennsylvania-funding-budgets-in-state-higher-ed/
- [1]Melanie Mason, “Florida says it’s responsible for transporting migrants to Sacramento,” Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2023, https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-06/florida-migrants-sacramento↩