Summary

The FBI is investigating a surge of anonymous racist and offensive text messages targeting Latino, Black, and LGBTQ communities following last week’s election.

Messages have included threats of deportation, re-education camps, or being forced into plantation labor.

While no violence has resulted, the texts, sent via services like TextNow, have prompted collaboration between the FBI, DOJ Civil Rights Division, and local authorities.

Advocacy groups like LULAC and the NAACP condemned the harassment, citing it as a troubling resurgence of hate rhetoric emboldened by recent political developments.

  • @Viking_Hippie
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    81 month ago

    The world where Putin is saying that it belongs to Russia and Trump is Putin’s bitch. AKA possibly this one.

    • @Duamerthrax
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      51 month ago

      I can imagine Putin offering a “partnership”, where Russia gets to lease drilling land in Alaska, except the lease will be way too low and Russia will be late on payments.