Right-wing racism against deceased Black veterans

A Dutch province has asked the US ambassador in the Netherlands to return two panels about African American soldiers to the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery, located in Margraten (Limburg). The two panels were recently removed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).

— Hans de Vreij (@vreij.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T17:06:53.150Z

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) 2025-11-09T09:23:29.309Z

50 years since the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot wrote a song about it.

Fifty years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald, laden with 26,000 tons of iron ore, sank in an unseasonably early storm on Lake Superior (Gitche Gumee, in Chippewa). All 29 men on board were lost. Two weeks later, Gordon Lightfoot read a Newsweek article about the disaster

— M🍁tthew Hay Br🏈wn (@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T14:46:27.984Z

Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50

— Chris Steller (@chrissteller.bsky.social) 2025-11-09T18:59:38.697Z

Trump administration fake videos

More lies

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com….

— Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) 2025-10-16T14:07:16.303Z

Nice detective work by WaPo, finding that DHS viral videos are full of false imagery. http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio…

— Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News (@froomkin.bsky.social) 2025-10-29T13:38:49.856Z

Fake video on Chicago

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”@theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025…

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2025-10-07T11:47:18.899Z

Good story – and as we reported, misleading videos about the Portland protests were also created and posted by the Trump administration itself http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio…

— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com) 2025-11-12T16:25:01.679Z