Damn Right the First Amendment Is a Weapon

Five Things You Need to Read Today

1. News That Is Less Than True

You may have seen the Internet light up over an Associated Press story that seems like a nightmare of Trumpian nativism gone wild: "Some immigrant US Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned."

But I think you know what's coming next. If you read beyond that first sentence, things get a little more complicated.

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