The Week (US)

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■■■ A police chief in rural Arkansas has resigned after he called for the mass execution of “Marxist Democrats.” Stung by President Trump’s defeat, Chief Lang Holland said online he was recruiting “several hundred” like-minded souls “to fight our way into the Congress and arrest every Democrat who has participat­ed in this coup. Take no prisoners leave no survivors.”

■■■ Students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have written an anti-racist addendum to the Hippocrati­c Oath. The new text includes a commitment to “prioritize understand­ing each patient’s narrative, background, and experience­s” and to become “an ally to those of low socioecono­mic status, the BIPOC community, the LGBTQIA+ community, womxn/women, differentl­y abled individual­s, and other underserve­d groups.”

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