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Fantastic Lemming
John C. Calhoun would be very proud of Charlie Kirk. www.salon.com/2025/08/04/how-charlie-kirk-turne... #USPol #Slavery #Racism
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Rainy Asp
"Saying ‘both sides are the same,’ when one side is a lie and the other the truth, always promotes the lie and degrades the truth. Thus, attempts to create contexts in which both sides are essentially just opposite views of entirely equal value should always be understood as attempts to disguise a... show more
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Rainy Asp
"or if hungry people should have food, or if thirsty people should have water, or if disabled people should have access to buildings, we have already lost. Those things don’t go on the table. Because once they are on they are on the table, they have entered the realm of the things we consider." ... show more#Trump
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Rainy Asp
"If we are debating whether there should be a Muslim ban, or whether or not health care should be kept from the poor, or whether gay people should be banned from marriage, or black people killed by cops, or if women should be paid the same or not, or if Native Americans and descendants of slaves... show more
Michael ⚡️S⚡️
Gm ☕ #Bitcoin #Nostr | Friday, August 1, 2025 Bored in a meeting again, with my new #Tarasoles #Santiago #Vintage #Leather #Black #Barefoot #Grounding #Sandals, thinking about the #future avoiding #DigitalID, the convicted criminal Christine Lagarde's #DigitalEuro #CBDC, ... show more#censorship
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Tiny Lizard
**How the riches of its graduates tied Edinburgh University to slavery** "_Alumni such as Robert Halliday Gunning helped the university raise the equivalent of tens of millions of pounds_" 🔗 www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/27/how-t.... #History #University #Education #Slavery #Colonialism #Race
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Empty Partridge
Today in Labor History July 30, 1866: Police shot into a group of recently freed black workers outside the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans, in the wake of the Civil War. This was the site of a reconvened Louisiana Constitutional Convention. A crowd of whites then stormed the hall. By the time... show more
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Empty Partridge
Today in Labor History July 30, 1676: Nathaniel Bacon issued the "Declaration of the People of Virginia," beginning Bacon's Rebellion, an armed insurrection against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. It was the first insurrection in the American colonies and the first class uprising in North... show more