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Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton baselessly claims the Founding Fathers modeled our government on "the Hebrew Republic" found in the Bible: "There's so many clauses of the Constitution that we put in there to model the Hebrew republic." None of that is true.
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#OnThisDay (2nd Aug) of 1924: American writer and activist James Baldwin was born. He participated in protests and opposed racism during the civil rights movement. He also discussed major political movements of the 20th century, such as the gay liberation movement.
Marx's understanding that class struggle drives forward history is well known. Far less discussed is his view on the natural basis of class formation.
Check out quick explainer! #SocialismorExtinction
BREAKING: With more than 700,000 signatures submitted, the Ohio Secretary of State announced that a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom has enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot this fall.
We have a right to abortion care and we will vote for it.
On this day 44 years ago today, the communist guerrilla Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional ended the rule of the US-backed Somoza clan in Nicaragua, which plundered one of the poorest countries in the region for 42 years. Here is an album that captures their fighting spirit during the revolutionary period.
The FSLN was named after the resistance leader Augusto Sandino, who fought the US occupation of Nicaragua from 1912-1933. Inspired by the armed liberation movement that turned the global colonial order on its head, the FSLN defeated Somoza in 1979 with a combination of urban and rural armed struggle.
However, the revolution faced the immense challenge of rebuilding the impoverished country, as the dictator left behind empty coffers and $1.5 billion in foreign debt. The Sandinista also faced US imperialism, which feared "another Cuba" in Central America, and sought to bring the revolution to its knees with devastating sanctions and a dirty contra war.
The new revolutionary political system survived, and life expectancy increased from 51.6 years in 1970 to 62.3 years in 1985. Women have been a key part of the revolution – 50% of Nicaraguan political candidates to become lawmakers have to be female. The illiteracy rate, nearly 43 % in 1970, was reduced to 13 % by 1985.
Today marks 44 years since Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution. Women were at the forefront of the socialist uprising that overthrew the US-backed Somoza dictatorship and made up a third of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional's combatants.
"The revolution cannot be done without the participation of women" – FSLN Commander Doris Tijerino
BREAKING: NBC drops bombshell, reveals that Republican 2024 presidential candidate Governor Ron DeSantis just abused his power by demanding that a federal judge delay Disney’s massive lawsuit against him until AFTER the 2024 presidential election.
But it gets even worse…
DeSantis also demanded that the judge simply THROW OUT Disney’s lawsuit against him because he claims that he has immunity that “shields” him from being sued for creating laws that target Disney for supporting America’s LGBTQ+ community.
Disney is accusing fascist DeSantis of acting like a dictator by using the power of the state to “weaponizing the power of government to punish Disney for its protected speech.”
DeSantis wants the judge to delay the trial until August of 2025, a whopping THREE years, because he knows that Disney is going to win their lawsuit again him — and he doesn’t want to be embarrassed in front of voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
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It's out: Samuel Alito took a luxury fishing vacation with GOP megadonor Paul Singer, who later had cases before the Court.
In the years after the undisclosed trip, Singer's hedge fund repeatedly had business before the Court. Alito never recused himself. https://t.co/NUHhK3poLN
June 21, 2023
Happy Solstice to all residents of planet Earth. One of six cardinal dates during Earth's annual orbit around the Sun:
January Perihelion
March Equinox
June Solstice
July Aphelion
September Equinox
December Solstice