“With less than 7 percent of the nation’s population, Florida accounted for 14 percent of deaths between the start of July and the end of October.” A steep cost, indeed. https://t.co/dzF5HB9gkA
“[DeSantis] is saying that to be ripped away from your homelands…or to be born into the atrocity of the dehumanizing institution that was slavery, that those horrors are some way somehow outweighed by the benefit that you get a trade. Are you kidding me?” https://t.co/4y8xCZcVmM
This is a statement from two of the people who wrote Florida's new education standards on slavery. In it they give several names of people to exemplify slaves who learned skills they applied later in life.
Let's go through the supposed truth of this list one by one.
Tens of thousands of Israelis are marching to Jerusalem in the blazing heat, demanding the government to cease its onslaught on the Judicial Branch. This is likely the largest march in Israel's history. Netanyahu is still refusing to halt the legislation and engage in talks.
NEW: DeSantis wanted veterans for the new State Guard.
But during training, a number of them quit, claiming it was too much like a militia.
One retired Marine captain called police on the National Guard trainers, claiming abuse.
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