On this day in 1830, North Carolina passed laws that criminalized teaching enslaved Black people to read and that made the repeated dissemination of anti-slavery pamphlets punishable by death.
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On this day in 1860, more than 50 years after Congress banned the trafficking of enslaved Africans into the United States, the ship Clotilda arrived in Mobile, Alabama, carrying more than 100 enslaved people from West Africa.
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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m. planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, and opened several schools up for summer classes…
Crime is down 62%.
Imagine that.
Trump and Hegseth are actively and overtly turning the US military into a partisan political force in violation of the Constitution, and Republicans in Congress will say nothing as another pillar of the Republic comes crashing down.
If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had proposed this, the GOP would be in the streets with pitchforks and
torches.
I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times."
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Work requirements hurt poor people AND are a waste of money.
Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment.
Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.
This is some authoritarian shit. Noem said since Harvard won’t give her disciplinary records on students, she’s terminating their foreign exchange student program immediately, and ordered that foreign students must transfer to other schools or have visas revoked.