Angola prison in Louisiana the largest mass security prison in the United States. It’s a former plantation. Today, 74% of those incarcerated there are Black. Those toiling in the fields are paid nothing for the first 3 years. Then they make $0.02 per hour. Slavery by another name
“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” —John Henriek Clarke
I am quite sure that around 80% of Americans want to keep the Education Department and the same for USAID. Are we really going to let 20% of the dumbest people in the country completely dismantle our federal government?
Funny how the guy who got billions in government contracts suddenly hates "entitlements" when they help regular people.
America isn't going broke because of Social Security. It's going broke from billionaires dodging taxes.
Just so we're clear, announcing that you will starve a civilian population in order to alter the terms of a ceasefire deal is a flagrant war crime of the highest order.
You would not know that from U.S. headlines.
this might read as an empty gesture but what it encourages is rolling back translation/interpretation access for gov’t services, benefits, and resources
BREAKING: House Republicans just passed their budget resolution 217-215 that would virtually guarantee deep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, all to fund a major tax break for the ultrawealthy... and still add trillions to the national debt.
If Issa Rae didn’t create a low budget web series with her friends, HBO would’ve never seen her talent enough to cut her a deal.
Make your art. Put it out. Just do it.
I’ve been doing a lot of research about the people being laid off at the national parks and it turns out it has nothing to do with DEI or performance. It’s a land grab so they can drill baby drill.
Intensive care units had to triple normal capacity during Covid peaks because so many people were critically ill from the virus.
I was there.
And I won't let you rewrite history.