Pete Hegseth’s efforts to diminish the presence of Black people in the military is a war on history itself, Jake Lundberg argues. In this week’s Time-Travel Thursdays, he revisits the impact of Black soldiers since the Civil War: https://t.co/P6EBVXa1gs
From @TheAthleticFC: In their first-ever appearance at a World Cup, Cape Verde have taken points off two teams that have won the tournament three times between them (Spain in 2010 and Uruguay in 1930 and 1950).
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Katz: The way we talk about what scandals are on television is fundamentally disconnected from the lives mainers are living. How is it not a scandal that Susan Collins is married to a lobbyist who while she was on the committee deciding what firms get money, gave $76 million to her husband, that she has voted to fund wars that have enriched her own stock portfolio. Susan Collins and her lobbyist husband seem like a scandal.
“Everyone is watching the World Cup while Gaza bleeds,” a man screamed in Gaza after another day of bloody attacks. Israeli drone strikes killed at least 4 Palestinians, including a child, and wounded others across Gaza on Sunday.
The stories of how some neighborhoods and towns intentionally became and stayed mostly white are often unknown, ignored or not fully told.
But in Illinois, the legend behind one city’s name makes that history hard to ignore.
The Legend of A-N-N-A: https://t.co/VwWE9asGT9
A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students.
Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
https://t.co/JqAEsVnTwx
JD VANCE: Jessica, I think you're making the same mistake unfortunately a lot of the Iranian propagandists make when they talk about this
TARLOV: Like the Wall Street Journal?
I have named Judge Melanie L. Cradle to the CT Supreme Court. She will be the first African American woman to serve on our highest court. She is an exemplary jurist whose fairness and integrity will make the bench even stronger.
I love that a Black woman is responsible for this. 😂
Shout out to @RepBeatty for filing the lawsuit to get Trump‘s name removed from the Kennedy Center
Thank you @VanLathan for gently pushing back @Ilhan . I like her, but I completely understood where you are coming from. Thank you for standing up for Black people.
By June 1, 1921, the Tulsa Race Massacre had left behind the devastation of a deliberate assault on Black life, Black excellence, and Black progress.
Too often in this nation, Black advancement has been met with backlash, violence, erasure, and policy designed to pull back what had been gained. We saw it after Reconstruction, when Black civic participation was answered with terror, disenfranchisement, and the rise of Jim Crow. We saw it in places like Colfax, Wilmington, Elaine, and Tulsa. And 105 years later, we still see echoes of that pattern when voting rights are weakened, DEI is dismantled, truth is resisted, and efforts to widen opportunity are attacked.
Remembering June 1, 1921 also means telling the truth about what comes after progress in America. It means staying vigilant, organized, and unwilling to let backlash have the final word.
#TulsaRaceMassacre #BlackWallStreet #VotingRights #DEI #MLK
Donald Trump is still illegally withholding the full release of the Epstein files.
This ongoing cover-up is a disgrace to the victims.
The pedophile protection party needs to release the Epstein files now.
America's shameful retreat from racial reckoning, 6 years after George Floyd's murder | Zindy Marquez
To unpack centuries of systemic racism and build a more equitable society, we must pay attention for more than a moment.
https://t.co/I3IqphsbEU | @Suntimes
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After 11 years at the Washington Post, I was fired in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing.
This week, I'm fighting back.
My case heads to arbitration on Thursday.
More here:
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