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Crime is up? Crime is down? Trump plans to deploy armed military in Chicago, claiming crime rates are astronomical. So why did he cut $800+ million in public safety & crime prevention? 8 of 10 worst crime cities are in red states but he's not sending troops there.
It must be opposite day because Trump said: "I’m a man with great common sense and a smart person.”
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Ah, but she loves the rich American lifestyle, the money Bezos is throwing at her to do a movie about her! Maybe she just doesn't appreciate now what she had to do to get all that. And how the person she chose to marry got old and ugly. But he was always a narcissist, cheater, liar.
Great post by Dan Rather. "Trump wants to fundamentally change the culture of our country to reflect not America as it is today, but as it once was, controlled by an old, white, conservative patriarchy." steady.substack.com/p/culture-cr...
You can put him in a tux, but that won’t make him cultured
Despite ridicule & protests by locals during numerous vacations, keeping JD Vance away from Trump meltdown could make JD look sane & healthy. He may buy into Christian Nationalist movement & rich profit/poor starve goals. He may like TV-personality cabinet, thinking he rises above with his degrees.
When people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to surrender their rights. You give me hope—not because victory is certain but precisely because it is not.
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"A system that brutalized, raped, and killed human beings while stealing their freedom and humanity is rotten to its core. That enslaved people were able to find resilience and build lives is a testament to their courage and spirit. There is no “other side” to the story of slavery."
Dan Rather
Removing facts from museums does not remove its existence. We cannot gloss over how horrific the treatment of our fellow humans was and still is to this day.
If you are in the now-occupied U.S. capital, we recommend visiting the Smithsonian National Museum of (2/3)
🧵: In late August 1619, the first documented ship carrying enslaved Africans docked in Point Comfort, VA. While this is the first documented, slavery has existed as long as civilization. Slavery is not "woke." It is not something you can erase just because it makes you uncomfortable. (1/3)
