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Taking the opportunity of Jillian Michaels saying stupid stuff on national televison to talk a little, in detail, about the economy of slavery and the… Read More »Slavery Is Freedom

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5519776/emmett-till-murder-mississippi-museum-gun JACKSON, Miss. — It’s been 70 years since the lynching of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi.… Read More »Emmett Till’s Racist Murderers

MAGA Oklahoma official announces teachers from blue states to be tested for ‘radical leftist ideology’ Oklahoma is set to implement a controversial new requirement for… Read More »Teacher’s MAGA loyalty test

Filmmaker Julia Loktev’s voice is the first we hear in her epic new documentary. Over a nighttime shot of Moscow, she warns, “The world you’re… Read More »This Is What It Looks Like to Live Under Authoritarianism

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-5-2025-tuesday In the wake of the Civil War, Americans tried to create a new nation in which the law treated Black men and white men… Read More »13th, 14th, 15th

To finish off a terrible month for America: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-is-a-lousy-dictator Yesterday’s split screen was striking: millions of peaceful high-energy protestors on one side and Trump’s listless… Read More »Trump Is a Lousy Dictator