“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”

— Dwight Eisenhower, 1946

“My own belief is this: No true American, no American worthy of the name, would want deliberately to exclude any other American from the full opportunity to enjoy every privilege and every right guaranteed to us by the Constitution.”

— President Dwight Eisenhower

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

— John Adams

On April 20, 1871, the U.S. Congress passed the Third Force Act, commonly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, granting President Ulysses S. Grant the authority to declare martial law and use military force to crush the KKK.

Grant signed the Act the following day.

The perfect send-off | Imani Gandy (AngryBlackLady) The perfect send-off by Imani Gandy (AngryBlackLady) on Patreon. Join Imani Gandy (AngryBlackLady)'s community for exclusive content and updates.

Spaniel Day Lewis had chocolate chips for the first time. He really loved them. 🐾🐾🤎❤️

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The joint Russia-Iran cyber strike team is real, documented, and already hitting U.S. infrastructure. I’m a cybersecurity engineer — this is what the news isn’t telling you. TikTok video by Cyber News Network

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkxSLJAF/

Waiting for them to lock the exits like it's the goddamn triangle shirtwaist factory

For the people still on Substack with tens of thousands of subscribers, they would actually make MORE money by switching to beehiv. Because they wouldn't be paying a ten percent Nazi/sex trafficking tithe to the platform

*taps the sign*

The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Signaling and the Racial Politics of Immigration Enforcement | Stanford Law School This post is part of Challenging Precedent, a blog of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice examining race, law, and regulation in the Trump era. Whe

The Supreme Court is fundamentally corrupt & after the NYT reporting there's a big opening for Democrats to make a huge stink about the shadow docket and that it was born to stop the first Black POTUS's climate agenda. We must talk about how the shadow docket has become a racially weaponized tool.

A black and white photo of Katherine Johnson, the "Hidden Figure" that sent man into space

A photo of Vanessa Wyche, director of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil service member

Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space.

And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history

The ending of Burn After Reading came into my head this morning. Sums things up well.
(profanity warning, though nothing you haven't heard from Trump)

To my friends in Hungary:
A világ veled áll, miközben visszaszerzed, ami a tiéd

We Did the Reading. Fascism Came Anyway (Podcast) The education was real. The learning was real. So why didn't institutions move? Imani doesn't have a clean answer. That's the whole point.

During the 2020 BLM protests, millions of Americans got a real-time education in social justice online. And while people were sincerely eager to learn, virtually no U.S. institutions made meaningful changes, argues @angryblacklady.blacksky.app. This week on B*tch, Listen, she asks: What happened?

The American Medical Association was formed by white men who wanted to push midwives out of the abortion business. It wasn't about religion. The abortion moral crisis is entirely concocted.

Mainstream journalists are abdicating their duty. Cartoonists are the real heroes of the moment.

Civilisational Erasure Thoughts on Trump's very bad options, the birth of the Petroyuan, the Trump Syndicate's lucky bets, tough times for Europe's MAGA right, and a film to help understand why we are where we are

Why everyone should watch Palestine 36, a terrific new(ish) film about the Palestinian Revolt of 1936-1939, shamefully ignored by most of the UK media, which explores an important episode in history that sheds light on the conflict that lies at the heart of so many of the world’s troubles today

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48 of Nixon's cabinet went to prison over Watergate.....
#tRumpAdministration

Trump Throws Stephen Miller Under the Bus in Surprise Show of Panic On the surface, Trump wants less attention paid to mass deportations. Meanwhile, Miller is taking new and hidden steps to wreak havoc in the lives of undocumented children and their families.

newrepublic.com/article/2081...

This is essential reading. It makes clear that the Conservative government had left the NHS in a precarious position by starving it of funding and that its inept handling of the pandemic almost saw it collapse completely

First Iran called Trump's bluff and now the markets are. They've spotted that the cards Trump is holding are Master Bun the Baker's son and the rules of solitaire.

Ok. But hear me out.

During his time as president and vice president, Joe Biden carried a card in his pocket that listed the precise number of U.S. troop casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.

🗃️ In July 2015, President Barack Obama announced the United States had reached an agreement with Iran to limit its nuclear program.

In remarks at the White House, Obama said the deal made “our country and the world safer and more secure.”

“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”

— President John F. Kennedy

On March 11, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act into law, authorizing the transfer of defense materials to Allied nations to aid their fight against the Axis powers.

On March 16, 1751, James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution” and the 4th president of the United States, was born in Virginia.

Putin has now blocked mobile internet in Moscow and St Petersburg for two weeks because he is paranoid there might be a military coup attempt against him.

Tell Your Senators: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE Act Contact Congress today!

Tell your Senators: Oppose the SAVE Act. The stakes are too high to sit this one out!

Too Afraid to Leave Home: ICE’s Toll on Latino HIV Care Operation Metro Surge is leading some Latinos to delay or cancel HIV prevention or treatment appointments.

Did you know Latino men have the US’s highest risk of new HIV infections? They are 72% more likely to be diagnosed than the general population—and in Minneapolis, they are skipping clinic visits for fear of ICE, report @cameronoakes.bsky.social & @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social