As a child, Harriet Tubman had her skull crushed in by a slave owner, was left w/o medical attention for 2 days, + then was returned to working the fields. She went on to rescue dozens of slaves + be the first woman to lead an armed assault during the CW.
There was a dude on Philly news a few years ago who rescued a child from a burning building by catching him and in his interview he was like โUNLIKE OUR SHITTY RECEIVERS I caught this babyโ
The three people whose bodies were found in Coloradoโs Rocky Mountains this month were two sisters and a teenage son who had decided to live โoff the grid,โ survive on canned food and shelter in a tent, the local coroner said on Tuesday.
1) In a scene that played out several times Monday, a Black Lives Matter protest that began in Columbia Heights confronted White diners outside D.C. restaurants, ย chanting โWhite silence is violence!โ and demanding White diners show their solidarity.
#DCProtests
This is a fascinating point that I notice among conservatives โ that Democratic candidates should attempt to reach Republicans or conservatives, but thereโs no real call, that Iโve seen, for conservatives to do the same.
Harriet Tubman, a woman so tough that she had brain surgery in the 1890s when she was in her late 70s without the aid of sedation, choosing instead to bite down on a bullet.
Breaking: During a team meeting minutes ago, Jets players were informed that Zach Wilson is not starting Sunday's game vs. the Chicago Bears, sources tell
@AdamSchefter
.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the junior Republican from Alabama, failed to properly disclose stock and stock-option trades together worth at least $894,000 and as much as $3.56 million.
This dude legitimately ran the entire SEC off the damn field for two years, won two national titles, all American, SEC freshman of the year, and he looks like the engineering dudes who always wore shorts in blizzards and played too much Settlers of Catan
A pregnant black woman defended herself with a legally owned (and unloaded) gun. Now sheโs facing two years in prison, and mainstream gun groups are disturbingly quiet. My piece:
The rapid switch from โfrom my cold dead handsโ to โif a police officer kills you you probably had it comingโ is always a fun and exciting adventure.
Happy birthday to Ruby Bridges, who desegregated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans at age 6 in 1960. She inspired this Norman Rockwell painting, โThe Problem We All Live With.โ
FIFA President Gianni Infantino at news conference in Doha: โToday I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel a migrant workerโ
Just a general note that most colleges and universities donโt use affirmative action because most schools accept pretty much everyone who applies. Selective universities are a small slice of what โcollegeโ is in America.
I strongly recommend watching this video, and hearing a police officer scream at a child and then argue that she poses a threat to him, because it makes the case for removing police from schools far better than I can.
Farmington, NM police officer Zachary Christensen has resigned after video showed him roughing up a sixth grader. The officer denied he was using excessive force on the 11-year-old girl even after a school administrator told him she is not a threat to anyone.
This post doesnโt get into it but we seem to have collectively forgotten all of the efforts taken to get rid of places where teens hang out together, including โplaying a special sound to drive away people under 25โ
I donโt know who needs to know this but Katherine Johnson, subject of โHidden Figures,โ turned 101 this year and she and her husband, Jim Johnson, will have been married for sixty years as of this year.
"To be clear, I blame Larry Nassar and I also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse," Simone Biles gives her opening statement at a Senate hearing on the FBI's handling of the Larry Nassar investigation.
Iโve seen the argument going around that higher standards and overall police reform will make people not want to be police officers which raises a host of questions.
The rapid shift from "why is everyone an easily triggered snowflake participation trophy recipient" to "we gotta ban these books because my senior in high school had nightmares" is more indication that maybe the former was a bad faith operation all along
@germanrlopez
1. End qualified immunity.
2. Curtail the power of police unions
And hereโs the toughest one:
3. We probably need fewer laws, in general.
A fun and amusing fact is that Americans were so underweight and malnourished during the Great Depression that it was a major concern for war readiness and actually led to the nationalization of a school lunch program.
Open carry of long guns is entirely legal in Georgia according to state code so I couldnโt possibly imagine what Loefflerโs issue with Americans utilizing their Second Amendment rights could be.
Republican Georgia Senator
@KLoeffler
- an
@NRA
darling who champions gun rights for her white constituents - calls open carry by Black Americans โmob ruleโ and says it endangers civilians and law enforcement.
Folks worrying that Epstein might take down their favored politicians is a good reminder that perhaps none of us should have โfavored politicians.โ
I have been long convinced that much of the "we stand with the police" rhetoric of the last year or so was largely based on the contingency that certain people would be policed and certain people wouldn't and absolutely nothing has taken place to disabuse me of that belief.
Bernie Madoff is reportedly dead. natural causes. I can vividly recall the moment the news broke about his Ponzi scheme. One of those rare-ish stories where your jaw just drops further and futher and you read back to check and make sure the numbers they listed arenโt typos.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says in a press release he is proposing an amendment to block Democrats' push to rename military bases named after Confederate generals. Says it "smacks of the cancel culture the Left wants to impose on the nation"
I like when Philadelphia sports do well because the fans of Philadelphia sports franchises all seem like they are barely hanging on to the loosest tether of sanity, and I understand that
This took place in Sacramento in March of this year. The man was told that there was a felony warrant out for his arrest. There wasnโt. They had the wrong person.
We're thrilled to announce thatย Jane Coaston (
@cjane87
)ย has been named the new host of the
@nytopinion
podcast, "The Argument." Jane will take over in early 2021.
Tchaikovskyโs real genius was in making people think swans would be delicate ballet dancers instead of the feathered mob enforcers they actually are.
It is wild to me how much of the โteen momโ discourse of the 1990s was focused on โwhy are these girls so dumb and sluttyโ and not on โwow a lot of men in their mid 20s sure are interested in raping 14 year old girlsโ
Iโve spent the past few months binge-watching The Golden Girls and its ill-fated spin-off, The Golden Palace. Tonight I got to the episode where Don Cheadleโs character confronts Blanche about her nostalgic worship of the Confederate flag. This scene feels especially relevant:
McKayla Maroney and Simone Biles exit after testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
So much respect for these women. The strength and bravery they showed today to hold people accountable and to make sure it never happens to anyone again.
Once again, if calling you racist makes you become more interested in being racist, you were in the car on the way there anyway. Maybe you hadnโt gotten on the road yet, but your seatbelt was buckled.
@bariweiss
@nhannahjones
@nytimes
If my grandfather managed to survive the very depths of the Jim Crow South without becoming a vigilante, some dude can handle wrongly being called โalt-rightโ in VANITY FREAKING FAIR without becoming a full fledged Neo-Nazi. And if that dude does, thatโs ON HIM.
I have had a great many conservatives tell me, in good faith, that Obama was โracially divisiveโ or โcontributed to racial divisionโ. I think about that a lot.
Itโs not a โdesperate act of self defenseโ to rape women en masse and kill babies, mass rape and murder are not โdecolonization,โ this is reveling in immorality while thousands of miles away
Jim Inhofe says legislation can't prevent gun massacres.
"I think it would be very difficult. You're talking about millions of people out there, and there have got to be some screwballs that are just totally unpredictable. And there's no way to identify who there are."
TINA. โI donโt know if I could ever forgive all that Ike ever did to me,โ she said, but โIkeโs dead.โ Turner laughed. โSo we donโt have to worry about him.โ
A group of Black students from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High called a press conference today to say they have concerns that may not mirror those of their white peers. And that the media should listen.
#MSDStrong