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NOW: "We won't stop fighting" sing Anti-ICE protesters and clergy are inside St Paul TARGET, staging a sit-in pic.twitter.com/nK6BNFbmm6 — Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) January 19, 2026
Many act as if slavery was a uniquely American crime. “One reason,” says author Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630), “is that a lot of black people survived here.” He argues that much of what Americans are taught about slavery is just wrong: pic.twitter.com/GOQvqxPCZj — John Stossel (@JohnStossel) December 8, 2025
Many act as if slavery was a uniquely American crime. “One reason,” says author Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630), “is that a lot of black people survived here.” He argues that much of what Americans are taught about slavery is just wrong: pic.twitter.com/GOQvqxPCZj — John Stossel (@JohnStossel) December 8, 2025
A California State Legislature committee has approved a bill that could allocate a staggering $800 billion for slavery reparations. This sum is more than 2.5 times the state’s annual budget. Notably, California was never a slave state historically, yet it will be paying individuals who themselves were never enslaved. The decision reflects an acknowledgment of the long-lasting harm endured …
If you cannot afford to put equity down against any leverage you take on to buy an asset not only you are almost guaranteed to fall into negative equity, but also to become “slave” of your lender that will let you pay for any loss from foreclosing and dumping your home collateral https://t.co/8b9AUE6SyM — JustDario …
Guterres said the transatlantic slave trade “laid the foundations for a violent discrimination system based on white supremacy.” “We call for reparatory justice frameworks to help overcome generations of exclusion and discrimination,” the U.N. chief said. Experts say at least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped, forcibly transported by European ships and merchants, and sold into …
That is pretty funny. They scream for black reparations yet they use it on illegals. In middle of the night, Democrats bussed illegals into Boston and shut down a recreational center in a predominantly black area to house them. A resident says now kids will be on the streets. Democrats are putting black kids on …
by Chris Black No joke: I’d rather give the money to Barbados than to Ukraine and Israel. It’s not an option to spend the money on our own people, so give it to Barbados. At least they’re probably friendly and good natured, and won’t use the money to murder innocent people. The Guardian: King Charles’s …
How ‘modern-day slavery’ in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be emblems of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are frequently powered by cobalt mined by workers laboring in slave-like conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kara, a fellow at Harvard’s T.H. Chan …