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Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment

Philadelphia’s slavery exhibit is being restored at President’s House Site The panels depict the lives of nine people enslaved by George Washington while he was president.

Workers have begun restoring the slavery exhibit in Philadelphia that was removed by the Trump administration

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

italy better not stunt on us next or i swear to god

Trump v. United States is an illegitimate decision.

Norway's former PM Jagland charged with gross corruption over Epstein links The charge was brought after the Council of Europe lifted his immunity, which he had as its former secretary general.

Norway did what we refuse to do.
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Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea Former South Korean president found guilty over failed martial law declaration in 2024 A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the former president Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment with labour over his failed martial law declaration in December 2024, finding him guilty of leading an insurrection and making him the first elected head of state in the country’s democratic era to receive the maximum custodial sentence. Under South Korean law, the charge of leading an insurrection carries three possible sentences: death, life imprisonment with labour, or life imprisonment without labour. Continue reading...

Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea

PA data center tax break expected to cost $2B Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration estimates the annual cost of the tax break will rise by hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming years.

New: Pennsylvania lawmakers approved a sales tax exemption for data centers in 2021. Its exact cost is unknown, but new estimates released by the Shapiro administration this month say it will have cost the commonwealth $2 billion by 2031. W/ @katehuangpu.bsky.social

A time-aged photo of a bowling team posing behind a display of bowling balls and pins. From left to right, we've got a long-haired white guy making a 'hell yeah!' face and probably hearing REO Speedwagon in his head. Then there's a pretty girl with straight long hair in a pink shirt very consciously doing a posing for a photo face. Then a black guy in a blue polo to prove everyone here is cool, next to the oldest dude on the team with longer hair and a 'stache in a peach-colored bowling shirt. Then a girl with a cute bob and sunglasses in a floral shirt, and finally there's Ed who there isn't a lot to say about. Below the ball display is a wooden sign with tracks for placing movable plastic letters. In the top left it reads 'REDONDO BCH.' and top right is '1975' and between those is the mysterious phrase 'MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN TODAY'.

The public sector saw a 0.7 percentage-point increase in union density in 2025, rising from 35.7% to 36.4%. This growth reflected an increase of 236,000 unionized workers. The most notable development in public-sector unionization in 2025 occurred among federal government workers. Despite—and likely because of—the Trump administration’s aggressive attacks on federal employees and their unions, federal workers increasingly turned to collective representation. Union density among federal workers rose from 29.9% to 31.1%, the largest single-year increase since 2011. This increase represented a gain of 40,000 unionized workers—notable given that federal government employment fell as the Trump administration slashed federal jobs. Unionization among state and local government workers also rose—from 37.1% to 37.6%, reflecting an increase of 196,000 unionized workers. Private-sector union coverage increased by 227,000 in 2025, pushing the unionization rate up from 6.7% to 6.8%. Within the private sector, there were particularly large gains in health care and social assistance, retail trade, and educational services. In contrast, the traditionally blue-collar industries of mining, manufacturing, and transportation and utilities saw declines. Construction was one heavily blue-collar sector to buck this trend, posting substantial gains in union coverage.

Here's some good news - the number of workers represented by a union rose by almost half a million last year. www.epi.org/publication/...

"Political scientists from around the world have nominated the citizens of South Korea who crushed the December 3 martial law as candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize."

Wishing a meaningful & reflective Mark Wahlberg 40 Day Challenge to all who observe.

The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

NEW: When North Carolina's GOP wanted to pass a bill last year to require that local governments comply with ICE, they were one vote down.

A Democratic lawmaker gave that decisive vote—as she has on other GOP bills.

Now, she faces a primary challenge from a progressive activist... in 14 days.

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

Philadelphia, you are the best

What’s so awful and stupid about this is that it applies to every single right-wing “Intellectual.” The whole culture is a snake pit of race science cranks and misogynist perverts. They have not changed their positions meaningfully since the civil war began.

✅️ FIX our schools
✅️ FUND our schools
🚫 Do NOT close our schools!!!

No one knows the conditions of our schools better than @pft.org members. We reviewed the District's plan & found substantial problems with data, inconsistencies, and gaps.

Council must use its leverage to force the District to share all underlying data and show their work. #PhlEd

Philly’s teachers union has raised an alarm with City Council about school closing plan "You hold powerful levers that may be used to encourage the district to craft a more equitable [plan]", PFT president Arthur Steinberg wrote to Council's education committee.

Ahead of today's #PHLed City Council hearing on the facilities plan, @pft.org has sounded an alarm, saying the district hasn't released enough data to justify closures and other changes. Story: www.inquirer.com/education/ph...

Jesse Jackson: Well, first of all, we had been freed without being made equal. There’s historical continuity between blacks being amassed in prison after 246 years of legal slavery. When there was a contest about it [in Dred Scott v. Sandford], the Supreme Court ruled that blacks had no rights. [After emancipation and the Civil War] those who had been slave masters became segregation masters. They took our freedom away from us; they began to lock up blacks by the thousands to do prison labor, farm labor—the whole range. They just put us back in slavery. We finally, in 1954, broke the backbone—legally—of that system [with the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision], but we were never—there was never repair for damage done. Two hundred and forty-six years of slavery, then legal Jim Crow and [nearly] 5,000 lynchings without a conviction. And even today, discrimination by extension of that system has not completely ended. So we had been fighting for repair. We fought against the barbarism for our freedom; now we’re fighting for our equality. We are the foundation of American society—not the bottom, the foundation. When the Declaration of Independence came, we had been enslaved for 157 years. We made cotton king. We are due a different kind of recognition.

Harris: Do you personally have hope that there will be payment for that legacy of slavery? Jackson: The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with.

thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019:

"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The likelihood that one Colbert interview changes the outcome of the Democratic senate primary in Texas or the subsequent general election is very small.

This is govt censorship for censorship’s sake. As assertion of power. Statement of values. Sending a signal. Pushing the line. Because they can.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…

The interview with Talarico has been posted to YouTube: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

he'll yeah

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Adam’s right. It’s more important than ever that our institutions defend First Amendment rights, and that means not firing teachers illegally whether their offense was “Go ICE” or saying something less than hagiographical about Charlie Kirk. Fewer people want to hear that in ugly times.
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Every time a woman has hobbies, it gets criminalized.

Given the fucked up racial politics of ANTM, it was striking to me that in like 2018 she still defined black beauty via the exotic / the other. Black people can’t be beautiful to here inherently, something has HAS to be thrown in there for her. She has learned nothing.

And I hated her outfit.