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Trump insiders accused of ‘profiting from war’ after $1m bet on Iran attack A US senator has accused those close to Donald Trump of “profiting off war and death” in the wake of suspiciously timed bets predicting a US strikes on Iran.

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These are some sick MFers. Their greed has no bound.

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Memorial grows at former Zorro Ranch A memorial is growing outside the former Zorro Ranch, once owned by Jeffrey Epstein, following the reopening of an investigation.

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Organizers of a rally at Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico were rebuffed by security, so they created a memorial to the victims. “We hear you, we see you, we believe you. We want conviction,” one organizer said.

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It's on my (lengthy) reading list. I hope to get to it soon.

Advocates filled Rochester City Council chambers Tuesday evening ahead of a vote on a new sanctuary city law in August 25. They carry signs reading "Protect Sanctuary Cities" and "Abolish ICE." The city council passed the expanded sanctuary city law, adding protections for LGBTQ residents.

The case laid the foundation for the anti-commandeering doctrine, which prevents the federal government from forcing states to enforce federal laws. It is often cited with regard to sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to use local law enforcement to assist with federal immigration enforcement. /end

A poster warn African Americans about slave catchers in Boston.

In response to the ruling, many Northern states passed new laws prohibiting state officials from assisting slave catchers. Southern anger over Northern non-cooperation led to the more stringent Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which compelled state assistance and intensified the sectional tensions. /5

Drawing in Anti-Slavery Almanac in 1839 titled, "Northern Freeman Enslaved by Northern Hands." It shows four white men shackling a Black man who has been gagged.

Slave owners had a right to recapture fugitive slaves across state lines “peacefully” without state interference. Crucially, however, the Court held that while states couldn’t block federal enforcement, they weren’t required to use their own resources to assist in the capture or return of slaves. /4

Justice Joseph Story, seen here in 1844, wrote the majority opinion in Prigg v. Pennsylvania.

Prigg claimed that Morgan and her children were fugitive slaves and that Pennsylvania’s law unconstitutionally interfered with the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution. In an 8–1 ruling, the Supreme Court agreed and struck down Pennsylvania’s law. /3

Enslaved people seeking safety are chased by armed white men in this contemporaneous drawing.

Edward Prigg, a Maryland slave catcher, was convicted of kidnapping after forcibly removing Margaret Morgan and her children to Maryland without following Pennsylvania’s legal procedures. Pennsylvania’s 1826 “personal liberty law” required proof of enslavement before a judge before any removal. /2

Political cartoon about slave catchers.

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Today in history, 1842: The Supreme Court holds that the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause gave the federal government exclusive authority to legislate the return of fugitive slaves. However, the ruling also provided states with a legal loophole that still has relevance today. /1

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Shirley Chisholm.

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“Women in this country must become revolutionaries. We must refuse to accept the old, the traditional roles and stereotypes.”
— Shirley Chisholm

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I spend almost as much time looking for and attributing the images as I do writing the piece. 💙

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The people pictured here, in Dunlap, Kansas, were probably born enslaved in Tennessee and moved to Kansas because of Pap Singleton. Photo credit: Kansas Historical Society.

Side note: The Exodus of 1879 drained the South of a cheap, compliant labor force and highly skilled workers. It was economically devastating. Some whites sought to curb the exodus by offering better labor contracts, but many responded by further oppressing the remaining African Americans.

Map showing some of the cities and towns in Kansas and Oklahoma where the Exodusters settled. Image credit: Atlas of African American History.

The Exodus of 1879 was the first major general migration of Black people following the Civil War and the end of Reconstruction. The movement set the stage for the Great Migration of the early 20th century and established independent Black communities in Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado. /end

An early photo of Nicodemus, Kan.

The first Kindergarten in Tennessee Town, Kan. Today it is a historic, primarily residential neighborhood in Topeka. Photo credit: Kansas Historical Society.

The Exodusters were largely composed of individuals seeking to own land, establish businesses and educate their children. While some struggled as farmers, others found success in urban centers like Topeka. Nicodemus, Kan., became the most successful all-Black town established by Exodusters. /7

Refugees on Levee, 1897. "Exodusters waiting for a steamboat to carry them westward in the late 1870s." Photo credit: Carroll's Art Gallery. Photomural from gelatin-silver print Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

Many arrived destitute and faced harsh Great Plains winters, unsuitable land and racial prejudice from white settlers. The exodus also included many of the most skilled and experienced farmers, agricultural workers and laborers, along with activists and ministers who advocated for Black rights. /6

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton. He was born into slavery in Middle Tennessee in 1809 and escaped to the North when he was 37 years old. He returned to Tennessee and went to work as a cabinet and coffin maker. By the mid-1870s, he became convinced that black people would never receive fair treatment in the South.

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, a formerly enslaved man known as the “Father of the Exodus,” promoted Kansas as a “holy land” due to its history and association with abolitionist John Brown. Between 1870 and 1880, the Black population in Kansas jumped from approximately 16,250 to more than 43,000. /5

"Ho For Kansas!" handbill announcing that the Real Estate and Homestead Association planned to leave Nashville, Tenn., on April 15, 1878, and head for Kansas. The handbill gives the name and address of Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, a formerly enslaved man who was the biggest booster of the westward migration. Image credit: Historic American Building Survey Field Records, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

The term “Exodusters” was inspired by the biblical Book of Exodus, where Moses leads the Israelites out of slavery. Roughly 25,000 to 40,000 migrants took heed and moved west during the “Great Exodus,” attracted by the Homestead Act of 1862, which offered 160 acres of public land to settlers. /4

Sharecropper tilling a field in Montgomery County, Alabama, in 1937.

The Black Codes were particularly oppressive. Passed immediately after the Civil War, these laws restricted the freedom of African Americans and forced them into slavery-like conditions. They maintained white supremacy by limiting Black rights, restricting mobility and requiring labor contracts. /3

Illustration in the May 1, 1881, issue of Harper's Weekly depicting the Exodusters with an inset showing an enslaved person wading though a swamp in his quest for freedom. The caption reads: "The Negro Exodus - the Old Style and the New."

African Americans who had gained their freedom after the Civil War found themselves in a new sort of bondage created by Jim Crow laws, economic oppression and racial violence. Freedmen moved west to escape the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the White League, sharecropping and debt peonage. /2

These four people moved from Tennessee to Kansas as part of the Exodusters movement. Photo credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

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In 1879, tens of thousands of African Americans moved from the South to the West, primarily Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado. The “Exodusters” sought safety, voting rights and land, viewing Kansas as a promised land due to its history as a free state. /1

Screenshot of The Telegraph Mikhail Khodorkovsky Putin’s time is nearly up Russian dictators don’t last long past the incumbent’s age of 73. Whether by age, incapacitation or insurrection, he will soon be gone

‼️ 'What he and his cronies are worried about now, is that the anti-war Russians in exile are getting united and are seen by the Western powers as legitimate alternative to Putin’s regime.'

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Screenshot of The Telegraph ‘This is a very dangerous moment for Putin’: ex-Army chief Former head of the British Army says Russia is facing ‘huge’ pressure on fourth anniversary of full-scale Ukraine invasion

‼️ Vladimir Putin is facing a potentially extremely “dangerous moment” amid a perfect storm of sanctions, economic headwinds and growing battlefield losses.

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