I must admit that I also failed at this. We lived in East Africa and had some spontaneous, ad hoc talks about race and religion. We lived in a majority Muslim country. But we didn't really tell them about racism in their home country.

White parents who tell their kids that race doesn’t matter are ignoring the long shadow of racism

18-year old Nolan Wells’ death in Mississippi has raised again the importance of ‘the talk’ that Black parents have with their children. But what do white parents tell their kids about race?

theconversation.com

No devout self respecting Christian would associate with the likes of tRump. They are living in an illusion of superstitious antinomian entitlement. Politic$ & ✞religion have become rackets, not paragons of virtue & altruism. kwr©

ICE Is covering up the actual number of deaths caused by their inhumane detention conditions and practices. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...

Congressman Makes Stunning Allegation After Visiting ICE’s Delaney Hall

Rep. Rob Menendez made a stunning allegation while addressing the recent death of another man who had been detained at Delaney Hall.

huffpost.com

Co-host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast whose book was blurbed by DJT, Jr and JD Vance. Don’t call them fascists though.

Today in Chicago History: Rev. Martin Luther King felled by rock during Marquette Park protest

Today in Chicago History: Rev. Martin Luther King felled by rock during Marquette Park protest

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 5, according to the Tribune’s archives.

chicagotribune.com

Vance and other right-wing leaders in the US and Europe simply lie and make up stories to frighten people into their clutches.

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

theatlantic.com

For a federal government that supposedly loves Greco-Roman civilization and religion*, it sure is doing a great job of ensuring no one can study it. *Yes, I know they only love evangelical Christianity and most evangelicals don’t ultimately care about actually knowing anything about Christianity.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

And I would like to not have to think of them again.

Al Toth@atoth99.bsky.social · yesterday

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Mainstream reporters can see MAGA is building a dictatorship. They don't tell the public because their newsroom leaders: A) hope irrationally that everything will fix itself B) fear being punished by fascists and/or C) are in league with fascists. That’s why they pretend this is normal “politics.”

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

I Remember, Hope you do….

The article is about the workings of conspiracy theories concerning COVID and Fauci. You get some insight into how a few legitimate questions grew into a crazy conspiracy theory led attack on someone just trying to do their best.

Fauci’s COVID-origins hearing shows how conspiracy theories became political weapons

Conspiracy theories don’t just explain events – they identify villains, and Fauci is among the most popular.

theconversation.com

RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP. Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow

A bit long, but worth the read. Trump, Rubio, Miller, Thiel and more are working towards a fascist North and South America.

The Goal is a Fascist Continent

Unpacking Trump's End Game in Latin America with William Callison and Verónica Gago

open.substack.com

For more, make sure to listen to Higher Ground's podcast, Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise, available everywhere:

Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise

Reconstruction begins where, for most Americans, the story of the Civil War ends: The North is victorious and slavery is abolished. But what happened next was one of the most important decades in Amer...

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Ask Yourself Bunky… Why No Legal Response To THIS?!?!👇🏽

Finally some sanity out of Germany.

Middle East Monitor@middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 3d ago

Comparing Israel to Nazi regime is not a criminal offense, German court rules

Trump dropped the bombshell at a recent White House press conference when he mentioned "protecting Bibi" aka Benjamin Netanyahu By @skwawkbox.org

WATCH: Trump admits US war on ICC is to protect Netanyahu

Trump dropped the bombshell at a White House press conference on 31 July when he mentioned "protecting Bibi" aka Benjamin Netanyahu

thecanary.co

Les autorités espagnoles ont mis en place samedi une barrière flottante de 500 mètres de long à proximité de Ceuta, trois jours après l’afflux, par la mer et la terre, de 60 000 migrants dans l’enclave espagnole.

Ceuta : l’Espagne installe une barrière flottante pour dissuader le passage des migrants

l.leparisien.fr

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin’s quarter-century fight for the DREAM Act remains illusory, but its effects are real

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin’s quarter-century fight for the DREAM Act remains illusory, but its effects are real

chicagotribune.com

The revisionist historians that are MAGA (how else can you be MAGA without changing facts and history to meet a current narrative?) are dredging up Fauci and COVID mitigation measures (which worked when used btw). Fuck MAGA. Next time we won't bother trying to stop you from killing yourself.

A Ceuta, «la situation est presque entièrement inversée», annonce Madrid ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/lyS

Ceuta : au moins 72 personnes sont mortes en voulant rejoindre l’enclave espagnole

Ceuta : au moins 72 personnes sont mortes en voulant rejoindre l’enclave espagnole

L’Association marocaine des droits humains a fait état de « près de 130 victimes » et de dizaines de disparus, et appelé à l’ouverture d’une enquête indépendante sur les causes de cet afflux inédit de migrants.

lemonde.fr

Gerrymandering lets politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around. Until we end that, it will remain difficult to achieve the things most Americans already agree on.

These .0001% who control as much wealth as 1/2 of humanity, they are obsessed with plundering the earth, it's animal life, and its resources, & with relentlessly impoverishing, squeezing, and degrading the lives of the 99.999%... so they can increase their already grotesquely inflated bank accounts.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8mo ago

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...