Tag: US Slavery

Political news I want to share. 9-4-2026

Philadelphia DA Says That One Day Trump’s Ballroom Will Be “Blown Up” With Pieces Turned Into Souvenirs

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/826590874001604608/friends-when-the-supreme-court-doesnt-want-to

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court cleared the way for President Donald Trump to continue building the White House ballroom, rejecting a challenge from a preservation group that was seeking to indefinitely halt the controversial project. https://cnn.it/3UsAOqU

— CNN (@cnn.com) 2026-08-31T20:19:08.734312074Z

Trump immediately blames Joe Biden for the 13 deaths at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan. Trump forever forgets he caused the withdrawal problem by negotiating with the Taliban without the Afghan government involved. The withdrawal took longer than the timetable he created.#Trump #Afghanistan #AbbeyGate

— Bill Addis (@paidprotester.bsky.social) 2026-08-26T19:44:24.226Z

MAGA had a meltdown when 13 servicemembers were killed at Abbey Gate trying to evacuate after Trump surrendered to the Taliban. Now the Republicans think it's funny that 13 servicemembers have been killed in the GOP's latest Never Ending War in the Middle East. http://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-…

— The Sgt Joker (@thesgtjoker.bsky.social) 2026-05-21T17:09:39.363Z

Hey MAGA, remember when Donald Trump freed 5000 Taliban without even speaking to the Afghani government – then the Taliban took over the Afghani government? Then he struck a deal to get out of there and blamed Joe Biden for the Chaos he left behind, I do!

— Phineas (@phineasm.bsky.social) 2024-11-28T13:39:03.861Z

Remember when Trump released 5000 Taliban and one of them is now President of Afghanistan?

— Robert Ellingsworth (@by1959.bsky.social) 2024-08-26T18:04:49.026Z

(Bloomberg) – US allies are privately warning that the Strait of Hormuz is still likely mined, casting doubt on President Donald Trump’s claim that the US Navy has completely removed and detonated explosives laid by Iran.@bloomberg.com http://www.bloomberg.com/news/article…

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2026-08-26T17:51:44.932Z

West Point professor says he was pushed out for objecting to climate directive gothamist.com/news/west-po…

— Gothamist (@gothamist.com) 2026-08-26T20:35:31.321584Z
Education Dept Posts Clip Comparing Trump To Hitler

US military has no plans to send troops to the polls in November, top general says

— BanmarNJ (@banmarnj.bsky.social) 2026-08-31T17:33:09.659Z

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a “first-of-its-kind” lawsuit against Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools (KCKPS).

— KSNT 27 News (@ksntnews.bsky.social) 2026-09-01T20:57:01.639Z
DOJ Sues Kansas City Over “Secret Gender Transitions”

RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents obtained by The AP and The Guardian refute that.

— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 2026-08-27T12:05:18Z

There is no such thing as “conservative-based” science. If you’re not doing evidence-based science, you are making up fairy tales.

— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) 2026-08-25T23:48:00.803Z

Heidi Overton is a far-right, anti-abortion extremist who has no business leading the FDA.The American people deserve someone who will put science and facts FIRST, not another Trump sycophant who will make it their mission to attack medication abortion.I will vote NO.

— Senator Patty Murray (@murray.senate.gov) 2026-08-19T16:31:22.654Z

Pro-life group offers to pay legal fees for activists who defy New Jersey's new abortion law

— New York Post (@nypost.com) 2026-08-26T17:51:57.770903Z

Data centers in the 7 states with the highest concentration of them use more water than L.A., Phoenix, and D.C. combined.Now Trump's EPA is making it even harder for communities to push back against them. He's forcing the Big Tech takeover on America, democracy be damned.

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2026-08-26T21:00:53.791Z

The brother of a woman killed in a car crash this year says the lack of empathy toward her family has been shocking.

— HuffPost (@huffpost.com) 2026-08-26T15:18:57.887Z

Breaking News: A judge sided with Texas over Minnesota over the extradition of an ICE agent who was charged in an on-duty shooting.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2026-08-26T20:17:26.375444Z

The Kennedy Center will remove a major outdoor sculpture from the center’s grounds on Wednesday. The work was targeted for elimination after President Trump’s takeover of the center, according to internal documents obtained by The New York Times.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2026-09-02T02:40:04.107035Z

Kennedy Center Will Remove Outdoor ‘Blue’ Sculpture http://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/a…Degenerate Art Redux

— Diedrich Bader (@diedrichbader.bsky.social) 2026-09-02T04:57:01.562Z

God these people are not subtle. This is straight out of the Nazi playbook! http://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/a…

— Nora Biette-Timmons (@biettetimmons.bsky.social) 2026-09-02T13:46:21.680Z

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has shared a disturbing concentration camp video depicting Palestinians being placed into a machine on a conveyor belt, entering overweight and emerging thin, distressed and crying. #StopTheGame

— Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 (@jeffrudd.bsky.social) 2026-09-02T06:43:14.345Z

Breaking news: The Supreme Court said construction can continue on the White House ballroom.The justices found that the historic preservationists who challenged the project had not suffered the direct personal harm required to bring a lawsuit.

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2026-08-31T20:18:27.102393544Z

First Enslaved Africans Arrive in VA, & The Equal Opportunity Act Is Signed, In Peace & Justice History for 8/20

August 20, 1619
The first enslaved Africans brought to North America arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, aboard a Dutch ship.
August 20, 1964
A nearly $1 billion (about $5 billion in current dollars) anti-poverty measure, the Economic Opportunity Act, which created Head Start, VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America), and other programs that became part of the “War on Poverty,” was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.


Sargent Shriver & LBJ
Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps, drafted the legislation and became director of the Office of Equal Opportunity which implemented the new law.
The “Great Society” 

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryaugust.htm#august20

Peace & Justice History for 9/20:

September 20, 1830
The National Negro Convention, a group of 38 free black Americans from eight states, met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the express purpose of abolishing slavery and improving the social status of African Americans. They elected Richard Allen president and agreed to boycott slave-produced goods and encourage free-produce organizations. One of the most active would be the Colored Female Free Produce Society, which urged the boycott of all slave-produced goods.
Read more
 Richard Allen
 
National Negro Convention leaders 1879
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September 20, 1850
The District of Columbia abolished the slave trade though slavery itself was not outlawed. Washington had been home to the largest slave market in the country. This was an element of the Compromise of 1850.
The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act 
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September 20, 1906
Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle,” a realist novel, was published, exposing the dangerous conditions and deplorable sanitation in Chicago’s meat-packing plants. Reaction from readers was intense, including President Theodore Roosevelt who coined the term “muckrakers” to describe Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and other writers who exposed corruption in government and business [what we’d now call investigative reporting].

“The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society …
if they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing
but muck, their power of usefulness is gone.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
More on the muckrakers 
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September 20, 1932
Rabindranath Tagore urges resistance to practice of “untouchability,” British India.
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September 20, 1946
The first Cannes Film Festival began in that French Riviera resort town. It had originally been planned for 1939 but Hitler’s invasion of Poland that year, and later France, delayed plans until after the war.
The first Grand Prix and the International Peace Prize were awarded to “The Last Chance” by Leopold Lindtberg of Switzerland, a movie (shot on location) about how three Allied soldiers, including two escaped prisoners of war, lead a group of Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied northern Italy across the Alps to safety in nominally neutral Switzerland. Cannes festival history 
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September 20, 1997
3,000 protesters helped to rip up the railroad tracks leading from Krummel nuclear power station to the main Hamburg-Berlin line. The previous year two doctors had sued for closure of the plant due to the increased incidence of leukemia among the population around the plant.
In January, a train carrying nuclear waste derailed near the reactor at Krummel.
At the time, Germany’s 19 nuclear reactors generated 34 per cent of the country’s electricity; in 2005 it was down to 26 percent.
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September 20, 1999
A multinational peacekeeping force landed in East Timor in an attempt to restore law and order to the territory. Indonesian militias had killed thousands following the overwhelming vote by the East Timorese for independence from Jakarta on September 4.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryseptember.htm#september20