A great initiative by the Province of Manitoba and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: manitobalg.ca/residential-...
last night NYC councilman yusef salaam—one of the exonerated five—was actually in the spin room post-debate and confronted trump! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
here is my jeremiad against the raw milk movement, based on the history of pasteurization: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Louis Pasteur didn’t set out to make milk safer. A scientific jack-of-all trades, born in 1822 in eastern France, Pasteur pioneered fields from...
According to Ari Ne'eman, the wonderful @stevesilberman.bsky.social has passed. Baruch Dayan HaEmet. What a loss. What a huge loss. What a mensch we had in that one.
Think slavery doesn't matter today? Wrong. Current Congress members whose families owned 16+ enslaved people now have 4 million $ more than members who did not own slaves. Slave owning = 2024 money and influence 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Background Whether and how much past slavery affects contemporary social and economic conditions in the United States is an area of active debate. Newly available data on which members of the United S...
His guts seething with hatred, bigotry, and thoughts of revenge, Trump struggles with aides begging him to stay "on message." The aides might console themselves by remembering that hatred, bigotry, and thoughts of revenge are Trump's only message. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/u...
Despite calls by his advisers to focus on the issues, former President Donald J. Trump has made it clear that he intends to keep running his campaign his way.