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"It is clearer than ever that democracy is on life support, begging to be revived, reimagined, and released from the grasps of profiteers ＆ political theater. Working people are answering the call for revival, but sustaining this energy for justice requires all of us." ❤️🔥 share.jwj.org/s/0yyISDwQ
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November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"It is clearer than ever that democracy is on life support, begging to be revived, reimagined, and released from the grasps of profiteers ＆ political theater. Working people are answering the call for revival, but sustaining this energy for justice requires all of us." ❤️🔥 share.jwj.org/s/0yyISDwQ
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BIPOCs, queer people, women, and so many marginalized groups have understood what is broken in America. We do not need a stretch of time to reflect and look back because it is fundamentally the same thing over and over - the petty smallness of white America.
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
BIPOCs, queer people, women, and so many marginalized groups have understood what is broken in America. We do not need a stretch of time to reflect and look back because it is fundamentally the same thing over and over - the petty smallness of white America.
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Correct but this country doesn’t care about the past and most certainly doesn’t care about the 18th century. We are responsible for who we are now. Going back and lamenting or 💩kicking the choices of the FF doesn’t help us in this moment.
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Correct but this country doesn’t care about the past and most certainly doesn’t care about the 18th century. We are responsible for who we are now. Going back and lamenting or 💩kicking the choices of the FF doesn’t help us in this moment.
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A failure to grapple with the past is a failure of the living. Trumpism didn't arise ex nihilo in 2015.
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A failure to grapple with the past is a failure of the living. Trumpism didn't arise ex nihilo in 2015.
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The failure to grapple with the flaws of 2016 is one of the biggest failings of today. Let’s stick to the failures of the living to solve today’s problems.
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The failure to grapple with the flaws of 2016 is one of the biggest failings of today. Let’s stick to the failures of the living to solve today’s problems.
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The failure to grapple with the flaws of the 18th century is one of the biggest failings of today
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The failure to grapple with the flaws of the 18th century is one of the biggest failings of today
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When the country was founded there was no such thing as a multi-racial democracy. The failings of people in the 18th century are one thing. The failings of those in the 21st century are another.
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
When the country was founded there was no such thing as a multi-racial democracy. The failings of people in the 18th century are one thing. The failings of those in the 21st century are another.
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& founded by them, so not too surprising
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
& founded by them, so not too surprising
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How embarrassing for the U.S. that it’s run by petty racists.
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
How embarrassing for the U.S. that it’s run by petty racists.
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11/ Theo Bovens, the chairman of the Black Liberators in the Netherlands foundation and also leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Appeal party, says that he intends to raise the removal with the new US Ambassador to the Netherlands, Joe Popolo.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
11/ Theo Bovens, the chairman of the Black Liberators in the Netherlands foundation and also leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Appeal party, says that he intends to raise the removal with the new US Ambassador to the Netherlands, Joe Popolo.
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10/ A second panel was dedicated to telephone engineer George H. Pruitt, who died on June 10, 1945, while trying to save a comrade who had fallen into a river.
Dutch researchers and historians say that they are shocked and outraged by the move.
Dutch researchers and historians say that they are shocked and outraged by the move.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
10/ A second panel was dedicated to telephone engineer George H. Pruitt, who died on June 10, 1945, while trying to save a comrade who had fallen into a river.
Dutch researchers and historians say that they are shocked and outraged by the move.
Dutch researchers and historians say that they are shocked and outraged by the move.
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9/ "So, there we were. A group of Black Americans confronted with all these dead white Americans… When they were alive, we couldn’t sit in the same room."
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
9/ "So, there we were. A group of Black Americans confronted with all these dead white Americans… When they were alive, we couldn’t sit in the same room."
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8/ Wiggins says that the gravedigging was so traumatising that no one talked during the day, except for the few who would pray over the graves and some who quietly cried.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
8/ Wiggins says that the gravedigging was so traumatising that no one talked during the day, except for the few who would pray over the graves and some who quietly cried.
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7/ The diggers had to cope with the smell of decomposing bodies, rain, snow, wind, mud and flooding. The ground was so sodden that machinery couldn't be used.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
7/ The diggers had to cope with the smell of decomposing bodies, rain, snow, wind, mud and flooding. The ground was so sodden that machinery couldn't be used.
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6/ First Sergeant Jefferson Wiggins oversaw the work. He later recalled that when the men arrived, they were confronted with the sight of thousands of dead bodies lying on a tarp. There were no coffins, so the bodies had to be tied up in mattress covers where the men dug graves.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
6/ First Sergeant Jefferson Wiggins oversaw the work. He later recalled that when the men arrived, they were confronted with the sight of thousands of dead bodies lying on a tarp. There were no coffins, so the bodies had to be tied up in mattress covers where the men dug graves.
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5/ The site of the cemetery was established by Captain Joseph Shomon, the head of the 611th Graves Registration Company, while the task of digging it and burying the bodies was given to the 960th QMSC during September-November 1944.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
5/ The site of the cemetery was established by Captain Joseph Shomon, the head of the 611th Graves Registration Company, while the task of digging it and burying the bodies was given to the 960th QMSC during September-November 1944.
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4/ One of those roles was burying the dead, a highly traumatic duty as many of the bodies were severely mutilated. The cemetery was constructed by the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, an all-Black unit of 260 men under the command of a White officer (as was usual).
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
4/ One of those roles was burying the dead, a highly traumatic duty as many of the bodies were severely mutilated. The cemetery was constructed by the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, an all-Black unit of 260 men under the command of a White officer (as was usual).
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3/ One of the two panels described how a million African-Americans volunteered for service during World War II, but had to fight against both the enemy and racism on their own side, including segregation within the army itself that confined many to supporting roles.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
3/ One of the two panels described how a million African-Americans volunteered for service during World War II, but had to fight against both the enemy and racism on their own side, including segregation within the army itself that confined many to supporting roles.
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2/ The Dutch newspaper reports that two memorial panels installed at the NAC were removed some time earlier this year. They commemorated African-American soldiers who helped liberate Europe from German occupation during World War II.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
2/ The Dutch newspaper reports that two memorial panels installed at the NAC were removed some time earlier this year. They commemorated African-American soldiers who helped liberate Europe from German occupation during World War II.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Republicans shut down the government, knowing it halts coverage, delays disability cases, and blocks veterans’ care.
This isn’t “fiscal responsibility.”
It’s cruelty on purpose.
#GOPHealthCareShutdown
This isn’t “fiscal responsibility.”
It’s cruelty on purpose.
#GOPHealthCareShutdown
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Republicans shut down the government, knowing it halts coverage, delays disability cases, and blocks veterans’ care.
This isn’t “fiscal responsibility.”
It’s cruelty on purpose.
#GOPHealthCareShutdown
This isn’t “fiscal responsibility.”
It’s cruelty on purpose.
#GOPHealthCareShutdown
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Are they finally catching on to his eternal grifting and gaslighting?
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Are they finally catching on to his eternal grifting and gaslighting?
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What we know from Trumps last term is that once his polling fell into the range of 39-44%, he never recovered. His current polling is about 39%, he’s officially a lame duck president.
#Trump
#Trump
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What we know from Trumps last term is that once his polling fell into the range of 39-44%, he never recovered. His current polling is about 39%, he’s officially a lame duck president.
#Trump
#Trump
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They started the new civil war. My bet is our government will stay shutdown so the Reps won’t lose power
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
They started the new civil war. My bet is our government will stay shutdown so the Reps won’t lose power
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And his supporters are true marks.
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
And his supporters are true marks.