True Dat1 day agoOne of the biggest US slave markets finally reckons with its paststripes.com - Sarah Enelow-SnyderNatchez was the largest slave-trading market in Mississippi before the Civil War, and one of the largest in the country. Today, the city is full of …
True Dat2 days agoDemocracy faces two threats. Trump is only one of them.verified_publisherThe Washington Post - By E.J. DionneOver the next year, the survival of democracy should be the central issue in American politics. To insist on this is to be a realist, not an alarmist. But making that case requires identifying two distinct threats. The first is Donald Trump, who is already at the center of our national conversation. …
True Dat2 days agoKen Buck blasts his party’s hardliners for ‘lying to America’verified_publisherPOLITICO - By Kelly Garrity“Everybody who thinks that the election was stolen or talks about the election being stolen is lying to America,” Buck said. Republican Rep. Ken Buck laid into his own party Sunday, blasting those who continue to propagate the lie that the 2020 election was stolen for “lying to America.” “Everybody …
True Dat3 days agoIsrael-Hamas War: Thirteen Israeli captives, four foreigners freedjpost.com - By TOVAH LAZAROFF, GADI ZAIG, YUVAL BARNEAAfter a nail-biting night, 17 hostages returned to Israel, women and children reunited with their families Hamas released 13 Israeli and four foreign …
True Dat3 days agoUkraine's risky decision to stay and let Russia bash its forces against Bakhmut came with costs but was worth itverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Analysis by Jake EpsteinUkraine fought tooth and nail for months to defend the eastern city of Bakhmut from a never-ending onslaught of Russian soldiers and Wagner Group mercenaries. The fighting, which claimed thousands of lives on both sides, was so brutal in nature that it was characterized as a "slaughter-fest" or …
True Dat3 days agoNine-year-old hostage hugs father for first time after release from GazaThe Independent - Bel TrewA nine-year-old who was held hostage by Hamas hugged his father for the first time on Friday night (24 November) after being freed. Ohad Monder, his mother Karen, and his grandmother Ruthi returned to Israel last night to a designated compound and reunited with family members. The Independent has learned that 14 hostages, including eight children, will be exchanged on Saturday for 42 Palestinians. It comes after the militant group released 13 Israeli women and children to the Red Cross on Friday afternoon as Hamas and Israel maintained a temporary ceasefire, while 39 Palestinian women and teenage boys have been released so far from Israeli detention in return.
