The Slavery Story You Won't Learn In School
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 2/23/2026 3:51:18 PM
For historians of human enslavement -- and for black Africans more generally -- the recently concluded African Nations soccer cup revealed images of an ugliness that has roots in the Muslim world's trans-Saharan slave trade. As Senegal defeated host Morocco in the final, sections of the Moroccan crowd hurled racial insults at the Senegalese -- just as Algerian spectators had, earlier in the tournament, when their team was beaten by Nigeria. "Get the black slave," affronted Algerian soccer fans chanted.
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For historians of human enslavement -- and for black Africans more generally -- the recently concluded African Nations soccer cup revealed images of an ugliness that has roots in the Muslim world's trans-Saharan slave trade. As Senegal defeated host Morocco in the final, sections of the Moroccan crowd hurled racial insults at the Senegalese -- just as Algerian spectators had, earlier in the tournament, when their team was beaten by Nigeria. "Get the black slave," affronted Algerian soccer fans chanted.
Litigation brought by a key figure in the Russiagate scandal has quietly reached the Supreme Court, giving the nine judges a chance to weigh in on an investigation that has become a symbol of law enforcement and intelligence abuses during the Obama-Biden era. Carter Page (snip) became the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation (snip) known as Crossfire Hurricane. In 2020, Page filed a federal lawsuit seeking damages from FBI Director James Comey and other former officials (snip) The petition was filed with the Supreme Court (snip) after the (snip) DC Circuit affirmed the dismissal of Page's lawsuit.
Trump And Allies Launch Census Strategy
That Could Upend Blue States' Advantage
With Illegal Aliens 5 replies
That Could Upend Blue States' Advantage
With Illegal Aliens 5 replies
President Donald Trump and his allies are launching a double-barreled U.S. census strategy that could eliminate a big electoral and federal funding mechanism for blue states: illegal immigrants. Missouri Attorney
General Katherine Hanaway said her office is asking the courts to bar the federal government from counting immigrants living in the country illegally when determining congressional representation and federal funding, a move she argued should shift political power among the states for decades.
San Francisco's controversial reparations initiative, formalized and signed by Mayor Dan Lurie on December 23, 2025, creates a dedicated Reparations Fund (essentially, a new City Hall-administered bank account) to dole out restitution to the city's Black residents which were victims of slavery, redlining, urban renewal, War on Drugs, and other qualifiers. (snip) the program's design creates a stark dilemma: it compels non-eligible residents, including a significant number of the city's black African Americans, to actually subsidize reparations benefits they themselves cannot access (snip)
JPMorgan Chase acknowledged for the first time that it closed the bank accounts of President Donald Trump and several of his businesses in the political and legal aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, the latest development in a legal saga over the controversial practice of "debanking." (snip) JPMorgan previously said it believes the suit has no merit. (snip) "In a devastating concession that proves Trump's entire claim, JPMorgan admitted to unlawfully (snip) de-banking President Trump (snip)" the president's lawyers said (snip) Trump and other conservative figures have alleged that banks cut them off (snip) after the Jan. 6, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The corporate media recently obtained a leaked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memorandum changing the agency's policy on forcibly entering the home of an alien who has been ordered to be deported by an immigration judge. (snip) According to the talking heads, civil rights in the United States will now evaporate. (snip) However, such claims are utter nonsense. (snip) when ICE follows all of the procedures set forth (snip) in the Immigration and Nationality Act, aliens are being given all the due process they are owed. And regarding the arrest of immigration violators Congress has explicitly stated (snip) that an administrative -- not a judicial -- warrant suffices (snip)
Kennedy Center Says Rink Was Vandalized
In "Targeted Attack," Forcing Performance Cancellation 11 replies
In "Targeted Attack," Forcing Performance Cancellation 11 replies
The Trump-Kennedy Center said Friday that its outdoor skating rink was vandalized in a "targeted attack," after someone poured a ""toxic chemical" on the ice, prompting the performing venue arts venue to cancel its performances. The incident occurred Friday morning when someone poured a black-brown substance on the ice, damaging the arena. No suspect has been publicly identified for the vandalism, and it was not immediately clear what the chemical was. (snip) "we unfortunately must cancel tonight's performance, but we are working feverishly to complete repairs so programming can resume tomorrow," the Center's (snip) Roma Davari told the outlet.
CIA's Historic Retraction Of Intel Reports
Exposes Political Bias In Obama-Biden
Spy Agencies 9 replies
Exposes Political Bias In Obama-Biden
Spy Agencies 9 replies
First there were parents flagged at school board meetings. Then it was Catholics who preferred the traditional Latin Mass who were targeted for scrutiny. Now, the CIA's retraction of nineteen "politicized" intel reports on Friday -- on the heels of the agency's self-critique last year on its assessment of Trump-Russia collusion in 2016 -- has put the sharpest light yet on the infection of political bias inside American spy agencies dating back to the Obama era. The politicized assessments -- many (snip) on DEI-related issues -- included pronouncements by the CIA about white women, motherhood, violent extremism, LGBT issues, and others well beyond the remit of the agency's mission.
The Supreme Court tariff decision about where the conventional wisdom said it would: The justices ruled 6-3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't give the President the sweeping authority the Trump administration claimed. That's not a political rebuke. It's a legal one, and a narrow one at that. (snip) The court did not say the president lacks authority to impose tariffs. It said this law doesn't authorize these tariffs. (snip) indeed a clear court majority would agree with Justice Brett Kavanaugh's observation in dissent that "numerous other federal statutes authorize the president to impose tariffs and might justify most (if not all) of the tariffs at issue" (snip)
Another Republican who is actually a Democrat. Chad Bianco, the sheriff of Riverside County running to be Governor of California is hot on the campaign trail, preparing for the election later this year, as Gavin Newsom has finally termed out, thank God. (snip) As reported by Breitbart News, Bianco vows to fight for mass amnesty, and create a "path to citizenship" for these poor benighted foreigners as long as they're not "breaking our laws and creating committing crimes." I'm slightly confused as to why I have to clear this up for a sheriff, but anyone here illegally is breaking our laws and committing a crime.
Remember the time before the 2020 election when everyone was focused on social media election interference? (snip) But there is just as much election interference going on now. And it is time the Republican Party got on top of it. (snip) Where there was once flagrant distortion of the news, a number of Big Tech companies are now doing things in a far more subtle and insidious way. Take Apple. (snip) Why does it keep offering me stories from the Guardian, BBC and other left-wing news sites? (snip) I don't mind reading a variety of news. (snip) But why is the pushing all in one direction?
A bombshell X post that has racked up thousands of views in hours lays bare the mechanics of what many Nevadans have long suspected: the 2020 presidential election in the Silver State was compromised by a deliberate, pandemic-fueled overhaul of voting rules by state Democrats that opened the floodgates to widespread fraud in 2020 and subsequent elections. The post from @TheSCIF details a catastrophic surge in mail-in ballots -- from 6,300 in 2016 to 690,000 in 2020. Using the COVID-19 emergency as cover, Nevada Democrats unilaterally rammed through universal mail-in voting, unlimited ballot harvesting, unsecured and unmanned ballot boxes, extended ballot tabulation, and stripped away basic election safeguards.
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Brazilian social media influencer Bianca Dias died on Thursday following complications from plastic surgery.
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The bank admitted on Friday that “more than 50 Trump accounts” were cut off in February 2021, weeks after the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, according to the New York Times.
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There was an immediate reaction from many on the left. (X) However, Johnson was absolutely right to deny the Jackson family's request to allow his body to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda.
There are very strict protocols governing who can lie in state. Even former Vice President Dick Cheney was denied that honor. Generally, the honor is reserved for presidents, noted military leaders, and select government officials.
Mayor Mamdani Urges New Yorkers to Help
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Forms of ID! 24 replies
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"This is AI slop. It is impossible that Newsom actually said this," social scientist Charles Murray posted in response to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's latest ham-fisted attempt at connecting with voters outside his state. "Right?" Murray added, and you could practically hear him begging for it not to be true.
"Holy God in heaven please tell me that my black brothers in Christ can look at the world's stupidest white man and understand that he is a bad person," my old X acquaintance Political Math added.
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The only rule?
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Party affiliation doesn’t matter
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Former Vice President Mike Pence just reminded the MAGA movement what a duplicitous traitor he is — and always has been.
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Today’s 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court is a Victory for the American People and a Win for the Separation of Powers enshrined in the Constitution of the United States.
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And now President Donald Trump wants accountability.
On Saturday, Trump called on Netflix to fire Rice.
Dems will roll out their perfect agent
of subterfuge, Abigail Spanberger, in
response to SOTU 17 replies
of subterfuge, Abigail Spanberger, in
response to SOTU 17 replies
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The defendants, Samaneh Ghandali, 41, a U.S. citizen; her sister Soroor Ghandali, 32, an Iranian national on a student visa; and Samaneh’s husband Mohammadjavad Khosravi, 40, an Iranian national and legal permanent resident, were all residents of San Jose at the time of the theft.
Samaneh and Soroor previously worked at Google before joining another unnamed tech firm, while Khosravi, a former member of the Iranian army, was employed at a developer of system-on-chip (SoC) platforms, such as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon series used in high-end Android phones and Apple’s iPhones.
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Fascinating and informative. This review of Justin Marozzi, Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade In the Islamic World, notes that substantially more persons were enslaved in Islamic countries than in the Western Hemisphere -- and for a much longer period of time. There is far less scholarship on slavery in Islamic countries only because scholars in those countries do not enjoy the same incentives and constitutional protections as their counterparts in the West.