Seattle and Minneapolis were the first two cities to do so in October 2014. Since then, seven more cities — including Lawrence, Kansas, on Tuesday, and Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday — and one county in Texas, as of Tuesday, have joined their ranks. There are several many reasons we shouldn’t honor Columbus.
Columbus Day Sale! Just walk in and take stuff claiming you discovered it!
Tbh I like the idea of raising min wage but I think an all at once raise to fifteen could do a lot of damage to small businesses… I think it should be an incremental increase so businesses can adapt and adjust
Texas school textbooks, highly controversial for their right-wing bias, have been trying to put a positive spin on slavery by calling slaves ‘workers’ in a section on ‘patterns of immigration’ .. (story here)
can we just look at the design differences of these for a sec? trump is in your face and glaring and bernie’s body language is open and inviting and he’s smiling. right off the bat that shows you each of these canadite’s intentions and method of leadership. i mean the fact that i called him “bernie” instead of “sanders” says a lot about him and how he’s running his campaign. he’s keep everything authentic, and he abhors super PACs stating that he only wants to run a grassroots campaign funded by the people. people may say that bernie lacks true power/sway/seriousness as he’s seen in small town hall meetings and refuses to be bought out by billionaires, but i strongly believe that a great leader is one who earns respect - not demands it
In case there was any doubt that "States' rights" always means "I'm a racist"; in 1935, congress rejected a bill that would have made lynching a federal crime because they said it interfered with "States' rights".