the CDC’s like “how could covid cases be RISING?! all we did was tell the dumbest, most selfish population in the history of the world that they didn’t need masks if they got vaccinated, entirely on the honor system”
At some point in August my reading just ground to a halt. I’d pick up a book and read for two minutes and I just couldn’t absorb any of it. Happy to say I am getting back on track in the last week or so.
2020 for me has just been “am I stressed because of a global pandemic and an increasingly fascist far-right government, or am I just struggling to exist under capitalism” and I’m really getting tired of it
The people are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property, between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them, becomes that between employer and hired labor. The Freedmen are advised to remain at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts; and they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.
Wanted to share this thread I saw on Twitter on here. It’s devastating how we weren’t taught this in our American History classes.
