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I thought they were trying to save money 🤔

Under #Trump, the #Consumer #FinancialProtection Bureau #CFPB has dropped nearly a dozen enforcement cases brought during the #Biden admin, ending lawsuits against #banks & #lenders for a variety of financial practices that the #watchdog agency no longer considers #illegal.

But on Wed, the bureau went a step further: It is seeking to GIVE BACK $105k that a #mortgage lender paid to settle #racial #discrimination claims….

#law
nytimes.com/2025/03/26/busines

Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, criticized the case against Townstone Financial, which the agency had brought during President Trump’s first term.
The New York Times · Consumer Bureau Seeks to Undo Settlement and Repay Mortgage LenderBy Stacy Cowley

Coming up soon! (as in today!!!!)

Book Launch for Solving Name: Worldliness and #Metaphysics in #Librarianship

Registration: libraryjuice.zoom.us/webinar/r

“Solving Names” for American pragmatist #philosopher William James meant that no further debate or enquiry was needed. In #Librarianship this means the construction, maintenance, and reproduction of #racial, #settler- #colonial, #patriarchal #capitalism.

youtube.com/watch?v=D5171vr0A2

From #Austin, #TX, Congressmember #CésarCasar (D- #Texas) SHREDS #MAGA #GNP (#GrandNaziParty) and confronts the #Republican's DISGUSTINGLY HATEFUL #AntiBlackRacism

Members of #HateGroups involved with #Project2025 (which legalises discrimination, including #racial)

#FCKNZS #Hate #extrêmedroite #farright

A #MustWatchVideo #USAFascistShitShow #WhiteNationalists #WhiteSupremacists

If you don't believe that the U.S. has become a nazi-like hate filled run country...WATCH THIS

The #Black population of the #UnitedStates is growing. In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million #Blackpeople living in the #US.

The Black #American population is diverse. This group consists of people with varied #racial and #ethnic identities and experiences.

#BHM #blackhistory
pewresearch.org/race-and-ethni

Via #The Hill @ 4:53pm ET on Dec 23, 2024

The #CongressionalBlackCaucus (CBC) has applauded President #Biden 4 commuting federal death sentences of 37 inmates, even as some #Democrats have condemned the president’s actions.

The #CBC has advocated against use of #CapitalPunishment @ fed level, in part because of #racial disparities in its employment, Rep. #StevenHorsford, outgoing chair of the caucus, & incoming Chair Rep. #YvetteClarke said in a statement on Monday.

thehill.com/homenews/race-poli

After the release of #Wicked, there was discussion of the #UglyLaws once present, up until the 1970s, but can it really be said that such things are in the past, when more and more, being without shelter and helping those without shelter face punishment?

In July, #SCOTUS decided that it's #Constitutional for those without shelter to face arrest. More and more those who are #disabled face this all the more. Not to mention #racial #discrimination.

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🙌 The University of Pennsylvania's sale is available to non US customers as well 🙌

40% off through December 31 using the code PENN-HOLIDAY24 (ooh, a variation on the theme).

_The Plantation Machine_ is a comparative #economic, #racial, and political history of two of the most important #sugar islands in the 18th-century #Caribbean (Saint-Domingue (now #Haiti) and #Jamaica). Written by two leading historians of the respective islands, The Plantation Machine reveals the connections between #empire and #capitalism that shaped the #AtlanticWorld in the era before the #AgeOfRevolutions.

pennpress.org/9780812224238/th

University of Pennsylvania PressThe Plantation Machine – Penn PressJamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation reg...

"A week on from the "pogrom" in Amsterdam, we're starting to see who knew this was coming, who lied about it, who laundered it, and who benefited from it.

As we see a crackdown on dissenting voices throughout the world, what happens in the Netherlands isn't isolated, it isn't random, and it isn't insignificant. If what I suspect happened really happened, then we are in for some very dark times indeed."

benjaminmoser.substack.com/p/a