In a withering opinion Monday, Judge Cynthia Rufe invoked George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984," saying the administration had attacked the concept of truth itself as it sought to erase details of America's legacy of slavery. She said the removal of the exhibits in January papered over Washington's ownership of slaves and the special measures he took to avoid those enslaved persons gaining their liberty while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797...
"It shows that the United States is still unwilling to reckon with the horrors of its past and would rather prefer to sanitize the history that it has and try to present a convenient lie," said Timothy Welbeck, director of the Center for Anti-Racism at Temple University...
School district will ignore Trump executive order banning trans athletes from competing in women's sports…
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Meanwhile, the day after the debacle of Danna's health emergency, Dominick Mireles, Philadelphia's emergency management director, fired off a stern letter to Nim Kidd, the chief of the Texas division of emergency management, a copy of which has been seen by the Guardian.
Mireles wrote "to request that you uphold a core tenet of our profession: collaboration".
It went on: "Your bus of asylum seekers that arrived yesterday took the city of Philadelphia and its partners by surprise. As you may have heard, a child required emergency medical care upon arrival."
The letter had a list of measures expected by the Philadelphia authorities, including 72 hours notice prior to buses arriving, health screening, notification of passengers with disabilities or special needs, families being kept together and buses reporting to a "safe and secure location of choice, not a street corner"…
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