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In her basement, a woman discovered a mystery room. Mystee Ipong, a New York-based content creator, created a TikTok series chronicling her struggle with a "random room" in [her] basement, which has been closed down in [her] 200-year-old house.' She 'noticed there was a leak' and that there was 'water backing up' from a cryptic spot in the basement. Her husband, Ken, was seen attempting to open the wall in the 'creepy basement,' as she talked about the 'interesting past' she found out over time to her followers in a series of videos.

After early results for the city's state testing showed nearly 75% of students at 13 schools received the lowest possible score, with no 'proficient' findings, the mayor of Baltimore City Schools was under fire. In the new round of Maryland's state testing, the abject results were recorded. 'This is educational murder,' said Jason Rodriguez, deputy director of Baltimore-based nonprofit People Empowered by the Struggle.' The activist said there is "no excuse" for the city's poor education standards after years of warnings. It comes only days after a devastating new report found that schooling in America fell to dangerous lows during the pandemic, with one-third of fourth and eighth grade students struggling to even read at a 'basic' level.

Harlan Crow, a billionaire real estate developer, owes $6,200 to Clarence Thomas' grand-nephew's private academy, where hew attended. Tuition at two schools the relative attended may have risen to $150,000 over a four-year period. Thomas did not reveal the $6,200 payment that has appeared on his financial disclosure statements. Thomas and his partner, Ginni, have also funded lavish vacations for them. The revelations follow with calls in Congress for a code of conduct for the Supreme Court.

Justice Thomas of the Supreme Court wants to update his financial disclosure to reflect the selling of land to billionaire Harland Crow, who has also sponsored lavish vacations. In 2014, Thomas sold the house and two empty lots to Crow. Crow said he wanted to build a "public museum" for Thomas, who has also cruised Asia and has regularly hosted at his Upstate New York vacation home.

According to ProPublica, a Texas billionaire Crow, who has entertained Thomas with extravagant trips and bizarre yet expensive gifts, bought a series of houses in Savannah, Georgia, including a single-story home and two lots. It's the first documented direct financial transaction between Thomas and Crow. According to a tax statement and deed from October 2014, the corporation acquired the properties from co-owner Thomas, his mother, and his late brother's relatives. The justice's elderly mother lived at the home and continued to do so under Crow's ownership. Contractors got to work on tens of thousands of dollars, including a carport, a fixed roof, and a new fence and gates shortly after the purchase was confirmed.

Justice Clarence Thomas has released a rare statement in response to a bombshell study revealing his appreciation of luxury travel from billionaire donor Harlan Crow over decades. 'We've been on several family trips during the more than a quarter century we've known them,' Thomas said of the Crows, who he described as 'dearest friends.' On a trip to Indonesia, a ProPublica study explored the luxury jet travel and megayacht that ferried the Thomases. Thomas takes the Crows on a year-round holiday. He said he sought help from 'colleagues' and discovered that the trips were not'reportable.' They didn't appear on his media forms, and they did not appear on his disclosure pages.

Democrats are being outraged by a recent research that explores Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' close friendship with billionaire Harlan Crow. Thomas had a habit of taking annual vacations with Crow, but failed to disclose that travel plans could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Crow and Thomas met in the 1990s, a few years after Thomas took the High Court, and the two have had a close friendship ever since - Crow once gave Thomas' wife Ginni $500,000 to start a Tea Party-related group. According to the Dallas Morning News, the 74-year-old billionaire real estate developer who has lavished gifts and trips on Thomas is the chairman of Crow Holdings, a highly profitable private investment company with almost $29 million in assets.

Justice Clarence Thomas has travelled around Indonesia on a megayacht and holidayed at the Adirondacks estate owned by real estate magnate Harlan Crow. Thomas and his partner, Ginni, would have paid out of pocket for the 2019 trip, according to a ProPublica analysis, if Thomas paid out of pocket for it. The trips weren't announced as gifts. Justices on the Supreme Court aren't bound to the same code of conduct as lower court federal judges. Thomas has been a regular visitor to Crow's Adirondacks resort, Camp Topridge, which was once owned by the State of New York.

MAC DONALD: Elites are fighting it out on meritocratic principles, our ancestorage, and West's unbeaten achievements, all in the name of atoning for America and the West's peculiar neogy and cruelty toward the 'Other.' The war on free expression is motivated by this 'blame America first' instinct. The maudlin argument that protesting speech prejudices favored victim groups is the novel's justification for today's censorship. They are only well-being victims in the United States' maelstrom of oppression. These people are so fragile that they can be struck down--even fatally-by thoughts that they don't like. Those 'unpopular viewpoints are labeled 'hate speech,' according to the Democratic establishment.' If you believe that Americans have the right to choose who crosses their boundaries, you are engaged in hate speech. If you believe that doctors should be chosen based on their scientific experience, not race, you are participating in hate speech. If you believe that sex differences are written into our chromosomes and cannot be changed by fiat or castingration, you are participating in hate speech. Hate expression, as the current trend, can be censored, because it is not real speech. Rather, it is conduct-assaultive behavior against the marginalized. This conceptual shift is at the root of the current call for censorship. So, how do we restore our freedoms?

A black parent has filed a civil rights lawsuit over a cotton field that was established outside of a school so that students could see what slavery looked like. Rashunda Pitts is suing the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Board of Education for a cotton field that was 'distressed,' according to her now 14-year-old daughter, who began the process in 2017. After the project had been revealed, she also stated that the school attempted to conceal it. According to the lawsuit, the school's social justice teacher explained that the aim of the Laurel Span School was to help students gain a "real-life exposure" as to what the African American slaves had endured.' Pitts states that she discovered that her daughter, who was just referred to as 'SW,' became "very quiet and reserved' when she used to'vibrantly share her day with her mother,' beginning in 2017.' 'She has uncontrollable anxiety attacks and suffers bouts of depression when she considers the cotton picking process,' according to the complaint, which also claims negligence and seeks unspecified damages.'

PATRICK JEPHSON: My wife and I were both new arrivals in Texas from London, where firearms are a part of every day life. In my 15 years of military service and another eight years around armoured Royal bodyguards, I had encountered a lot of weapons. In my view, weapons belong at work, not at home, and I intend to keep it that way. Until the police captain talked about the local robbers and their notoriously quick trigger fingers, everything was fine. 'Are you saying I have to have a gun?' You need to have a strategy,' says the author. I know I'm on the verge of being involved in America and weapons's unsolvable epidemic. Will I be part of the solution, or just another problem statistic?