I can’t label this false because it would involve proving a negative, but there is no documented historical or DNA evidence for this whatsoever. To proclaim it as historical fact is completely irresponsible, yet completely unsurprising that the original tweet got over 200K likes.
▪️Madison never had any children with his wife Dolly, which made some historians suspect he was infertile (though this is also unproven). The slave child claim comes from Bettye Kearse, who’s story rest on an “oral history” passed down through the generations.
https://montpelierdescendants.org/2021/02/12/bettyekearse/
▪️While it’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility, her claims haven’t been corroborated by any historical documents or DNA evidence, unlike other famous examples like Jefferson’s children with Sally Hemings. There’s no evidence Madison ever met this woman or that she even existed.
▪️When Y-chromosones of Kearse’s male cousins were analyzed, markers of a typically West African gene cluster were found, meaning their patriarchal male ancestor was probably from Africa. It’s possible, but rare, that a European man (i.e. Madison) would have a West African haplogroup.
▪️Kearse also later compared her genealogy with another willing female Madison descendant, but their genetic family trees didn’t intersect at any point.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/dna-madison/
▪️Unfortunately, no willing white male Madison descendants have been found to compare results to, either in the US or England. This would be necessary to compare the Y chromosomes to Kearse’s black male cousins to see if they match.
▪️However, even if they did match it still wouldn’t prove the claim, it would only prove that she was a descendant of James Madison’s father (i.e. one of his brothers could also be the source) since there are no known descendants of President Madison. Still, it would vastly strengthen the credibility for Kearse’s claims.
▪️But as of now, there is no such evidence, and the available DNA evidence suggest it’s unlikely she’s related to Madison. Thus, to put forth this meme as fact is ahistorical nonsense, and why it’s not found in any reputable history books.
▪️This is a proposal that pertains only to graduate level nursing degrees, not undergraduate ones (which were never considered professional degrees). The proposal will have a 30-60 day public comment period next year, where groups can object, before the DoE will decide on it.
▪️This is about how much federal student loans someone can take out for a particular degree. The cap on graduate degrees is $100k ($20,500/yr), while a “professional degree” limit is $200k ($50k/yr).
▪️Under the new rule proposal, professional degrees include:
🔹Pharmacy
🔹Dentistry
🔹Veterinary medicine
🔹Chiropractic
🔹Law
🔹Medicine (including osteopathic medicine & podiatry)
🔹Optometry
🔹Theology
▪️The nursing degrees excluded are ones like master of science in nursing (MSN), doctor of nursing practice (DNP) and PhD in nursing. These degrees would be limited to $100k in federal student loans, like all other graduate degrees.
▪️These changes came from the One Big Beautiful Bill’s...
▪️The left keeps using this meme but they don’t actually believe it. If you believe SNAP subsidizes companies to pay below a “living wage” this implies that if you take food stamps away they would suddenly pay a higher, “living” wage. So why not get rid of food stamps, then?!
▪️Except they know, and everyone knows, this isn’t true. Wages are set by supply and demand, not some mythical “living wage” metric. Absent food stamps there would actually be downward, not upward, pressure on wages, because the reality is food stamps subsidize the poor to not work as much as they might otherwise need to.
▪️Without SNAP, some low income people would need to work more hours to make ends meet, increasing the availability of low-skilled labor and lowering wages (all else being equal).
▪️Plus, we all know the left loves and supports food stamps. Which means, by this meme’s logic, they love to subsidize corporate profits. But they don’t really, they just think this ...
▪️Wait, this is the guy libertarians and the new right rave about being a great historian?! This sounds like a clueless meme from The Other 98%, except they wouldn’t add in the bizarre defense of feudal lords. Feudalism didn’t deprive peasants of their livelihoods for abstract goals? This is total fantasy.
▪️Amazon employs 1.55M, so this is less than 2% of their workforce, although these cuts will be to corporate, which employs 350k, so 8.5% of that. The CEO says there is an excess of bureaucracy at Amazon, and AI can automate certain repetitive tasks. Also, much of the cuts will be to HR, which is expected shrink by 15%, yay. Managers and HR are peasants now?
▪️I don’t know the inner workings of Amazon, and neither does Darryl, but this seems to be normal management practice to keep a company efficient and competitive. Given the immense size of Amazon the numbers look large, but far bigger shakeups happen all the time in the private sector. Apparently, under the new ...
