celebration for freedom. now, a national holiday, juneteenth is the direct result of centuries of resistance and revolution by black people leading a fight for their liberation. in 1861, tension between the north and the south reached its breaking point over slavery and statehood, and the civil war began. on january 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of the civil war, president abraham lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation, declaring that all people held as slaves within the confederate controlled states were now free. the proclamation also granted black men access into a struggling union army. by the end of the war, more than 200,000 black soldiers, known as the united states colored troops, had enlisted, becoming instrumental to the union s victory. the civil war officially ended in april of 1865, but it wasn t until june 19th of that year, two years after the emancipation proclamation, that thousands of colored troops arrived in galveston texas, to rea
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not just say that liz cheney and i were on different proverbial teams. i would say we were from different proverbial planets. and they are planets that are mostly at war with each other. and she s a politician. i m not a politician. i m just a person. but i am definitely a liberal and she is definitely a hardcore conservative. and i disagree with liz cheney on like really on everything you can think of. on the environment, on abortion rights, profoundly. i think she s not just wrong on abortion, she is capital w wrong on abortion in a terrible way. i disagree with her vehemently on voting rights and on the iraq war and the afghanistan war and our relationship or lack thereof with iran and our approach to terrorism and torture and guns and like mining and intellectual property and the rules of the house of representatives. honestly, i once even got mad at liz cheney about fishing. and it s the one thing you d think we have in common. right? even on fishing i got mad at her a
happy new year. i am kat timpf. greg is off today so he asked me to check in and see how your new year s is going so far. not bad? good enough. all take it. we had a great year of shows with some awesome guests. we can t wait to bring you more in 2024. until then let s look back at some of our favorite segments from the past few months. and joy. there is a new marvel movie out. apparently it sucks. i haven t seen it yet because i have better things to do. [ yelling ] the new flick is courtesy of disney who owns the marvel cinematic universe. the real marvel is how each movie they put out is getting worse and worse. the next superhero should be the incredible shrinking box office. the latest offering, the marvels, was the worst opening for a marvel movie ever. even worse than ironman versus little women. they got destroyed in that. in this universe women are as physically strong as men. i m talking actual women, not the ones with 5:00 shadows who can p in the snow. today e