dem leaders getting absolutely dogwalked by random focus group participants at this point

Racists would say Jackson tried to be another MLK JR. I always believed that was a good thing and it wasn’t that we didn’t need another. It was that we need millions . Millions who would fight for humanity. For equality. For equity. For decency and for hope.

W/alt

“And his heart is laughing screaming pounding the poem across the tracks rebounding Shadowed by the exit light his legs take their ascending flight to seek the breast of Darkness and be suckled by the night.” —Simon & Garfunkel, A Poem on the Underground Wall

my head says “ring the bells / that still can ring / forget your perfect offering / there is a crack / a crack in everything / that’s how the light gets in” from “anthem” by leonard cohen, but my heart knows it’s “a wop bop a loo bop a lop boom boom” from “tutti frutti” by little richard

His alleged mistress left her precious heated blanket on the other plane, so Corey Lewandowski demanded the pilot turn the plane around to go get it. When he refused, Lewandowski -- who has zero authority to fire anyone at any time -- tried to fire the pilot IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLIGHT.

Gonna be real weird when Clinton dies and he gets the Reagan style panegyric that completely erases all the fucked up shit he did.

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I AM DECEASED

RIP to Jesse Jackson, who in this debate w/David Duke in 1977 delivered (until the host cut him off) a message of unity and against "national isolationism" that's important to hear today. He also ended the show w/one of the sickest burns ever directed at Duke: "You're not even a legitimate Klansman"

Whoo Jesse Jackson inspires deeply complex feelings , but he worked to get us through a lot of it, and failed miserably at adjusting through much of it. But he wanted better for his people and that started him May he rest well and his family be held in love

Reading this morning that the FBI won’t give evidence from the various ICE shootings to Minnesota or anybody else and I want to point out again that as a person that has studied Jim Crow violence- simply refusing to hand over evidence is a favorite tactic of segregationists.

Y’all got wild turkeys in OAKLAND???? Okay, now I’m convinced that turkeys took over the country and none of us noticed because we were busy dealing with the OTHER coup. If you have wild turkeys in your area, reply with where you live. We must expose them!

Relatable content.

We don't need to look to another country for a comparison. All Black people, including free Black people before the Reconstruction Amendments had to produce proof of how they became free on demand. Whites routinely presumed someone with Black skin o be enslaved w/ the burden on African Americans. 1/

People in Minneapolis saying "nothing's changed" last week shows how much DHS wants to find a sweet spot of demoralization without provocation and how they're unwittingly showcasing all the injustices we used to be used to.

I really want like hot cocoa with marshmallows and whipped cream rn

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Like many people, the “gender identity” stuff actually held me back. It was reading a literal dissertation about the complexities of biological sex that opened the doors for me. I didn’t realize I was just a woman until I started estrogen, and the “known forever” things only came to me after HRT.

Someday I will understand why they hate us so much. But it is not this day.

Siri what’s the Streisand Effect

I know we still have fascism to defeat, but NB it’s only 37 years until year of the Jetsons, & tho we can talk to each other via TV screen & have robots that clean the house, we’re still no closer to having cars that fold up to portable instead of having to be parked. Engineers!! Get on it!!

Jfc the Elders are still around? I have to hand it to Nelson Mandela, it's hard to come up with a more conspiracy-ass name without literally calling yourselves the Illuminati and getting a spurious legal complaint from Marvel

Civil rights figures like Jesse Jackson are why black feminists are theorized intersectionality: he might have forged a multi-racial coalition but black woman weren’t always in that coalition. Complicated man, complicated politics.

Content warning for conversion therapy, suicide. One thing I'd like to add to this is that not only does conversion therapy not work, the academic work that launched an industry of abuse was based on fraud; Rekers and Lovaas' "Sissy Boy" experiment, the child subjected to it later took his own life

Beruch Dayan ha emet. He spoke at my high school once; I am very glad to have gotten to hear him so.

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I think even a lot of Irish people don't really think about how insane it is that divorce was only legalised in Ireland in 1997, and homosexuality in 1993. An unrecognisable country (in almost all ways for the better) from the one I was born in.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: nobody’s doing it like Buckinghamshire Archives right now

Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too

The interview with Talarico has been posted to YouTube: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Precisely. The subject of one of my favorite pieces by Lynn Hunt, which I love teaching

RIP

Green card holder. Bounced a check (paid) and smashed some things (not people) in an argument. “Crimes of moral turpitude” www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

I’ll go one further: The same debates/opinions are perpetually rolled out because of new entrants — which is common in any field. But elsewhere there’s knowledge exchange — institutional memory. Such collective memory is in constant need of updating/correcting, but there’s a sense that you CAN.

Part of the problem IMO is that TTRPGs are *so* much about cognitive fit that once ppl find a game that fits, it feels like that is THE game system. "This clicks! This must be the ultimate gaming system!" And it is! For *you*. The rest of us might need something else.

Yup. It’s really important, especially for people who make any kind of art, to be able to tell the difference between their taste and what’s actually good. In ttrpgs, that involves recognizing that people play and run games looking for different things than you are.

People are saying, "There will be no more elections!" when there are literally elections happening right now. The US of A is big and there are lots of elections.

As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates. First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/

W/alt

OK sounds good to me.

Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.

Somebody thought they were funny.

One of the hardest things to wrap one’s mind around is that these dudes can write this shit utterly convinced that they’re not having an emotion.

New in PN: "Just making s**t up" — @volts.wtf sounds off on the EPA “How the f**k are they going to do that? If you can get the Supreme Court to rule carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.”

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.