This is Jess. She was born in Jamaica in 1938. She now lives in Tooting. Her portrait & story were taken by Steve Reeves, the great London photographer on instagram. I don't think he's here, though, so I'll tell you a bit about her. Jess had a happy childhood in Jamaica. She rode a mule to school.

Every time

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

DECENT PEOPLE: This administration will be remembered as the cruellest and most inept in American history. RFK JR : No. It won't.

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.

it took bruce willis 130 minutes to realize he was a ghost and you expect men to notice a haircut.

Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency. via Brett Murphy: The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:

There’s a guy on tiktok who is learning to read and is reading on live and having people help him with sounding out the words and understanding what the words mean. I think that is so dope. And folks in the live are being real cool about it and engaged. Love to see it.

Also tried on a cock ring today, and it definitely was not big enough for my balls. Also that shit HURTS. Props to yall that wear them regularly lol

I never forgot that girl who opened the tub of ice cream at the supermarket, licked it, and then put it back in the fridge. She and her idiot friend were there giggling away. Hope her life was ruined forever

Rest in peace Michelle Trachtenberg www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

If you play video games on the highest difficulty, that's great! 👍 But don't give gamers who play on easier difficulty a hard time about it. Everyone likes to enjoy games differently and there is no right or wrong way to play.

Breaking News: Scientists from the University of the Basque Country have discovered a groundbreaking molecule, WIN55.212-2, that reverses early cognitive damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease.

I still get bothered about them folks telling us they don’t wash their legs when showering and they don’t shower regularly and they consider swimming as a form of bathing. As long as I live, that will be imprinted in my brain.

This mf monologue??? Happy Black History Month

Wise man…

Don’t feel bad when ppl don’t like you cause let’s face it…u don’t like everyone u meet either 😐

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have repeatedly affirmed Musk’s leadership of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But according to a new court filing from the White House, the administrator of DOGE isn’t Elon Musk after all. Who is? No one knows.

FYI

The quickest way to a man’s heart is to insert a needle between the xiphoid process and left costal margin at a 15-to-30-degree angle, directed towards the left shoulder

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

I am currently captivated...

Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽

Watching The Fix episode with Bolt and it hurt mi heart fi hear the man say he was so deliberate in making sure every opportunity he got, he pushed for it to be done in JA to improve the country and look how dem a treat di man. No sah. Sorry fi mawga dawg..

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

The inspector general for the US Agency for International Development was fired, a USAID official said, a day after his office published a report critical of the Trump administration's effort to eliminate the agency reut.rs/4hvIEqs

SCOOP: Dozens of workers at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau have been fired in an after-hours blitz. The emails they received were not even personalized.

How come guns find their way so easily into Jamaica, but books get sent to the Warehouse of Doom? Inquiring minds want to know.. #authorcopies #aHouseforMissPauline

***sends to my fake boos***

Watching powerless from Europe how democracy is crumbling in the US, reminds me of those movies where someone is mind-controlled by an alien or ghost. I want to yell: "America, we know you are still in there. If you can hear us, you must fight. YOU CAN DO IT. FIGHT THIS!"

This happened to me 3 times...i m tired

You know who needs to be in a conservatorship? Anyways, Happy Friday, Sky-napples 🩵

We living in a simulation 😭

For the record Irv Gotti deserves to rot the fuck in hell for the shit he did to Ashanti and countless other women in the industry RIP Bozo!

The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, wants to defund schools in the poorest areas and eliminate special education. This tells you exactly who he doesn’t care about.

Someone just said the United States turns 250 next year. From where I'm sitting, she's looking like she isn't going to make it. Should we tell them, I feel like we should tell them... 😬

Congratulations!!!