Important Mother Jones piece by Jeffrey Winters (excerpt from his new book) explaining why, even well before recent budget cuts, oligarchs felt free to violate tax laws with impunity. For decades the risk of getting caught has been very close to zero. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s wild to live in a big swimming pool they’re filling with concrete because they don’t want black people to have anything that’s pretending to be a country

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

But the traitorous bigots die trying and will never change their tune. Expecting the criminals to hold themselves accountable is peak insanity, or par for the course in US History. Confederates? What confederates? They just loved their way of life, which was dependent upon owning Black people.

In whatever this is, you assume lying and fake news.

Weird how the right got real quiet about plagiarism around the same time everything became AI.

In 1969, Edwin Hubbell helped create a nonprofit to ensure that university students would always have play a key role in NASA’s research and space exploration because the work was for ALL MANKIND, not to enrich a sh*tty private market that lives off the public teat. We all deserve better.

Good call! This is also a movie for those who've never heard of it

Well worth the watch. For those unfamiliar, learn about the key l the Pullman Porters were in fomenting the Great Migration and about the leadership of A. Philip Randolph. I used to think this was History 101, but I forgot about malicious white nationalists’ erasure. It’s lived history FFS!

🗣️🗣️ THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOLKS DOR THOSE NEW TO THIS LIVED, DOCUMENTED HISTORY.

You always hear how America is the only country that does tips. Im some countries. it's even considered an insult. It's truly an American phenomenon only. Born out of slavery. Anyway...so how didnt tipping become ensconced into American society at large? You can thank President FDR

Everyone else tho.....offended by tips. Getting tips was like being a beggar. Having your hand out begging. It symbolized low class And now....it symbolized being a Negro. Matter of fact, it was so looked down upon, that states passed laws banning tips

Ten Thousand Men Named George

Also, they didnt have names. They were all called "George." And the only wages they were afforded was at the goodwill of their white patrons. Or tips. So naturally....the point was to give the best service to be tipped well

Every other week, I see a viral post about "tipping" and visceral responses as to why it's not required and "it's not my job to pay you" regardless of the bill. And again I keep saying.. we're having the wrong conversation. You're punishing poor people to make an under educated point

Rep Justin Jones made a statement entrance, walking into the Tennessee legislature with an "Abolish ICE" flag. No subtlety. No backing down.🔥🔥🔥

Just a friendly reminder to FDT!

This is who they are. This is who they always have been.

Truth always comes out.

Yes. #BookSky I didn’t have parents around so I forged my library card application

Offline is the new luxury Art by Juan Brufal

Had a random conversation at a country store getting coffee with a woman who lost her job consulting for NASA, they suggested she apply at Space X who now has the contract but she choose to become a dog walker instead...nice to meet someone with principles.

Food is a basic human right. Food is a basic human right. Food is a basic human right. Food is a basic human right.

They have neither morals nor ethics, so they think this bigotry and predatory behavior is about individual rot. We must only describe their collective misconduct as theft or fraud for personal gain within their rudimentary definition of capitalism.

I will never forgive anyone who is responsible for this. No matter how unwittingly or remote their role, the offensive is too deep. #NeverForgive

This is when I started to feel my spirit leave my body.

The trick to successful personality politics is in constantly giving up the spotlight, while remaining present. Mamdani uses "I" precisely twice in this entire video. He uses "we" or "our" 22 times. He mentions multiple other politicians by name, giving them credit. This is mastery of the form.

💥Tax the rich.💥 It’s as easy as that: make them pay their fair share. Let’s take this idea nationwide and take back our country from the oligarchs. #ProudBlue #Mamdani #EatTheRich #TaxTheRich

NYC Mayor Mamdani announces that they have fully balanced NYC's budget, reducing a $12 billion budget deficit to 0. While funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public hosing.

Breaking: South Carolina Senate rebuffs Trump, declines to take up redistricting before midterms, preserving Jim Clyburn's majority-Black district South Carolina State Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey: "We are the most gerrymandered Republican state in the country already"

America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

spending my last few months alive doing this to Washington DC

Number of tankers that have made it through the Strait since Wednesday: Zero. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/w...

The more things change The more they stay the same.

I love this song.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

Wow, and they lied to us?? Who would have thought.

I’ve heard a number of democratic representatives indicate they understand that new safeguards must be put in place.

Rep. Justin Jones burning a Confederate flag during the special session on Tennessee redistricting Jones: “It’s a form of Jim Crow terror — this is about race. This is about power. This is about silencing communities that have historically been excluded”

Iran to Trump: "Operation Trust Me Bro failed." 10/10 no notes

The golden age of corruption.

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This is true. #WritingCommunity Don't give up. (Just in case you needed to hear that today.)

Get after them!!

Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

On God.

PAUL NEWMAN’s advice to young Actors: “Study your craft, and know who you are and what’s special about you. Find out what everyone does on a film set. Make sure you live life, which means don’t do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.”

Duke and Harvard have similar acceptance rate. Our good friend math tells us that a cluster of 60K similarly situated applicants will yield ~58K rejections. It’s not a competition, it’s a lottery to enter a learning community. No one’s spot was ever stolen or guaranteed based on race.