Rob - Minus Delta Vee

I got my hands on 65 hours worth of live broadcast news coverage and special reports on the MOVE bombing which occurred 41 years ago today. I produced this piece using that archival footage. On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a C4 explosive on the home of the @themoveorganization family at 62nd and Osage Avenue, after 500 police fired over 10,000 rounds into the home. City officials allowed the fire to burn, killing 11 people including five children, and destroying 61 homes. Eyewitness and forensic evidence indicates that several MOVE children attempted to flee the burning home through the rear but were either shot back inside or their bullet-ridden bodies were thrown back into fire by police waiting in the alleyway. In 2021, it was revealed UPenn and Princeton had stolen the remains of several of the children and not only conducted experiments on them but also wheeled them out on gurneys at fundraising events. John Africa's head has never been returned and saw marks on his neck indicate foul play during an unauthorized autopsy. No one has ever been held accountable for any of it. In 2023, @mikeafricajr bought the house back which was originally owned by his aunt Louise James, but was seized by the City through eminent domain after the bombing and turned into a police substation. He is barred from turning the home into a memorial until he pays off the $400K mortgage, support link below. Today we remember: Rhonda Africa Theresa Africa Frank Africa Raymond Africa Conrad Africa John Africa Tree Africa (14) Delisha Africa (13) Netta Africa (12) Phil Africa (12) Tomaso Africa (9) Ramona Africa (survivor) Birdie Africa (survivor) Support @moveactivistarchive linktr.ee/themoveactivis… Archival material accessed through Temple University's Digital Collections

Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket. The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.

A matter of months… good things can be done if we put the right people in the right offices. It’s time for a LOT more of THIS:

THERE’S BLOOD ON THAT BALLOT BOX🔥

Radical abolitionist John Brown was born on this day in 1800. “I acknowledge no master in human form.”

The largest attack on black voting rights since the 1960s is unfolding in front of our eyes

Ahh my favorite part of democracy, the majority voting for something and it still not being implemented

I already thought Elon’s mom constantly defending him on twitter was embarrassing. I didn’t even consider that Elon was the one tweeting as his own mom and defending himself, which is maybe the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever seen

It’s not that people don’t see what’s happening. It’s that there are no consequences for the people doing it.

Without a doubt - the blame-the-goalie droolers need to sit all the way down

Monsters…

*wildly gestures at everything*

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States.  🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland. •This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters. •The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks.  •This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up. •Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. on.nrdc.org/4csRkwi

Sewer socialism: early results.

"We can't take care of sick people or kids because we'd rather use the money on war" is a hell of a midterms pitch

I hate to contradict Third Way but I’m gonna go out on a crazy limb and say it’d probably be more electorally valuable for every Dem to spend the next two weeks hammering this line rather than debating what we all think about Hasan Piker.

Usually this kind of competition involves black lipstick…

At what point can we just say, “hey, we tried applying B-school thinking to everything and it failed miserably” and just move on? We stuck with putting profit over literally everything (humanity, safety, the environment, etc) for SO MUCH longer than is healthy. Can we be done?

The Chieftains and Sinéad O’Connor perform ‘The Foggy Dew’ at the IRMA Awards in 1995

@DublinDessie Your point (objectionable and ridiculous as it is) would’ve worked just as well if your example was a Swiss person. So, why did you choose Mogadishu?

A lad born in Mogadishu but living in Dublin is not more Irish than an Irish American.