Sy Smith

This is how you know for a fact the “DEI” people were actually overqualified. They have to keep lowering their standards for their own folks

WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE OF CENSORSHIP!

Our boycott was faith-based? Not for me… My boycott was respect-based. Still ain’t going… 🤷🏽‍♀️

I’ll forever have smoke for Anti-DEI ethnics who do this “People should be picked on merit” crap, this white kid got picked to make decisions on issues he had no experience & expertise in, he just had vibes & feelings. And he couldn’t care less that he was unqualified.

BREAKING: Donald Trump just betrayed every fan who’s been exploited by Ticketmaster. This fine is less than 1% of Live Nation’s revenue last year AND lets them continue to rip off fans with a 15% “Ticketmaster Tax." It's wrong. We need to break up Ticketmaster and Live Nation.

Taking a victory lap on "LOWEST EVER" gas prices, then calling Americans "FOOLS" for worrying about his war with Iran raising prices? Donald Trump is a con man with no plan and failing the American people.

in his own words

We noticed.

Apparently, The New Yorker ran a story with an illustration of Wunmi Mosaku that was obviously not intended to represent her well, so I redid it real quick in a similar style. Took 15 minutes & a love of Black women ❤️

The Wire ended 18 yrs ago today. It’s been taught in Ivy League schools, law schools & film schools. David Simon was interviewed by a sitting president about its lasting impact. Cited in a State Supreme Court ruling. Often hailed by critics as the best ever. Never won an Emmy.

Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.

I know this isn’t the main story or key point today but remember that billions of dollars are being effortlessly expended today bombing a country, which Americans don’t support and no US lawmaker voted for. Remember that next time they tell you there is no money for healthcare.

Except he literally stopped the most promising cancer research in history

TURNS OUT, TRUMP WILL SEND OUR SONS TO WAR

Donald Trump illegally hid files alleging that he raped a child. This is by far the most heinous scandal of any President in American history. He needs to resign in disgrace and face charges.

Beyond awful. This is the kind of monstrous consequences that come from the rotting head of Trump and @KristiNoem Makes you sick to your stomach.

Nashville, Tennessee, 1930. Vivien Thomas was born into the Jim Crow South. He was Black in a world that told him what he could and could not become. He wanted to be a doctor. He worked as a carpenter and saved every dollar to attend the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial College. He planned to go to medical school. Then the Great Depression hit. The bank where he kept his savings collapsed. His money was gone. So were his plans. At 19, Vivien took a job at Vanderbilt University Hospital. He earned 12 dollars a week as a laboratory assistant. He worked in the lab of Dr. Alfred Blalock. He was expected to clean, care for animals, and stay quiet. Instead, he watched. He listened. He asked smart questions. He understood what the experiments were trying to do. Dr. Blalock noticed. He began teaching Vivien surgical skills. Vivien had never been to medical school. He had no degree. But he had sharp eyes, a strong memory, and steady hands. Soon, he was performing complex surgeries on lab animals. His stitching was careful and exact. His knowledge of anatomy was deep. By 1933, he was no longer just an assistant in practice. He was Blalock’s research partner. But officially, he was still paid and treated far below his real role. In 1941, Dr. Blalock moved to Johns Hopkins Hospital to become Chief of Surgery. He agreed to go only if Vivien came with him. The hospital allowed it. But they gave Vivien a lower-status technical title. Then came their biggest challenge. Babies were dying from a heart defect called ‘tetralogy of Fallot’. People called it ‘Blue Baby Syndrome’. The babies’ skin turned blue because their bodies were not getting enough oxygen. Most did not live long. Dr. Helen Taussig asked if a surgery could increase blood flow to the lungs. Blalock turned to Vivien. “Can you figure this out?” Vivien went to work. For months, he practiced on dogs. He tried again and again. He had to create new methods. He had to design tools. No one had ever done this before. Finally, he developed a way to connect the subclavian artery to the pulmonary artery. The new path lets more blood reach the lungs. It was bold. It was risky. It had never been tried on a human. On November 29, 1944, they operated on a baby girl named Eileen Saxon. She was 15 months old and weighed only nine pounds. She was dying. Dr. Blalock performed the surgery. Vivien stood behind him on a step stool. He quietly guided every move. “Deeper.” “A little to the left.” “Use smaller sutures there.” Blalock held the tools. Vivien directed the operation. After four and a half hours, it was over. Eileen’s blue lips turned pink. Her fingers turned pink. Oxygen was finally reaching her body. The surgery worked. The procedure became known as the Blalock-Taussig Shunt. It changed medicine. It saved thousands of children. It helped create the field of pediatric heart surgery. Dr. Blalock became famous. Vivien did not. For 22 years, Vivien trained surgical residents at Johns Hopkins. Many of them became leaders in heart surgery. They learned their skills from him. But he was not called Doctor. He was not listed as faculty. He ate with the maintenance staff. His name appeared on no papers. In 1971, after four decades of work, Johns Hopkins promoted him to Instructor of Surgery. Not Professor. Instructor. By then, the surgeons he had trained knew the truth. In 1976, the hospital honored him with a portrait. It was placed beside Blalock’s. At the ceremony, former students stood and applauded. Some cried. They knew who had taught them. They knew who had built the foundation. That same year, Johns Hopkins awarded him an honorary doctorate. At last, he was officially Dr. Vivien Thomas. He was 66 years old. He had been doing the work of a surgeon for 46 years. Dr. Vivien Thomas died in 1985 at age 75. In 2004, HBO released a film about his life called Something the Lord Made.

The racist call is always coming from inside the house with these people. Garrett Wade should be exposed, ridiculed, and professionally haunted and hounded forever. Actions have consequences little boy

This should be a bigger story. ICE detained a father when he stepped outside his apartment to pick up dinner. His 6-year-old daughter was left alone. Neighbors later found her outside, crying in the street, asking for her father. If any local law enforcement agency conducted an operation and left a child without supervision, there would be investigations, accountability, and consequences. That is what the public would rightly demand. So where is the accountability here? No matter your views on immigration policy, a 6-year-old child should never be left alone and vulnerable because of a federal enforcement action. Basic standards of care and common sense still matter. nj.com/morris/2026/01…

I know of no group of people on earth who lie as shamelessly, demonstrably, and effortlessly as the modern Republican Party: