Ola
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Them: "Black people still have the right to vote" Me: "Black men had the right to vote since reconstruction and Black women since the 1920's and a VRA was STILL needed in the 1960's!"



#OTD 1949, James Byrd, was born. He was dragged to death by 3 white supremacists, Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer and John King on June 7, 1998. Byrd said one day he was going to make Jasper, TX famous. The James Byrd Memorial Park was constructed in 1999. SAY HIS NAME!


This dude wants to be Tatum so bad, after a first round series win btw 😹

Al Gore lost in 2000 as a centrist. John Kerry lost in 2004 as a centrist. Hillary lost in 2016 as a centrist. Kamala lost 2024 as a centrist. If we’re going to win the 2026 midterms, we must abandon centrism all together. If the Democratic Party is to survive we must go left

Mind you, people BEEN saying the humanities and liberal arts serve no purpose, emphasizing STEM over everything else and yall surprised the kids can't read and write when we've spent decades telling em it ain't important anyway...?

“Lately, I’ve been thinking about smoking. All the time,” writes author Xochitl Gonzalez. “With each passing day of this absolutely deranged year, my desire to contemplate how to make sense of it all while puffing on a cigarette grows.” Part of this smoking thing is a yearning for the past, admits Gonzalez. Not in an effort to recapture her youth, but to recapture an approach to time and life. “I can’t personally slow down technology or fix media or the demands of capitalism or any of the other existential things that have crept into our lives,” she writes. “But maybe what I can do is stop what I’m doing, ask somebody to come outside, and take five minutes to slow down with me while I engage in the very dangerous act of holding a flaming stick to my face. This could be my rebellion.” Read Gonzalez’s full essay: nymag.visitlink.me/55vbET


For context, China had the technology for gunpowder, printing, and blue ocean exploration hundreds of years before Europe. They failed to use it. That goes beyond a generational fumble. That is a self inflicted civilizational fumble that China still hasn't made up for.












