Reginald Hudlin

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump was in such a volatile state after Iran shot down a U.S. jet that he spent hours screaming at aides in the West Wing, obsessing over the political fallout and invoking Jimmy Carter and the 1979 hostage crisis. Officials made the call to limit his access, only briefing him at “meaningful moments” instead of giving him real-time control. Meanwhile, the operation itself nearly fell apart, with aircraft stuck in desert sand and U.S. forces scrambling to avoid Iranian detection. The airman was eventually rescued, but the chaos didn’t end there. Just hours later, Trump woke up and fired off his profanity-laced threat online, warning Iran it would be left “living in Hell.”

"It was eleven weeks between the time Jackie Robinson and I came into the majors. Eleven weeks. Come on. Whatever happened to him happened to me. I knew it was segregated times, but I had never seen anything like that in athletics. I was embarrassed. It was tough. I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks." Larry Doby. Bill White later noted that Larry Doby had to go to the Chicago White Sox clubhouse to get a first baseman’s glove for his first MLB warmup, since none of his Cleveland teammates offered him one. In 1945, Larry Doby was stationed on Ulithi, a volcanic atoll in Caroline Islands between Guam and the Philippines. Seven-time All-Star from 1949- 1955. 1st Black player in the American League. 1st Black player to hit a home run in World Series. 1st Black player to hit a home run in an All-Star game. 1st Black player in the American Basketball League (preceded NBA), when he signed a contract for the 'Patterson Crescents'. 1st Black player to go directly to the majors from the Negro leagues. 1st Black player to lead either league in home runs. World Series Champion in 1948. Two-time American League home run leader in 1952 and 1954. American League's RBI leader in 1954. "I give myself five years. If I don't make it by then, I'll give up on the idea and get out of baseball ..." Larry Doby. Let's make July 5, "Larry Doby Day."!!

In Tokyo, there's a cleaning crew that does the impossible every 12 minutes. They're called TESSEI. They clean the Shinkansen bullet trains at Tokyo Station. When a train arrives, it stops for 12 minutes before departing again. Two minutes for passengers to exit. Three more for the next batch to board. That leaves seven. In those seven minutes, one person must: - Clean 100 seats - Wipe every tray table - Vacuum the floor - Rotate every seat to face the new direction of travel - Replace all headrest covers - Check the overhead bins - Bow to incoming passengers Seven. Minutes. They do this hundreds of times a day. Harvard Business School published a case study about them. The New York Times called it "the 7-minute miracle." Tourists now stand on the platform just to watch. Before they start, they bow to the train. When they finish, they line up and bow to the passengers. They're paid by the hour. Many are in their 50s and 60s. Japan didn't invent cleaning. They invented the dignity of doing small things perfectly.

Did you know the TV show “To Catch a Predator” was cancelled because they kept catching law enforcement, teachers, preachers, local officials, and other people meant to protect Children? The final straw? An Assistant District Attorney in TEXAS was courting who he thought was a 13yo boy. He didn’t show for the sting, so they sent law enforcement and camera crew to his home. The police entered, and Louis Conradt shot himself, taking his own life. Can’t make this shit up.

Officer arrests man only to end up in cuffs himself. Officers arrest Moncre Moon during a traffic stop due to an outstanding warrant. He was searched when stopped and was found with 3000 in cash on his person. Moon knew exactly how much money he had and suspected Officer Henry Chapman of taking some of his money to the tune of 900 dollars. ​The bodycam footage later revealed the truth: Chapman had palmed the cash and stuffed it into the driver’s side door pocket of his patrol cruiser. ​ Officer Chapman was arrested by his own department within 6 hours of the incident. ​He resigned from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department the very next day. ​ In September 2024, Chapman entered an Alford Plea to felony embezzlement. While he claimed he didn't have "intent to steal," he acknowledged the evidence was enough to convict him. ​ He was handed 2 years of supervised probation and ordered to complete cognitive behavioral therapy. ​Because Moon spoke up and the supervisor checked the footage, a badge couldn't hide a crime. Right is right, and wrong is wrong. What do you think about this? Another soft sentence for an officer that broke the law? 🤔

A mother sperm whale came up from half a mile down with a giant squid still in her mouth. A diver named Ludo caught the whole thing on camera. Nobody had ever filmed this before in human history. That was last September. A Smithsonian scientist named Michael Vecchione confirmed the species. It was an adult giant squid, an animal so hard to find alive that for a century we mainly knew it from beaks pulled out of dead whales and the occasional body that washed up on a beach. We have known these two fight for centuries. Sperm whales kept surfacing with large circular marks on their heads that matched the suckers on giant squid arms. Their stomachs were full of squid beaks, the one part of a squid that cannot be digested. The evidence was everywhere. The event itself had never once been seen. This hunt happened in complete darkness. The whale was far deeper than any sunlight reaches. She found the squid the way sperm whales always do, by making sounds that bounce off things around her. Her clicks hit 236 decibels. A jet engine runs at about 150. She is the loudest living animal on earth, and those sounds are how she sees in the dark. Her brain weighs seven kilograms. Five times heavier than yours. For a sperm whale, this was a routine meal. One whale eats four to eight hundred squid every day. The whole species eats about 110 million tons of squid every year, more than every fishing fleet on earth pulls out of the ocean combined. In the full uncropped video, you can see her baby swimming right next to her. Sperm whale calves do not go deep on their own. They only dive when their mothers bring them. She was teaching the baby how to hunt. That detail is the one that stayed with me.

Same credit score. Same symptoms. But if you are Black, the AI says no. NAZI SCUMBAG #ElonMusk is in federal court right now fighting to keep it that way. Colorado passed a law: If you build AI that makes decisions about people’s housing, their jobs, or their healthcare, that AI has to be fair. That is the entire law. Musk filed a federal lawsuit to block it. His argument? Forcing his AI not to discriminate violates his First Amendment rights. Read that again. He is arguing in federal court that “do not discriminate against Black people” is a political opinion he should not have to follow. Never forget that Musk is all over the #EpsteinFiles.

"That's me screaming because the guy...is...trying to gouge out my eye with his thumb." – Capitol police officer on January 6th. Trump officials want to give taxpayer money to the J6 insurrectionists as restitution. From @NPR's J6 Archive: apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive

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I said this about vaccines. The military STILL must be vaccinated. New immigrants to this country too. They are lining them all up and vaccinating all of them and demanding proof. The government knows full well that vaccines work and that climate change is real.

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Sarah Huckabee and her fellow Republicans have absolutely destroyed the once great state of Arkansas. Look how worse off they are now compared to in 2014 when they had a Democrat Governor. Crime Rate (Violent Crime per 100,000) 🔵2014: 480 🔴2025: 579 Murder rate (Per 100,000) 🔵 2014: 5.6 🔴 2025: 7.3 Life Expectancy (at birth, in years) 🔵 2014: 76.1 🔴 2025 (latest final 2022): 73.9 Healthcare Ranking (1 best, lower number = better) 🔵 2014: 34th 🔴 2025: 49th Education Ranking (varies by source; overall composite) 🔵 2014: 37th 🔴 2025: 47th Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births) 🔵 2014 baseline: 7.1 🔴 2023: 8.22 Obesity Rate (adults) 🔵 2014: 38% 🔴 Recent (2024 data): 49.3% Federal Funding as % of State General Revenue 🔵 2014: 31% 🔴 2024: 38%

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

At a middle school basketball game in Southwest Virginia the opposing team showed up to their opponent’s Gym and waved Confederate flags while yelling racial slurs. The home team has mostly black players on it. Remember these are just middle schoolers doing this crap!

Scientists say more research is needed, but nearly all pancreatic cancer patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive 6 years later. Less than 13% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer live for more than 5 years. 👉🏻 nbcnews.com/health/cancer/…

Remember when Amy Coney Barrett said of her colleagues “we’re not a bunch of partisan hacks?” Well, they are a bunch of partisan hacks. And the number one partisan hack is Jon Roberts.

Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker tied to Kremlin, documents show - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

🚨A Border Patrol agent, in the Florida Keys, has been caught on video… multiple times… racially profiling, assaulting, and illegally arresting U.S. citizens. The agent pulls over a car, removes the driver, who is a U.S. citizen, and handcuffs him… Then, in the video, he is seen trying to forcefully handcuff the passenger, too… again, a U.S. citizen… with no clear justification. Another agent is heard yelling that he’s going to tase the passenger if he doesn’t comply, while they’re illegally handcuffing the U.S. citizen. The person in the back seat starts, saying, “this is f*cking crazy,” trying to document what’s happening, and the moment the agent notices he is recording, he tells him to stop and tries to grab his phone. Recording law enforcement, in public, is protected under the First Amendment… and trying to seize someone’s phone to stop that recording is unconstitutional. Even the person being handcuffed says, “Hey, you can’t take his phone…” because that’s how obviously illegal that action is. And after all of that… the illegal stop, the force, the arrests… they were all released, because none of it should’ve happened to begin with. And if this were an isolated incident, that would already be a problem… but it’s not. Two weeks later, the same agent is recorded AGAIN, pulling over the same U.S. citizens… So, this is where it stops being about one bad stop, and starts looking like something bigger… Because when the same agents are caught, on camera, violating the Constitution… over and over… and nothing happens to them… You no longer have those Constitutional rights.

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@fernbirg @OvereducatedFem The federal courts should have stepped in. He deserves to be reimbursed for the 4 decades he lost!