The Fresh Prince of Nowhere

Dear White People... I follow lots of you and hope my words will open your eyes to the reality of life in America as a Person of Color. If I loose many of you as followers then that tells me everything I need to know about you however that is not my intent.

Awesome!

A $7 increase in over 80 years. Fucking shameful!

Love the Economist.. In 4 years Joe Biden and Democrats took the complete disaster of an economy that Trump left after his first term and transformed it into the “envy of the world.” The United States economy recovered from the pandemic faster than any other country. 16 million jobs were created, including 800,000 new manufacturing jobs. This was done through investment in infrastructure, new technologies and clean energy. Investment in the U.S. was booming, our farmers didn’t need a $14 billion bailout, wages were rising and inflation was falling for two straight years. The minute Trump took office inflation started to rise, soon after 15,000 farms went bankrupt, home foreclosures spiked, and over 20 million Americans could no longer afford health insurance. Donald Trump is destroying America. #truth #Corruption #economy #accountability #Trump #Biden

George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys. It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal. Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise. Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million. And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion. Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia. The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.

NASA releases insane new image of Helix Nebula. 700 light-years away from us. It's the closest nebula to Earth. Constantly watching us.

She backed denying LGBTQ people service under “religious freedom.” Now she’s crying discrimination because she got turned away? You built the rulebook. Don’t complain when it’s used on you.

this is what a federal government completely controlled by Republicans looks like

Trump has called for the execution of democrats. He’s celebrated their deaths… and now he’s calling them the greatest enemy of the state. This isn’t normal. Remove him from office. He is a threat to the moral fabric of this nation.

This scene in Miami Vice where "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins plays stands as one of TV's all time greatest cinematic sequences. It effortlessly establishes the mood and highlights just how far today's television industry has fallen. This authentic soul is gone.

So Trump wants Obama’s deal back, except with his name on it. Got it.

Rachel Maddow on the truth of the Mueller Report: “They found definite absolutely conclusive evidence that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump become president. The Trump campaign was aware of it and expected to benefit from it and they took steps to obstruct the investigation into it”

@TheMonologist No wonder we are a nation of idiots; these folks are activity banning books while other nations are actively encouraging literacy…

‘La Noche de las Librerías’ - NIGHT OF THE BOOKSTORES’ - takes place in Buenos Aries. Over 200,000 people come out onto the streets to enjoy this incredible literary festival where resulting book sales approach nearly $400million.

This is one of the best space images ever. You are staring at the Carina Nebula. This entire structure is three light-years tall. 7,500 light-years away from us.

MAGA man dressed like ICE points gun—repeatedly at peaceful protesters. He walks backwards and trips—with his finger on the trigger aimed at crowd. Then carelessly puts it in pants pocket—not a holster. Police cars drive by but don't even stop—as witnesses yell, "Do your job!" "Go get the guy who pulled a gun out on people! Do your job Portland Police!" The incident occurred outside the Portland ICE facility in South Portland, Oregon. #DemsUnited

People have the audacity to say, get over it. It was in the past. 💔

The estate of Robert Mueller could do the funniest thing right now by releasing his personal notes regarding his investigation of our child predator in chief..😎

Black people actually have every reason to be angry at the world

Trump in 2008: Anyone who invades the Middle East under false pretenses should be impeached. Let’s make sure it goes viral here.

There is always a tweet.