Daniel Gray-Kontar

These food prices got people talking to themselves out loud in the grocery store

It would really suck if I had to tell my grandchildren that the end of American Democracy was about the price of eggs.

Trump Says U.S. 'Will Take Over' Gaza and Palestinians Should Relocate: Live Updates

This is what America wanted:

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

One Response to Trump’s Tariffs: Trade That Excludes the U.S. A growing number of countries, including American allies, are striking trade deals as the Trump administration erects a higher fence around its global commerce.

This is what America wanted:

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/b...

“Divine wisdom.”

Bantu-Kongo time occurs in four realms:
1 Cosmic Time
2 Vital Time
3 Natural Time
4 Social Time

Our real-ationship to time is our relationship to liberation.

America has never felt like “home.” But now it is more abundantly clear than ever. Planning trips to Ghana, Kenya and Uganda. It’s time.

“Lumbu and Muzita”
The union completing the circle of cosmic time.

Blackman stages in cosmic time 2 and 3: “Kala “and “Tukala”

Trump Administration Shocks Senior F.B.I. Ranks by Moving to Replace Them Top officials have been told to retire or be fired in the coming days, fueling fear within an agency that has been a target of President Trump and Kash Patel, his nominee to be F.B.I. director.

This is what America wanted.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

F.C.C. Chair Orders Investigation Into NPR and PBS Stations Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently expressed concern about NPR and PBS’s sponsorships.

This is what America wanted:

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

As a matter of simple tactic it is unwise to initiate too much change at once.

Mayor Brandon Johnson pledges fight to protect Chicagoans against Trump immigrant threats As a progressive freshman mayor, Johnson’s challenge now is to stand up for Chicago’s large immigrant community while also navigating the risks of antagonizing Trump.

Right on, Mayor Johnson. Right on.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/23/m...

Spent today creating in support of a friend’s album project. Can’t think of a better way to be on this very complicated day of light and darkness. Stay lifted …

Big Facts

True. And please consider that for these youth who grew up during Covid, taking away TikTok is similar to taking away the reality you grew up with - especially in the absence of “neighborhoods” the way we grew up with them. Just please consider that.

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

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YouTube video by Novara Media American Big Tech Has Enslaved Us | Aaron Bastani Meets Yanis Varoufakis

“Fascism is a petty bourgeois phenomenon.” - Yanis Varoufakis

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Eric Adams Heads to Mar-a-Lago to Meet With Trump The New York mayor, who is under federal indictment, has spoken warmly about President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks and has said he is open to receiving a pardon from him.

This guy …

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/n...

YouTube video by The Economic Times Trump faces another assassination attempt? US Capitol Police nabs suspected 'lone actor' with knives

Agent Orange is like the DJ Khaled of assassination attempts. “Another One.”

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Always and forever!

As long as he doesn’t yell AND cuss. One of the two will suffice.

Update from Zolan Kanno-Youngs

“Social media has given up on fact checking,” Biden says as he warns about what he calls misinformation online. Biden’s comment was a clear rebuke of Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Wheewww! Can’t wait bredren!

Not. At. All.

Nope. Nothing to see here.

New Yorker cover from November 2016 showing a guy on the subway reading a newspaper with the headlines "oh, sweet Jesus please God, no "and "anything but that" and "come on."

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Cover of Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness by Jordache A Ellapen. Cover features a collage-style triptych that includes historical photos of Afro-Indian families, a green field, and a seascape. A nude Black individual lays supine across all three frames, their face covered by a mask.

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