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At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.

The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

Fried seafood stuffed bell peppers and Crawfish Monica #JazzFestChronicles

Smoked. Read. Ate.

I’m so tired of this. WE ARE ALREADY IN A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS THIS IS AN ACTIVE AND ONGOING COUP

Day 28

Let me be still enough to hear my ancestors. This isn’t a new opponent. Let me set aside my fear and ego to allow them to guide me.

A thread

I was a teenager when I found out about the MOVE bombing of 1985 and i literally lived in walking distance from the block.

A friend asked me about the harms of Whatsapp, leading me to this four -part reply! Starting with avoidance as a political act, then what’s wrong with Meta, on to why and how metadata really matters and finally some practical suggestions
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Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in two states, Monday is also Robert E.

"To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep.This is not the land of the free; it is only sporadically the home of the brave."

-James Baldwin from "I Am Not Your Negro"

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook to rate/shame girls who weren’t into him. #NeverForget

FYI, we now have a bill number on the House GOP's priority bill to bully trans kids out of school sports: HR 28.

So you can be specific when telling your members of Congress to vote no.

In 1964-65 humans created Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and Head Start. If you want to 'make America great again,' maybe revisit the era when you actually acted like you cared.

Along with Gracie’s Corner, my GrandGirl is satisfied!

For nearly eight years we have been warning about “autocratic capture,” the phenomenon by which aspiring autocrats threaten to wield the state against business leaders to coerce their loyalty. And here we are. More from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social here: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how...

LEADER JEFFRIES STATEMENT ON PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS Washington, DC - Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement: Throughout his life, President Joe Biden has fought to improve the plight of hardworking Americans struggling to live paycheck to paycheck. Many of these people have been aggressively prosecuted and harshly sentenced for nonviolent offenses, often without the benefit of adequate legal representation. Countless lives, families and communities have been adversely impacted, particularly in parts of Appalachia, Urban America and the Heartland. During his final weeks in office, President Biden should exercise the high level of compassion he has consistently demonstrated throughout his life, including toward his son, and pardon on a case-by-case basis the working-class Americans in the federal prison system whose lives have been ruined by unjustly aggressive prosecutions for nonviolent offenses. This moment calls for liberty and justice for all.

NEW

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on President Biden’s decision to grant a pardon to his son.

I'm with @aoc.bsky.social.

Joe Biden promised to end the federal death penalty, and there are 40 men currently on federal death row - some of whom are almost certainly going to be executed with Trump in office.

Tell Biden to use his pardon power for them, too.

No surprise, the new North Carolina ID law disproportionately disenfranchised Democratic and Black voters.

This morning Democracy Docket sent out my tip-sheet with the five things we need to do now to build an effective opposition.

1. Prioritize Elections
2. Fresh Policies
3. Pro-Democracy Groups
4. New Communicators
5. The Courts

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Let’s run the government like a business, drive the car like a bicycle, and play the guitar like a piano

I was peaking 👀

NEWS

Eric Hovde, the Republican Wisconsin businessman who ran against Senator Tammy Baldwin, has conceded.

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This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

Do yourself a favor and read this from Fox News contributor Ben Domenech.

I’d like to report a murder

MAGA republicans really don’t be sending their best and brightest

After all that, Trump ended up with less than 50% of the vote in this election. Although he did get 100% of the felony convictions