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Ice-T was in a movie with this premise, but I can’t remember what it was called.

Discussions of disability and race don’t intersect in white disability circles. There can be compassion for this man but not for Delroy and Michael? Black disabled people exist. We exist. Compassion for disability does not erase the indignity of what happened to them on that stage.

Jesse Jackson playing basketball with Marvin Gaye

Jesse v Marvin

Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon, dies aged 84 A fixture in Democratic politics who ran for 1988 presidential nomination, Jackson was once close to Martin Luther King Jr The Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil rights campaigner who was prominent for more than 50 years and who ran strongly for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, has died. He was 84. “Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement. “We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family. His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you to honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by.” Continue reading...

Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon, dies aged 84

Robert Duvall (1931-2026)

Rest in Peace.

This is how you live a life

Robert Duvall 🙏 #RIP

"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
Robert Duvall

I love that this entire episode is just showing how badass and important the ER nursing staff is. #ThePitt

Centering the nurses in this way was a deliberate choice. As Wyle puts it, "Nurses do the real hands-on work. They're the ones that are holding the hands and bringing the blankets and cleaning the bodies and wiping the a**es. They do the dirty work, and they do it tirelessly, and they do it with great nobility, and they confer dignity on the patients while they do it." Series creator R. Scott Gemmill echoes that sentiment, noting that nurses are often sidelined in medical dramas despite the reality of how hospitals function. "They literally run the ER," he says. "Traditionally, unless it was a nurse-centric show, nurses were always sort of secondary or tertiary characters. But the reality is, they're the ones who keep everything moving."

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Why does everyone keep insisting that Putin lied to Trump, and not that Trump is lying to the public about what he and Putin agree to?

As Coates said, if Obama could be president, the only consolation for them was to decide that *anyone* could be president. It must have made them sick every day for 8 years

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

And, perhaps most importantly, people grasped that if the video didn’t exist and instead King had told everyone what happened, nobody would’ve believed him.

It certainly wasn’t news to everybody, of course. But it was news to a lot of people.

People had been telling stories about things like that happening forever and it was always dismissed as hyperbole or worse and then, suddenly, people had to confront the reality that, yes, shit like that happened. There it was.

The Rodney King video is one of the most important moments in American history because it showed people, particularly comfortable white people, irrefutable evidence that marginalized people’s stories of how police behaved - which were never believed - were in fact true.

Cause again, what everyone is really activated by, is white people getting the splash affects of state-sponsored antiblackness. Not the antiblackness itself.

And I'm talking about antiblackness because the president just made a speech last week explicitly calling for the removal and extermination of Black immigrants, full on full frontal racism

And y'all still talking bout thess white folks. Bet you didn't even know that speech happened.

But what folks don't realize, is that an antiblack society is a society built around death. Slaughter and necromancy ass settler colony. The violence is *never* limited to only Black people, and by not opposing Black death, you give you ok for ALL manner of life to be obliterated by this society.

Every single thing that Trump is doing to help rig the election has been happening since before he even had his first term. Trying to steal elections is not a new concept for Black communities.

The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons | HISTORY Back in the 1960s, even the NRA supported gun control to disarm the group.

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Rights in this country are always contingent on who they apply to.

I think about Philando Castille often. He did everything right, he was driving with his family, he was a good man who did food nutrition work for schools. It was a clear cut racist stop and use of his owning of a firearm as a posthoc justification to murder him, and the NRA said nothing about it.

To reiterate from two weeks ago, how much of a BITCH do you have to be be fighting someone 8v1, and still 'fear for your life?'

Over several decades, the WHO has played a huge role in bringing countries together to reduce death and disease at an unprecedented scale.

It is by no means a perfect organization, but we can only improve it by continuing to participate. Withdrawal is reckless and makes us all more vulnerable.

United States Completes WHO Withdrawal WASHINGTON —  January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization.

This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

Today marks the 53rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade—a ruling that affirmed women’s right to have control over our own bodies.

Four years ago, a MAGA-influenced Supreme Court overturned it. Women now have fewer rights, and many have died after being denied essential reproductive healthcare.

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Not knowing Fred Rogers political opinions is a total skill issue, because in addition to the famous examples that always get mentioned, Neighborhood of Make Believe stories were frequently metaphors for current events.

Some men would rather destroy a nation and post weirdly embarrassing shit on social media than work through their childhood psychological trauma.

Glenn Beck @glennbeck X.com Daddy is definitely home. @realDonaldTrump is the Advocate for America I have waited for my entire life. He makes Reagan look a bit wishy washy. What he said in Davos today was the most powerful speech perhaps ever given by a president to the world. He said it with love for Europe (multiple times) but with clarity that peeled paint off the walls all across Europe and the world. NOW? He announces a deal for Greenland hours later? THE ENTIRE WH TEAM IS EPIC. @SecRubio @SecScottBessent @VP. Now come home and clean up MN, NY and CA. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. 1:18 PM • 1/21/26 • 831K Views

Sometimes it feels like we are a nation beholden to the unresolved daddy issues of scared little authoritarians like “freedom loving Patriot” Glenn Beck.

Y’all gotta stop acting like Usha not a willing participant.