I think itโs time for Democratic leaders to start saying โif youโre a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, youโll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.โ Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.
16.02.2026 10:57 โ ๐ 3131 ๐ 954 ๐ฌ 19 ๐ 25
Jesse Jackson: Well, first of all, we had been freed without being made equal. Thereโs historical continuity between blacks being amassed in prison after 246 years of legal slavery. When there was a contest about it [in Dred Scott v. Sandford], the Supreme Court ruled that blacks had no rights. [After emancipation and the Civil War] those who had been slave masters became segregation masters. They took our freedom away from us; they began to lock up blacks by the thousands to do prison labor, farm laborโthe whole range. They just put us back in slavery.
We finally, in 1954, broke the backboneโlegallyโof that system [with the Supreme Courtโs Brown v. Board of Education decision], but we were neverโthere was never repair for damage done. Two hundred and forty-six years of slavery, then legal Jim Crow and [nearly] 5,000 lynchings without a conviction. And even today, discrimination by extension of that system has not completely ended.
So we had been fighting for repair. We fought against the barbarism for our freedom; now weโre fighting for our equality. We are the foundation of American societyโnot the bottom, the foundation. When the Declaration of Independence came, we had been enslaved for 157 years. We made cotton king. We are due a different kind of recognition.
Harris: Do you personally have hope that there will be payment for that legacy of slavery?
Jackson: The truth of slaveryโthat Africans subsidized Americaโs wealthโthat truth will not go away. Itโs buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with.
thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019:
"The truth of slaveryโthat Africans subsidized Americaโs wealthโthat truth will not go away. Itโs buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
17.02.2026 12:54 โ ๐ 503 ๐ 162 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 4
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below ๐ฅน)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
17.02.2026 11:29 โ ๐ 2459 ๐ 1103 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 86
Drafting rooms can be really beautiful spaces. Iโm thinking of Wrightโs design studio
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I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.
17.02.2026 04:11 โ ๐ 5762 ๐ 1764 ๐ฌ 83 ๐ 30
Ai is for pooping
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trainer: โtell me a little bit about what your goals are.โ
me: [shows them this video]
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Incredible
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YouTube video by Kirkwood and Dunn Podcast
Havenโt had a case of the Mondays since becoming a National Champion. #iufb
youtube.com/shorts/oUXKA...
17.02.2026 00:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
YouTube video by unvmebad86
George Washington
Every President's Day, we gather round and sing this old, traditional hymn www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...
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Oldest person to ever win an individual Olympic gold at the Winter Games.
Imagine hitting your peak as an athlete at 41. Such a cool story.
16.02.2026 21:26 โ ๐ 45 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
๐ Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Furthermore, if you hate โlibsโ more than you hate the Epstein class, youโve got a problem
16.02.2026 19:06 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
NO NOT HIM GODDAMNIT
16.02.2026 18:51 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Similarly, I don't want to hear "as good as any team in the country" used as a superlative. A more meaningful phrase would be "one of the best", "right at the top," etc
16.02.2026 16:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
16.02.2026 16:35 โ ๐ 4544 ๐ 1834 ๐ฌ 39 ๐ 29
huge if true
16.02.2026 16:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
โOh, you donโt have to do thatโ
16.02.2026 15:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
boy wouldn't it be perfect if it happened today
16.02.2026 15:47 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
I think this last football season won't be over for me until my Homefield stuff arrives. So...April? March?
16.02.2026 15:08 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I'm a King Cake girl in a Paczki town
16.02.2026 15:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A natural car, living her truth
16.02.2026 15:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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You can and should believe in the love of Thick McRunfast
16.02.2026 11:23 โ ๐ 110 ๐ 23 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 7
I bet a vibrator in the shape of the CFP trophy would move some units, I tell you what
16.02.2026 00:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
4 frame comic. a street journalist, off frame, asks someone with long hair exiting the subway : miss! do you think
it's fair for biological
female athletes to be
forced to compete with
transgenders?
she replies :
that's not a question. every
year, new studies show that
trans women have no inherent
athletic advantages over cis
women. science and research
have settled this already.*
*a meta-study published this month in the
british journal of sports medicine reviewed 52
studies with 5252 trans athlete participants.
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/3/198
what's unfair is how female
athletes, cis or trans, must
endure constant, unrestrained
sexual misconduct throughout
their formative years to simply
get a shot at competing
at an elite level.
just last month, a report*
showed that 88% of surveyed
u.k. elite athletes of the int'l
women's sports collective
reported sexual misconduct,
and 40% reported sexual abuse.
93% of the time, perpetrators
were cis men.
*"Womenโs experiences of sexual
misconduct working in UK elite sport,"
summary report by Lindsey Simpson, 2026
That's not a question.
15.02.2026 16:03 โ ๐ 427 ๐ 198 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 5
PICKLEBRAWL
15.02.2026 04:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
HR Ginger looked at that and said, thatโs too on the nose
15.02.2026 03:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases
Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.
Measles is a bellwether. Because itโs the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, itโs the first to start spreading.
Now weโve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.โs successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
14.02.2026 23:34 โ ๐ 6298 ๐ 3297 ๐ฌ 288 ๐ 279
Demon core experiment
roses are red
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do
15.02.2026 00:10 โ ๐ 2309 ๐ 694 ๐ฌ 45 ๐ 18
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