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Museum person and musician. Fan of Indiana Hoosiers, Texas Rangers, Dallas Stars, Dallas Mavs. Trumpet player, knitter, crocheter and most importantly, mom. 41, she/her.

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I think itโ€™s time for Democratic leaders to start saying โ€œif youโ€™re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, youโ€™ll 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3131    ๐Ÿ” 954    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
Jesse Jackson: Well, first of all, we had been freed without being made equal. Thereโ€™s 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 laborโ€”the whole range. They just put us back in slavery.

We finally, in 1954, broke the backboneโ€”legallyโ€”of that system [with the Supreme Courtโ€™s Brown v. Board of Education decision], but we were neverโ€”there 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 weโ€™re fighting for our equality. We are the foundation of American societyโ€”not 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.

Jesse Jackson: Well, first of all, we had been freed without being made equal. Thereโ€™s 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 laborโ€”the whole range. They just put us back in slavery. We finally, in 1954, broke the backboneโ€”legallyโ€”of that system [with the Supreme Courtโ€™s Brown v. Board of Education decision], but we were neverโ€”there 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 weโ€™re fighting for our equality. We are the foundation of American societyโ€”not 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 slaveryโ€”that Africans subsidized Americaโ€™s wealthโ€”that truth will not go away. Itโ€™s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with.

Harris: Do you personally have hope that there will be payment for that legacy of slavery? Jackson: The truth of slaveryโ€”that Africans subsidized Americaโ€™s wealthโ€”that truth will not go away. Itโ€™s 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 slaveryโ€”that Africans subsidized Americaโ€™s wealthโ€”that truth will not go away. Itโ€™s 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 503    ๐Ÿ” 162    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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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 ๐Ÿฅน)

RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

17.02.2026 11:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2459    ๐Ÿ” 1103    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 86

Drafting rooms can be really beautiful spaces. Iโ€™m thinking of Wrightโ€™s design studio

17.02.2026 05:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

17.02.2026 04:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5762    ๐Ÿ” 1764    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 83    ๐Ÿ“Œ 30

Ai is for pooping

17.02.2026 02:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morningโ€™s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

17.02.2026 00:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4014    ๐Ÿ” 2294    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 188
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trainer: โ€œtell me a little bit about what your goals are.โ€

me: [shows them this video]

17.02.2026 00:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 223    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Incredible

17.02.2026 00:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Havenโ€™t had a case of the Mondays since becoming a National Champion. #iufb
YouTube video by Kirkwood and Dunn Podcast Havenโ€™t had a case of the Mondays since becoming a National Champion. #iufb

youtube.com/shorts/oUXKA...

17.02.2026 00:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
George Washington
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...

17.02.2026 00:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 118    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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๐Ÿ‘€ 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...

16.02.2026 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5703    ๐Ÿ” 1812    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 80    ๐Ÿ“Œ 134

Furthermore, if you hate โ€œlibsโ€ more than you hate the Epstein class, youโ€™ve got a problem

16.02.2026 19:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

NO NOT HIM GODDAMNIT

16.02.2026 18:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4544    ๐Ÿ” 1834    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29

huge if true

16.02.2026 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œOh, you donโ€™t have to do thatโ€

16.02.2026 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

boy wouldn't it be perfect if it happened today

16.02.2026 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm a King Cake girl in a Paczki town

16.02.2026 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A natural car, living her truth

16.02.2026 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68830576%5D

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68830576%5D

You can and should believe in the love of Thick McRunfast

16.02.2026 11:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 110    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 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.
*"Womenโ€™s experiences of sexual
misconduct working in UK elite sport,"
summary report by Lindsey Simpson, 2026

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. *"Womenโ€™s 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 427    ๐Ÿ” 198    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

PICKLEBRAWL

15.02.2026 04:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

HR Ginger looked at that and said, thatโ€™s too on the nose

15.02.2026 03:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 itโ€™s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, itโ€™s the first to start spreading.

Now weโ€™ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.โ€™s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

14.02.2026 23:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6298    ๐Ÿ” 3297    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 288    ๐Ÿ“Œ 279
Demon core experiment

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2309    ๐Ÿ” 694    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 45    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

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