"Most White Americans' immigrant ancestors achieved their 'better life' through systematic, legalized slavery and genocide."
Is that so hard?
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"Most White Americans' immigrant ancestors achieved their 'better life' through systematic, legalized slavery and genocide."
Is that so hard?
I think a huge part of America's problem is those descendants' refusal to incorporate reality into these patriotic bromides
03.08.2025 22:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Dem leaders really act like we don't know what real minority opposition looks like when they spent their whole time in the majority complaining that a minority GOP blocked the Dem agenda at every turn
02.08.2025 08:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nothing much to see here, just an orderly winding down of the American project
01.08.2025 18:06 β π 372 π 89 π¬ 9 π 0Ralph Lauren has done a collection inspired by a Black community on Marthaβs Vineyard called Oak Bluffs. Theyβve partnered with/are supporting Morehouse and Spelman, and Cottagers Inc., Black women homeowners preserving Oak Bluffsβ history.
The website is excellent, and thereβs a film too.
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
30.07.2025 01:15 β π 15274 π 3691 π¬ 205 π 105For decades, the Amistad Research Center in NOLA has served as 1 of Americaβs largest repositories of artifacts on Black history, featuring a collection of 15 million rare documents dating back to the 1780s, as well as a fine art collection. Its future is uncertain. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
25.07.2025 11:09 β π 217 π 147 π¬ 3 π 10watched this video 100 times this weekend lmao
this is how you make a completely feral, lifelong fan of the team
(h/t jon machota)
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
28.07.2025 02:46 β π 17171 π 4336 π¬ 307 π 548New WSJ poll: The Democratic Party is 30 points under water with registered voters, considerably worse than the GOP (-11). www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
26.07.2025 16:00 β π 901 π 204 π¬ 337 π 643The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett
25.07.2025 03:33 β π 8845 π 992 π¬ 59 π 50Black & white shot of Hoffman having a drink in an outdoor restaurant
Philip Seymour Hoffman by Bruce Davidson
New York, 2004
"The job isn't difficult," he once said. "Doing it well is difficult."
Tesla Diner ass uniforms
23.07.2025 19:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Didn't anyone tell the soldiers in the IDF that if they are complicit in war crimes they can be charged?
There is a lot of video evidence out there.
All those selfies are going to come back to bite.
Canadians who are complicit must be held accountable.
www.timesofisrael.com/im-afraid-to...
RIP Malcolm-Jamal Warner
21.07.2025 17:46 β π 10549 π 1362 π¬ 362 π 137I looked more into this episode, and the majority of these participants are influencers. They are openly & brazenly racist, antisemitic etc.
They are using this to gain a mainstream audience by being boosted by both Jubilee and Zeteo. This is how the left often helps mainstream the far right.
ok well this immediately gets me to tune into late night again
miracles can happen
ANDOR feels so vital, like it actually helps makes some sense of our moment
21.07.2025 14:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reuters should be ashamed of this euphemism
20.07.2025 13:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ICE attempted to enter the home of a woman with her children in Huntington Beach. However, the entire community, police department, and city council intervened and forced them to leave.
Keep fighting back βπ½
itβs becoming increasingly obvious that there are many underlying mental health predispositions that make ChatGPT unsafe to use, and that more usage is more damagingβwhich means the companyβs business model depends on people using the product in a way that risks triggering mental health crises.
18.07.2025 19:01 β π 297 π 104 π¬ 9 π 5What if Timothee Chalamet comes out after the credits and tells Bruce Springsteen heβs putting a team together
18.07.2025 14:38 β π 151 π 15 π¬ 9 π 0saw it last night and can confirm [spoiler] he's a v good boy
14.07.2025 01:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ken Paxton is a massive piece of shit who worked with anti-abortion activists to find abusive men willing to sue over their exβs abortions.
I guess thatβs my way of saying: if Ken Paxton got you pregnant, hit me up at tips@abortioneveryday.com
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new level of secondhand embarassment unlocked
06.07.2025 02:49 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Basically if you opt out of Zuck and Elon's lil apps, they might just let you die
06.07.2025 02:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think a lot of people don't realize that court clerks can't refuse to process illegal lawsuits.
So if a landlord files an eviction against an undocumented tenant, or a disabled tenant, or a tenant with cancer, the tenant still has to get a lawyer and contest it, or they'll lose automatically.