Thinking of Toshi and her family this evening. I posted words she shared on FedBook to Twitter many years ago. Sweet Dreams, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon.
"Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. The value of an education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."
~George Carlin
Those soldiers lost not only a respectable discharge but all the benefits of having served in the US Military. Oh, and their freedom.
Now their records are being cleared. How special. At least it’s acknowledgment.
A lesson from an old boxer, AND a guy whose been in politics, AND an attorney:
If you think you're gonna lose, you're probably right.
A lot of good can happen if you take a breath, put your mouthguard in, and fight.
Yes, CIA agents, American citizens and fellow human beings, who were working to keep the USA safe from...let's see... Russia, China, Iran, North Korea...
Harford County and its schools are divided between racially and economically integrated communities along the I-95/Route 40 corridor and white-flight exurbs elsewhere—this is exurban whites blocking the rest of the people in the county from getting the education they want
Harford County (a right wing exurban county home to John Wilkes Booth) school board votes 5-4 to not allow AP African American Studies classes because they focus too much on racism
Just sent emails to my Senators prodding them to speak up on the President’s behalf. Everyday Americans have no problem with Joe Biden!
Also sent an encouraging note to President Biden so he’ll know we’re pulling for him.
Every Democrat who appreciates the last four years should do the same.
BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.
lemme be clear here
if the dem nominee is a ham sandwich, i'm getting ham sandwich stickers and writing gotv postcards and helping cure ballots for ham sandwich 2024.
but anyone who thinks biden dropping off the ticket will not be met with weird gop ratfucking chaos just fell off a turnip truck.
1923: Hitler’s failed coup.
No real consequences.
No fundamental changes.
1933: Hitler takes power.
Make no mistake, “Project 2025” is Trump’s art of “Mein Kampf”.