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I’m not crying … no… not at all. (😭)
This my kid 👇🏼
REVIEW: Kaddish (How to be a Sanctuary) ★★★★★ "Profound writing, imaginative staging and precise direction" #EdFringe broadwaybaby.com/shows/kaddi…
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'In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek. His value was placed at $1400.
More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter, Keisha Lance Bottoms, was elected governor of GA' ajc.com/politics/2026/11/kei…
✊🏼👊🏼 All Power to the People
יישר כחך … well done @AbdulElSayed + @IfNotNowOrg
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Per Sharia law, all meals at the Cheesecake Factory must now begin with a land acknowledgement.
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History made in New Mexico! LULAC congratulates Deb Haaland in becoming the first female Native American Governor in U.S. history!
#NativeAmericanHistory #WomensHistory
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Mike Johnson will finally get a chance to catch up on all the breaking news he has missed
The operative para is this if you want to understand how US foreign military assistance (i.e., forever war/mass killing) works as domestic politics/economics:
“Nearly all of these funds must be spent on purchases from from US industry, supporting US jobs. “
Home of the brave.
Basic facts on this misunderstood issue:
Obama-era MOU provides $3.3B annually in military financing plus $500M for missile defense.
Nearly all of these funds must be spent on purchases from from US industry, supporting US jobs.
The total is less than one-tenth of one percent of federal spending annually.
For scale, annual federal spending on public schools is about $115B; on health care about $1.8T.
Combined military financing and economic assistance to 🇯🇴, 🇪🇬, 🇱🇧 is larger than 🇮🇱's MOU.
Phasing out the MOU early is a decision for the President and Congress.
It may be time to do so but the debate should start with accurate facts and figures.
Not bananas.
Orange County, FL
106 years ago on November 2-3, during Election Day in 1920, the single bloodiest day in modern America political history happened, The Ocoee Massacre.
A black man attempted to vote & the Ku Klux Klan responded with rampage that led to the exile/death of every black person that lived there
—The dark day in Florida's history escalated after one Black citizen tried to exercise his right to vote at a polling location but was turned away on Election Day.
Mose Norman, who had been part of the voter registration drive in Orange County, decided to vote in the national election on November 2. When he attempted to do so, twice, he was turned away from the polls.
When Norman was driven away the second time, a white mob, then numbering over 100 men, decided to hunt him down. Concluding he had taken refuge in the home of another local Black resident, Julius “July” Perry, they rushed Perry’s home hoping to capture both men there. Norman escaped and was never found while Perry defended his home, killing two white men, Elmer McDaniels and Leo Borgard, who tried to enter through the back door. The mob called for reinforcements from Orlando and surrounding Orange County. Eventually they caught and killed Perry and hung his dead body from a telephone post by the highway from Ocoee to Orlando to intimidate other potential Black voters. Perry’s wife, Estelle Perry, and their daughter were wounded during the attack on the Perry home. They were sent to Tampa by local law enforcement officers.
The mob then turned on the Black community of Ocoee.
Homes and properties of Black families were scorched, burnt to the ground. At least four Black individuals were confirmed killed -- one of which was lynched, his body hanging from a tree limb for all to see.
On June 21, 2019, a historical marker honoring July Perry and others killed in the massacre was placed in Heritage Square outside the Orange County Regional History Center.
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London was Britain's second slave-trading port, after Liverpool. 3,136 slaving voyages sailed from London to African shores from where British slave ships transported 834,617 African captives to the Americas. Source: Slave Voyages slavevoyages.org/
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An obituary for the Guardian of Rosalind Ashford, a founder member of Martha and the Vandellas, who has died in Detroit, aged 83:
theguardian.com/music/2026/n…
I don’t know why few if any journalists mention it: Judge Faruqi was an accomplished assistant US attorney in 2 districts before his appt as a fed magistrate judge. As an AUSA he worked w/FBI agents.
He knows the current DOJ, FBI leadership & DC USAO are full of shit.
Some federal trial judges — many of whom used to work at DOJ - are waking up to the fact that the Department is now run by criminals, incompetents, and Trumpists. Unlikely most fed appellate judges & the supremes will figure it out tho as they are more political & detached.
NEW and HARSH this morning : DC judge tosses case against two former @FBI intel officials on claims they lied to Congress on Hunter Biden case.
Judge rips into DOJ for fatal flaws in apparently "weaponized" case pushed by political brass; dismissals at this stage almost never happen,