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It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934

I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.

This "meeting" was re the finances of college sports and pay for college athletes.

Trump is saying college sports financials are more important than Russia helping Iran target our soldiers – and Trump is brushing off the question – calling it "stupid". Trump is helping Russia and Iran.

"We will punish Trump for killing the leader of the revolution, Khamenei, and we will never let him go," said Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

My birth city 💔

In my shop...
#NoKings

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I agree with Octavia Butler.

What happened in Texas was intentional. Designed to discourage voters, and it’s part of a national plan led by the same Republicans who tried to overturn the 2020 election.

🚨 Trump officials attended a summit of election deniers who want the president to take over midterms.

Watch all of this.

I use DuckDuckGo and their VPN to block tracking attempts, mine me for information (amongst other good reasons), I am amazed and horrified at how so many applications try to track me, not just retail, even my weather app tries to track me!

QAnon luminaries say they’ve drafted the Trump “national emergency” declaration to scuttle the midterm elections:

Pope Leo XIV: “War is never holy!”

Same.

Yes.

This thread is also full of bullshit justifications and irrational arguments.

Miss Aja, thank you.

His"presidency" is turning, becoming, a death spiral for more than him.

I’ve been waiting and expecting this so here it comes!! In some respects I’ll be surprised if this moron makes it 3 more years. The bigger question is can America and its citizens make it?

Trump is requiring CA to cancel the commercial driver’s licenses of 13,000 people here legally with federal work authorization. That’s 13,000 people’s livelihoods & 13,000 people who won’t be performing an essential job in our economy. This petty act is deeply harmful. We’ll continue to fight it.

Well, the Felon predicted his own Future AND His Failure. What a guy!!!

The well planned destruction by this regime by gutting the federal workplace continues.

Details in thread.

ICE is using data from AI-based school surveillance to aid & abet mass deportation efforts.

If Microsoft is going to continue working with ICE, teachers are rightfully concerned about using Microsoft's AI tools in the classroom while students are deported. But Microsoft refuses to answer to them.

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

The Replacements - Androgynous - Riot Fest Denver 2013 YouTube video by rhkbco

The Replacements — Androgynous

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They like to bomb things. 🥴

Source: Public Policy Polling (PPP)

“Under consideration for complete destruction and certain death” is the language of genocide.

Upon reflection, it was a bad idea to put a a sociopathic demented narcissist in charge of the world’s largest military and then confirm a poser with a small dick complex to run the Pentagon on instructions from a 21st century Goebbles.

Which areas and groups of people in Iran is T additionally threatening with complete destruction and certain death?

And T doesn't have any use for people who don't benefit him and seems to prefer yes, those people would be better off (for him) dead.

How The US-Iran War Ends? Enter The Dragon A Peoples Republic of China intervention could quickly end the US-Isareli War wihout firing a shot.

Hey China, if you’re listening…
brilliant from Malcolm Nance:

open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...

Iran was well prepared for this war.

The T administration was not.

The Bibi administration didn't care.

The loss of lives, human suffering, the loss of world wide economic stability don't concern T and B, their motives are purely egocentric.

Democracy has never been one of Trump's priorities. In fact, he's really not fond of it, and sees it as an adversary or something to try to get around.

Reporter: Looks like Russia is now helping Iran target and attack Americans.

Trump: That's a minor issue compared to what we're doing here. What a stupid question to ask right now. We're talking about something else.