RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
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RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
Bison in a field of wild flowers
Something to remind you
In a world gone mad
Its still a world worth saving
Important point being made...
#WontBowDontKnowHow
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The groove continues because of this.
Always deferred to the Canadian band, The Bop Cats (Sonny Baker - vocals, Jack DeKeyzer - guitar, Teddy Fury - drums, Zeke Rivers - bass). Managed by a UK chap with short hair & earring...later reinveted as Daddy Cool. Same Dave Booth, different era.π
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The Bop Cats, Canadian Rockabilly band, were just as good (if not better). Their first single went to #2 in the U.K. charts, higher than the Stray Cats! They were managed by a certain fellow with an English accent, pierced ear, short hair...who later re-invented as "Daddy Cool"
"caters to the wishes of a small minority in the city"
Gee, what party does that sound like? π§
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Every American should demand a refund based on the fact that the Trump Tariffs were an ILLEGAL tax on American importers.
Revolution, redemption, love and community. Legacy.
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This is a win for veterans everywhere. The fact that this was proposed in the first place was an insult to every person who has ever put on the uniform.
We will continue to hold this administration accountable to make sure our promises to those who served are kept, period.
NEW: Natasha Korecki at NBC reports that in light of the SCOTUS tariff ruling, Gov. Pritzker sent President Donald Trump an invoice of $8.6 billion.
40% of teen pregnancies in 15 y/o girls involve a fathering man who is 20-29.
It is never lost on me that the conversations surrounding teen pregnancy are always about the promiscuity of teenage girls and not the violence of older men.
If I've heard this before, I don't remember. π
Interesting track, great share, thank ye.
New Orleans - and the world - needs its badass Women, now more than ever. You being here is proof of that! π₯
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β.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus β¦
Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.β
"Civilization" π€£π€¬
Rocket cedar and white pine.
Ye mean, it wasn't "I'm sorry"? π
Littlest Hobo FTW (I think it was 3rd placebut whose counting)
Don't let it make you sneer or let your blood pressure rise because its true. We are still here, and we will be here when the last of the false creations are dust. πͺΆ
This seems like a New Orleans thing...π€£
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad β the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
On this day in 1887, the US government passed the Dawes Act (AKA the General Allotment Act) in order to convert Native tribes' reservation land into private property and break the tribe as a social unit.