Dr. James Hooks

I’ve been crying every day. Thank you for hanging in there. Writing is the only way I can get through this.

The Endings We Deserve The Endings We Deserve There are deaths that break your heart, and there are deaths that indict the world. I have known both. My father died in the oldest loneliness there is: the loneliness of being ...

There are deaths that break your heart, and there are deaths that indict the world.

I have known both.

We are all sharing this planet together. Love, care and kindness should have no boundaries. I’m sorry for your losses and hope you are healing.

Loved him in life, and I’ll love him forever.

KINGSLEY There are lives that arrive like weather, and there are lives that arrive like light. Kingsley was my light.

In 16 months, I have lost my mentor, my uncle; my hero, my father; and now my heart—Kingsley.

Those who know me understood the symbiotic relationship between my dog and me. He’s been at my side for just shy of 20 years, and has been the most consistent, loving presence in my life.

Here’s his story

You don’t lay off 40% of your staff because of AI.

You do it because you mismanaged your headcount, or greed.

Or both.

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does.

Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽

Jesse Jackson, a leading African American voice on global stage, dies at 84 As a civil rights activist, he joined the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, and Memphis. He later launched two historic presidential campaigns.

“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised, They are restless and seek relief.” www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

For a long time I thought Pyro and Avalanche *were* a couple.

54 Miles from Selma to Montgomery 54 Miles from Selma to Montgomery There is a particular American superstition — polite, well-dressed, lethal in its calm — that time itself performs the labor of justice. That the mere …

We are encouraged to believe that distance equals improvement. That what is far away is finished. That what is commemorated is complete. And so the nation learns to point backward with confidence, to gesture toward anniversaries the way one gestures toward receipts —proof that payment has been made.

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

It's such a shame that Marvel Studios simply have no conceivable access to a large group of talented artists who have honed their skill in drawing superheroes month after month after month after month in a creative culture nurtured since the 1940s.

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment.

Excellent article!

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:

“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.

This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

Alex Pretti died a hero.

He should have lived continuing being one.

Losing Sleep Losing Sleep “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” Last week at the office, more than …

#MLK understood the American talent for revision begins with the ordinary shrug, the gentle forgetting, the soft insistence that nothing is actually taken, only “adjusted,” “rebalanced,” “returned to normal.”

He stands in judgment over this January.

Dear Black people,
they’re coming for us too.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86

Say her name, not his.

Claudette Colvin.

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What vendor did you buy them from so I know to avoid them?

the ICE officer calling a woman he just murdered a “fucking bitch” is visceral, but imo the most material new information in the latest video is that she very clearly turns the wheel away from the officer right before it happens

Bobby Drake should really consider changing his superhero name

Because We Can Because We Can They will tell you this began last night, with the whine of jets and the bloom of fire over Caracas. They will tell you it began with a name — Maduro — spoken the way …

They will say: Maduro deserved it. Maybe.

They will say: Venezuelans celebrated. Some did.

But popular relief is not the same thing as legitimate authority. Crowds can cheer the fall of a tyrant and still awaken the next morning under foreign control.

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Top five cartoons of all time. Period.

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

winnie the pooh sitting at a table with a bowl of food and a spoon ALT: winnie the pooh sitting at a table with a bowl of food and a spoon

Oil companies right now:

I wish he was playing the Dad from Thunderbolts*. At least he’d be funny.