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If you ask me how it’s going and I say “fair”, what I really mean is

forever the best paragraph.

Murals honoring baseball trailblazers Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso in Miami’s historic Overtown neighborhood were defaced this week with racist graffiti, including swastikas and a slur. 🔗

We used to be a serious country that opposed fascism

A few days late to the sad anniversary of this. But think about a government eliminating from history things it doesn’t want its citizens to know about. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Ti...

My brother and I used to bike to the mall, play Super Nintendo at sears, go to the baseball card shop, and get a slice at our favorite NY pizza place. We’d be there for hours. I was 13, he was 9

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

2025:

Some of y'all can't handle two high agency males going at it and it really shows

😕 pretty much

I wrote this in January. (Not this prediction required great foresight) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/30/musk-trump-bromance?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Medgar Evers is buried at Arlington National Cemetary #DDay

I am going to try this

The NYT's continued war on trans kids and families is particularly heinous right now because they're targeting a group who can not speak up without endangering themselves. It's watching a minority group hide and flee for their lives while running a 6-part series about how the other side has a point.

We can be the party of vaccines or the party of anti-vax disinformation. I know what I’m choosing.

This is the wrong way to do it. Highlight their dysfunction. Highlight how it’s “not what Elon paid for”. Highlight the Epstein files. And thinking no one will care? Maybe the stupidest line I’ve read in a while. And there’s a LOT of stupid out there

When Elon says, "This isn't what I paid for", should we treat him like we treat other Trump voters when they say, "This isn't what I voted for"? Same energy

It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this