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Pro democracy, justice, & firm believer that education is a life-long and necessary process, & humility over all you don't know is key to compassion & enlightenment
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W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

“Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.”

Just like we shouldn’t be firing FAA employees when commercial airliners are flipping upside down.

#TodayInHistory #OnThisDay #otd #tih Feb 22, 1897 - Grover Cleveland established 21 million acres of forest reserves - legallegacy.wordpress.com/2021/02/22/f...

#TodayInHistory #OnThisDay #otd #tih Feb 22, 1861 - #Lincoln (Unlike the current president) Declares He Would Rather be Assassinated than Renege on Promise of Liberty for *all* people - legallegacy.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/f...

Trump gangster government

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

Context that Corporate Media won’t say: Musk/Trump are firing anyone in a leadership position who is not a white male.

Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

Extortion, pure and simple.

The nepo baby who only *succeeded* because his father gave him $400,000,00o+ to conpensnate for his failed businesses.

Drunk on perceived power

Giving a whole new meaning to "bully pulpit"

#TodayInHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #OnThisDay #otd #tih Feb 21, 1965 - Assassination of #AfricanAmerican leader Malcolm X & biography - legallegacy.wordpress.com/2022/02/21/f...

#BlackHistoryMonth Annotated List of Constitutional Amendments and Major Civil Rights Acts of Congress Referenced in Black Americans in Congress dld.bz/g6dnv

Y'all notice this hypocrisy? •Musk gets $20B+ in federal subsidies—is celebrated! •NPR gets ~$3M in federal grants—Trump wants to shut it down as "wasteful." This isn't democracy—it's autocracy & an all out war on free press. Here are two ways we can fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-war-on...

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

#TodayInHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #OnThisDay #otd #tih Feb 21, 1933 - Birth of #AfricanAmerican singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and #CivilRights activist Nina Simone - legallegacy.wordpress.com/2019/02/21/f...

Here’s how many billions Elon Musk’s companies are making from U.S. taxpayers www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Are congrats in order in a case like this? 🤨

If Patel’s confirmation scares you and you’re worried about the FBI being used to wage war and terrorize American citizens, just ask Black people for advice, they’ve been dealing with it for decades

Eliminating "waste" but only for the important functions .... The irony is that the presidency wasn't ONLY Trump's "get out of jail free" card - it was also a luxury pass for golf outings for the next 4 years.

I posted this was a lie right after Musk said it. This is the Commander of the ISS. Musk responded to this post by throwing a temper tantrum and calling for ISS to be defunded.

#TodayInHistory #OnThisDay #otd #tih Feb 20, 1939 - NY City Rally in Support of Hitler, Antisemitism, and Fascism - legallegacy.wordpress.com/2021/02/20/f...

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

America’s new foreign policy: Who cares? https://buff.ly/3Qo4KiJ

The real question is, why are there so many stupid people in this country, ignorant of history, politics, civics, unmoved by compassion, & eager to subscribe to conspiratorial and racist beliefs. Is it the education system? Is it the inundation of the media with well-funded far right ideologues?

The “pro-life” party per The Bizarro World

Life-threatening infections in Texas have soared among women losing a pregnancy after the state’s abortion ban. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Trump is a Russian stooge. Putin may as well written this himself. And any Republican in Congress who said they support our allies before, but are silent today over this, are worthless.

Correct. He does not believe in legal limits—on him. And he has no moral limits.

Trump wants you to forget that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator during his first week in office. Don’t forget.

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Oxfam: Israel has destroyed 1,025 miles of water & sanitation networks, leaving less than 7% of pre-war water levels available in Rafah & North Gaza. Israel has partially or entirely destroyed more than 80% of water/sanitation infrastructure in Gaza, including all 6 main wastewater treatment plants

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

Trump wants to gut Social Security but he just spent neatly $11 million in one month of our tax dollars to play golf. Trump is the Marie Antoinette of America--and we all know how that story ended. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

#BlackHistoryMonth - The Importance of Reading Black Literature blog.lulu.com/reading-blac... via @luludotcom

Brazen corruption.

Georgia Republicans wasting over $86 million to make sure poor people don't get any help without working for every penny. Sounds very "Christian".... www.propublica.org/article/geor...

He’s going to get played like a fiddle. ‘Trump said he was “much more confident” of a deal after the talks, adding: “They were very good. Russia wants to do something. They want to stop the savage barbarianism… I think it’s going very well,” Trump said.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Facts are hard www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...