Black Kos Tuesday: Nina Simone. February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003 Though she’s joined the ancestors she lives on in our hearts From Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez Though I’ve written frequently about her music I remember her most for her activism.

Black Kos Tuesday: Nina Simone. February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003
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Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social on Gino Bulso’s hypocritical Charlie Kirk Act: “Free speech is not just the right to engage in favored speech, it is also the unobstructed right to engage in moral dissent. This is what my Republican colleagues are so terrified of...” www.ms.now/opinion/tenn...

Are You Ready (Summer of Soul Soundtrack - Live at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival) YouTube video by Nina Simone - Topic

Legend

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"Independents" meh.
Temporarily embarrassed Republicans,
Libertarians, same as above, plus weed.
And other non-team players.
IMHO/IME "I am an independent" shuts down discussion of policy & voting records, and poses as "I'm smarter than one-party tribalists"

As always , your mileage may vary

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Slump? more like a sinkhole

Honestly, taking a little inventory: for me, more than a little denial, hope and distracted shallowness. Not too proud to admit I went for the okie-doke during the elections...she quickly tacked back to her paymasters' demands.

Accept only the legit product, ie not Sinema, Fetterman, Herr Platner.

Katy Trash. Why did we get our hopes up? And she's with that hew CBS anchor who is a MAGA-huffer , Tony Dokoupil

DRAGGED HIM!

Every major news organization should be producing and promoting something along the lines of "Erratic and volatile president threatens to restart his war of aggression against Iran and order massive assault on civilian infrastructure, a possible war crime. Who will tell him no?"

Donald Trump’s Ls for the week (SO FAR)(IT IS ONLY TUESDAY) YouTube video by Amanda's Mild Takes

Shes a miserable person, period.

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Donald Trump’s Ls for the week (SO FAR)(IT IS ONLY TUESDAY) YouTube video by Amanda's Mild Takes

Or enjoy a roundup of Trump’s L’s.

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5 Charts Showing Impact of New Grad Loan Caps The new limits on how much graduate students can borrow will affect states and institutions differently, and new research shows how.

In a blow for the white leftists who didn't vote for @kamalaharris.com because they thought the Biden-Harris administration didn't cancel enough of their student debt, the Trump-Vance administration is imposing new grad loan caps. All predictable to anyone who knows anything about politics.

🚨 Virginians: Today’s the day.

You’re voting on a major constitutional amendment to counter GOP gerrymandering by allowing temporary congressional maps through 2030.

Polls close at 7 PM ET — if you’re in line, you can still vote.

Have you cast your ballot yet? Tell us your experience 👇

Just shut em down. Crash their stock. Anything that sticks it to Thiel is worth the effort.

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That was certainly implied.

Donald Trump’s Ls for the week (SO FAR)(IT IS ONLY TUESDAY) YouTube video by Amanda's Mild Takes

Love this account. All of trump L’s for the week.

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Today, driving from Vienna to Bratislava, you can still see how the EU helped unite Europe.

What used to be the iron curtain is just a bit of a slow down, crossing the border and then continuing your drive in the EU.

All of this. Maple Messiah will lead them off a cliff.

its as if they prefer Trump. Because they keep helping him and his MAGA billionaires. Privilege like that requires willful blindness and a poor grasp of math.

There was overtime to be earned!

Keep your foot on the gas y’all!

#XavierBecerra is surging in the polls. Let’s get him to the big dance in November.

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Sanders on Steyer’s 2020 bid: ‘Tired of seeing billionaires trying to buy political power’ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday praised Tom Steyer after the billionaire philanthropist entered the 2020 presidential race but criticized the notion of a billionaire running for the Whi…

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“I like Tom personally, but I do have to say as somebody who in this campaign has received 2 million contributions, averaging $19 a person, I’m a bit tired of seeing billionaires trying to buy political power,” Sanders told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell in an interview.

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It's a great day for people from Pennsylvania 🦅🔔

Excited to share some good news for Illinois families — we’ve reached over 100,000 children in our state receiving books from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

Let’s keep reading.

It's giving Praetorian Guards

yikes

that entire scene, even without these quotes, is hysterical.

"I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!"

"You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"

Fetterman justifies — but does not apologize for — chasing down and brandishing shotgun at Black jogger while Braddock mayor • Pennsylvania Capital-Star In his first public interviews after the incident resurfaced, Fetterman was unapologetic for the incident eight years ago.

Plenty of people warned about Fetterman, that he was not as progressive as he spoke, and was problematic in many ways.

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