efore founding the Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion private prison corporation now known as CoreCivic, Terrell Don Hutto ran a cotton plantation the size of Manhattan. There, mostly black convicts were forced to pick cotton from dawn to dusk for no pay. It was 1967 and the Beatles’ “All you need is love” was a hit, but the men in the fields sang songs with lyrics like “Old Master don’t you whip me, I’ll give you half a dollar.” Hutto’s family lived on the plantation and even had a “house boy,” an unpaid convict who served them. https://time.com/5405158/the-true-history-of-americas-private-prison-industry/

Let's put every for-profit prison company out of business.

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My son told me what the word was but I completely forgot lmao

Marty Supreme. #IgniteTheOrange

The Flyers are not fucking around.

Two dead after planned fight near North Carolina school ends in shooting Several people were shot near a Winston-Salem middle school, authorities said.

A planned fight between youths escalated into a shooting in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, leaving several people shot and two dead near a middle school, according to local authorities.

The number of victims and their ages remained unclear.

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

There was a goose on the field at Wrigley, they played on

A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

ghoulish

Russian brutalism is on another level. r/brutalism

Well fuck that

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Haley Stevens is booed as she takes the stage at the Michigan Democratic Party Convention in Detroit. She spoke over people screaming "shame" and other comments, many about Palestine, through most of her remarks.

"Democrats, I love you, even when we disagree," Stevens said.

“That man is the bane of my existence.”

@grahamformaine.bsky.social Platner reassures @mehdirhasan.bsky.social he won’t be another Fetterman

a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

All you Dem MFs running in the midterms, you can't point to polling anymore as your reason for being wishy-washy on this right here. So we'll know damn well where your bread is buttered if you do

I think Zach Cregger's politics are pretty clear (Whitest Kids U'Know) whether he says the gun is political or not.

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It's cool how one of the ways you show that you want the Democratic nomination for presidency is going to Michigan and giving a big speech about how annoying your voters/constituency are.

AUDIO: “The Strait is still closed. We will open it by the order of our leader, not by the tweets of some idiot.”

GROK tries to claim Iran’s Navy wasn’t talking about Trump here 🤔 🤥

Meanwhile ABC shares audio of Indian ships being fired on in the (Trump-caused) confusion👇🏽

PORTER. MARTONE.

This Flyers team is fun

Tippett after this hit: LA DEE DEE 🎵🎶

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Am I crazy or are they running out of words? Like, some of them this week have barely been real, commonly used words.

An image of a Ninja Luxe Café brewing it's first double shot of espresso

It was a treat yo' self day for us at Costco. We've had our eyes on this for like 6 months and it was on sale.

I am not kidding at all when I say that every Democrat with a microphone should mock JD Vance every chance they get between now and 2028. Call him weird and feckless. Laugh at his eyeliner & dumb beard. Talk about the nazis & freaks he follows on Twitter. *Brand* him.

Because Dave Matthews has always had good politics even though his music isn't very good.

The lib version of fuck ICE, I guess