This was not the first time.

MORAL ALLIES
V.
POLITICAL OPPORTUNISTS

Don’t mistake people standing beside you to use you
for people standing
with you to support you.

Some old school music below —as a reminder
(OJays, “Backstabbers”)

BOTD in Lynchburg, VA.......
He's the founder of the CTI label as well as Impulse! Records......he's responsible for SO many albums no record collection is complete without.
Happy heavenly birthday to Creed Taylor who would have turned 95 today.

Talking to my friends about our shared enemy. ⁦felix salmon⁩ ⁦Slate ⁩

America was sold on free-market neoliberalism. We got scammed. slate.com/podcasts/slate…

Just do it already. It works. People want it.

I like when the campus is filled with vibrant students, but the quiet of the summer ain’t bad either. Whole basically gym to myself!

Motherhood is *blinking*
and more than a decade passing

I hella miss my Mom, TBH.

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!! I’m grateful for all the souls—long gone, too soon— who mothered me & for all the souls I’ve mothered/am mothering. I lost my mother when I was 28 and often ache that she never got to see the woman I became and am becoming, still becoming, not finished yet.

Only Mike Tyson smacking your forehead would be MORE jolting than this…

TRUMP AIDE: 'So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car, so when a homeless person asks for money…then when they go to use it, they get arrested…'

How cruel, WHO does this?

BOTD in Saginaw, MI......another true G.O.A.T. and music legend who could never be compared to another:
The happiest 74th birthday to *the* great Steveland Hardaway Morris.....a.k.a. Stevie Wonder. 💜

Welcomed my friend Dr. Steve Keen to Stony Brook today. A little 📈 , a little 🍹, and a little 😏.

Raffi Garcia, Lauren Russell, Jorge Zumaeta's and my take on the 100 year later impact of the Tulsa massacre of 1921: (10) (PDF) Racial Disparities in Family Income, Assets, and Liabilities: A Century After the 1921 Tulsa Massacre (researchgate.net)

Loving this footage from David's show 'Night Music'. More please! (And why don't we have a show like this on today?)

Happy birthday to Stevland Hardaway Morris AKA THEE one and only *Stevie Wonder*!!!

Which one of his songs are you playing in honor of his 74th birthday? I've got several on deck.

#StevieWonder
#TaurusSeason

This is such sad news. Wow. R.I.P. to Davis Sanborn. 😥

FREEDMEN CHIEF JUSTICE REPARATIONS But in stating those laws were enacted because state laws, “prevented formerly enslaved Black Americans from getting jobs, buying homes and farmland, and otherwise advancing socially and economically.”

Arthur Watkins Jr. 🇺🇸 The court still haven’t ruled? I’m looking for an update.

HJ_impressions If the Civil Rights Act of 1866 is being applied specifically to Freedmen descendants, then the situation is a bit different.

In this context, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 is being invoked to address historical injustices and ongoing disparities faced by Freedmen descendants.

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