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Kansan 🌪️ by birth; New Orleanian 🐊 by choice. Gen X poster child.

On April 18, 1975, at the Grand Ballroom of the New York Hilton Hotel, John Lennon performed three songs: “Slippin’ and Slidin’” (a Little Richard cover), “Stand by Me” (Ben E. King’s classic), and “Imagine.” It was his final public performance. Here’s a clip from it.

He literally brags on social media about assuming enemy positions against U.S. citizens, and using the office of the president to knock out their power, wealth, authority and reputations. None of this falls under the duties of his office.

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Listen to Aaron Parnas as he exposes, yet again, the disgusting greed & disgraceful power of the Trump family. Sadly, money talks more than humanity. Vietnam is forcing farmers to move the graves of their ancestors to make room for Trump’s new building.

Louisiana just criminalized being poor. Sleep outside: arrested. Can’t pay the fine or the mandatory “treatment program”? The court orders unpaid labor for the state. That’s not a treatment pipeline. That’s a forced labor pipeline and Republicans built it on purpose. Cruel and inhumane.

Two days ago a sitting US Senator was pepper sprayed for protesting ICE and it didn’t even become national news.

Cabinet meeting or hostage video? I’m still trying to figure out how anyone in that room says these things with a straight face. Not a single ounce of dignity left at that table.

Shapiro: Somehow, he can’t find the money to pay for healthcare, but he can steal from you to pay off the criminals who stormed the Capitol.

BLANCHE: Do you think President Trump called and asked me to go interview Ghislaine Maxwell? REED: Yes I do, frankly. Because the deal was in. You're the president's consigliere.

The Brown v. Board ruling happened 72 years ago today. The reversal of the Supreme Court’s previous “separate but equal” decision highlights how it’s possible to overcome bad SCOTUS decisions. But it took years of activism from brave people to get there. Keep fighting.