Roccafella
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🚴♂️ Cyclist | 💻Tech Enthusiast ☕ Coffee-fueled | 🏈 NFL Football 💡Exploring innovation | 📈Markets 🚀Always pushing limits on & off the bike 🪖Army Veteran Gulf War🇺🇸 #Resistance #Resist #GoodTrouble #USDemocracy #StrongerTogether 🚫Trump 🚫MAGA
Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...
The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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There has never been a time when the triple evils that Dr. King fought against—racism, militarism, and poverty—have been more intertwined and on lurid display
When Reagan took office in 1981, the National Debt was $934 billion. When Reagan left in 1989, it was $2.6 Trillion -- a 270% increase. Reagan spent more than the taxes he raised, boosting the National Debt for eight years, confident it would be handled by other, future Presidents...
🇺🇸💰 The U.S. national debt just hit $38 TRILLION a record high! 📈💸 That’s up $2 trillion since the start of 2025. ⚠️⏰ Fastest jump outside the pandemic era time to talk fiscal responsibility! #USDebt
Even in countries that chose *not* to impose retaliatory tariffs on US spirits, our spirits exports have plummeted. Exports to UK and Japan declined >23% YoY, while exports to the EU were down 12%. Canada did retaliate - and US exports there fell 85%. www.distilledspirits.org/wp-content/u...
🇺🇸💸 The U.S. just sent $20B to Argentina 🇦🇷 while China 🇨🇳 hasn’t bought a single U.S. soybean 🌱 since May. Argentina cut tariffs so China buys from THEM instead of US. Our farmers 🚜 are hurting. How is this a “good deal” for America? 🤔 #AmericaFirst #Farmers #Trade
Las Vegas is slumping. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t... "the city is in the midst of a tourism downturn, with an 11 percent decline in visitor volume since last year"
What’s Wrong With Las Vegas?
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Why do we have so many men amongst us willing to step forward and handle women or anyone like this, even in spite of 10-15 cameras on him? This is deeply troubling.
Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · 11mo agoI was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
Excellent.
Josiah Walrus@josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 11mo agoThree indie media outlets in Chicago have teamed up to boost the reach of their reporting on the ICE presence there. They're all on bluesky. The Triibe @thetriibe.com , Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com , and Unravelled @unraveledpress.com L.A. TACO interviews them here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...
W. Kamau Bell to Jemele Hill at #TAF25: “It is so gross what Joe Rogan has done, not only to discourse in this country, but just to comedy ... He has made comedy worse again.” Watch here: http://bit.ly/46a5DUE
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
A big objective here is to keep people busy confronting and analyzing obvious nonsense and while they steamroll over whatever they want
For Schumer to not step down right now after watching on the sidelines is frankly insane. He should retire, make up a health thing, whatever. Make way for a fighter.
Agree in principle with your overall point. Ruskin, however, voted to honor Charlie Kirk.
And the people I know who hold themselves out to be Christians who have repeatedly voted for him🤦🏾♂️
John Pavlovitz@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11mo agoI hold you responsible. You chose this. You chose him. For likely the third time, you had a chance to reject his vitriol, condemn his criminality, prevent his lawlessness, denounce his bigotry—and you flat-out refused. More than that, you celebrated it. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...
PRITZKER: “.. The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
“.. ‘We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity,’ the USTA said in the memo.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/660...
COLORADO GOVERNOR’SOFFICE OF STATE PLANNING & BUDGETING: “.. the effective tariff rate in Colorado has increased sevenfold since last year ..” @colorado.gov drive.google.com/file/d/1Y_-7...
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
I wouldn't make a big distinction between the situation for Black women and Black men. The labor market situation for both has deteriorated sharply since January. The Black unemployment has risen a full pp to 7.2%, the white rate hasn't budged at 3.7%
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 11mo ago“Black women are the canaries in the coal mine, the exclusion happens to them first ... And if any other cohort thinks it’s not coming for them, they’re wrong. This is a warning, and it’s a stark one." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
"If an independent redistricting commission is standing in your way, roll it the fuck over it. If the filibuster is standing in your way, if the parliamentarian is standing in your way, if any good government reforms are standing in your way, barrel through those things."
