Derek Cooke Jr "DC"

Do more say less, God does the rest

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Run the math on the lunch and it falls apart in about ten seconds.

A $28 lunch every working day is roughly $7,000 a year. That is the entire prize for never eating out again.

Now look at what actually moved. The median US home went from $321,500 in 2019 to about $420,300 in 2024. That is nearly $99,000 in five years, close to $20,000 a year. A Gen Z worker who banks every single lunch saves $7,000 while the house they are chasing gets $20,000 more expensive in the same twelve months.

You can do everything Kevin says and still lose ground.

Zoom out and it gets worse. Since 1980 home prices are up 551% and incomes are up 373%. The price-to-income ratio went from 3.65 to over 5. The distance between what a salary buys and what a house costs is the whole story, and no amount of skipped sandwiches closes a gap that compounds faster than anyone can save.

The lunch was never the variable.

The math gets funnier when you check who is giving the lecture. Kevin took just under $15 million to be the face of FTX, put around $9.7 million of it into crypto that went to zero, and held a $1 million stake that also went to zero. The man telling 23-year-olds that lunch is why they stay poor lit more money on fire in one bad bet than most of them will earn in a lifetime.

A $28 plate of ham and cheese was not the problem.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

“The Black cop could be a large factor in preventing our genocide. But no help can be expected from that quarter. The same stupidity and desperation that brought him to the gates prevents him from interceding.”
-George Jackson

[ChicoFilo @ChicoFiloYT]

Might be the greatest NBA x Anime edit I have ever seen he really put in every single detail from the playoff series in it too 😭

[WALKER🪂 @maxl1am]

the guilt of being the son who loves his family but breathes easier when he's far away

[AFRICAMUSTBEFREE!!!!!!! @engrICO2015]

A raw young talent from Africa displays all RONALDINHO and CR7 football skills so easily !!
Wow

[MP𖤐 @MagicalPep]

No matter how many goals I watch, this Lamela masterpiece remains unmatched. 🥲❤️

[Speedy HQ @IShowSpeedHQ]

🚨| BREAKING: Speed has OFFICIALLY RELEASED his World Cup song “Champions” 🤯🤯🔥

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This is the history they want to hide from you.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 DAMN.

Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:

“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”

She was SIX.

And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.

Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.

Just because of the color of her skin.

A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.

[💟 ᏦᏋᎩ ᏦᏋᎩ ᎷᎧᏁᎥᎤᏬᏋ 💟 @KeyKeytoMarz]

Greatest commercial EVER!!!

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

We should never stop talking about slavery

[Mina Kimes @minakimes]

Absolutely incredible to witness this in person. The crowd was stunned (as was I, clearly 😭)

[Creole Louisiana 🇺🇸 @bAnthonYsr]

Black American culture is AMAZING‼️✨

[500 🏎 @Kameron_Hay]

This app and people in the hip-hop media space will tell you his music isn’t timeless but this girl wasn’t even alive for this record and singing it word for word like her life depends on it. Somebody is lying lol

[MASTER STUDENT🤲🏾 @MUSICANDBUILDS]

😂😂 LOOK HOW THEY BEEN GUARDING MY DAWG

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

A 9 year old rapping about 9 year old things.

[GotoChelle ™ 🇺🇸💙 @chelleyourself]

This explains a lot! I will be demanding search prompts.

[Home Team Hoops @HomeTeamHoops]

JJ Crawford is the #1 ranked player in the Class of 2029 by ESPN

[Tyler @tylerbritton_]

Spurs/Thunder might be the most interesting chess match between two coaching staffs in NBA history.

The constant battle between the Spurs trying to keep Wemby at the basket, and the Thunder adjusting their spacing in each game to get him out.

The Spurs trying to keep Shai away from the middle of the floor and out of the paint completely, while the Thunder change screening angles, floor alignments, etc. to get him space to operate.

Then in Game 4, the Spurs going away from doubles, and the Thunder finding a way to consistently force 2 on the ball in Game 5.

On the other side, the Spurs trying to get Wemby free in the paint on offense, and the Thunder doing everything in their power to push him to the perimeter.

Every game of this series has looked completely different. It’s been a masterclass for anyone who cares about more than “falling” and ref discourse.

[J O $ H U A @JOHUAsa]

“I’m out in Tokyo cause I’m big in Japan”

You can’t fake influence