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Hoe, But Make It Sanctified. Duke Alumnus.

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Prophetess Monique said it best. “When you do clownery, the clown comes back to bite.”

Tap about three people and tell them the clown is coming.

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(White) people really (used to) send their kids to these camps under the supervision of completely unqualified hacks, all in the name of scaring their kids straight…all to turn around and be surprised when these kids were abused, hurt, and/or killed.

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@DannyDGlover He’s proven his value as a part of the SC delegation many times over. Should he step aside? Yes.

But let’s not be ahistorical and act like the man never done nothing. And let’s be more honest about WHY he’s worked to shore up the district.

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@DannyDGlover For all Clyburn’s faults, he has secured a lot of funding for the Black folks in his district (which is why he sails through primaries). And, he’s used his positions of power well for SC overall, which is why there are Republicans sticking their neck out to save his seat.

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I mean the people behind this money often limit the potential effectiveness of the money being deployed and only fund pet projects that make no sense.

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New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy

Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history.

How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today?

I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it.

This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it.

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@eternallyRaq The 1st got barely got blue once and quickly reverted. And the racial/regional politics of the state would (likely) make a blue 1st district a less effective advocate for the state’s Black belt

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@eternallyRaq Ehhh. As someone from this district, it’s a tad more complicated.

Yes, it was a power move. But the majority of his district is dying rapidly, and the only way to sure up the district (and ensure at least one Dem wins from SC) would be packing the 6th

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@ettingermentum I mean this is explicitly why GA has those elections designed like that and why Repubs are making Metro Atlanta elections nonpartisan.

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@AlHendiify The funny thing is that many of them do have folks who CAN take over. They just refuse to step down lol.

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South Carolina accidentally being the sensible ones (for now) in the rush to redraw maps is a tad comical.

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Shane Massey is smart. Even if you disagree with Clyburn's politics, he has been a powerful voice for SC, particularly under Dem administrations. And the man secures a lot of funding for a variety of projects all around his district.

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Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey (R) is firmly opposed to South Carolina redistricting

Massey on the floor: "Too many people in power want to do whatever it takes to stay in power. But I ask, to what end? What do you with it when you've attained it? I believe the legitimate use of power in this context is to make people safer."

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Kinda wild how the Dems have successfully filibustered ICE funding without much fanfare.

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Me down to the Met Gala:

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Next year’s #MetGala theme should be “Take It To Church”.

I wanna see some ole nasty choir robes, Jesus sandals, and church lady hats.

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@TahraHoops You can see this growing sentiment where people want high-quality government services that they don't have to pay for through any form of tax whatsoever.

Property, sales, income, payroll, excise, etc.

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@winwhite97 And the jury still out on (parts of) the northern of the two, if we keeping it a buck.

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@MikeBeLike "Who had been saying that" is a core part of my lexicon lol

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This new Thrasher movie on @netflix mispronounced Beaufort, SC and, it pissed me cleannnnnn off lol

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It was a blend of both. Peter & Andrew and John & James were sets of brothers, so they probs was tight.

There was clearly friction at times cause they wanted to know who was the greatest (clearly Peter).

And then there was hating ass Judas...

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…Dawn should have smacked that man.

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Every time I get bored enough to watch this Mormon wives show, I’m like…there is one brain cell in this group.

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@MelechThomas She stole that Black man’s church and aint never looked back!