didn't abandon y'all! As promised, we're keeping things going through Labor Day because a month just isn't enough.
For the next 8 weeks prompts will drop on Monday, and we had a good time on IG live last week so maybe I'll (finally) get a weekly prompt discussion going!
So to kick #BlackMusicSummer off, I wanted to bring back a prompt we haven't had in the challenge in a while.
Some love songs sound so sweet - until you realize they're about plotting on somebody's existing relationship. For Week 1, share a dirty-macking jam
I think it's time we all recognize the NBA has a great creative team and writers. Wow. What a story! Texas heels rout hometown heroes in the 1st half at the World's Most Famous Arena (@TheGarden ), only for the babyfaces to perform the greatest comeback EVER! My compliments!
@Fanatics uses an AI chat bot to tell me I cant get a refund or reshipment for my correct items when they sent me the wrong products. Wrong shirts, wrong sizes. I will report them to the BBB for this if its not corrected today
Terrible customer service from @Fanatics after they messed up my delivery. I ordered 5 items and only received 2 completly wrong items and they said im not eligible for a free reship or refund for wrong items. Will never shop there again
I have been sick at heart since the announcement of the Supreme Court decision which gutted the Voting Rights Act.
Republicans throughout the south are racing to eliminate Black electoral power to elect representatives who look like them.
We have seen this before, throughout Reconstruction and then as political deals and other Supreme Court decisions stripped away the brief gains that former enslaved people received with the 14th and 15th Amendments.
But why as a Black person I despair is the stripping of rights is never enough. I fear that like before, the New Jim Crow will be brutally enforced by a corrupt, soulless social order that will stop at nothing to maintain its power. I am a child of Jim Crow refugees. There is history.
Shame on the Supreme Court and shame on every person who voted to impose this regime. This is why elections matter.
Vote them out in November.
Let me explain educate you all what just happened,
5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran…
Someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.5 minutes.
These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the market at that time.
Whoever did this wasn’t guessing.
You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.
There was zero public indication this announcement was coming.
No leaks.
No press.
Nothing.
The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.
Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes, they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes.
In a single trade.
On a war that cost you $4+ gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.
American citizens funded this war. Politicians are positioned to profit from it.
This is not the first time.
Major announcements have repeatedly been preceded by suspicious market moves tariff reversals, policy shifts, war decisions.
This may be one of the most blatant examples of potential insider advantage in modern American politics.
You would go to prison for trading on a tip from your cousin.
Yet billion-dollar trades happen minutes before decisions like this and no one asks questions.Nobody gets investigated.
Nobody gets charged.
By tomorrow, this will be buried under the next headline.
Just like last time.
And the time before that.
The game is rigged. The insiders pull the strings and win over and over.
And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore.
One of the single most powerful scenes I’ve ever seen in a show or movie. For all the quick-witted, millisecond comebacks Omar had up his sleeve throughout The Wire, it’s in this moment where Bunk leaves him speechless. You can’t get sarcastic with the truth. What a show, man.