ANGELA

I try to love everybody and I cuss a little.

[ANGELA @angelalsims]

@KevOnStage Happy Birthday, innanet cousin!

[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

Just makin' it clear for your asses. Erasing the voices of black and brown people is not "agree to disagree" territory.

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

Did you catch how quickly the press stopped talking about the Iran war and inflation now that they can obsess over ball room gossip and grill Democrats over their rhetoric? We don’t have a serious press.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research.

Alzheimers.

One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today.

He's not interested.

He's a nasty piece of work.

[Dan @dan_bst]

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It is beyond me".
- Zora Neale Hurston...

[ANGELA @angelalsims]

@KevOnStage I like Fig Newtons

[kevin blue @kevinblue345]

White men stole and used a black woman's intellectual talent to build U.S. Navy warships. She trained white engineers who got recognition and more pay.

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

Origins of Purple Rain,

Purple Rain' was originally written as a country song, and was intended to be a collaboration with Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks.

According to Nicks, she received a 10-minute instrumental version of the song from Prince, with a request to write the lyrics, but she felt overwhelmed by the task.

She later said: "I listened to it and I just got scared. I called him back and said, 'I can't do it. I wish I could. It's too much for me.'"

Prince then asked his backing band to try the song: "I want to try something before we go home. It's mellow."

According to Lisa Coleman, Prince changed the song dramatically after Wendy Melvoin started playing the guitar to accompany the song: "He was excited to hear it voiced differently. It took it out of that country feeling.

"Then we all started playing it a bit harder and taking it more seriously. We played it for six hours straight and by the end of that day we had it mostly written and arranged."

Prince's explanation on the meaning of 'Purple Rain':

"When there's blood in the sky – red and blue = purple... purple rain pertains to the end of the world and being with the one you love and letting your faith/god guide you through the purple rain."

After recording the song, Prince phoned Journey member Jonathan Cain, to ask him to listen to it.

Prince was concerned that it might be too similar to Journey's 'Faithfully', a song composed by Cain which had recently been in the US charts.

However, Cain reassured Prince by saying that the songs only shared the same four chords.

"I thought it was an amazing tune," Cain said. "I told him, 'Man, I'm just super-flattered that you even called. It shows you're that classy of a guy. Good luck with the song. I know it's gonna be a hit.'"

Ladies and gentlemen,
Prince performing a special and an absolute classic song, Purple Rain, live at Paisley Park, in 1999.

Credits for the background information: @SmoothRadio

[love @loverbello101]

Dr. Cerina Fairfax
Pastor Tammy McCollum
Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer
Ashly Robinson (aka Ashlee Jenae)
Qualeshia “Saditty” Barnes
Davonta Curtis
Barbara Deer
Ashanti Allen

In two just weeks 😭💔🕯️🕊️

#BlackFemicide

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Companies that have paid settlements to the Trump Library Fund:

ABC: $15 million
Meta: $22 million
X: $10 million
Paramount: $16 million

That original Library Fund has now been dissolved. So where has all that money gone?

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Remember Dan Price...that CEO who took a pay cut so he could pay all his employees a minimum annual wage of $70,000? Here’s what happened next:

“Six years later after the decision that others said would destroy his business, Dan reports that revenue has tripled, the customer base has doubled, 70% of his employees have paid down debt, many bought homes for the first time, 401(k) contributions grew by 155% and turnover dropped in half. His business is now a Harvard Business School case study.”

In his own words:
“6 years ago today I raised my company's min annual salary to $70k. Fox News called me a socialist whose employees would be on bread lines.

Since then our revenue tripled, we're a Harvard Business School case study & our employees had a 10x boom in homes bought.

Always invest in people.”

Courtesy of Craig Henley

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Despite Trump's claim that he "saved historically Black colleges," when ContrabandCamp interviewed administrators and analyzed the data, we found a different story. As one HBCU president said:

"It's the greatest defunding of HBCUs in American history." https://t.co/CmMr733gXZ

[Havana Seoul @miyungYUMM]

This is how it should be. Synchronized systems set to help children succeed.

[ANGELA @angelalsims]

@KevOnStage Awww

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

If CEOs can write off the private jets and yachts they say are necessary to do their jobs, then their employees should be able to write off the student loans for the college degrees these CEOs say are necessary to have their jobs.

[ANGELA @angelalsims]

@Lizzs_Lockeroom Delirious FTW

[Social Security Works ❌👑 @SSWorks]

It’s a FELONY to steal someone’s Social Security data and give it away without consent– living or dead.

Elon Musk ordered his DOGE goons to put 500 MILLION SSNs on a private server, which made us vulnerable to fraud, scams, & identity theft.

Can we make some noise about this?

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Democrats introduced bills to end the TSA shutdown on:

March 5
March 11
March 12
March 18
March 19 (x2)
March 21
March 23

Republicans blocked TSA funding every single time.

[ANGELA @angelalsims]

@ifw_prodco @worldofreel @TheInSneider Facts!!!!!!

[ANGELA @angelalsims]

@KevOnStage Aw, Play-cousin Kev.... hugs and you are right tho