There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.”
~Timothy Snyder
Book Summary: On Tyranny
NEW STORY: Jaylen Brown spent all day with students at five schools in Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park & Roxbury.
It's an experience they say changed their lives forever.
“This doesn’t happen to us. This doesn’t happen in Dorchester. This doesn’t happen in inner cities.”
Trump's win shows us who we really are: This article by professor Aaron W. Hughey is one of the most powerful and accurate post-election indictments of America you'll ever read. 😳👇
For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history.
Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life.
But it's not over.
A thread.
In 1898, White mobs overthrew the democratically elected government Wilmington, North Carolina, massacred 250 Black residents & expelled 100,000 more, all because too many Black people were elected to office. This remains their mentality to this day. When they see too many Black people in positions of power & privilege, they throw a tantrum. Most petulant demographic in history.
Prof. Michael Hudson: "Economists are taught not to understand how reality works. They're taught science fiction. They rightly should be a literature department in the humanities section for science fiction because they talk about a parallel universe... Parasitism is not only taking more money, it's taking over the brain so that people think that the financial sector is actually helping them."
$41.64, the hourly wage that a Massachusetts household must earn (working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year) in order to afford the Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom rental unit, without paying more than 30% of their income according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.