Rubin Jean

I'm a fan & a geek striving for Heaven. You should follow Jesus.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Iran got the United States to sign a document that even Americans described as degrading, mortifying, a total capitulation, @gcaw argues: “Watching Trump and his aides sell the deal is in some ways as humiliating as the deal itself.” https://t.co/pZqtNYHmmK

[NBA @NBA]

From June 19, 1865 to today — Juneteenth carries the story of freedom realized and still pursued. Ms. Opal Lee helped ensure that story is never forgotten. The NBA Family honors her leadership and the timeless importance of freedom, family, and tradition reflected in this day.

[BoehlertMediaBusters @MediaBusters6]

@MeidasTouch Trump's #SwampOfCorruption
Expelled GOP Rep, the late James Trafficant went to PRISON for taking bribes
Owner John J. Cafaro* of "Greenwater" Services & big Trump contributor got the no-bid contract for the Reflecting Pool & turned it green
https://t.co/gsl6sPbVKh
*pled guilty

[Rubin Jean @inRub]

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[Rubin Jean @inRub]

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[Edgar Jamison @Grandizer285]

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[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: Al Jazeera confirms Israel bombed a Lebanese hospital for the THIRD time. The ICU is completely destroyed.

A mother desperately rushed to find her premature baby alive amidst the rubble. Washington is fully complicit in these war crimes!

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

While Trump is declaring victory, once again and claiming a deal is imminent, a little like the nonexistent Iranian nuclear threat, he might want to consider the wider threat.

Take a listen to this from Maryam Ishani, a totally trusted source. Just as Trump didn’t think Iran would attack US bases and close the Strait of Hormuz, I would suggest he certainly didn’t anticipate the cyber threat.

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[bomani @bomani_jones]

one of my homies today asked me to imagine what jameis might say to dart about all this. i said “anything is on the board.”

here’s the board. as you can see, i was correct.

[a. rye @angela_rye]

“Corporations that have profited from Black consumers, relied on Black workers, and amassed wealth in part from Black communities cannot look away while Black political power is dismantled in plain sight.” @RepYvetteClarke, CBC Chair

[Beach Bum @FLKeysBeachBum]

Wow this is a bad anthem for the women’s lacrosse championship

[Al Camino™️🌊 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @lacho_ai_]

@GavinNewsom @realDonaldTrump Everything Trump touches turns to shit

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“What the Roberts Court is making possible,” @AdamSerwer argues, “is a country where white people can maintain their political dominance at the expense of Americans who are not white.” He examines what to expect following the Voting Rights Act ruling: https://t.co/pmNhd2Bs8K

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Ted Turner inherited a billboard company at 24 after his dad killed himself. By the time he died Wednesday at 87, he had founded CNN, built the world's largest bison herd, and handed the United Nations a billion dollars after thinking about it for 48 hours.

In September 1997, at a UN dinner in New York, Turner walked to the podium and pledged the billion with no warning. It was one of the biggest charity gifts ever made. The US had fallen behind on its UN dues. The agency was running on fumes. The Foundation he created has since turned that gift into more than $2 billion for global programs.

CNN almost died in the crib. It launched June 1, 1980 with 1.7 million subscribers, far short of what it needed to break even. Within months, costs doubled and revenues halved. Turner took new loans at 18% interest. The three big networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) called it the "Chicken Noodle Network" and waited for it to fail.

Then the 1991 Gulf War broke out. Bombs started falling on Baghdad on January 17, but other networks lost their feeds within hours. CNN's three had a phone line that held up. They kept broadcasting from a hotel as bombs fell. Turner's instruction to his news chief on the war budget had been four words: "spend whatever it takes." For weeks, CNN was the only network showing the war live. State TV around the world dropped its coverage and rebroadcast CNN's feed. Over a billion people watched. Even the Pentagon got its updates from CNN.

CNN was just the start. Turner bought the Atlanta Braves in 1976, put them on his superstation, and beamed baseball into nearly every home in North America years before they became good. The Braves won the World Series in 1995. He won the America's Cup, sailing's biggest trophy, in 1977. He bought MGM in 1986 for $1.5 billion, mostly for the film library that became Turner Classic Movies. He launched TNT and Cartoon Network. He commissioned Captain Planet, a cartoon about superhero environmentalists, to teach kids about pollution.

Turner started buying ranches in 1987 and never stopped. He ended up with about 2 million acres, more than three times the size of Rhode Island. The bison herd grew to 51,000 head, the largest privately owned anywhere in the world. He started Ted's Montana Grill, a chain serving bison burgers, so the herds could pay for themselves.

He sold his media empire to Time Warner in 1996 for $7.5 billion. The 2001 Time Warner-AOL merger then wiped out about $8 billion of his fortune in 30 months. By his own math, that's a $10 million loss every day for two and a half years.

TIME named him Man of the Year in 1991. He once said: "If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect."

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Conservatives want to police how we talk about Donald Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else, @jonathanchait argues: https://t.co/HAf3Q9xtWy

📸: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The Voting Rights Act “has not been dealt a ‘blow’” by the Supreme Court, Vann R. Newkirk II argues. “The law is dead, and no matter what happens in the coming elections, politics in America has been forever changed.” https://t.co/uzi0sQ2Atd

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

Trump on the The U.S. navy currently seizing ships in the Middle East:

“It’s very profitable, we’re like pirates”.

Out loud admitting & even bragging that the U.S. is an international criminal organization. Wow.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

The LeBron/MJ debate is funny because I feel like the older you get, the MORE you should appreciate what LeBron is doing right now

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

We don’t actually know what we want… we just know what we think will make us feel something.