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Clarence Thomas really wrote a 91-page dissent against a constitutional amendment that first ensured black people and thereafter immigrants born here, are American citizens.
Grand Coon of the Federal Republic.
52 years ago today, Martin Luther King’s mother, Alberta King, was assassinated while in church. 6 years after her son was gunned down in Memphis.
Alfred Daniel King, brother to MLK, mysteriously died in a swimming pool, 15 months after his brother’s assassination.
In October 2024, Arkansas father Aaron Spencer woke up at 1:00 a.m. to discover his 13-year-old daughter was missing.
He believed 67-year-old Michael Fosler had taken her.
Fosler had already been charged with 43 counts of sexually abusing the girl.
Spencer tracked Fosler down, forced his truck off the highway, confronted him, drew his firearm, and shot him multiple times.
Fosler died at the scene.
Spencer brought his daughter to safety and then called 911 himself.
He was charged with murder.
This month, prosecutors dismissed the case.
BOOMER: “Why are you still renting? Buy a house and start building wealth.”
ME: “The down payment alone is about $95,000.”
BOOMER: “Then save more.”
ME: “At $600 a month, that’s over 13 years just to get through the front door.”
BOOMER: “Find a higher-paying job.”
ME: “I already earn $78,000 a year.”
BOOMER: “We bought our first place before we turned 25.”
ME: “Homes cost a fraction of today’s prices, and mortgage rates were nowhere near what buyers face now.”
BOOMER: “Well, that’s not on me.”
Maybe not directly.
But it’s strange to support the policies that created the problem, then act shocked when younger generations are frustrated by the result.
We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.
Imagine telling someone in 1999…
The year is 2026.
The President is Donald Trump in his second non consecutive term.
The richest man in the world is PayPal cofounder Elon Musk… but not because of fintech or Paypal. Because of rockets, electric cars, AI, satellites, brain chips and something called “Boring Company”.
Apple is worth trillions but its main business isn’t computers… its selling glass rectangles everyone stares at for 9 hours a day.
People don’t watch TV. They watch teenagers explain geopolitics, finance, and relationship advice in ~60 second videos.
The biggest taxi company owns no taxis.
The biggest hotel company owns no hotels.
The most powerful media companies are social networks where everyone argues with strangers for free.
Kids are making millions filming themselves playing video games.
AI Robots write emails, code, legal memos, songs, essays, and breakup texts.
The internet is mostly bots arguing with humans who are trying to prove they aren’t bots.
You can summon a car, groceries, a doctor, a date, a private jet, or a dog walker from your phone.
People pay real money for invisible currencies, digital monkeys, AI girlfriends and pictures that disappear after 24 hours.
The richest companies in the world don’t sell oil, steel, or cars. They sell attention, compute, data, and addiction.
And somehow, after all of that everyone is still using Excel.
I love the economic model where we are told that paying supermarket cashiers a living wage will instantly collapse the global economy, but a CEO getting a $50 million exit bonus for ruining a company is just standard market health.
I told yall it was a literacy issue and everyone wanted to rip my head off. Back in the day, rappers had vast and diverse vocabulary. They used figurative language, and literary devices. And this is not about AAVE, because that’s a dialect. the new cats are vastly illiterate.
This photograph shows James Zwerg, a college student from Wisconsin, after he was bęaten by a mob in Alabama for participating in the Freedom Rides.
Following the beating, he lost consciousness and was left unattended for hours as white ambulance crews refused to assist him. He was eventually taken to the hospital by an ambulance designated for Bląck patients. The incident took place in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1961.
At the hospital, Zwerg simply stated, “Segręgation must be stopped. It must be broken down.”
He’s still alive today at the ripe age of 85.
This isn’t ancient history.
cc: History Captain
Amy Coney Barrett adopted Haitian children for a federal tax credit but ruled to let Trump and Stephen Miller remove TPS status from 350,000 Haitians who fled violence in the country. A lot of Haitians work in the healthcare industry as nurses, nursing assistants, personal care aides etc.
It's doesn't get any worse than this. These people are assholes.