Y’all, I made smothered mashed potatoes last night w/ steak, lobster tails and jumbo shrimp & sautéed string beans 😋. (I got lazy and just popped a roll on the plate lol). My playing definitely needs to get better but BEST BELIEVE the flavors made up for it.
Joe finally blessed the Tiny Desk
The setlist:
▪️ Faded Pictures
▪️ More & More
▪️ The Love Scene
▪️ Good Girls
▪️ All the Things (Your Man Won't Do)
▪️ I Wanna Know
Two Black boys running a lemonade stand received an unexpected show of support after someone called 911 on them. Instead of shutting them down, Kansas City police officers and firefighters showed up to support them, helping them earn hundreds of dollars. This is what community should look like! Investing in our youth instead off discouraging their entrepreneurship. ✊🏿
Update: An exterminator did a free inspection after hearing her story. Rat feces, urine, and filth flies made the apartment unlivable especially dangerous for a cancer survivor with a suppressed immune system. Heartless landlord.
After childbirth, a woman’s hormones don’t just “drop”... they plummet. Within the first 24–72 hours after delivery, estrogen and progesterone fall dramatically from their peak pregnancy levels to near pre-pregnancy levels. It’s one of the most abrupt hormonal shifts the human body goes through.
During pregnancy, estrogen and progesterone are extremely elevated. Once the placenta is delivered, those hormones decline rapidly, signaling the body to stop sustaining pregnancy and begin milk production. At the same time, prolactin rises to support lactation, oxytocin surges to help the uterus contract, and the uterus begins shrinking back to its original size... a process that takes weeks. Postpartum bleeding (lochia) can last 4–6 weeks as the body heals.
This intense hormonal shift is one major reason many women experience mood swings, tearfulness, irritability, or the “baby blues” in the first days after birth. For some, the changes can contribute to postpartum depression or anxiety.
All of this happens while she’s recovering physically, often sleep-deprived, and caring for a newborn around the clock. So yes... if she doesn’t feel like herself right away, that’s not weakness. That’s biology.
Haitians being chased in the Dominican Republic.
Black and Brown people being terrorized in Belfast.
Bolivians being terrorized for striking.
BIPOC being hunted by ICE in the US.
Black and Latin men being murdered in the ocean by the US...none are isolated from each other.
Half these white people keep saying “you didn’t read the case” clearly didn’t read the original report. Several students said Karmelo was invited there and that the twins were harassing him. Then all of a sudden changed their stories. Also an all white jury??? Overly biased.
He has multiple grounds for an appeal. He had an all white jury in a racially charged case. The district attorney removed potential Black jurors during jury selection without strong, race neutral reasoning, which is called a "Batson Violation". The judge had errors in his instructions to the jury on what self defense is.