Indiana Harbor

Free Black Man. Philosopher of progressivism. Tireless, creative problem solver for disadvantaged communities. Views are my own.

[rolandsmartin @rolandsmartin]

FACT: This was FIVE YEARS AGO this month. @GovChristie was so angry after this @ThisWeekABC segment that he went to senior @ABC @ABCPolitics execs and complained that I ambushed him. How? I didn’t pick the topics! As a result, I have NOT been invited back since. Not one invite in FIVE YEARS.

[Indiana Harbor @markharrisjr]

@GeauxGabrielle Way more people watch JBP than Symone Sanders, and more importantly, they're not inside the progressive echo chamber. He's reaching an audience that needs his voice on JBP, rather than highly educated liberals who already agree with him.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

DHS posted an AI generated image on September 10 captioned "Get off our roads, you don't know how to drive Mr. Singh," targeting Sikh truck drivers by their most common surname, then deleted it the next day and dismissed the backlash as nonsensical drivel. Three days later a Sikh truck driver, also named Singh, was followed into a Wyoming rest stop bathroom and stabbed 17 times, including twice in the neck. Andrew Bzdak was arrested within 90 minutes and charged with attempted first degree murder.

What is not established: Sweetwater County's sheriff says investigators have zero motive so far, and DHS has flatly denied any connection, calling the accusation reckless and false. What is established independent of this one case: Sikh Americans already rank as the third most targeted religious group for hate crimes in the country, and online slurs against South Asians rose 109 percent between 2023 and 2025.

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[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

In 19 months, Washington has lost ground to Beijing on every conceivable front. https://t.co/5rjJE1RA0E

[Acyn @Acyn]

Salgado: We still have so many questions.

What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad?

It’s been two and a half months, and we still don’t have my dad’s belongings back. Aside from some change that he kept in his pocket, we don’t have his wallet or his phone…

We have no idea where his things are or who might have them.

[Mankind @tweetmankind]

His reaction after realizing he was on the big screen is absolutely priceless 😭❤️

[Acyn @Acyn]

MacCallum: How concerned are you about the socialist part of the equation that we are seeing with El-Sayed and with AOC?

Dingell: I hate labels. What do you call me? I'm one of the leaders of medicare for all. My father-in-law was one of the authors of social security and got called a communist at the time. Do you think there is any senior right now that would call social security communism?

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

"How about Nooooo?!" And keeps walkin past! 😅

[Shanelle Genai✨ @shanellegenai]

"I agree with him. He should feel that way..."

BIG MAHERSH SAID WHAT HE SAID😭😅

[Indiana Harbor @markharrisjr]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[SK @Djoko_UTD]

Bro I can’t stop laughing 🤣🤣🤣

[OldSchool @xacct01]

Sybil ☆ Walk On By (1989)

[Trinity G. @IAMTHETRINITY]

This comment perfectly sums up how I felt about this essay. Really incredible read.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

I was trying to figure out why Trump banned Politico from the White House along with CNN and MSNOW.

Now I get it.

This regime can't have outlets in the building that reveal to voters how Trump and Hegseth gifted our military technology to the Chinese. https://t.co/qdfKN4Xu6D

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

The Kennedy Memorial is made of irreplaceable marble that was gifted by Italy.

Matisse tapestries found throughout were gifted from France.

The massive starburst chandelier in the Opera Hall, and lights along walkways, were a gift from Sweden.

The record-breaking stage curtains were a gift from Japan. They had to build special looms to weave them because of how big they are.

The grounds are beautiful with displays of art.

This is what Trump is destroying.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

This is the kind of adorable thing you’ll need today 🥹🥰❤️

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

Bottoms went further after the event:
“Rick Jackson is a chameleon. He is whomever he needs to be in the moment. He doesn't want to remind people of his extreme MAGA primary, where he said things like ‘You'll be deported or departed,’ where he said things like he wants to be Trump's 'favorite governor,' that he wants to be 'Trump with a southern tone.'

“He doesn't disagree with any policies from the Trump administration. He wants to paint another picture of who he claims to be. Will the real Rick Jackson please show up? No -- by the way, he won't because he won't show up for debates.” #gapol

[Grant Stern  @grantstern]

Florida Republicans fleeced residents to help their insurance company donors gouge us for windstorm insurance and get rich while bankrupting their own companies.

When Florida residents sued insurance companies at record rates for NONPAYMENT, Republicans made it harder to sue.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

In 1526, the king of Kongo wrote to the king of Portugal and begged him to stop the slave trade.
The letters still exist. You can read them.

King Afonso I — Nzinga Mbemba.

He was not a victim of ignorance about Europe. He was literate in Portuguese, Catholic, and had welcomed Portuguese traders as partners. Then he watched what the trade actually did.

He writes that merchants are seizing people every day — nobles, family members, free subjects — and that his country is being emptied. He asks for teachers and doctors instead of ships. He asks, plainly, for it to stop.

Portugal's king replied with a letter pointing out how profitable Kongo's trade was and how little else it had to offer.

The trade continued for another three hundred years and helped destroy the kingdom.

An African head of state put his objection in writing in 1526, in the language of the people doing it, and was told the arithmetic did not work in his favour.

"They didn't know" has never been available as an excuse. The correspondence is in the archives.

[Michael Jackson Crave @moonwalker4077]

Quincy Jones asked for a song called “Pretty Young Thing.” Michael handed him a mid tempo late night groove that sounds like it belongs on Off the Wall but Quincy wanted something faster. James Ingram wrote a completely different song that kept the “P.Y.T” title and became the Thriller hit. This demo version sat in the vault until 2004. No tenderoni, no chant, just MJ singing like he’s telling you a secret At 3 a.m.

Two songs, same three letters and two different moods, the one they left off still slaps 🔥🔥