“It is insane how we’ve been voting Democrat for 60 plus years, and we’ve never seen a change from people like you, Lori Lightfoot, Rahm Emanuel.
We are waking up! You will not have that seat the next election!”
In the last three elections, Donald Trump has steadily increased his share of the vote in Chicago, from 12.4% in 2016, to 15.8% in 2020, to 21.4% in 2024. In Illinois as a whole, Trump’s percentage jumped from 40.5% in 2020 to 44.3% last November. #WalkAway
Richard Roundtree AKA “SHAFT” He was a Bad Mother……
“Shut Your Mouth”
I knew Richard and had the pleasure of working with him.
You will be missed, bro! #rip#richardroundtree#shaft#actor
Still thinking about that guy who told his office he didn't want a birthday party because of his anxiety, they still threw him one, he had a panic attack, and they fired him for it. He then sued and won $450k.
Jan Ernst Matzeliger revolutionized the shoe industry!
He invented an automatic lasting machine that mechanized the complex process of joining a shoe sole leading to mass production of shoes. It cut shoe prices dramatically, meaning more people could afford them.
Matzeliger was born in 1852. He was a black inventor best known for his shoe-lasting machine that mechanically shaped the upper portions of shoes.
Born in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana [now Suriname], the son of a Dutch father and a black Surinamese mother, Matzeliger began work as a sailor on a merchant ship at the age of 19. After about six years settled in Lynn, where he found employment in a shoe factory and became interested in the possibilities of lasting shoes by machine. Working alone and at night for six months, he produced a model in wood and on March 20, 1883, received a patent. His invention won swift acceptance and within two years had largely supplanted hand methods in Lynn.
His patent was subsequently bought by Sydney W. Winslow, who established the United Shoe Machine Company. The continued success of this business brought about a 50% reduction in the price of shoes across the nation, doubled wages, and improved working conditions for millions of people dependent on the shoe industry for their livelihood. The patent number is 459,899.
Matzeliger received several other patents for shoe-manufacturing machinery, including an improved model of his first lasting machine. He died Aug. 24, 1889, in Lynn, Mass., when only 37, long before he had the chance to realize a share of the enormous profit derived from his invention.