F*** the Founding Fathers but they really ate that one little thing

Quiero que sepáis que todo esto empezó porque cuando un grupo de chavales protestó por tener ratas y goteras en su instituto, la policía respondió reventándole la boca a uno, mutilandole la mano a otro y ahogando a otro. La represión ha sido brutal y ha encontrado respuesta.

Shoutout to the hood Mothers-in-law

Ohhh because they are allies, not pals or companions @Trevornoah @AdamMGrant 🤔

I took this photograph 20 years ago, in the French Quarter in April 2006, eight months after Katrina. Two girls in a slow moving pickup kept yelling, take our picture, take our picture. One of them got shy and turned away, so her friend pushed her face back towards my camera. Snap. The truck was gone in an instant. As far as I know, neither of them has ever seen this photograph. I wrote that the girl on the left embodies the joie de vivre New Orleanians have, that even the people hardest hit by life here carry a spirit about them. Twenty years of photographing cities later, I still believe that. Tennessee Williams said America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. San Francisco is home. I have spent half my life photographing New York and New Orleans. There is a lot of truth in that quote, and some days, standing on a corner in the Quarter, I believe every word of it. But I am also in the middle of photographing the 100 largest cities in America, with albums published for 60 of them, and the project has ruined the quote for me a little. Detroit has a grit and a dignity all its own. So does Pittsburgh. So does Memphis, and El Paso, and a dozen other places Williams would have waved off as Cleveland. And of course Chicago has that pizza. And don't you dare try to say Lou Malnati's deep dish is not pizza. Every great city has its own charm. You just have to walk it with a camera until it shows you. So no, I will not take the Williams quote as religion. But back here in New Orleans this weekend, with the food and the music and the art and the people. I understand exactly why he said it. My 100 Largest American Cities collection: flickr.com/photos/thomashawk… Now the part I actually care about. Somewhere out there are two women who were girls in a truck in the Quarter in 2006. Were they sisters? Friends? I would love to take their portrait again, 20 years later. How awesome would it be if this found them? And Cleveland, defend yourself. Tell me why your city belongs on the list. You are one of the hundred American cities I still need to photograph.

It's become painfully clear that structuring our whole society around maximising profit instead of the wellbeing of people and planet was a REALLY terrible idea.

Bringing back phonics has caused Mississippi to go from 46th in national reading scores to 7th overall. (4th grade)

I’m sure it wasn‘I random, but part of a plan. Also removing penmanship, basic world history and especially American history and how we fought to become these United States from nationwide curriculums, produced a nation of uneducated, easily influenced people, dependent upon MSM captured by globalists. In other words they only had propaganda to guide them. An uneducated people is a people easy to confuse and make think whatever you want and then subjugate them at will once you’ve gotten them to act against their best interests. That is the reason for the massive degradation of our school system.

There is a concept about public education as a great equalizer and tool of social cohesion that is actively being abandoned. We are going back to education being a privilege of the elite (rich folks paying private tutors) and otherwise you can never rise above your parents' level

NGL I'd rather see these kinds of fan moments on stage rather than overly freaked-out lap dances

The single best parenting lesson I ever received was through an interaction with my dad when I was 12. I’d tried out for this baseball all star team. The coaches called to say they were taking 16 players and I was the 17th on the list. I didn't make it. I was devastated. It was my first real experience with a failure. I went to my room crying. My dad walked into my room and sat next to me. He said: "I know you're upset. I get it. But here are the three things the coaches said you needed to work on. Let's go out every day this summer and work on them together." And we did. He took me out to the local field damn near every single day that summer. He’d get home from a long day of work and I’d be waiting with a bucket of balls, bat, and glove. We’d play until it was too dark to see. At the time, I didn’t think anything of it. Now, as a parent myself, I realize the energy it required for him to come home and do that, day after day. I came back the next year a completely different player. Years later, when I got a scholarship to play at Stanford, I still thought back to that summer as the turning point. It took me having my own son to realize the parenting lesson in all of this. My dad had two options in that moment: 1. Tell me the coaches were idiots. They were wrong. They made a mistake. I was the best player. 2. Acknowledge my disappointment. Reframe it as a growth opportunity. Support me to go after it. It would have been easier to choose Option 1. I would have been happier to hear it. But it would have had a lasting negative impact on my life. There was a big difference between what I wanted to hear and what I needed to hear. My dad subtly reframed that failure as an opportunity. Then he showed up to help me capitalize on it. He handed me my agency in that moment and made sure I never let it go. I'll never forget that. Today is his 71st birthday. I couldn’t be more grateful for the life and legacy he’s created. Happy Birthday, Dad. I love you.

Black folk build churches all over this planet just from passing the plate around. Sprawling megachurches grow from a gathering around someone's kitchen table. But for some reason many of us are convinced we can't build anything unless rich Black people start cutting checks.

This is a real thing

Military-Industrial Complex Assures Investors That Wars Will Be Endless Asked about concerns over falling defense stocks on CNBC, Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet replied, “Investors need to know and understand that this demand is not fleeting — it’s permanent.” Reading by Tim Foley.

First trailer for ‘THE EYES OF GHANA’, the first-ever film produced by IShowSpeed. The documentary follows Ghanaian cinematographer Chris Hesse who attempts to rescue more than 1,000 films capturing Africa’s fight for independence in the 1950s & ’60s.

I mean this is simply a result of citizens united case ruling that removed the limits on donations.

2026 midterm donations by party Per WSJ 🔴 Republicans: $1.54 billion 🔵 Democrats: 590 million