The Sexual Deviance of the Delrio Family: From the Rapist Grego to Frank & Awilda Delrio by Tayyib Bosque. Kindle edition. The cover line reads, “Welcome to the Delrio Family. Definitely not Ma and Pa Beaver.” I am not summarizing the allegations. amazon.com/dp/B0H1P2P8CD

The Drug War: A CIA Trap to Stay in Power by Tayyib Bosque. The cover subtitle is the pitch: a CIA trap to stay in power. amazon.com/dp/B0H1B9GGT5

Tayyib Bosque’s My Tenure with the National Security Agency is his account of a South Bronx upbringing and what he says was a refusal to become the Agency’s Judas. The listing frames drugs, sex, murder, the CIA, and Rabbi Koltun’s double-life sentence. amazon.com/dp/B0FP1BTZKF

Since 2019, I have seen @AOC grow as a powerful legislator, while never forgetting who she is or what she is fighting for. I feel comfortable retiring this year, knowing leaders like Ocasio-Cortez are here to change the status quo. cityandstateny.com/opinion/2…

: "I will always support the side that wants people fed, housed, educated, and treated with dignity! [ANONYMOUS]" #SocialistSunday ✊🏾

A pure heart is more valuable than anything money can buy.

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Nine years ago today, Hurricane María made landfall near my hometown of Yabucoa. Thousands of lives were lost, and Puerto Rico was forever changed. Nine years later, the island has still not fully recovered. Today, we remember those we lost and recommit ourselves to the work of building a stronger, more resilient Puerto Rico.

Double Standards...

“The system was never broken. It was built this way.” The words on this sign are powerful because they challenge us to look beyond individual acts of racism and examine the laws, institutions and policies that shaped inequality over generations. In American history, many of the barriers faced by Black people were not simply the result of a system malfunctioning. Slavery was protected by law. After emancipation, Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation across much of the South, while poll taxes, literacy tests and other restrictions were used to keep Black citizens from exercising political power. Discrimination could be found in schools, workplaces, transportation, housing and access to public services. Housing provides one of the clearest examples of how government policy could shape opportunity for decades. During the twentieth century, discriminatory lending practices and redlining made it harder for many Black families to obtain mortgages or purchase homes in neighborhoods where property values would later rise significantly. Racially restrictive covenants also prevented Black Americans from buying or occupying property in many communities. At the same time, segregation and unequal public investment affected the quality of schools, transportation, employment opportunities and neighborhood infrastructure available to Black families. These policies did more than determine where people lived. Because homeownership became one of the major ways American families accumulated and passed wealth from one generation to another, exclusion from that system could have consequences lasting long after the original policies disappeared. The Civil Rights Movement dismantled many of these legal barriers through decades of organizing, protest, litigation and political pressure. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination in major areas of public life, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 attacked discriminatory voting practices, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited many forms of housing discrimination. Those victories transformed the country, but changing the law did not automatically erase the economic and social consequences of everything that came before it. Families who had been denied opportunities for generations did not suddenly inherit the wealth, property or institutional advantages they had previously been prevented from accumulating.

They killed Jesus because He claimed to be the Messiah. He rose from the dead because HE IS.