So, shouldn't SpaceX have the official government-funded label?

Oakland Athletics, in placing themselves in the Bay Area from Kansas City and Philly, really meant something (especially for Black kids) and built storied teams in one of the last charactered venues. Now, they are just a conveyance of wealth. Sorry to the most wonderful MLB fans

🧵Harry Belafonte understood how the cultural production of Black America was itself a driver of history. He was instrumental in bringing Jackie Robinson, another cultural hero, into the Civil Rights Movement. This photo is from 1958, at the Youth March for Integrated Schools.

I honestly have not seen two more beautiful men in my lifetime. And amazing humans as well.

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Every so often I come back to Bob Dylan's Nobel Ceremony where Patti Smith performed "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and became so overcome with emotion that she had to start a section over, creating one of the most beautiful performances I have ever seen. youtu.be/DVXQaOhpfJU

As a former staffer with National Farmers Union, I see this as troubling for rural America and the rest of the country.

New York should take some notes.

RIP Daniel Ellsberg. When asked if he was afraid about spending his entire life in prison for leaking the Pentagon Papers and exposing the genocidal war criminals behind the Vietnam War, this was his response:

Does anyone know of some good demography/geography websites that do the type of data that Social Explorer does but don't cost literally thousands of dollars?

Matel Dawson Jr., who died in 2002, amassed a small fortune working grueling 12-hour shifts at Ford for decades. On an individual level, I look upon him with neither appreciation nor disgust, but merely in awe and horror at the power of capital to shape the human mind and soul.

Remember kids, the strike zone is NOT a 2D box at the front of the plate. And the strike zone is NOT based on a batter's historical stance.

*Every adult* in a school can now only use *specific holds* that impair a child’s ability to breathe or communicate distress if it’s to prevent bodily harm or death. There are myriad deescalation, restraint, and hold techniques still available — tiktok.com/t/ZT82A246r/

I finally got to visit the little panel today! Nothing is possible until it happens.

Author copies of CAGED are here. Next week, it is in the world. Join me at Valley Booksellers for a reading and signing on May 28th, at 5:30PM. RSVP for your place at the Eastside Freedom Library launch for the book on May 30th, at 5:30PM here: eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/events/kao-kal…

Not a bad likeness, all in all. Let’s go Twins.