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So many folks (esp. the media) are missing the complete backstory on $GME and how we got here. This has been simmering for over a year and the story behind it is great. I’ve been tracking this since September and devoured all of the details from the origin through today.

I’ve asked my 3rd year illustration students at just be. to come up with a post-pandemic New Yorker magazine cover. Here is what they sent in:

On left: a map of America’s amputations from vascular disease. On the right: a map of the enslaved population before the Civil War Dr. Foluso Fakorede talks about these maps to anybody who will listen. propub.li/3gDGqbV

ON THE SCHOOL BOARD HARASSERS BEING CALLED “DOMESTIC TERRORISTS”

⚠️ AMERICA 2021 IN ONE IMAGE (updated):

Not sure if this is well known but there is a bronze statue of Bethune in Lincoln Park on East Capitol St in DC. This is the same park, of course, that had the Lincoln statue that was recently removed.

Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya 🇺🇦 reads text messages between a Russian soldier and his mother moments before he was killed. "Mama, I'm in Ukraine. There is a real war raging here. I'm afraid. We are bombing all of the cities...even targeting civilians."

WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack said Sunday they uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

A message from Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney about Thursday’s hearing.

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CNN’s John Hardwood said Biden’s warning calling MAGA a “threat to Democracy” was “true” & that the Republican Party is led by a “dishonest demagogue: Donald Trump.” Then, John Hardwood quit the network. Another honest journalist driven out by MAGA. CNN is dead. #BoycottCNN.

NEW: Texts show former Gov. Phil Bryant, NFL legend Brett Favre and others worked together to channel millions in welfare funds to build a volleyball stadium at their alma mater. Prosecutors have called that project a scheme to defraud the government. buff.ly/3qxA41x

If there were any doubt about how then-Gov. Phil Bryant was involved in welfare spending during a $77 million scandal: Read this exchange. This was AFTER Nancy New’s nonprofit was raided as part of the largest public fraud investigations in state history #TheBackchannel

A top recipient of welfare grants alleges that during the 2019 election year, a lawmaker serving as the "messenger" for Republican former Gov. Phil Bryant, demanded she fire the wife of the top Democratic candidate for governor in order to stay funded. mississippitoday.org/2022/09/17/wel…

UPDATED: Jim Hood’s campaign manager confirmed the account, that the Dem candidates’s wife was forced out of her job at a welfare-funded nonprofit by Republican leaders. “We came to the conclusion that Tate had his fingers in it. It didn’t surprise us because that’s his MO.”

This new allegation is significant. We’ve heard about how officials have used welfare $ to please celebrities and enrich their friends. This is the first of them using the $ to punish their political foes #TheBackchannel You’ll only find it Mississippi Today mississippitoday.org/2022/09/17/wel…

Yeah, I think we also found the anonymous “Democratic Strategist” repeatedly quoted in traditional media with the stupid advice for Democrats

The diversion of the funds away from the needy happened largely through sanctioned government processes — whether by the state agency or a private nonprofit — and in many cases with permission and in broad daylight. #TheBackchannel mississippitoday.org/2022/04/03/phi…