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J Leep

@jleep86.blacksky.app

520 followers 900 following 2.8K posts

Just an old dude looking to talk about stuff. #blacksky. #blackskyover50. #Blerd. #oldschoolhiphop. I misspell a lot of things.🤣 "Reagan is the Prez but I voted for Shirley Chisholm" - Biz Markie "and I'm smooth like butter." - Phife Dawg #FDT

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J Leep @jleep86.blacksky.app · May 3

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Ebony Noor! I love garden season! ✊🏿 @darlingebony.bsky.social · 37m

Yes I knew. Most Black people, especially older Black people knew. They had been trying to warn folks for 60 years when the GOP adopted the Southern Strategy.

Scott Easterly @scotteasterly.bsky.social · 1d

I admit it. Sadly, I was quite naïve.

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J Leep @jleep86.blacksky.app · 10h

You trippin. 🤣

I barely remember mine. 🤣

But yeah, these young jacks, especially if you have money and want to be somewhat irresponsible, should get snipped.

Modern medicine allows for storage so do that first, then go get snipped.

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J Leep @jleep86.blacksky.app · 10h

Dumbass.

J Leep @jleep86.blacksky.app · 11h

They don't really care about the players.

The owners are getting paid and that is all they really care about.

J Leep @jleep86.blacksky.app · 11h

a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face and saying turrible

Alt: Charles Barkley saying turrible.

media.tenor.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 11h

But on a positive note, we’ve ended the tyranny of DEI programs so it’s a fair trade, amirite?

High inflation and lack of jobs leave Americans frustrated with the economy

Americans have soured on the prospect of finding new jobs, a new survey shows. And they’re still frustrated by persistent inflation, giving them little confidence that the economy will improve soon.

www.marketwatch.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 13h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 16h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 22h

This classic episode of "The Cosby Show" aired 40 YEARS ago today.... #GenX was seated for it.

Rest easy, Malcolm-Jamal Warner 🕊

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🪬🇺🇦🌻 mon petit choufleur 💙🇺🇸🪬 @asassytart.bsky.social · 1d

It’s just racism.

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J Leep @jleep86.blacksky.app · 16h

Was just talking to him a few weeks ago at IMS. #nexgen

J Leep @jleep86.blacksky.app · 16h

It's wild that we have an idiot running an agency of the US government and somehow it seems that there isn't any way to get rid of him.

If I said any of that nonsense I'd be gone immediately.

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 23h

it's dope as hell that the world builds 100 million cars per year and all that plastic, metal, glass and rubber eventually ends up like this

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 1d

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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J Leep @jleep86.blacksky.app · 1d

One of my favorite groups right here.

Loose Ends.

Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 7d

🗣Is the part you take my heart to wipe your feet on?

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J Leep @jleep86.blacksky.app · 1d

There are standards.

They were written in 1986. 🤣

Long before KED's came on the scene.

dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 2d

were there not standards or laws about how bright and what angle? or were those just norms and suggestions like everything else? what in the fuck is going on lol