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When it’s not about the sport…
When Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Champion, Defeated Jim Jeffries & the Footage Was Banned Around the World (1910)
When Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Champion, Defeated Jim Jeffries & the Footage Was Banned Around the World (1910)
Jack Johnson on Broadway in Howard Sackler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Great White Hope in 1968, he reportedly exclaimed, “You just change the time, date and the details and it’s about me!” In Johnso...
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December 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
When it’s not about the sport…
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📌Just heard an interview with John Mellencamp.
Jack, in "Jack and Diane" was written as a black dude. They were an interracial couple. Thing is, the music producers didn't like that back then, so it wasn’t sold that way.
Mellencamp was asked why.
"Because America is racist as hell, that’s why ..."
Jack, in "Jack and Diane" was written as a black dude. They were an interracial couple. Thing is, the music producers didn't like that back then, so it wasn’t sold that way.
Mellencamp was asked why.
"Because America is racist as hell, that’s why ..."
December 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
📌Just heard an interview with John Mellencamp.
Jack, in "Jack and Diane" was written as a black dude. They were an interracial couple. Thing is, the music producers didn't like that back then, so it wasn’t sold that way.
Mellencamp was asked why.
"Because America is racist as hell, that’s why ..."
Jack, in "Jack and Diane" was written as a black dude. They were an interracial couple. Thing is, the music producers didn't like that back then, so it wasn’t sold that way.
Mellencamp was asked why.
"Because America is racist as hell, that’s why ..."
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Pretty sure it’s illegal to fuck with people’s mail and if you’re law enforcement you have to have a warrant to touch it.
Think your mail is private? In Columbus, ICE is playing "Postmaster General."
December 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Pretty sure it’s illegal to fuck with people’s mail and if you’re law enforcement you have to have a warrant to touch it.
Are you even Christmas shopping if you don’t see someone perform a full, percussive, blower sneeze where the store’s overhead lights lit the spittle like sparklers?
December 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Are you even Christmas shopping if you don’t see someone perform a full, percussive, blower sneeze where the store’s overhead lights lit the spittle like sparklers?
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State and regional officials are forming health alliances to fill gaps in U.S. public health. The gaps formed due to federal agencies’ withdrawing from much of the public health landscape. vist.ly/4jeq5
December 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
State and regional officials are forming health alliances to fill gaps in U.S. public health. The gaps formed due to federal agencies’ withdrawing from much of the public health landscape. vist.ly/4jeq5
I hope the SF Giants buying the Curran leads to a greater promotion of the arts.
SF Giants buy one of Bay Area’s premiere performing arts venues
San Francisco Giants acquire — no, not a second baseman — but rather the Curran Theatre.
www.mercurynews.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I hope the SF Giants buying the Curran leads to a greater promotion of the arts.
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🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
December 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
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Antonio La Cava on why libraries still matter in a digital world reut.rs/49mnOrF
Antonio La Cava on why libraries still matter in a digital world
In the late 1990s, primary school teacher Antonio La Cava grew alarmed that students in his home region of Basilicata, in southern Italy, felt no connection with the books that had shaped his own youth.
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December 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Antonio La Cava on why libraries still matter in a digital world reut.rs/49mnOrF
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December 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Bill Crawford on America's glaring pollution problem, November 1966. In the years leading up to Earth Day 1970, editorial cartoonists like Crawford, Herblock, Bill Mauldin, Hal Campagna, Lou Grant, Hugh Haynie, & others were focusing greater attention on the environment.
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Bill Crawford on America's glaring pollution problem, November 1966. In the years leading up to Earth Day 1970, editorial cartoonists like Crawford, Herblock, Bill Mauldin, Hal Campagna, Lou Grant, Hugh Haynie, & others were focusing greater attention on the environment.
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If nothing is done to stop Trump and the GOP, in three more years there will be nothing left of this country.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:32 AM
If nothing is done to stop Trump and the GOP, in three more years there will be nothing left of this country.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
“He’s very ugly and barely mammalian.”
Read it here: medium.com/@page88/this...
Read it here: medium.com/@page88/this...
December 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
“He’s very ugly and barely mammalian.”
Read it here: medium.com/@page88/this...
Read it here: medium.com/@page88/this...
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For children in Gaza, small moments of joy can mean everything. Working alongside local partners, WCK teams prepared and distributed fresh fruit juice to kids at several schools that brought smiles to everyone’s faces. Fresh fruit is rare in Gaza, making this an extra special treat #ChefsForGaza
December 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
For children in Gaza, small moments of joy can mean everything. Working alongside local partners, WCK teams prepared and distributed fresh fruit juice to kids at several schools that brought smiles to everyone’s faces. Fresh fruit is rare in Gaza, making this an extra special treat #ChefsForGaza
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Ordinary People: Nobody wants AI.
Corporations: Everything is now AI.
The News Media:
Corporations: Everything is now AI.
The News Media:
December 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ordinary People: Nobody wants AI.
Corporations: Everything is now AI.
The News Media:
Corporations: Everything is now AI.
The News Media:
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Gift link to extraordinarily clear and informing story, with superb online graphics, on fast-growing threats from superbugs that resist antibacterial and other treatments.
Reporter Lisa Krieger and team published this Thursday in the @sfchronicle.com.
www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
Reporter Lisa Krieger and team published this Thursday in the @sfchronicle.com.
www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
No one is safe from the world’s next superbugs. Is this new science the solution?
Old antibiotics are losing effectiveness — and new ones aren’t being discovered fast enough. Our best hope to save lives may be AI.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Gift link to extraordinarily clear and informing story, with superb online graphics, on fast-growing threats from superbugs that resist antibacterial and other treatments.
Reporter Lisa Krieger and team published this Thursday in the @sfchronicle.com.
www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
Reporter Lisa Krieger and team published this Thursday in the @sfchronicle.com.
www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
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The Trump gold card
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Trump gold card
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The first reporter to speak up, interrupt, and call Trump out to his face while he is berating, insulting and personally attacking another female reporter for no reason will be a national hero. You may lose access, but you will be a legend forever. At some point, someone has to.
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The first reporter to speak up, interrupt, and call Trump out to his face while he is berating, insulting and personally attacking another female reporter for no reason will be a national hero. You may lose access, but you will be a legend forever. At some point, someone has to.
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Owning the Libs
For @rawstory.com
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December 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Owning the Libs
For @rawstory.com
Consider supporting my work on Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/editorialc...
For @rawstory.com
Consider supporting my work on Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/editorialc...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Peace talks between the US and Ukraine have stumbled over one main issue: how to force Ukraine to give up what the Kremlin has failed to seize during the war — the entirety of the Donbas region.
What the US wants from Ukraine: Leave Donbas, one way or another
Kyiv keeps insisting war should be frozen along current lines.
www.politico.eu
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Peace talks between the US and Ukraine have stumbled over one main issue: how to force Ukraine to give up what the Kremlin has failed to seize during the war — the entirety of the Donbas region.
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Instead of supporting Trump's economy this holiday season, please consider gifting to these two worthy charities doing amazing work in Gaza, Ukraine, and around the globe: World Central Kitchen and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)🙂
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A Year in Pictures 2025 | MSF
MSF teams around the world continued to respond to crises in 2025. Our Year in Pictures offers a glimpse into the work carried out by our teams in over 75 countries over the past 12 months.
www.msf.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Instead of supporting Trump's economy this holiday season, please consider gifting to these two worthy charities doing amazing work in Gaza, Ukraine, and around the globe: World Central Kitchen and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)🙂
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Where's a Terminator when you need one?
December 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Where's a Terminator when you need one?