Sam B. Rambling

Verizon: Your bill is ready
Me: Well, I'm not

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Establishment Dems would rather twist themselves into knots and come up with convoluted policies than to simply fight for universal provision of public goods for all.

every rich person's fortune was built on blood. those that proclaim their fortune 'ethical' are only bureaucratically and physically distant from blood, but the suffering remains just as real as the CEOs like steve jobs that step over allies to further their own wealth

Supercarrier snapshot: Where they are, what they are doing, what’s next The United States has 11 aircraft carriers spread across the world, but four of them are in various stages of maintenance.

The United States has 11 aircraft carriers spread across the world; four of them are in various stages of maintenance. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...

Trump’s Iran War Is Already Making Money—Just Not for Us America first?

The spiralling regional conflict, sparked by ongoing attacks from the U.S. and Israel, has sent the price of oil skyrocketing to almost $120 per barrel. As a result, demand for discounted Russian oil has spiked. trib.al/XFcL9KQ

As of today almost all vendors in New York City will no longer have to worry about being given a criminal record for simply vending.

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Nintendo said these lawsuits are rated E for Everyone

I spent most of my childhood in the deep South living along a historic child trafficking route (NOLA > Shreveport > Dallas > Houston)

It really is a direct line (of descent, bank accounts, and behavior) from the antebellum slavers to the organized child abuse rings of today.

I think about this connection a lot.

Happy 4th Birthday to 'Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive' (NYU Press)
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CLEAR brings biometric identity checks to Mount Sinai hospitals amid privacy scrutiny | Biometric Update CLEAR1 is a selfie-based identity verification that uses facial biometrics and “liveness” checks to match a user to an identity document.

“For New Yorkers, the fight is simpler: when the ‘fast lane’ biometrics company shows up at the hospital door, the real question is whether face ID is becoming the price of entry to essential services, and what happens to the people who can’t, or won’t, pay it.”

Stunning article, I recommend it deeply.

I grew up agnostic, converted at 20, pursued it like a starving thing, only to realize at 33 after six years in church leadership that they were never gone see me as anything more than a [slur].

Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

Terrific reporting here. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

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It is increasingly apparent that we are hurtling toward a future of mass displacement (climate change effects, genocide, war...) just as high income nations are hardening their borders and criminalizing immigrants.

I wish republicans fought to protect the right to vote as hard as they fight for the right to bear arms. Of course, we know why they don't.

Further, you shouldn't have to register at all. It should be opt out.

You may not “get” this right away, but trust me when I tell you that bonding with other animals like this just may be the thing to get us right with the world.

And empower us to ward off the climate crisis.

If the progressive strategy moving forward is to just ignore the Black base as irrelevant, we'll all lose. Fair warning.

Get your candidates to these Black events and moments, please. It's not optional. It is required.

Poster for a conference titled "Rethinking Bodyminds" with a technical line drawing, stylized like a woodcut, of a human figure of indeterminate gender clothed in some kind of old-fashioned medical or assistive device

Here for this events.ucr.edu/event/rethin...

SNCC were amongst the biggest organizers of Selma.

Yesterday we lost Bernard Lafayette.

Today is Marion Barry's birthday.

Tomorrow is the anniversary of Bloody Sunday

With its Diasporic cousins

“Y’a hears hard?”

“If ya nuh hear ? Yuh must feel”

National Association of Black Bookstores

Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores www.nab2.org

Regressives, you spent months slandering Crockett. But you don't have any footing now and into Nov, demanding unity from the Black Community.

We see you.
We heard you.

You want Black Labor.
You want Black rewards.
You want Black bodies.

All for free.

But you don't want Black leaders.

God of the Bible sets off my paternal abuse triggers real bad these days. I'm really struggling to find any comfort there. Find myself angry every time I return to the Word.

In the last decade, my understanding of God has shifted toward an unknowable divine dark who creates and destroys. Bondiye.

But God of the Bible remains a force with which I must reckon.

Having a therapist who shares my particular brand of deep South religious trauma means sometimes I spend therapy telling on God the Father.

Why do you think donkey Kong wears a tie? He studied contract law at Harvard