Duke admits 11% of the general applicants but 23% of legacy applicants—whose parents and grandparents parents were accepted during Jim Crow.

Duke didn’t even accept Black students until 1963. Now Black scholarships are banned but racist Jim Crow Legacy thrives.

This is America.

Texas Removes 1.3 Million Children From Health Care Plan

The high number is due to Texas' unusually low income limit for qualifying. In other words, the supposedly 'pro-life' state of Texas doesn't think healthcare is a part of that at all

newsweek.com/texas-removes-….

This you?

My only comment is: Johnnie Cochran had a long career that included repping the Black Panthers, getting Abner Louima his measure of justice from the NYPD and helping get Geronimo Pratt out of prison, and should not *just* live on in public discourse as 'OJ's lawyer'

It’s hard to explain how wild and surreal this still is - 2024 is the 30th anniversary of the White Bronco car chase. NBC would toggle back and forth between that and Game 5 of the Rockets-Knicks NBA finals:

Never forget this is what he did and who he is and what he covered up.

aljazeera.com/amp/features/2…

THREAD: Subway used to have $5 footlongs, now it’s “$6, six inches”. The McChicken used to be $1, now it's almost $3. Taco Bell’s Beefy 5-layer burrito was $0.89 in 2009, now it’s $3.69.

Fast food companies want to blame inflation or the minimum wage going up. It’s all a lie.

The current state of film is really easily summarized by the fact that Paramount agreed to make THE OFFER, a lukewarm retelling of the making of THE GODFATHER but are passing on another film by the dude who literally made THE GODFATHER

Stephanie Kelly Clark, textile artist known for her embroidered 'thread paintings' #womensart

You know there will be Arizona cops, patrolling the borders, looking for moms driving their daughters to California. What will it take for Republican white women to stop voting for their husbands' tax breaks?

Somebody get this man in Witness Protection. cnn.com/2024/04/09/bus…

1. Women weren't allowed to vote in 1864
2. Arizona WASN'T EVEN A STATE IN 1864

The ban was written before women had the right to vote.

Last year the health insurance industry reported $70.7 billion in profits, while 41% of Americans are stuck with medical debt.

Your medical debt is just a health insurance CEO’s profit.

Pass Medicare for All.

From the braintrusts that brought you ARGYLLE and that Jared Leto vampire movie at least twice: France Ford Coppola's new movie is not good enough for us to release.

Billionaires who condemned Trump are now flocking to his campaign.

It’s obvious why.

Biden wants a 25% tax on billionaires.

Trump wants to double down on tax cuts for the rich.

All they care about is lining their own pockets no matter the cost to everyone else.

Absolutely incredible.

Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World.

Solo Acoustic Guitar - Kent Nishimura. All of the instruments and vocals — on his guitar…

I’d be willing to bet you didn’t know the FTC just released a report about why grocery prices are high and that’s 100% due to corporate greed.

I’d bet you probably hadn’t heard because mainstream media doesn’t think this is front page news.

I’d bet they don’t think it’s front…

wow if only this was remotely predictable when he demanded the rev share status be restored and codified in the new CBA. I wonder if any business visionaries amongst all those owners could have seen it coming.