djmed

“ but they’ve got videos of Trump raping children!!!! Reeeeeeee!!!”

Right there with the pee tapes

That’s mighty fascisty

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geez

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Ha!
And now Minneapolis is going to throw a rent strike
Hand me the popcorn ??

i thought i was pretty average til i saw some people on the old Auburn board say they'd never been to the beach. and they lived in north alabama

i thought -damn- i should be on a dos equis commercial

Diversity In Basketball Continues To Trigger Players And Commentators

It turns out professional basketball players and sports commentators aren't as fond of diversity as they claim.


It turns out professional basketball players and sports commentators aren't as fond of diversity as they claim.

For the first time in decades, white basketball players are among the best in the world. Nikola Jokic is the best. Caitlin Clark has transcended women's basketball. Luka Doncic's stat lines are historic. Cooper Flagg looks like a future superstar.

It's not as if black players, who make up the majority of men's and women's basketball, have faded. LeBron James and Steph Curry remain the most popular players in America. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is universally recognized as one of the top three players in the NBA. Victor Wembanyama will almost certainly claim that title soon.

Most of the top players are still black. Rather, they simply share more of the stage with white players now than in the past.

And that triggers people.


Kevin Durant complained this week that criticism of the NBA All-Star Game is really an attempt to elevate white players over black ones.

"You should ask the Europeans and the World team if they’re going to compete," Durant said. "If you look at Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic now, let’s go back and look at what they do in the All-Star Game … it’s a lot of bulls— with that. I can read between the lines on that. It’s a shot at black Americans. We’re controlling the sport. They’re tired of us controlling the sport."

Potential Democrat presidential candidate and current ESPN host Stephen A. Smith defended Durant's accusation Tuesday.

"David Stern to Adam Silver, these guys have supported these brothers, but America hasn’t always done so … if there were a bunch of Cooper Flagg(s) running around, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Dirk is from Germany. I’m talking about white American-born," Smith said.

"That’s a rarity in terms of superstar status in the US for the sport of basketball … KD is absolutely 1,000% right because if America had its druthers, it would rather not rely on the brothers. Even though you market NBA players who are brothers, it’s because you have no choice."

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"USA Department of Psychology promoting queerness"

somehow, I see no way this isn't funded by tax money

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Greenberg: The Irony – Ineligible Blacks May Fund SF Reparations

Reparations could be the most significantly damaging issue to befall San Francisco in generations


San Francisco’s controversial reparations initiative, formalized and signed by Mayor Daniel Lurie on December 23, 2025, creates a dedicated Reparations Fund (essentially, a new city hall-administered bank account) – to dole out restitution to the city’s Black residents which were victims of slavery, redlining, urban renewal, the War on Drugs, and other qualifiers. Drawing directly from the African American Reparations Advisory Committee’s (AARAC) 2023 final report, which spans over 400 pages and outlines more than 100 provision, the city-approved plan endorses measures such as one-time lump-sum payments of $5 million per eligible person, low-income supplements to reach the area median income of $97,000 annually (potentially for 250 years), debt forgiveness, dedicated health care, school curriculum and housing assistance.

While proponents describe it as moving “from apology to action,” the program’s design creates a stark dilemma: it compels non-eligible residents, including a significant number of the city’s Black African Americans, to actually subsidize reparations benefits they themselves cannot access; they’d ironically pay towards direct lump-sum costs and potential future taxpayer appropriations as well.

The AARAC’s framework outlines: Applicants must be 18 or older, have self-identified as Black/African American on public documents for at least the last 10 years, and meet other criteria such as birth or migration to San Francisco between 1940 and 1996 with 10+ years residency proof; descent from someone enslaved in U.S. slavery before 1865; Drug-war incarceration (1971–present), attendance at a segregated SFUSD schools (1983–2005) or lending discrimination (1937–2008).

Yet much of the city’s current Black population could be ineligible and therefore excluded.

San Francisco’s Black population has declined from 13.4% in 1970 to roughly 4% today (approximately 42,000 people). Much of the remaining community is increasingly diverse. Foreign-born Black residents (primarily from Africa- Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia- and the Caribbean) now constitute about 10% of the entire San Francisco metro area’s Black population, with newer arrivals concentrated in the city. Recent African immigrants, less than 10-year-resident U.S.-born Black residents, or those without documented ties ie. no ancestral enslavement lineage, no minimum 10+ years of self-identification record as Black) could ineligible to receive reparations.

A Black Ethiopian immigrant working in Bayview-Hunters Point, paying the same rent, property and sales taxes as everyone else, or a U.S.-born Black single mother who arrived in 2007, faces the same contemporary inequities – skyrocketing rents, wage gaps – yet receives nothing while others perhaps living in the same apartment building collect multimillion-dollar payouts. The plan thus fractures solidarity, creating a tiered Black underclass: those with the “right” paperwork versus those without.

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Might as well have said her grandma had cancer