faith, hope, love...and equity in memphis
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@geoff_calkins the best thing you will see today. After being banned from Brighton High, the Central High band all buy a ticket, come as the greatest student section of all time, and, when the Warriors run back an early kickoff, pull pocket kazoos & play the school fight song!
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A Memphis high school marching band (Memphis Central) was banned by the opposing school’s principal (Brighton, TN) for playing “too loud.” Memphis Central brought out kazoos instead to play:
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From our earliest days, Black history has always been American history – and Black folks have profoundly shaped our American culture through music, art, literature, sports, and beyond. One month a year is not sufficient to celebrate the power of the movements and the people who have fought for the rights we enjoy today. That’s something that we have to do each and every day, as we strive to live up to their example and make sure our children and grandchildren remember their stories.
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Disappointment comes from knowing things could be better. Gratitude flows from knowing things could be worse.
We don't control events, but we do choose our outlook. Where we focus shapes how we feel.
For most people in most places, this is the best time in history to be alive.
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I need every Democratic elected official in America to read this paragraph by @ezraklein
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Ah, Yuval Levin makes this point more eloquently:
“This is the trap that our 21st-century presidents have tended to fall into. They win elections because their opponents were unpopular, and then—imagining the public has endorsed their party activists’ agenda—they use the power of their office to make themselves unpopular. This is why the public moved left on key issues during Trump’s first term and right during Biden’s.” thedispatch.com/article/what…
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For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via @jburnmurdoch
2024 Democrats are the red dot.
Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.
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Here's what's not going to change: I'm going to wake up tomorrow and try to be kind to folks around me.
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Imagine being a voter who just today found out Joe Biden isn’t running
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Please let this be true today:
“There was always just enough virtue in this Republic to save it; sometimes none to spare, but still enough to meet the emergency.” —William Seward, Secretary of State during the civil war.
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That means the Trump campaign *approved* the comments about Latinos, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Muslims, Black people, and women.
🚨🚨 The shock comic who opened for Trump at MSG was planning to call Harris a "c*nt" in his set. It got flagged by the campaign.
@MarcACaputo scoops.
thebulwark.com/p/trumps-shoc…
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As I reported on the air tonight, the Washington Post registered 1600+ cancelations of digital subscriptions in the first three hours after my story broke, according to internal WP correspondence I’ve reviewed.
That’s bananas.
What is going on with Bezos's decision not to let the Washington Post endorse Harris for President?
Get all the deets on NPR's All Things Considered
I'll be talking to @jmsummers once more....
My story from earlier today that broke the news...
npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-s1-516…
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Focusing for a moment on the POLICIES at play.
Voters were asked whether they supported 100 different policies, but weren't told whether the policy was from Trump or Harris.
Nearly all of Harris' policies got majority support from the public, and... 🧵
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The core skills of learning are a critical eye and an open mind.
Critical thinking is refusing to accept ideas at face value. Don't believe information until it's verified.
Openness is refusing to reject ideas at face value. Don't disbelieve information until it's falsified.
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The most common response to adversity is not chronic stress. It’s resilience.
54 studies of potentially traumatic events:
• 11% of people had extended difficulties
• 21% had acute symptoms that dissipated
• 66% sustained healthy functioning
Humans are less fragile than we realize.
