frankk comment: really educational article showing you how the real world works, and explains some of the puzzling things like billionaire whores kowtowing to Trump, and why Trump keeps pushing tariffs when it doesn't benefit the country or the world. Trump’s honest graft [opinion piece] by Jack Shafer https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/11/trump-rent-seeking-dispensing-plunkitt/ The president has turned himself into the central dispenser — and recipient — of economic opportunity. July 11, 2025 at 6:45 a.m. EDTToday at 6:45 a.m. EDT (Illustration by Chris Gash/For The Washington Post) 17 min When Donald Trump finally gets around to erecting his proposed $34 million National Garden of American Heroes, he should reserve a tall plinth for a bronze likeness of George Washington Plunkitt. The National Garden, which is expected to feature about 250 statues of notable Americans such as Albert Einstein, Lauren Bacall, Sitting Bull, Douglas MacArth...
frankk comment: 5 min. interview with Kareem, mentioning events from his activist life as speaker, writer, promoting social causes during and after his legendary professional basketball career. the excerpt on his writings are from his award winning substack: https://kareem.substack.com/p/special-edition-free-excerpt-from?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=482856&post_id=163301702&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2r0fau&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email Free excerpt from my new book, "We All Want to Change the World: Special Edition: Free excerpt from my new book, "We All Want to Change the World: My Journey Through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to Today" Kareem Abdul-Jabbar May 16, 2025 This week marks the publication of my new book, We All Want to Change the World: My Journey Through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to Today. To celebrate, I’ve included an excerpt from the bo...
excerpt from Kareem Abdul Jabbar's substack after the day convicted felon Donald Trump was elected President, Kareem summed up the situation nicely, hitting the important points. https://substack.com/@kareemabduljabbareditor America fooled me. Just when I was optimistic that we had turned a corner against irrationality, hate, and greed, and were marching forward toward a new age of enlightenment. We hurtle backward in time to a dark place where we dance around a pagan fire like the deranged children in Lord of the Flies. I don’t want this to turn into a bitter diatribe about my disappointment in the American people who selected a rapist, racist, and cognitively challenged buffoon as their leader. Who put all marginalized people’s lives and rights at risk. Who put the security of the country at risk. Who put our children’s futures at risk. The next four years will be challenging as we are led by a man in serious mental dec...
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