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Damon Jones
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economist | from NJ | he/him

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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · 21h
D’ANGELO & QUESTLOVE - TELL ME IF YOU STILL CARE by SOS BAND

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D’ANGELO & QUESTLOVE - TELL ME IF YOU STILL CARE by SOS BAND - Okayplayer live
YouTube video by Anastasia Fedorova
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · May 22
done watching basketball …
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · May 22
Ahh, yes, that familiar feeling …
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · May 22
my chest …
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · May 22
My blood pressure …
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Apr 30
This was helpful: x.com/ladeplatinum...
Ladé on X: "Coogi Sweaters: Brief History (Thread) https://t.co/BsLuJxYQ3Q" / X
Coogi Sweaters: Brief History (Thread) https://t.co/BsLuJxYQ3Q
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Apr 24
Maybe I stand corrected:
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Apr 24
But I still contend that Big elevated the status of Coogi …
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Apr 24
Ok I’m seeing some archival pics …
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Apr 24
I remember all of those items, but not Coogi, maybe I was too broke …
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Apr 24
That is true!

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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Apr 24
I’m thinking Biggie put them on the map, that was late ‘94 - ‘95 …not ‘92, right?
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Apr 24
Yeah, he made it pop, but he wasn’t known until late ‘94-‘95… not ‘92 right?
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Apr 23
One nitpick: I don’t know if Coogi was poppin’ like that in ‘92
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Apr 23
OMG SINNERS …
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Mar 28
They don’t want race used
taught, or studied in higher Ed, or K12, AND are upset that a Smithsonian museum claims that race is a social construct and not a biological trait 🤔
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Mar 27
BREAKING: President Donald Trump aims to reshape the Smithsonian museums and zoo with an order targeting funding to programs with "improper ideology."
Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology'
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Mar 27
BREAKING: President Donald Trump aims to reshape the Smithsonian museums and zoo with an order targeting funding to programs with "improper ideology."
Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology'
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Mar 20
So universities cannot take race into account, but then … 🤔
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · Mar 18
The Trump administration has canceled a 60-year-old civil rights rule that banned federal contractors from engaging in racial segregation.
'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · Mar 18
The Trump administration has canceled a 60-year-old civil rights rule that banned federal contractors from engaging in racial segregation.
'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · Mar 10
A judge said Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate whose arrest by ICE sparked outrage, couldn't be deported without a court order.
Court Temporarily Halts Columbia Activist’s Deportation
The Palestinian Columbia graduate was nabbed by ICE, sparking outrage that his due process and First Amendment rights had been violated.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Mar 10
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Mar 9
Now hold on just a minute:
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Mar 5
They are doing so much destruction down there, across the board …
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Mar 4
BREAKING: The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce, AP sources say.
The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce, AP sources say
The IRS is drafting plans to try to cut its workforce of roughly 90,000 people in half through a mix of layoffs, attrition and incentivized buyouts, according to two people familiar with the situation...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Mar 4
BREAKING: The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce, AP sources say.
The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce, AP sources say
The IRS is drafting plans to try to cut its workforce of roughly 90,000 people in half through a mix of layoffs, attrition and incentivized buyouts, according to two people familiar with the situation...
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Mar 3
My kind of carrying on …
Mayor Baraka Joins United Way Of Greater Newark To Launch Volunteer Income Tax (Vita) Program To Help Residents Claim Tax Credits
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Mar 2
Did not know this was Angie Stone … foundational hip hop … RIP:

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Funk You Up - Long Version
Sequence · The Sugar Hill Records Story · Song · 2009
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Feb 20
LFG!!! 😍
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · Feb 11
Chicago native Eve L. Ewing’s new book, ‘Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism,’ drops today.

Check out our interview with her.

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Eve L. Ewing examines how the education system is designed to hurt Black and Indigenous students • The TRiiBE
Chicago author Eve Ewing invites readers to critically think about the origins of the American education system in her newest book.
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Feb 10
Arrested for selling books … Owners of East Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop arrested and their store ransacked …

“Police said they had seized eight books and needed time to investigate further, including reading the books.”

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Israeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian owners
Raid on Educational Bookshop branches described by rights groups as part of harassment campaign against Palestinian intellectuals
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · Feb 6
Come join us 👇🏾

registration link: bit.ly/3PJkjkx
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