The Irony -- Ineligible Blacks
May Fund SF Reparations
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 2/22/2026 9:35:13 AM
San Francisco's controversial reparations initiative, formalized and signed by Mayor Dan 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, War on Drugs, and other qualifiers. (snip) 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 (snip)
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San Francisco's controversial reparations initiative, formalized and signed by Mayor Dan 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, War on Drugs, and other qualifiers. (snip) 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 (snip)
JPMorgan Chase acknowledged for the first time that it closed the bank accounts of President Donald Trump and several of his businesses in the political and legal aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, the latest development in a legal saga over the controversial practice of "debanking." (snip) JPMorgan previously said it believes the suit has no merit. (snip) "In a devastating concession that proves Trump's entire claim, JPMorgan admitted to unlawfully (snip) de-banking President Trump (snip)" the president's lawyers said (snip) Trump and other conservative figures have alleged that banks cut them off (snip) after the Jan. 6, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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In "Targeted Attack," Forcing Performance Cancellation 11 replies
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First there were parents flagged at school board meetings. Then it was Catholics who preferred the traditional Latin Mass who were targeted for scrutiny. Now, the CIA's retraction of nineteen "politicized" intel reports on Friday -- on the heels of the agency's self-critique last year on its assessment of Trump-Russia collusion in 2016 -- has put the sharpest light yet on the infection of political bias inside American spy agencies dating back to the Obama era. The politicized assessments -- many (snip) on DEI-related issues -- included pronouncements by the CIA about white women, motherhood, violent extremism, LGBT issues, and others well beyond the remit of the agency's mission.
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But what's $5 billion between socialists, right?
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The bank admitted on Friday that “more than 50 Trump accounts” were cut off in February 2021, weeks after the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, according to the New York Times.
The revelation by JPMorgan came after Trump “and the Trump Organization” filed a lawsuit in January against JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, for having debanked the president, according to the outlet.
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Mayor Mamdani Urges New Yorkers to Help
Shovel Snow — But They Must Show Two
Forms of ID! 24 replies
Shovel Snow — But They Must Show Two
Forms of ID! 24 replies
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“For those who want to do more to help their neighbors and earn some extra cash, you too can become an emergency snow shoveler,” Mamdani said.
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How many IDs are we talking about? Five to be exact.
The NYC website for aspirational shoveler’s asks for the following documents on its application page:
Two small photos
Two “original forms of ID, plus copies”
Social Security card
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Virginia Democrats have planned a statewide referendum with perhaps the most diabolically Orwellian question in the history of modern democracy.
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Obviously, relatively disengaged voters will see this question and go, “Restore fairness? Sure, I vote yes.” So let me break down what it actually means.
First, newly empowered Virginia Dems redrew the maps for House seats in the most comical fashion.
Here’s the old map. And here’s the redrawn map.
Former Vice President Mike Pence just reminded the MAGA movement what a duplicitous traitor he is — and always has been.
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Pence, who is widely despised across the conservative grassroots, took to the X platform to celebrate the decision:
Today’s 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court is a Victory for the American People and a Win for the Separation of Powers enshrined in the Constitution of the United States.
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On Preet Bharara’s podcast, Obama’s scandal-scarred former U.N. ambassador promised that any corporation, law firm, university, or media outlet that “took a knee to Trump” will be targeted when the left is back in charge. “It’s not gonna end well for them,” she warned, casting basic engagement with the Trump administration as a kind of original sin that must be punished.
And now President Donald Trump wants accountability.
On Saturday, Trump called on Netflix to fire Rice.
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A group of white teens were cleared of hate crime allegations after a black Virginia Tech professor whined to cops he was a victim of a racist attack when they blasted rap music and dumped snow near his home.
Dr. Onwubiko Agozino, a sociology professor at the Virginia university, claimed in a Feb. 10 police report that eight white minors racially targeted him when they rolled up to his Christiansburg home blaring offensive music, throwing ice blocks, and hurling a flurry of racist jabs, including the N-word.
He told authorities the “profane” music included “racial slurs,”
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An interesting summary of the inequities and contradictions of San Francisco's "reparations" plan. There are currently zero dollars in the reparations account and San Francisco is struggling to close a $1 billion budget deficit so the fund and its problems are largely theoretical. However, as private contributions to the fund are likely to remain negligible, any payouts will have to be funded by San Francisco's taxpayers and will therefore pose the problems outlined by Mr. Greenberg. Mr. Greenberg was a Republican candidate for Mayor of San Francisco in 2018.