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bigtree

(94,022 posts)
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 10:28 PM Friday

I was a Jesse Jackson Democrat [View all]

...just saw Kamala posting her JJ buttons from '88:


x.com/KamalaHarris/status/2030090282029486229


...gotta share some of my own momentos from '84:




George Will couldn't get an article off about Jesse, back when, without me ripping into him with letters to the WaPo editor (who, gratefully, never seemed to lose interest in publishing them for several years)

A nice one...




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I was too gopiscrap Friday #1
👍🏽 blm Friday #2
DURec leftstreet Friday #3
Kamala delivered remarks at the memorial service bigtree Yesterday #4
I'm going to give my two KH buttons malaise Yesterday #6
K&R betsuni Yesterday #5
Me too Starbeach Yesterday #7
George Will is a tiny part of what Jesse Jackson faced. Kid Berwyn Yesterday #8
Me too. My first vote ever was for him in the 1988 primaries Buckeyeblue Yesterday #9
I was too young to vote Polybius Yesterday #10
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