Mark Jones
@boxingjones.bsky.social
IBHOF elector/ballot coordinator, women’s modern & trailblazer, USA Boxing Coach, Ring Magazine’s rating panel member, IBRO member, AAGPBL voter, 🐈 🫖 ⚾️ 📚 🍝Twitter refugee
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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BREAKING: Proposition 50, California's redistricting amendment, is projected to pass, reports @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
BREAKING: Proposition 50, California's redistricting amendment, is projected to pass, reports @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social
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When you compare the signs at No Kings to the signs at Trump rallies, it's almost unfair how much cleverer witty Antifa is compared to tiring MAGA.
October 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
When you compare the signs at No Kings to the signs at Trump rallies, it's almost unfair how much cleverer witty Antifa is compared to tiring MAGA.
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Shohei Ohtani this is just stupid...
October 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Shohei Ohtani this is just stupid...
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“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”
Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆
Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆
October 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”
Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆
Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆
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#OtD 16 Sep 1919 Marusya Nikiforova, the Ukrainian anarchist communist and military leader, was put on trial by counter-revolutionary white authorities and later executed alongside her husband stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8839...
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
#OtD 16 Sep 1919 Marusya Nikiforova, the Ukrainian anarchist communist and military leader, was put on trial by counter-revolutionary white authorities and later executed alongside her husband stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8839...
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The first rookie with a four-homer game in big league history.
Thank you to Nick Kurtz of the Athletics for donating the bat from his incredible achievement to the Hall of Fame!
Thank you to Nick Kurtz of the Athletics for donating the bat from his incredible achievement to the Hall of Fame!
August 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The first rookie with a four-homer game in big league history.
Thank you to Nick Kurtz of the Athletics for donating the bat from his incredible achievement to the Hall of Fame!
Thank you to Nick Kurtz of the Athletics for donating the bat from his incredible achievement to the Hall of Fame!
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this guy rules
Zohran Mamdani sticks to socialist guns, ‘tax the rich’ plan during highly anticipated sitdown with NYC big business leaders
Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani stuck to his socialist guns during a highly anticipated powwow with Big Apple business leaders Tuesday — doubling down on his plan to raise their taxes.
nypost.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
this guy rules
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Three Peat for Katie Taylor concludes #TaylorSerrano3 Trilogy in NYC - my ringside report for NY Fights #boxing nyfights.com/boxing/new-y...
Three Peat for Katie Taylor Concludes Taylor Serrano 3 Trilogy in NYC
No matter the outcome Friday, July 11 of the main event on the historic all-women’s card at Madison Square Garden, Katie Taylor of Ireland and Amanda Serrano of Puerto Rico have etched their names int...
nyfights.com
July 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Three Peat for Katie Taylor concludes #TaylorSerrano3 Trilogy in NYC - my ringside report for NY Fights #boxing nyfights.com/boxing/new-y...
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Pascal Campion
Summer Neighbors 2019. Nitess💤
Summer Neighbors 2019. Nitess💤
July 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Pascal Campion
Summer Neighbors 2019. Nitess💤
Summer Neighbors 2019. Nitess💤
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The Penguin”
Watercolor Painting - 36 x 36 cm
Created;2021
By Canadian Painter..Cori Lee Marvin
Born | 1980
Watercolor Painting - 36 x 36 cm
Created;2021
By Canadian Painter..Cori Lee Marvin
Born | 1980
July 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Penguin”
Watercolor Painting - 36 x 36 cm
Created;2021
By Canadian Painter..Cori Lee Marvin
Born | 1980
Watercolor Painting - 36 x 36 cm
Created;2021
By Canadian Painter..Cori Lee Marvin
Born | 1980
My July 4th movie lineup:
All the President's Men
Good Night, and Good Luck
The Company You Keep
The Front
All the President's Men
Good Night, and Good Luck
The Company You Keep
The Front
June 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
My July 4th movie lineup:
All the President's Men
Good Night, and Good Luck
The Company You Keep
The Front
All the President's Men
Good Night, and Good Luck
The Company You Keep
The Front
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*This* is why they are freaking out about Zohran Mamdani.
Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.
June 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
*This* is why they are freaking out about Zohran Mamdani.
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Go Vote New York! Bring some water and rank ZOHRAN, BLAKE, LANDER, ADRIENNE ADAMS, MYRIE! Cuomo is a corrupt errand boy of the rich, a serial predator and a disgrace to Italians 🤌
June 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Go Vote New York! Bring some water and rank ZOHRAN, BLAKE, LANDER, ADRIENNE ADAMS, MYRIE! Cuomo is a corrupt errand boy of the rich, a serial predator and a disgrace to Italians 🤌
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"I'd heal you if you were more in favor of taking food and medicine from the poor."
--GOP Jesus
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
--GOP Jesus
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"I'd heal you if you were more in favor of taking food and medicine from the poor."
--GOP Jesus
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
--GOP Jesus
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Macron criticises Trump’s threats to take over Greenland during visit
Macron criticises Trump’s threats to take over Greenland during visit
French president is first foreign head of state to visit Arctic territory since US president made comments
Emmanuel Macron has criticised Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland as he became the first foreign head of state to visit the vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory since the US president began making explicit threats to annex it.
“I don’t think that’s what allies do,” Macron said as he arrived in the Danish autonomous territory for a highly symbolic visit aimed at conveying “France’s and the EU’s solidarity” with Greenland on his way to a summit of G7 leaders in Canada. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Macron criticises Trump’s threats to take over Greenland during visit
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Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones
Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones
The Madleen is no ‘selfie yacht’. It is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones
No Kings Protest June 14th at 12:30pm www.cnysolidarity.org/2025/05/23/n...
No Kings Protest June 14th at 12:30pm
🚨 Freedom Over Fascism! No Kings! June 14th at 12:30pm at 551 Solar St, Syracuse 🚨
www.cnysolidarity.org
June 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
No Kings Protest June 14th at 12:30pm www.cnysolidarity.org/2025/05/23/n...
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Images of tanks pulling up for a huge PARADE that NO ONE asked for that will cost money & take military personnel away from more important things at a time when Americans are being told we don’t have money for food & healthcare seems wild to me.
June 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Images of tanks pulling up for a huge PARADE that NO ONE asked for that will cost money & take military personnel away from more important things at a time when Americans are being told we don’t have money for food & healthcare seems wild to me.
Both Mathis and Chavez had high praise for the book, Taylor, and Serrano.
June 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Both Mathis and Chavez had high praise for the book, Taylor, and Serrano.