Or the Black neighborhood in St Louis that the military sprayed with toxic chemicals in the 1960s and 70s to simulate a chemical attack on Russia. Military admits it of course but has classified the info & wont help the residents get current treatment. Ya’ll are just getting what we’ve been getting
So I imagine that folks who insisted it wasn’t ethnic cleansing, land theft, forced removal are lined up to apologize for insisting that this was just about defeating Hamas fighters and the return of the hostages.
They still haven't released the Epstein documents.
Private equity ruins everything.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
We’re always being experimented on. What do you think the Trump administration is doing? youtu.be/upYvUe6hWEk?...
On this day in 1956, mobs of white citizens blocked Mansfield High School to prevent Black children from registering. The mob also burned a Black effigy at the top of the school’s flagpole.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
EPSTEIN Epstein Epstein Epstein CDC and FBI hollowed out of experienced servants to make way for pliant toadies. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein January 6 Traitor Ashli Babbit receiving military honors. Epstein Epstein Epstein EPSTEIN
Hopefully they have pro bono lawyers in the street and on call, and their own police department and prosecutors willing to arrest any military person who breaks the law on city property
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
The majority of Democratic national leadership feels like they are paid opposition infiltrators who are meant to tank representation. We need to treat them as such, primary them all with people who have policy ideals aligned with the base
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6gRnwnw/ I was right this minute years old when I learned that Indigenous Americans were trafficked and enslaved OUTSIDE of North America. More than 50K Native Americans were shipped overseas. I had no idea.
Louisiana is so corrupt. Maybe individual lawsuits, local organizing and new candidates. But it’s such a hard system to change because of the level of corruption
Offering 3 resources for people seeking ideas for what they might do in this moment: 1. We made a short workbook to help people narrow down or discover their areas of interest and focus. It's been downloaded thousands of times. Hope it's useful to you: millionexperiments.com/zines/making...
The #DNC is dumb. There’s number of older Black folks in my family who said they are fine with the party has grown exponentially. The party’s allegiance to Israel, failure to protect the voting rights act, civil rights etc has driven them out.
I hope the voters are served well. Democrats have to provide a steady drumbeat. They have to organize even in traditional GOP spaces and go down ballot just like they did in Iowa. thehill.com/homenews/cam...
I was done long ago when he blocked the CA reparations bill that would have passed if he didn’t kill it behind the scenes.
Apparently learning about the Civil Rights movement is "inappropriate." www.upworthy.com/parents-comp...
This is how fascism works. Remove those who are loyal to their oaths and laws, and install puppets who will be compliant.
And that’s why the billionaires and oligarchs are supporting the push into fascism. They know they’ve ruined the planet and don’t want to stop. So they’re planning their utopias and means to depopulate and control the remaining humans. Evil work. Climate change is real and they know it
America needs more than to be simply entertained by Newsom and others humiliating Trump. Democrats will not win the Midterm Elections without messaging Economic and Civil Rights Policy for the benefit of ALL Americans. Working Americans need to be priority No. 1
We can’t have one savior. One strongman isn’t enough. More Democrats and people who want to save democracy need to be bold, vocal and take action.
CA is not enough. We need other states to redistrict in favor of Democrats. Do Democrats really think republicans and the Supreme Court will play fair? They won’t. And TX Democrats returning to the state was stupid
What other Democratic states are redrawing maps? Democrats once again show that they are weak and ineffective and unwilling to be bold to save this democracy.
Thought: oligarchs and billionaires don’t think this world is going to survive climate change so they are moving to depopulate the earth. Trump’s moving it along. Fascism to control the population in a world without water, clean air, and that’s too hot
Do not check your baggage with JetBlue. It takes over an hour to get your luggage. The worst airline
He should probably be tackling the problem of the elderly why have been kicked out of nursing homes due to loss of Medicaid
This is unconscionable. He should have been charged
Is anyone covering the nursing home crisis?
Wait until they start getting arrested and jailed and the expected uproar doesn’t occur because they helped kill any apparatus or trust in the media. It’s like none of them have read a history book
This should be illegal.
The issue is bigger than the survival of democracy. We are living at a time in which many within networks of power are not only reconciled to mass death but see it as advantageous. Psychologically speaking, Thanatos (death drive) reigns. We must embrace Eros and nurture, protect, and fight for life.
Decades of Liberal Democrats constantly downplaying White Supremacy, Christian Nationalism, Genocidal Imperialism, and the Police Corruption as it escalates violence has led us straight to fascism as Republicans go unopposed and occasionally defended by its opposition party's leadership.
our leadership decided fascism is acceptable as long as it doesn't make the company softball game awkward.
we’re in the middle of an extreme crisis yet too many people are treating it like a “normal” political moment that an election will simply “fix”, and nearly everyone in power is complicit
We’re not distracted and it’s not going away.
The summit was a success because the media is not talking about Jeffrey Epstein anymore.
He has his Epstein files so I’m sure he was worried
Maxwell should be returned to her maximum security prison and the Epstein victim’s statements should be released.
Your community should get together and identify someone. Why not have a leader that actually serves your community?
So is he saying people who live in rent stabilized or affordable apartments shouldn’t be representatives? That poor people or low or middle income people shouldn’t serve? How disgusting.
A piece of history I did not know. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/no...
On this day in 1966, three firebombs were hurled through the windows of a Black church that had recently opened in an all-white neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island.
Newsom: If California, one of the most un-Trumped states in America, is not successful, it’s at our peril. We may not get this back. I’m telling you, we may not. He is rigging this next midterm election before one vote is cast. He tried to wreck our democracy after the last vote was cast last time.
Los Angeles was also built with convict labor. Mostly Native Americans. But we had oddly specific laws criminalizing people of Chinese descent working on water infrastructure. Supplies experienced convict labor for perfecting Anglo water rights www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
Blackness allows you to see the history of the United States without any need for guilt or shame. Without any need to rewrite history or live in a world of self-serving delusions. It gives us the ability to really see America without needing to look away.
NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
You’re having a baby. A hospital drug test comes out positive. But you know the test is wrong—and you can’t control what happens next. The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:
Not only will we continue to demand the release of the unredacted (other than that of the victims), Epstein files, we demand the victims be heard! We don't care what a convicted sex trafficker has to say. The only voices that matter are those of the victims. 1/2
Throwing a rock and then hiding their hand is the signature of these Republicans.
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
How economy passengers are subsidizing private jets, the most polluting form of travel. Such a perfect story to illustrate everything that is wrong in the U.S. today. The only FAA tax private jets pay is a small % on fuel, so private electric flights may pay nothing at all?
You mean how little white people care. Black people care very much but know that the white, Asian and Latino people who voted for Trump harbor so much anti -Black racism that protection of us won’t move people. We cared by voting. The rest showed us they didn’t. We’re using our energy elsewhere
A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
The Social Security Administration has conceded an issue with phone service, after denying it to NPR, and has announced a fix.
The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"A California jury has found Meta in violation of state user privacy laws in a class-action suit brought by users of period tracking app Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual health data without users’ consent and used it for ad-tracking purposes."
If ACE hardware and your local hardware company isn’t doing this, you may want to move your shopping
Today is the 2nd Anniversary of the Montgomery Alabama Brawl! Happy Alabama Brawl Day to all those who celebrate! The folding chair was created by an African American man named Nathaniel Alexander! He patented the design for the folding chair in 1911. Share this fact with a friend today!
Tik Tok is trending #TexasBeefBoycott to start hitting back at the big money funding the Texas GOP.
These fine lawyers coming out of retirement to suit up for this fight is inspiring. www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/p...
truthout.org/articles/bla...
Thank God some families have a safe space. It won’t solve the problem on a systemic level
On this day in 1919, a week of white mob violence targeting Black communities in Chicago ended, leaving 38 dead, hundreds injured, and over 1,000 Black families homeless.
NEW FROM ME: How come no one's asked Trump WHY Epstein and Maxwell chose his upscale resort to hunt for vulnerable girls? It turns out that court records and even help-wanted ads from the time offer plenty of answers...
Here's How We Can Fight Back Against Trump Helping Sex-Trafficker Maxwell
You can’t tell me that they didn’t fill the spot with another child off of the waitlist which mitigated any losses. They were also in financial difficulties and were slated to close, which means the offer of service for the year was fraud.
I can’t blame this on ineptness at this point. It’s purposeful by some Democrats and we need to treat them like the opps they are. Call them what they are, primary and run real candidates in their place.
one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation
Also today: special PBS News Hour coverage of the manosphere, featuring an interview with me- very glad to have this chance to chat with @johnyangtv.bsky.social www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
A pregnant woman in Tennessee said her doctor declined to treat her because she’s unmarried, citing a newly enacted state law that broadly allows health care providers to refuse to perform or pay for a service if it goes against their religious or ethical beliefs. time.com/7306009/tenn...
Black families from all over the country flocked to Colorado’s Lincoln Hills during Jim Crow, a safe place for them to gather and relax Figures like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B DuBois & more would hold literary salons there during visits
While Trump played a round at his coastal golf course, thousands across Scotland took to the streets in protest. Bagpipes blared, signs waved, and the message was clear: he’s not welcome here. Love you, Scotland! 🏴 💚
a fervent anti-abortion republican having an affair and allegedly paying for several abortions always the ones u most suspect
Brian Allen 🚨 NEW MUST WATCH VIDEO: The Epstein case just detonated and Congress is freezing itself to stop the fallout. ***Including new evidence that Trump and Epstein not only know each other, but also partied together with underaged girls. ***
When it’s the far right vs everybody else, the politics get messy. But everyone should be steadfastly pro democracy and anti-corruption. Let’s get an Amendment overturning Citizens United and ban stock trading by members of Congress.
Black Alabamians Sue State Department of Transportation Over Repeated #Flooding - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/0807202... #ALDOT #Justiceforshiloh #JustCompensation #Blacklandloss #takings #FifthAmendment #civilrights
The thing about so many of these people is that fascism is here and they haven't adjusted ANY of their ideas or thinking. Still writing the exact same pablum. It's sad, really.
www.axios.com/2025/07/26/s...
"It is difficult to capture in words the harm that Maxwell caused to her victims. They were children who experienced what can only be described as a recurring nightmare ... They were trapped in an exploitative relationship with Maxwell and Epstein that, for many victims, lasted for years."
Since 2018, Shiloh residents have reported flooding tied to the US 84 highway construction. They spoke up about damage to homes, businesses, and land. #ALDOT ignored them. No repairs. No compensation. Just silence. #JusticeForShiloh #FifthAmendment
If I know I am going to get money and support to do absolutely nothing, what incentivizes me to do anything when my constituents themselves will silence all dissent against my current path? That is the Democratic party
Too few realize that "Blue no matter who" is part of how we got here. I'm not throwing shade. I was part of that crew for far too long myself. But who we elect matters, and a D next to their name isn't enough if all they do is support Trump's picks, like AZ's senators keep doing.
Forget about what year it is. What century is it? nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...
I actually found this resource put out by the Democrats useful: democrats.org/trump-tax/ - I like the state by state breakdown. Emailing this to my *non-political* family and friends.
Oh no. Condolences to his family and friends. He was such a big part of my childhood.
You’ll do great. Have fun!
"“They say I have to leave the country immediately,” the young teen whispered in Spanish, barely meeting anyone’s eyes at a Chicago law firm on a recent Friday afternoon. No explanation. No hearing. And no time." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/t... [gift link]
This piece is principally about how the Black church has failed to navigate this period, which is what makes the piece powerful and overdue. I’m seeing comments from people who think it’s just about white Christian nationalism.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has ended key support for Black farmers and will no longer use the term “socially disadvantaged,” saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination
this should be an essay in the new yorker like asap, tbh
Men are impersonating ICE to attack immigrant women. MAGA emboldened them.
We're not "descending into" fascism in the U.S. We are living under a fascist regime already. I wonder when most people will catch up to this reality and what that might portend.
Shout this!
Something I want to do more in 2026 is to actively encourage more people to organize grassroots public history projects where they live. Instead of wringing our hands re the Fed attacks on Black studies, women's studies, LGBTQ studies etc we can just teach at the community level intergenerationally.