What a colossal waste of everyone's time. Zero gained there.
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What a colossal waste of everyone's time. Zero gained there.
If they didn’t occasionally mention it I’d forget he had any connection whatsoever to either Martin or Kat. Ted is trash. #beyondthegates
When they switched the actor.
US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Like Dani. She is believably turned out for a mother going out of her mind with worry and fear. And it is patently absurd the way by-the-book Jacob has allowed Kat to deputize herself and ride along, though it’s also entertaining because he’s the most ineffective cop ever.
It’s the matching brooch; like, maybe you’d grab the embellished denim but would you really accessorize in a time like this?? #beyondthegates
Hear from the candidates: Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Clerk Incumbent Clerk Darren Lombard faces two challengers — Calvin Duncan and Valencia Miles — in the fall election.
He’s too beautiful to sully himself with vermin.
No, you don’t.
Oh, New Orleans. Why is it so hard?
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Louisiana, take heed.
Yeah, but what about the alligator? It doesn’t deserve that toxicity.
Then thank god for the ubiquity and ease of personal recording devices. The bigger problem is that there are too many men in positions of power who don’t think there’s anything wrong with what this guy is doing (and in many instances have probably done something similar).
That is terrifying, honestly.
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
Read the article—it isn’t the result of pollutants.
Lemme start practicing...
There was a table of ICE at Toast in the Quarter this morning. My blood ran cold. #Resist
This was happening in my dad's car - exhaust issue. If you're getting light-headed driving, spot check with a battery carbon monoxide detector.
Pure original.
I grew up in Calfornia but ’ve been to Po Folks!
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This would knock me out! I love it.
If this is how you think about other humans why in the world would you be in the business of renting them housing? There are ALL those other non-human-facing jobs RIGHT THERE. Oppression is integral to their identity.
You know it.
This happens on your table?!
Same.
❤️🔥
The choice is simple.
Such a sweet profile, too. Something good in the world 🥰
SO MUCH THIS. I’m allegedly 44% European but there isn’t a single white person in my genealogical history dating back to the 1700s. BECAUSE THE WOMEN IN MY FAMILY WERE RAPED. Some days I think about it and I can hardly bear it. So much evil.
How in the world do they reckon with such depravity in their bloodlines? There's a book of lynching photographs that came out about 20 years ago & as a photo historian specializing in representations of Black people, of course I bought it. I was never able to open it. The horror was too much.
I was watching a crime show about genetic DNA and the geneticist said that more than 90% of white people in the US could be identified because of this science. I know there’s no DNA from most of their atrocities but imagine scientifically connecting them all to the crimes of their ancestors. 🤯
I love these creatures so much. They’re just magnificent.
🗣️ LIBRARIES ARE COOLING CENTERS! Beat the heat by visiting your local library for air conditioning. Please be kind if their AC is on the fritz! They are doing their best, just like you 🩵
Not even in soap opera land is a bank giving an unemployed Black woman a mortgage for a multi-million dollar house based on a check she’s had for less than a week. #beyondthegates
That’s what I thought, too, but today they said it’s what she would have earned if she’d remained an Articulette, which means it should be equivalent to what the other 3 earned but Anita funded it after she went solo. Did Barbara’s sister ever draw on it? If so it hasn’t been accumulating that long.
So if the trust is made up of the money Barbara would have made as an Articulette (god, I hate that name), why are the other two not at the very least sitting pretty? #beyondthegates
Just saw all your comments from last night’s post and someone shared a pic, Orlando showed up and used chalk to bring the rainbow crosswalk back! We love this so much!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Uhhh attention Tangipahoa Parish!!!
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
1. Good. 2. I have hilarious plans for protesting this when it inevitably recurs right before Christmas. 3. Please don’t put Mr. Voted-to-tear-down-the-Big-Four, Only-my-cousin-gets-contracts, I-want-to-watch-your-every-move-and-so-do-the-Feds in the mayor’s office, y’all.
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They can’t stand us yet won’t leave us alone.
One of the more confounding things about the lack of serious public resistance to the overfunding of police is the abundant evidence in very popular true crime shows that they are nearly worthless in so many instances, and they make no attempt to hide it. Why do people still have such faith in them?
Laura (I can’t remember her name) came back.
He’s gonna backslide with her.
I don’t doubt it.
These people are mentally impaired. I don’t know how they get through a regular day.
You right.
Seriously, he’s like human garbage.
Took pictures, cut off and stole body parts, sold photographic postcards (IOW created ample documentation)…in the twentieth century. At most one generation removed from living people.
Hear from the candidates: Orleans Parish Assessor Get to know the candidates for Orleans Parish Assessor before you cast your vote this fall.
Every act of resistance counts. Brava!
Yeah, I don’t even know how one acquires it. Is it part of software packages, or its own app? Doesn’t matter; I truly don’t get the point of any of those things.
Can’t Anita just dissolve the trust she set up? If the $$ stops flowing in we all know Leslie will be broke by the end of the year. #beyondthegates
The screen could not survive Ashley and Tomas as a couple—it would implode from boredom. #beyondthegates
Vernon’s pitiful response to Leslie attacking his wife was sus—he just let her go on and on. I’m starting to agree with the folks who think he may be baby daddy. #beyondthegates
Well here's a piece of good news — includes some really important archives, like the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans and the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum in D.C. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Fuck censorship. They're coming after you next, whether you make porn or not. I have never sold NSFW services or artwork, yet here's my termination from Stripe! Fully SFW, innocent headshots of furries = adult content. This is what we've been trying to fucking tell y'all this whole month!
NOLAREADY: The search for 12-yr old Bryan Vasquez continues. Review home surveillance systems, check outdoor areas & call 9-1-1 or 504-821-2222 with info.
2 days ago it was “Barbara somebody” whose name she heard for the 1st time at the concert & today it's "Anita killed her mother." Peaches never even talked to Leslie about why her mother killed herself & she’d have no other way of knowing. Leslie can be funny but this is just silly. #beyondthegates
Why did Jacob say June was at the “brownstone" when just last week the establishing shot for this family was a high-rise apartment building? #beyondthegates
Naomi and Jacob horribly miscalculated with June and those kids. They’re a menace. #beyondthegates
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
My mom was big into all the Black-themed USPS stamps and she would get them when they were first released and send sheets to all 4 of her daughters. She died in 2018 but I don’t think any of us is ever going to need to buy another stamp for the rest of our lives.
I’m shocked as shit that our little Hitler in Louisiana hasn’t tried to get us in on this.
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
Seriously, if/since it’s unfit for human consumption under what pretext is it legally sold?
They are the BEST.
"A Study of Negro Artists" is a silent B&W film created in the 1930s to highlight the development of African-American fine arts. The 37-min motion picture was made by Jules V. D. Bucher and features so many influential Harlem Renaissance artists. Like Richmond Barthé. #BlackSky #ArtSky #History
You don’t know what she learned; it’s abundantly clear that public education has long been sabotaged. Or she could've been homeschooled with no oversight. If she were older I’d side-eye her claims but it’s increasingly clear that a lot of folks have been cheated out of cultivating common sense.
They spent a week boring us to death with Ashley, André, and Derek non-drama and then crammed fifty‘leven stories lines in this week. The writers need to pace themselves. #beyondthegates
It really is! It’s the first actual discussion versus quips we’ve gotten to hear and the designers really stepped up.
I virtually always dine out alone.
I don’t blame June; I blame Naomi and Jacob and also Smitty & Martin. Neither June nor those kids were equipped for that. It was gross.
They’ve been setting that up all season.
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DC police are using excessive force against Black people
It doesn’t always help, but try to remember nasty people are fundamentally unhappy people, and you can always feel better by being grateful you don’t have to go through life like they do. And if you’re feeling especially grateful you can put on a plastic smile and tell them as much, too.
I cannot stand to hear Eva bleating “Maahmuhhh” at Leslie for one more second. #beyondthegates
Yes, build more shelters, but unhoused people do not need to be segregated from housed folks in public. FFS.
Saw this on insta and thought I’d share here!
There isn’t a single person associated with the White House who is fit to evaluate any of this. Sickening.
I LOVE when nature shows us something we had never before fathomed.
Okay, I gotta mute you and anyone posting the rabbit tentacles. My skin is crawling all over.
More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant.
Ooh, good guess! Of course! It would explain why Leslie was so excited to be at the concert—she was naturally drawn to the music, and of course this would give her some power over the Duprees, too. She must not have known Barbara.
I am a writer and yet I don’t even have words to adequately describe how much I loathe and despise these people.
Workers at McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, and El Pollo Loco have joined the city-wide fast food strike and the community stoppage in Los Angeles. Our employers must stand with the community and against ICE’s campaign of terror.
Gorgeous photographs. The camera absolutely LOVES her.
Gorgeous photo.
And honestly they don’t even seem sorry enough about it.
It was some of his best acting since the show began.
There was more spark between Dani and Devon in the last 30 seconds of this episode than there has been between any of these couples since the show began. #beyondthegates
Still, that is a SKILL. I was in awe (as I sat there full of sugar).
Yes, and it’s been glorious, and it’s making me nervous.
