Issa Rae explores history of Black representation in TV in documentary: "It makes such a difference"
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Issa Rae explores history of Black representation in TV in documentary: "It makes such a difference"
This statement is horrific and anti-scientific.
Up to 1,000 dead after a landslide levels a village in western Sudan, as displaced residents flee famine and war.
Morning Zee ☀️
If you are so fragile that you feel compelled to block people who simply correct you when you call Rep. Jeffries the "Speaker of the House" instead of the Minority Leader, you should really not be opining about politics online. There is a huge difference in the 2 jobs and you should know that.
Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
I didn't realize this nutcase was in the administration.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
He is the most dangerous person in this incompetent administration.
The media continues to fail.
That's a great shot!
CHP to protect ex-VP Kamala Harris after Trump pulls Secret Service detail, sources say Former VP Kamala Harris will receive protection from the California Highway Patrol after Trump revoked her Secret Service protection, law enforcement sources said Friday. link.latimes.com/click/413571...
I took up learning the piano this year - having never learned to play an instrument or even read music, though I can sing - and I just cannot tell you how good it is. 1) it is AMAZING how you get better at each piece. they start off a mess of notes & having to move your hands to where? where?
In this Substack, I connect the dots between Trump’s obsession with Black women, 7 tactics of authoritarianism and how taking away Kamala Harris’ security protection satisfies his appetite for pain & humiliation. Ironically, I said all of this last night on RMU. open.substack.com/pub/nolahayn...
I would be ashamed to have mentored Hegseth.
Congratulations!
4 when R.E. Lee is in the news: "Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God." tinyurl.com/mr3p3v76
It never happens with GOP, but too damn often in our party folks try to build themselves up by tearing Dems down. You can demand better from us without pissing all over the house we’ve built together. I’m sick of it. If you make a name for yourself by trashing the party, I’m calling you out.
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NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL: Trump approval rating: 37% Trump's handling of: Crime: - 12 Russia/Ukraine: -12 Foreign Policy: -16 Economy: -18 Trade: -18 Israel/Hamas/Gaza: -19 Sending weapons to Israel: -28 National Guard to DC: -15 Epstein files: -48 Smithsonian: -27 poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
62 years ago, Dr. King led the March on Washington with giants like John Lewis, Mahalia Jackson, A. Philip Randolph, and so many others. If you’ve ever wondered what you’d be doing during the Civil Rights Movement, this is your test. (1/2)
1 of the main people to get that derogatory & nonsensical “KaMaLa Is A cOp” idiocy to trend in 2020 was a Sanders deadender convicted of 3 counts of indecent exposure & 1 count of a sex offense against a child relating to fondling them. Her admitted mugshot’s all over Twitter if you search her name.
Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt. In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous history. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arch...
Canada looks to Europe to curb 'overreliance' on U.S.: Joly | Power & Politics #Canada #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMZa...
Four African states running out of special food for starving children, aid group says reut.rs/4n8OgJI
This is a major story. “Trump wants Greenland”? King Leopoldo wanted the Congo. And took it. It’s naked imperialism. And espionage. More than 80% of the population of Greenland is indigenous. “Beautiful” Inuits are not “asking Trump to take over.” They categorically don’t want it.
The finished product looks really good.😋 May I ask what kind of cheese you used?
I agree!
I can get behind his campaign. Go for it, Senator!
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Lol
The same administration that is claiming powers we've never seen before simultaneously claims it's powerless to stop school shootings.
I sat down with @laurenunderwood.bsky.social this week to talk maternal health and how policy hits home. Her work and perspective are worth your time, folks. https://youtu.be/smKC04aNlYA #PullUpASeat #AtOurTable
A reminder for future generations….please don’t let this kind of music die out.
Wow
Scenic
I’ll never understand how cooper, tapper and bash all look so puzzled when ppl are talking and still have their fuvking jobs. If I looked like that when my clients were speaking I’d be canned in a heartbeat. They signed away their souls is all I can figure. Quid pro quo.
He feeds them meat like the Cracker Barrel "win" so #they don't focus on anything else & it works.
“A majority of Canadians see Pierre Poilievre as a threat to national unity and just 23% say he’s the best choice for prime minister. That the CPC continues to enable this disinformation-spewing rage-baiter only proves how wildly out of touch they are.” #cdnpoli cultmtl.com/2025/08/obse...
Treasure trove of unseen Terry Fox footage to be showcased in new documentary #TerryFox #Canada Canadian icon Terry Fox is the subject of a new documentary that sheds light on the hurdles he faced along the Marathon of Hope. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Kimberly Dixon-Mays’s contemporary play about sisters and resilience draws inspiration from African American folktales. | ✍️ Kerry Reid https://bit.ly/45X4iiR
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Happy Birthday! 🎉🎁🎂
This lifted my mood: Celia Cruz teaching the numbers on Sesame Street. ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjr...
“President Trump has no authority to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. His attempt to fire her, based solely on a referral letter, lacks any factual or legal basis. We will be filing a lawsuit challenging this illegal action,” said Abbe Lowell, Lisa Cook’s attorney
'It's major': Indigenous women-led modular home factory being built in northern #Ontario #Canada Factory in Kirkland Lake is set to be operational by July 1 next year /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran.
As a child, Federal Reserve Board of Governor Lisa Cook "was involved in desegregating schools in Georgia and still has physical scars from being attacked by segregationists when she enrolled in a formerly white school." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Cook
‘It happened like magic’: Bringing African Canadian authors’ voice to kids #Manitoba www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...
On the Barbados Slave Codes (1661) "Before Jim Crow, before Apartheid… there was Barbados 1661. The first legal blueprint of racial slavery. Exported across the Americas like a poison. That island’s paper became the skeleton of centuries of chains."
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
How can any American watch this cringeworthy royal court cosplay and not want to throw up? "Thanks to your infinite wisdom, your majesty, we have given arms to the troops occupying the imperial capital. They are an extension of your holy will."
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
FWIW - I'm sure you would have a good podcast.
This is the funniest thing I’ve read in weeks… “We’ll no longer be accepting…” What I want to know is… WHO’S OFFERING?? NO ONE!! 😂😂😂😂😂
John Shin, a well known and respected violinist from South Korea, who received Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Utah for violin performance, was detained by ICE. John Shin has been a violinist and teaches students in Utah. He is being detained in Colorado.
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What could/should have been.
Tugman - autocorrect. I will pass this along. Thank you!
So true
“Fighting” looks like rejecting the historical and instinctual trauma of white folks locking your ancestors up & controlling their basic right to move freely and camping out on the TX House floor…bonnet ready with nothing but your commitment & principles to keep you company…
#Waterfront #trail with #LakeOntario, #ScarboroughBluffs, East End, #Toronto
This also applies to your allies to the north.
A far right government using the power of the state to persecute a far-right former official who will not bend the knee. The message to you and me could not be clearer. There is no American exempt from state harm other than who is currently in favor with the president, whose whims change hourly.
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
61 years ago today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement posed the question that echoes today with every migrant round-up by masked officers, as federal troops converge on D.C.,as institutions are threatened: “IS THIS AMERICA?” youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM
Harriet Tubman! 🙂
Keep it up, fellow Canadians. Keep it up. Canadian tourists gone 'from a faucet to a drip,' Las Vegas mayor says search.app/ZPMqN
a very good thread on this industry
"[A]ll of us will be impacted by the policies that have led to.. cuts…[T]he decline in Black women’s labor force participation in the last…months…has resulted in a 37 billion [dollar] drop in the Gross Domestic Product [of the USA], according to…economist Katica Roy." madamenoire.com/1446523/a-37...
Here is how the media should be reporting this morning's news. As part of a growing pattern of political retribution, Donald Trump's FBI has raided the home of a prominent administration critic. In this instance it happens to be John Bolton. The pretense is largely irrelevant.
Read it and weep. open.substack.com/pub/michaelh...
Vivian Ayers Allen, Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet and mother to Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad, has died. She was 102.
Our collaborator Mr. Damien Prescod of Export Barbados (BIDC) is implementing our cutting-edge technology to help protect #seaturtles and the Barbados tourism economy from marine #microplastics. 🐢 Read the story at hubs.ly/Q03CrlP60
Here, fixed it.
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Kamala Harris swears in Rep. Robert Garcia as top Democrat on Congressional Oversight Committee (August 20, 2025) Congratulations @robertgarcia.bsky.social! 🎉
Kamala Harris: When Robert Garcia walks the halls of congress, people pay attention if not try to catch up…
i remember when jd vance blamed the haitian immigrants to springfield for rising home prices. well, the prices will come down, because a mass departure of haitian workers will crash the local economy.
Grateful to Vice President Kamala Harris for swearing me in last night to serve as the lead Democrat on the Oversight Committee. Let’s go!
It is not simply offensive. It is not just false. It is dangerous. Because every empire begins to rot when it forgets — or chooses to erase — how its wealth was built, how its walls were stacked atop the bones of the beaten. substack.com/@mustafasant...
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Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate. n.pr/45EkyF3
@kamalaharris.com calls Texas Rep. Nicole Collier during Capitol confinement: ‘We are all there with you’ www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Again, imagine the response from the press if Kamala Harris did this.
The same brain that alleges that the electricity goes out at night when you use solar panels.
Just say no.
They’ve tried to erase us for centuries. Didn’t work then, won’t work now. Black history IS American history.
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Just gonna leave this here and let you know, we 👀 you at every turn. While y’all continue to pencil in protest dates, we know it’s for photo ops.
Individuals create political narratives out of thin air rather than facts.
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The media treats Trump as if he were a normal president.
One of the biggest cultural issues we have is that no major media or journalistic institutions have been reinforcing norms of what things *should* look like. That corruption isn’t normal, that cronyism isn’t normal, that lies and scandals should be punished, that incompetence is disqualifying.
Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...