Rest in peace to Jason Collins, an unthinkably brave person and incredible leader for the LGBT community. Over a decade later and his coming out column is still an astonishing piece of writing. Wish the sport had caught up more and that he could have lived to see it.

Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player who has served as a global ambassador for the sport, has died from brain cancer, his family said. He was 47 www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

13-year-old girl reported missing in Douglas County

When Trump praises an acting Attorney General because he “kept me out of jail,” he is telling you exactly what he thinks the Justice Department is for.

When I was a kid, it used to be The Shining.

US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

Black people waiting for DSA-endorsed electeds to actually address, let alone attempt to redress, any systemic, racialized disparities impacting Black people will be waiting a long time. .

America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

It’s “funny” how that Lane Kiffin article dropped in the middle of Louisiana disenfranchising Black voters.

Roberts majority, citing Callais, throws out lower court’s 571-page finding that AL’s 2023 maps intentionally discriminated against Black voters. Sotomayor, with Kagan and Jackson, dissents bc Alito et al said intentional discrimination claims survive Callais www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

And, it doesn’t help that so many ostensible Democrats are openly racist towards Leader Jeffries.

Not only has Congresswoman Kiggans not apologized for agreeing that Leader Jeffries has “cotton-picking hands,” she’s doubled down and made excuses. What message does that send to the 20% of her constituents that are Black? VA-02 deserves better.

NEW: The NYT sent a firm email to freelancers today warning that "contributors must not submit any material for publication that contains content generated, modified or enhanced" by generative AI. The "reminder" notably follows a string of AI incidents at the paper: futurism.com/artificial-i...

Happy Birthday, Kim Fields 🎉 She deserved an Emmy for this Jermaine Jackson episode… #TheFactsOfLife

Lakers getting blown out and the Yankees get walked off. Tough night for Cowboys fans.

Dillon Brooks is at the Lakers game lmao

What’s funny is that they didn’t seem to even consider the person was talking about reading the books to/with their kids.

Shaq's gas math had reached the youths

Only 5 people showed up to comment and 15 people streaming😰

NEW: NAACP on Supreme Court allowing Alabama to redraw map to dilute power of Black voters "We are witnessing a return to Jim Crow. Anybody who is alarmed by these developments—as everybody should be—better be making a plan to vote in November to put an end to this madness"

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries sends letter to Dem colleagues alerting about a Thursday briefing to "discuss the steps Democrats are taking to advance the largest voter protection effort in modern American history".. Adding "Democrats will take control of the House"

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

I’d legitimately be embarrassed to have a WaPo subscription.

I don't know how anyone can still act like the Supreme Court majority has any credibility now

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

+1,000,000,000,000 pts to the first national Democrats to declare there IS no immigration crisis.

That immigration number is insane. An ENTIRELY fabricated crisis built on naked racism and *slightly* more subtle populist labor protectionism.

Ghoulish stuff, and deeply counterproductive. The message this sends to immigrant communities is “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

NOTICE: Do you have an elderly or disabled neighbor in NYC? Be a good neighbor and let them know about the free air conditioner program. If they earn $3473 or less a month, NYC will cover the costs of an A/C. Remember…last summer we had 95 degree weather. Look out for them

Here's where Louis Mosley, the black-shirt wearing grandson of the black-shirt wearing fascist Oswald Mosley, who runs Palantir in the UK, says how and when they might use your medical data for "immigration enforcement" and, by logical extension, whatever other purposes became convenient.

What do you mean, “a Duck Dynasty love story”???

Chuck: THANK YOU PAIGE!! PAIGE:

(2) God as a White man: A psychological barrier to conceptualizing Black people and women as leadership worthy psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...

Two papers on race, religion, and the psychological consequences of how people think about those things: (1) “Jesus was a White man too!”: The relationship between beliefs about Jesus’s race, racial attitudes, and ideologies that maintain racial hierarchies. psycnet.apa.org/buy/2021-224...

CAT OF CONFLICT: If you missed Kompot the cat, here are some updates on him: - He just celebrated his 7th birthday - Ate some delicious pâté - He let Oleksandra scratch his belly, while he relaxed

Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers, stepmothers, pet mothers, boy moms, girl moms, big mamas, sugar mamas, mama bears, chosen mothers, mothers of invention, den mothers, godmothers, maternal figures, and everyone else who is a mother, was a mother, misses their mother, or needs a mother on this day.

My mother would go on an unbroken 20 minute tirade about some uproar in her chair yoga class, then have the nerve to go “To make a long story short. . .” 😂 We had a complicated relationship (aren’t they all?) but, I do miss that old lady.

The resist meme slop accounts are the pits.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

the person has Been Through It and I love that they’re weaponizing their trauma for good

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

Nohmahh

my god today.

What made John Brown a great man was not actually that he was a "great" man. It was that he recognized himself as a regular man that rejected white supremacy. And was willing to die for that. That when he saw another Black face, he saw a human like himself. May 9, 1800 he was born

I'm old enough to remember when the top Senate advocate for strong gun control was @chrismurphyct.bsky.social.