What happened some 152 years ago would remain buried for over a century until David Blight, a renowned Yale University professor, scholar and author, discovered that Blacks founded what is now known as Memorial Day. #DecorationDay #BlackskyNews chicagocrusader.com/memorial-day...

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"

The most extraordinary thing about this is that *not one* major media source mentions that Trump sexually assaulted the mother of the son whose wedding it is. Can one fathom any other circumstance where that fact would be omitted?

I've seen various good commentary here reminding of how much rape, incest, and pedophilia were hallmarks of Southern plantation owners/enslavers, and I think it's also always important to remember that context when the descendants of such men try to take away women's bodily autonomy.

Reminder: The next time we get the chance to take down Confederate statues and monuments, they need to be burned or melted so that they can never be put back up.

Just, y'know, apropos of certain news today.

Political is when a black quarterback silently kneels Not political is when a white quarterback introduces the president’s speech at a campaign rally

I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

A family in Idaho has dropped their lawsuit challenging a state law barring transgender students from using the restroom after their 16-year-old trans daughter died by suicide. Idaho AG Raul Labrador praised the decision without mentioning the girl's death or why the case was dismissed.

I don't think we in the legal community are giving sufficient attention to just how unlawful, corrupt and unenforceable this document is. It's so absurd--and was, until now, so unimaginable--that I wouldn't have even considered using it as a law school exam hypo. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy

Bezos laid off the people who win the Pulitzers. He’s funding the people who lose the subscribers. trib.al/QgqXxEA

This dude called a 10 year-old girl who was impregnated by her rapist a liar because her experience was incompatible with his politics, so he can fuck right off with such laments.

Ann Telnaes

The Trump DOJ’s $1.7Bn taxpayer funded “Anti-Weaponization” Fund to compensate Trump supporters who claim to have suffered at the hands of the Biden Admin would be considered laughable - if it weren’t so wasteful, unethical, and outrageous. Congress must end this self-serving madness! #MEpolitics

NEW: The tobacco company Reynolds American donated $5M to the Trump-backed super PAC MAGA Inc. on 4/30/2026. 8 days later, the Trump administration rolled out a new policy that could be very lucrative for Reynolds by allowing it to begin selling flavored vapes.

Cubans are starving and have gone weeks without electricity and clean water due to Trump's blockade of any oil reaching the island. Here's why we aren't covering this.

"Freedom! '90," George Michael. youtu.be/diYAc7gB-0A?...

also this tweet is a banger

I keep on reading that the white house is moving to reign in rfk, jr, but he keeps on finding new and creative ways to destroy the health care system in this country. Not sure how to tell the media this, but the wh is lying and you should not believe a word they say

i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

I do not think people realize just how ugly the Texas GOP's civil war will be if James Talarico wins. Tensions have been simmering for a decade. Establishment folks would blame the far right for Paxton, a weak candidate; the far right would blame Cornyn for weakening Paxton. It would be UGLY ugly.

I have no opinion on whether you should drink Dos Equis but this ad was the best creative celebration of coming out of COVID quarantine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uPs...

Republicans spent about 20 years scaremongering about reparations (they called the ACA reparations) and Trump makes a Neoconfederate reparations fund and it’s fine

Donald Trump has never one time given the American people an accurate gauge of his health.

"The short-term political task is pretty simple. The pro-democracy movement has to continue to drive down Trump’s approval...And the task of the Democratic party is also simple: Tie Republican incumbents and candidates as tightly as possible to their president." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy

I’ve seen my share of awful headlines, but this monstrosity at The Washington Post really delivers in the white-washing, sugar-coating, truth-avoiding dept: In unusual deal, a $1.8 billion fund that could help Trump allies is created FFS, Editors: It’s not unusual for Trump to engage in extortion

You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

Turns out a Navy willing to execute civilians in boats in the Caribbean to produce snuff films for the president is a Navy willing to let the FBI director treat a tomb as a fun frolic

From Cover to Cover-up: 24 Hour Live Stream Reading of the Epstein Files youtube.com/live/wnIqWq1...

It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.

Trump was convicted of fraud six weeks before Republicans nominated him. He has plundered the treasury since taking office to an extent never seen before in US history.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.