The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Just checked off a major author bucket list item. 🥳 Suggested my book (that I'd just signed) to someone browsing LGBT YA in B&N, and they BOUGHT IT IN FRONT OF ME, had me personalize it, and asked if we could take a picture together. I'm who I wanted to be when I grew up. 😭

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

I find myself spending too much time laying in bed lately, not because I'm bed rotting, but because my elderly cat wants to snuggle against me under the blankets and I think "...how much longer before this will be gone?"

"As they rushed into his apartment...he felt the jaws of a large dog biting into his ankle, knocking him to the floor. He screamed as the dog tore the flesh from his thighs, hip and wrist. Down the hall, agents took a mother and her 16-yr-old son at gunpoint..." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Thoughts for people living in safe blue cities and states: Alabama is the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement. People bled and died for our right to vote. #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth 🧵

Maggie O’Malley Sunrise Jersey Shore

Trump derangement syndrome is being so deranged that you think Donald Trump actually gives a fuck about you.

“Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents are being told to find a new power provider because the grid is being re-routed to A.I. data centers.”

If you never read the book or saw the movie, you missed one of the greatest Pulitzer Prize winning sagas ever written. To dishonor Alex Haley like this is disgraceful.

"We were conditioned to think of being gay as a bad thing before we knew what being gay meant. By the time we got to middle school, it was made crystal clear to us that there were two things it was absolutely wrong for a boy to be: either gay or a girl." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/if-you-don...

This is Watson. His family threw him a surprise 9th birthday party. Invited all his stuffed friends and everything. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: english_cream_watson_)

They argue that chinese cars will spy on us, US cars are already doing that

When the state is disenfranchising its Black voters, there's zero question why ROOTS was just banned in Knox County, Tennessee schools.

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”

Here we have a meditation on self-recovery, identity, & emotional healing delivered through a series of imperatives It examines the self we present to others & the self we neglect internally It is a poem about returning home to yourself. #poetry #poemoftheday #MentalHealthMatters

A perfect demonstration of how Trump's disintegrating brain functions...misheard words, misunderstood comments, dissemination of long debunked falsehoods.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

BREAKING: The rich are buying MORE real estate in NYC compared to last year, despite Zohran's new tax on the most expensive properties. "Billionaires will leave if you tax them," is a myth created by billionaires so you won't tax them… Simple as that.

Data is my favorite Star Trek character and I'm not sure why everyone is so opposed to the centers he's trying to build?

“We live in a homophobic society…if you think there are not more gay players in the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the NBA, you’re just stupid” - Charles Barkley saying the quiet part out loud. I fuckin cried. god bless him and Jason Collins.

Missing Indigenous Person Alert (MIPA) - Seattle, WA #MMIP Please repost

Not only did Tony Dokoupil not get a visa in time to anchor from Beijing as his network rivals did, he also was booted from broadcasting at his Taipei hotel where he anchored “CBS Evening” on Wednesday night. Tony’s never-ending big problems, via @status.news www.status.news/p/tony-dokou...

The dismantling of USAID is a humanitarian crisis. Only the cartoonists are covering it.

Nina. Newport Jazz Festival, July 4, 1968. David Redfern.

SNAP is not why your groceries are expensive. Besides lifting people out of poverty, SNAP is an economically efficient program. Every dollar invested generates $1.50 in economic activity when it is spent.

The President of the United States is a liar.

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

"The Gestapo tactics of this president will not stand here."

I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.

Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people. No court or politician can change either of those realities.

Trump: I don't think about Americans' financial situation I don't think about Americans I don't think It's true no matter how you slice it.

1) Lemme get this off my heart right quick. I don’t care who spends against you. I’m voting for Becerra because my entire adult life I’ve lived down the block from someone just like him. Our kids go to the same schools, we have to go to the same hospitals, we get up and take the train to work or

Pink bells and petals dance free in the breeze, Untamed by fences, untouched by decrees. Each unique blossom breaks out of the mold, A wild individual, fearless and bold. #bluesky #love

Gouldian Finch (Erythrura gouldiae)...Mother Nature was working with a 'no such thing as too much' philosophy the day she designed this finch...native to a very specific & shrinking corridor across Northern Australia. Though a popular pet bird. #bird #photo #nature #biology #wildlife

Happy Birthday to David Byrne, Scottish-American musician, founding member, lead singer and guitarist of the American band Talking Heads, born on this day in 1952, Dumbarton, Scotland 📸 Rob Verhorst #punkrock #postpunk #newwave #davidbyrne #talkingheads #history #otd

Thomas Stockett's Baltimore Afro-American cartoon on the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.

Citizens: We'd light a stop light at this corner. City: That will take three years to get approved. Corporations: We'd like to build a data center. Here is your envelope. City: Well, come on in. Fix yourself a plate.

A woman demonstrating her exceptional intelligence in contrast to a wealthy but arrogant individual.

Washington man charged with harassment for allegedly hurling large rock at endangered monk seal ‘Lani’ | Maui Now mauinow.com/2026/05/13/w...

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

A bluejay I drew. As you can tell I love birds 🐦. Have a goodnight 😴

Happy birthday Stevie Wonder! 🎹🎶🩵🎤 #steviewonder

I lost my Star Trek uniforms in the move and had to buy new Star Trek uniforms but this time it was a business expense. so I got that going for me.

Now this is a rhododendron bush🌸🌸🌸

The artwork is titled "Baby Bird I" and was created by Beverly Fuller.