A Georgia couple who terrorized a Black family at a child's birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs, guns, and death threats were sentenced for a hate crime. Joe Torres got 20 years; Kyla Norton got 15.

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

If you are NYC-based and you want to join with other New Yorkers who are fighting for our public libraries, you are welcome to attend our next monthly meeting on May 17 at 1:30 pm. It's in person. Email [email protected]

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

Please do not forget my game, THIS IS FINE: MAXIMUM COPE out now on all currents numskullgames.com/game/this-is...

This is how I found out he's been alive until today, lol

Tennessee and countless other states have been speaking out against what is basically a Jim Crow session

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

Of course I ranted about the Mayor cutting the public library budget at tonight's event. I will be continuing to raise this issue at every single opportunity because of course many people are unaware. I also asked people to send letters to their City council members actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Arguing with folks over tax brackets is what finally drove me off of facebook.

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

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The Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais puts voting districts that give voters of color an opportunity to elect candidates of our choice in jeopardy across the country. Although the court has upended decades of progress, we're not giving up or backing down from defending our democracy.

Why are we not more upset/angry about SCOTUS 86ing the Voting Rights Act yesterday? In a single illegal, immoral, poorly argued (Alito) decision they have disenfranchised Black, Brown and Indigenous voters. This should enrage all of us and have us determined to fight this as best we can.

I'm going to be shouting out Black southern fiction you need to read. Because not in this house are we going to be hating on the south neglecting it as a home of Black folks & our culture. I will start with my own debut novel. This posting project continues as I have time & until I run out of steam.

Israel kidnapped 211 European Nationals this morning 1,000km from Israel, for committing the great crime of trying to bring food to Gaza where people are dying every day from starvation. You won't see this on the news though, and no major politician will mention it.

When your bog standard Republican puts a D next to their name:

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing liberals that Republicans and MAGA were two different things.

And your average white person still doesn't see a connection. The Supreme Court took voting rights from Black people. Trump calls us all kinds of slurs on TV. But you don't have to change the way you treat Black people every day so you're not part of white supremacy. Never anything for you to do.

Most people were right about this. It wasn't a hard thing to see unless you were corporate media. The problem is most people weren't running for president, and neither of them were ready to meet the moment, running business as usual campaigns against a white man.

The FBI is raiding daycare centers in Minnesota, yet not one person in the Epstein files has been arrested in the US. Seems a little weird, right?

Translation: We don't want the Chinese to access the personal data that we are currently accessing without your permission.

White America will constantly tell you that "racism is over" but every day we have to hear about some crazy white person's "legitimate concerns" regarding the existence of people who speak more than one language and don't burn up when immediately exposed to the sun.

New in PN: The demise of Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Trump's clown cabinet "Sean O’Brien and every Dem who supported Chavez-DeRemer look like fools. Those who agree to work for Trump are, by definition, unqualified & evil. There are no exceptions, &, by this point, no excuse for pretending otherwise."

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

Being loud and wrong all the time while ignoring the advice of people who know better and that of those affected by your wrongness is the dream of every basic white American, and thanks to modern technology it is now more scalable and resilient.

Street Fighter movie LEAK- Blanka origin story scene

Ox Tails used to be what po folk ate. Cooked right they were inexpensive but delicious. White folks discovered them and now they are the MOST expensive thing on the menu. Po folks can't afford them. This is how appropriation works. Take from the creator and then deny access to the creator.

You might have been surprised to see an ad this week touting my opponent’s record on ICE. Here’s the truth:

There’s been some violent crime in our neighborhood lately, so I’m taking standard security precautions and building a huge ballroom next to the house.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

I criticize some journalists a lot, and here's the thing: it's earned. There are journalists out there who do INCREDIBLY heroic work. They are in places like the trenches of Ukraine, in the rubble of Gaza and Lebanon. They're not at the WHCD.

I'm no Hasan Piker fan but the pearl clutching that pundits and Journalists do over him while they sane wash every form of bigotry and hate that comes from the right is infuriating. If you want to do good you have to be perfect. If you want to be evil all you need is a white guy to cosign.

I don't care for generated imagery, regardless of how obvious or funny it is. Or whether it suits my political views. It's poisoning the common well of information. Posting it at all is bad, but doing so without explicitly labeling it as fake is even worse. Shame on anybody who does.

“The highest purpose of satire is to bury wickedness in ridicule.” Philip Roth @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

a multitude of social ills would be immediately, generationally cured if everyone in silicon valley simply understood that nothing they do will ever be "cool"

Remembering Amal Khalil

At this point I think these folks just are conspiring to put The Onion out of business.

Counterpoint: All Law Enforcement is state sponsored violence.

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

Everyone in this administration has two modes: "Lie" and "Deflect". They are either actively lying about something or deflecting from a previous lie or embarrassment.

He probably also has a collection of rare and powerful swords he has stolen from the Lands Between.

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

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