Simu Liu Questions Rolling Stone After Sinners Snub Sparks Debate Rolling Stone released its list of the 20 Best Movies of 2025, and the reaction came fast. The omission of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners became the immediate focus, and even Simu Liu highlighted the absence in a direct post on X. His…

Don’t know the reason/the reason

Skin cancer cluster found in 15 Pennsylvania counties with or near farmland. More research is needed to better understand how farming practices affect public health; researchers point to similar patterns emerging in agricultural regions of Utah, Poland & Italy. #PublicHealth #cancer #health

Joceline Porter, then a Gaulladet student, spoke about impact of segregation, how as a Black signer, they might say the same thing 3 times, like "What's up, what's up, what's up!" I loved this so much because that and other unique aspects of Black ASL reflect Black ways of speaking and relating.

Yes, feels like many languages, "standard" English not so much, include facial expressions and physical gestures. And some dialects and language more expressive than others, esp. with the hands. So it tracks that ASL wld be more expressive And like everything— starting @ 7:00, signing differences

In case you're not quite sure what BASL is or what it means... www.theroot.com/sinners-rele...

‘Sinners was a blast’: Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram, the blues prodigy serving up electrifying riffs in the year’s biggest film

Have you been listening to the discourse lately about how Black people would like to end the use of the term BIPOC or POC? It is considered a type of Black erasure, as described in the video below. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYDYMSjt/

‘[T]he political solidarity created by a term like “BIPOC” can also come with a loss of nuance. “People want to be named and recognized, not as part of an amalgam,” she says.’ www.vox.com/2020/6/30/21...

The term POC got appropriated, used to erase class consciousness (highest earning ethnicities in U.S. are not white) & to equate micro aggressions to hundreds of years of systemic racial abuse (against Bl Am). One of many examples of NPIC rendering community phrases useless.

I’ve been saying this since folks started using the term POC and BIPOC. We are not the same. I’m Black.

Historical Terms and Why They Matter www.mission-us.org/2022/11/08/h...

This is why I stopped using the term BIPOC. Because there's plenty of the IPOC part of the acronym who fights against the B part of the acronym.

The entire 13th amendment constitutional doctrine of "badges of slavery" uses race. So Kavanaugh is now arguing the 13th amendment is unconstitutional. Also the Civil Rights Act of 1866 expressly uses race when it says "full and equal benefit of all laws ... as is enjoyed by white citizens".

Not only is it invented, it is ASININE. We've had the Voting Rights Act for 60 years. On top of 88 years of Jim Crow and 250 years of slavery. If there is a time limit, it should 250 + 88. I have such loathing for these justices.

This morning, the justices will hear oral arguments in a case that could represent a fatal blow to the load-bearing pillar of American multi-racial democracy: The 1965 Voting Rights Act.

I was prepared for Roe. For years I was prepared for Roe falling. I was not prepared for “the 14th and 15th Amendments preclude enforcing the Voting Rights Act because it’s anti-white discrimination.” Any white grievance you have? SCOTUS is here for you. But Black people? We can go fuck ourselves.

This is such a powerful piece from @reptroycarter.bsky.social and @repfields.bsky.social on the importance of the Voting Rights Act. As the Supreme Court hears arguments on this legislation, it is so vital that we all remember WHY it was enacted. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

Have the Democrats put illegal migrants over American citizens, especially Black Americans? youtu.be/oZJWUdO27dQ?...

Now that you mention it: "The Trump administration plans to slash refugee admissions to a record low level in the upcoming year, reserving a bulk of the limited slots for white Afrikaners from South Africa …” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Trump is shutting the door to the U.S to Black and brown people fleeing war and famine while welcoming white Afrikaners, who are the most wealthy group in South Africa. He’s going to lower the cap on refugees from 125,000 in 2024 to just 7,500. More at www.anothertrumpdisaster.com/immigrant-fa...

Kangmin Lee (a far right reactionary) claims he was fired simply for calling women psychopaths' if they celebrated Charlie Kirk's death. He actually demanded that women lose their right to vote and remain as birth vessels so Benny Johnson hired him on the spot www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm-7...

This is why I abhor the "we're fighting a culture war to avoid the class war." No. The white left wants to maintain a hierarchy--it's just about rearranging it so they're at the top. www.threads.com/@andr3wsky/p...

This is, after all, the original and authentic meaning of "stay woke." In fact, the perversion of "woke" into an epithet is perhaps the defining metaphor of our moment: Historical victims are not only being revictimized, but also mocked for never forgetting this is always a possibility in the US.

Ezra is right to call attention to his own struggle over how best to respond to that. But I think it also reflects a certain lack of preparation that, as TNC points out, Black Americans and other marginalized and vulnerable groups have never been able to afford.

This is a great discussion. What it makes clear to me is that Ezra Klein is lost right now in a way that TNC isn't, and I don't mean that as a dunk. The past 9 mos, most of us have been navigating w/o magnetic north. Across a range of disciplines, heuristics we took for granted no longer apply.

About 58 million pounds of corn dogs and other sausage-on-a-stick products are being recalled across the U.S. because pieces of wood may be embedded in the batter

Confederate traitors should have been tried and faced prison or execution. The " Reconstruction " was a total failure. The Confederacy should have been dismantled. You can't play nice with traitors. We never learn.

My SCOTUS term preview for the Guardian - it focuses on the case challenging what remains of the Voting Rights Act (Callais), how that's part of a centuries-old campaign against Reconstruction, & how that's representative of several issues on the Court's docket. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

There's a moment in the Trump regime's America 250 propaganda that takes a swipe at the 1619 Project as "revisionist history." Well, about that ...

Ok, this Ta-Nehisi Coates essay which I finally read is very good. He ends with what I continue to think is the key to understanding our time: how and why Reconstruction ended. On what it means to ignore the actual words of someone like Charlie Kirk in the name of some sort of left-right unity:

NEW: Expect some drama in House Dems’ meeting this AM over a vote to honor Charlie Kirk. Some members undecided. Others voting no or “present.” But some in the party fear anything but a unanimous vote for it will be a messaging coup for the GOP. @Axios.com www.axios.com/2025/09/18/c...

I’m jealous because nobody asked anyone my age to be a docent when I was a kid www.statenews.org/section/the-...

a bit late but the whole jillian michaels thing last week gave me an excuse to talk a bit about the economy of slavery in detail youtu.be/pRs2Xu1FWR4

Words are magic

My enslaved ancestors did not immigrate to the USA.

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Today's harvest was much more than I expected

A French lemonade from 1651

Black Americans do NOT want Native Americans involved in our reparations movement. BLIS Collective is out of line for this "braiding narratives" nonsense.

A very valid point! What would be a better term? "People of the global majority" would be very broad as well and would have the same issue as BIPOC in that it includes POC who support dictators like 🍊. I read this: www.macfound.org/press/perspe... and saw the author used "ALAANA" instead of BIPOC

Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time directed by Traci A. Curry. Ryan & Zinzi Coogler are exec producers. "This powerful documentary is a devastatingly precise illustration of systemic failure, political impotence and media distortion. Even two decades later it feels relevant." #HurricaneKatrina

Stop cos-playing Hispanics in Black American history

Juan Crow never existed

Monte Mader is speaking the Gospel to y'all in the back row, who think these "white communities" are a good thing. www.instagram.com/montemader?i...

A little morning harvest. Sweet banana peppers, blackberries, black cherry tomatoes and super sweet 100 tomatoes. #Gardening #Gardensky #Blacksky