@dirkwilbury.bsky.social A little something for you, Dirk. Thinking of you. #AT40

There are parents at kitchen tables right now choosing between a full tank and a full fridge. And yet the President of the United States is busy shouting into the void on Truth Social about “radical left deep state lunatics.” The indifference to what people are actually living through is staggering.

BREAKING NEWS: Leather Tuscadero announced that she will not be performing at Freedom 250. #AT40

Getting the distinct sense from this countdown that God and spirituality loom large, thanks to Jesus Christ Superstar. #AT40

Goosebumps. Aretha transforming (yes, that’s right) “Bridge Over Troubled Water” makes for a miracle of a song. So beautiful it breaks my heart in the happiest of ways. Can’t explain effectively here but so powerful that it “will lay me down.” #AT40

“I’ve listened to “Ode to Billy Joe” so many times hoping to find some clue what they threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Still a mystery. #AT40

In 1971, I was in my elegant but casual phase. #AT40

“Timothy” What the actual f—! #AT40

The Beau Brummelstones have announced they will not be performing at Freedom 250. #AT40

“Father, father, we don’t need to escalate.” How prophetic. #AT40

Maybe I’m hallucinating, but I feel we’ve heard this Al Jarvis story before. #AT40

Texas Senate race is going to come down to one basic question: Are a majority of Texas voters as stupid as Texas Republicans think they are

the entire paxton campaign is just gonna be republicans calling talarico gay over and over then offering coy denials when called on it and accusing the libs of being to sensitive when they call it out bsky.app/profile/came...

They think Americans are idiots and they gleefully base their propaganda entirely on lying.

I lost my Dad recently & I appreciate your posts. Grief is something that our society has been conditioned to rush through and put aside. I was talking to a friend not long ago about how much I miss my Dad. She said "I thought you were feeling better." I don't know where she got that idea.

At the age of 4 in the spring of 1972, my babysitter’s boyfriend would come over and they’d drink and sing along to songs on the radio. One day I told my mom “Aunt Dottie makes Tom Collins drinks with her friend and they sing “Oh Girl.” My mom promptly sent me to pre-K in the fall. #AT40 🤣

Shout out to Corona in Queens, NY. Home of the Lemon Ice King and the Queens Museum that opened in 1972. #AT40

“Walking in the Rain,” is a classic jam. An absolute classic. #AT40

Their Loved Ones Died for the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court’s Ruling Is a New Injustice. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Good morning Dorchester!

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.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

The future of the American Dream is going to be young men training to beat each other up for money in the ring like Gladiators, or trying to make a quick buck through sports gambling, or making it as an "influencer" on social media. Amazing for our kids, right?

Patches has left us. Safe home Clarence Carter. #AT40

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

For me, personally, the triage decision was: I do not want to keep playing any part in the Nazi-porn-bot-scams-hate hellscape Musk had created. Nothing else will have the centrality (among media people) Twitter did, "before." That is a net loss. Bsky did not make anything worse, IMO.

This is MAGA's King and Daddy. This is the man they worship. This is the President of the United States. What a deeply disturbed and broken country.

Trump's presidencies are structured around systematically failing at everything he said he could do better than Obama.

Not long ago, reauthorizations of the Voting Rights Act were bipartisan votes that Democratic and Republican presidents alike signed without controversy.

"It'll be okay as long as we still push through a Democratic majority." No, bitch, it will not be okay. It will never be okay that Black Americans do not have a voice and have to depend on the kindness of strangers who have shown repeatedly that they do not give a shit about us in the voting booth.

Enormous groups of people did not read Project 2025. Or ignored it. Now we are living it. 🤬

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

"Looking back now, it’s clear that the desire to undo the Civil Rights Era — and even restore the Confederacy to a place of honor — never disappeared. It was sometimes set to the side and reshaped, but they kept the fire burning with unwavering attention."

Tennessee Republicans voting to weaken the vote of its Black citizens evokes strong personal feelings. For those like my mom who so valued being able to vote and everyone who lived through Jim Crow and fought for and exercised the right to vote in the South- or anywhere- this is deeply felt.

They're really stopping an election that's already under way to erase my people from the map.

When I learned what Samuel Alito and the other Republican appointees to the Supreme Court did to the Voting Rights Act, I thought of my friend Mickey Schwerner. He and countless others sacrificed their lives fighting for the VRA. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sam-alito-and-my-friend-mickey

America has suffered ignorant presidents, corrupt presidents, and incompetent presidents. Trump is all of these, yet something far worse: He’s the first president to view the presidency not as a sacred public obligation, but as a personal vanity project designed solely to serve himself.

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The US Supreme Court ruled today that Black votes are worth less than other votes.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Just makin' it clear for your asses. Erasing the voices of black and brown people is not "agree to disagree" territory.

We knew this was coming. Doesn't make it any easier to accept. nymag.com/intelligence...

The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

On the real: I just believe this band deserves so much more love, not only for what they represent but that they put out bops like “Come Get Your Love.” #AT40

I’m up to taking on “Mockingbird” at karaoke. Just asking if I could please get to do the James Taylor vocals.” #AT40