Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

This is a really righteous and touching remembrance. Charles Barkley is very good at conveying feeling straightforwardly on tv.

Tennessee Republicans just stripped ALL House Democrats of their committee assignments through November because they protested a gerrymandered map designed to dilute Black voting power in Memphis. Unfuckingbelievable racist, fascist BS. www.newschannel5.com/news/tenness...

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

Louisiana is 33% Black and has six congressional districts. Yet in the past 149 years, they've just had 4 Black congressmen. All of whom are still alive. And that's too many for Louisiana's white Republican leaders.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

The story:

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Important and insightful commentary from my friend Atiba this morning.

this story gets crazier as time passes and more details come out, 20 years later, now from the perspective of the air traffic controller who expedited the flight. (Hopefully this is a gift link) www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/01/s...

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

Most home runs in team’s first 16 games of season, Cardinals history: 2006 Albert Pujols: 11 2026 Jordan Walker: 8 2004 Scott Rolen: 8 1998 Mark McGwire: 8 1954 Stan Musial: 8

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

This is Daisy. She helped her human make the bed today. Through moral support. 13/10 (IG: daisyneverhelps)

Exactly 5 minutes BEFORE Trump announced a 5-day delay in bombing Iranian power plants, someone purchased $1.5 billion worth of S&P futures in a single trade. Someone also sold $192 million in oil futures. Trump and/or his cronies are engaging in market manipulation and insider trading.

ICE isn’t gonna just hang out passing around bins and looking in a few bags. They’re gonna beat people up, arrest people, abuse women, and be the fucking Nazi thugs they are.

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

“PUERTO RICO. ¡INCREIBLE!” — @tylermaun.com on Darell Hernáiz’s walkoff homer in San Juan

The #Mariners' Josh Naylor provided a nice moment Tuesday by greeting history-making umpire Jen Pawol before stepping into the box. "It’s not hard to be inclusive and welcoming and happy. I think it could change the world.” (via @shannondrayer.bsky.social) sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seattle-...

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

once again, @lyz.bsky.social is well worth a read today... (tho let's point out that someone or more than one shared that locker room video with ProPublica)

zohran increased the number of snow shovelers from 500 to 1,400 for this blizzard, paying them $30/hour to shovel sidewalks with at least a four-foot berth so that wheelchairs and strollers can get through. he didn't overhaul city government to do it, he just used the power given to him and did it!

There‘s also something about that hockey laughter — when Trump referred to his “grab them by the pussy“ comment as locker room talk to try to minimize and justify it, well, there you go, that’s what he meant

in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you

I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is: "My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities." 1/14

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

To piggyback off of John's point (reposted), it's struck me lately how the baseline level of friendliness in cities has always seemed remarkably higher than the suburbs or rural areas to me, and I think it's because everyone is used to interacting with strangers as a routine part of their day

Fog-piercing analysis from @anandwrites.bsky.social. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

They were never going to negotiate in good faith. They were never going to negotiate in good faith. They were never going to negotiate in good faith. Also, they clearly want a nationwide abortion ban. Dems should have held the line. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Schumer will vote against the deal, but that does not matter. Either he gave the moderates nodding approval to their actions, or he is unable to keep his caucus together. This is his failure. @schumer.senate.gov should resign tonight (at least as leader) if this deal goes through.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

People often don't believe me or other repro health experts when we say this admin and its supporters (ahem, Heritage) are absolutely trying to remove access to WOMEN'S ABILITY TO CONTROL THEIR OWN REPRODUCTION. And this isn't about raising birth rates. It's about restoring the gender hierarchy.

One small step for man, one Mammoth leap to Cooperstown. Our thanks to John Oliver of @lastweektonight.com for donating the special edition jersey he wore when he rebranded the Erie SeaWolves as the Erie Moon Mammoths! 🌙🦣

Imagine explaining to Bill Watterson while he was drawing this that "Calvinball" would one day appear in a United States Supreme Court dissent

A landmark day for women in baseball and another Diamond Dream achieved. Jen Pawol is donating the cap she wore in her major league umpiring debut to the Hall of Fame.

It absolutely makes sense that men are using AI more and seeing more job benefits, because confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others.

If you or anyone you know is still considering ranking Andrew Cuomo for mayor, please read this piece from @rtraister.bsky.social - the NY Mag journalist who covered the sexual harassment allegations against him substack.com/home/post/p-...

When people support Andrew Cuomo, what they’re saying implicitly is that they don’t care about the women he’s already sexually harassed and retaliated against and they won’t care if he does it again. It’s a political stance that enables discrimination against women in government