"On-screen, Clara Bow's remarkable strength of personality was enough to win her everything she desired. In life, it wasn’t enough to ensure happiness or agency."

Guardian editors, high-fiving each other: "Yes! A new 'Africanized Bees' just dropped! And they're called 'Blackchin Tilapia?!' that's perfect! We are so back! If anyone complains, we'll just say "What are you talking about?! They are an invasive species! We're talking about bees and fish here!🤣"

every day of 2026, I'll post a story from an animated film. 🧵 0️⃣0️⃣1️⃣ RUDOLPH'S SHINY NEW YEAR (1976) dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. A sequel to 1964's RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER. Father Time asks Santa Claus to help find Happy the Baby New Year before midnight on New Year's Eve.

Bottom? Yes. Submission? No.

From there, particles can enter the bloodstream, ands even short-term exposure at these concentrations is associated with exacerbation of COPD and asthma, increased heart rate and BP, and in children whose lungs are still developing, potentially lasting damage.

The WHO’s safe guideline for 24-hour PM2.5 exposure is 15 μg/m³, which means DC is right now at about four times that threshold. Fine particulate matter at this diameter (2.5 micrometers or smaller) bypasses the body’s upper respiratory defenses entirely and penetrates deep into the alveoli.

Just a reminder to folks watching “Freedom 250” celebrations: Many/most musicians do not have control over who performs their songs. And I don’t even think the military musicians performing these songs have a choice whether to perform. Wow.

This next week is going to absolutely SUCK. If you live in or around DC, stay inside if you can and wear a mask when you can’t.

As performed by youth pastors

NO NO NO NO They're doing Prince. They're doing Prince so dirty. SO FUCKING DIRTY. Let's Go Crazy

I have lived in southeast Michigan my entire life. My casual and professional encounters tells me to be cautious of Muslim men (and women!). While I don't know how "progressive" Abdul El-Sayed actually is, Haley Stevens has already shown me who SHE is.

If you are seeing ads sponsored by "United Democracy Project" it's AIPAC. Per their website: "...is an organization comprised of American citizens—Democrats, Republicans and Independents—united in the belief that America's partnership with our democratic ally Israel benefits both countries."

This is what I was telling y'all the other day about Haley Stevens. bsky.app/profile/jack...

This is Haley Stevens. (In addition to being AIPAC)

"During Reconstruction Frederick Douglass warned that northern liberals of the 'so-called benevolent societies' were more concerned with peace and reconciliation across white classes and southern Confederates than they were with the welfare of the freedman and a democracy that included Black rights"

Tonight would be perfect timing. Just putting that in the atmosphere 🧘🏾‍♀️

Dear Zeus, I see what you have done for others ⚡

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Hint for you hosts and hostesses out there: If you have a bunch of friends over for a nice dinner and then decide you need to wrap things up, just hurl 4-6 chairs at your guests. Works every time.

Seems like a total violation to have the klan there!

So. Much. Sage.

That place has to be saged now.

It also frustrates me because in leaked correspondence from the group, they specifically outline this is one of their stated goals for stunts like this (people and organizations spreading images/video of them across social media).

#filmsky #moviesky #july4 #fuckthisjuly4 #fuckfascism "Sometimes selfishness can even get to be a cause, an organized force, even a government. And then it's called fascism." William Holden & Judy Holliday The steps of the Jefferson Memorial BORN YESTERDAY (1950)

A federal agent fired a pepper ball launcher from the vehicle he was driving, striking a protester in the stomach. This was outside the ICE detention facility in Broadview this afternoon. 📸 Evan Stone www.instagram.com/evan_stone_p...

A. People in DC did not know those fascists were planning to march. B. They marched for 15 minutes and then turned tail. C. People in DC would have been out there had they known they would be there. D. Do people know how people in DC (who actually live in the city) roll?

Refusing to cede would literally mean organizing and driving them the hell out of your cities right here, right now today, not just some celestial appeal to civil rights ancestral martyrs.

One of the ways UBI test programs have been so WILDLY SUCCESSFUL is that it doesn't try to manage the money. It doesn't place limitations on the money. It doesn't tell people what they can and cannot do with the money. IT JUST GIVES THEM THE MONEY. Because it trusts that most people will know how

Texas' privatized energy system allows them to remotely access customer's smart thermostats and set the thermostat higher during peak hot times. Yet lots of Texas republicans pretend Mamdani ASKING New Yorkers to set their A/C to 78 is communism. Texas/ Big Brother doesn't give people a choice!

Not sharing that photo of the young sis on the train. Would prefer that white folks who are sharing it would say what they are concretely doing to uproot white supremacy...

As a tyrant shakes down government agencies by withholding funds, let's remember that the American colonies created a paper currency to bypass the British crown attempting the same thing.

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

Celebrate 250 years of stories worth revisiting. Watch American history unfold through award-winning films and documentaries. Now streaming: https://bit.ly/4fGLk6w.

We ought not sacrifice those who live in red states. A better US that includes all [except Nazis], gives truly equal rights to women and to historically excluded groups is far superior to one where states' rights mean injustice in much of the country.

This is correct. Federalism, for all its flaws, is the only block on the further entrenching of Jim Crow/anti female/anti LGBTQ/anti worker/anti child policies in red states.

...and Women, trans people, disabled people, unhoused people, jailed people. There are so many groups they are willing to allow to be treated inhumanely and unjustly for white comfort. It's Reconstruction 2.0

This is literally the setup that allowed Jim Crow to be a decades long racist regime of apartheid while modern moderates lament the lost comity of the Senate. This is literally a politics of white reconciliation which we’ve already seen.

For 250 years, America has failed to treat women as though they were equal to men. If we were truly considered as such, abortion would be as easy to access as ibuprofen. https://bit.ly/4eDih2U

I’m currently down on Capitol Hill. Patriot Front, a white supremacist group, got on the Metro and has left the area

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

“The doctor arrogantly told me he was the doctor, he has the medical degree, he went to medical school for a reason, and to let him do his thing.” This is why disabled people say you always need an advocate. A doctor pronounced this toddler dead while he was still alive.

This little boy’s parents told the doctor he was still breathing. Police officers did the same, and the doctor pulled rank. He pronounced a child dead & sent him to the morgue while he was still alive. The parents are facing charges. The doctor hasn’t even lost his license.

This was sexual assault. The media must call it what it was. The school sexually abused 7 Black students because they suspected them of having vapes. Everyone involved should face charges. www.wapt.com/article/atta...

…to the disabled person the immigrant, the trans person, the queer person, the woman, the dissident, the Native person, the unjustly incarcerated person, the unhoused person, the disappeared person, the sick person who can't get healthcare, the childred who had their education and food access cut, t

Because, of course, it was Black women like Pauli Murray, Rosa Parks and Shirley Chisholm who laid the groundwork for and helped shape Title IX, the landmark civil rights law that prohibits gender discrimination in schools.

A dispute between two groups who already knew each other turned into gunfire inside a Detroit-area mall Friday. Two people are dead. www.thetrendswire.com/blog/dearbor... #Dearborn #Michigan #GunViolence #BreakingNews #Detroit #PublicSafety #July4 #CrimeNews

You understand what I mean if you have ever been to the east side lol. #Detroit

The very first time I went to Paris [20 plus years ago], I walked out of the train station, and looked around in horror. I was like 'omg where are we at!?' 😂 It looked EXACTLY like the east side of #Detroit. Then you fall in love almost instantly.💘 #ParisJeTAime

California’s Point Reyes is getting a chance to rewild after a 2025 legal settlement led 10 of 12 commercial cattle operations to leave the park. Around 69 km² of former ranchland is slated for restoration, including some of California’s last native coastal prairie. buff.ly/0SFCvpP #ShareGoodNewsToo