Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Mo Welch.

John Roberts says racism is over in the South and that’s why we don’t need the Voting Rights Act anymore

Today, I learned my ethnicity has a specific year of origin: 1662. Partus sequitur ventrem. Latin for "that which is born follows the womb." "All children born in this country shall be held bond or free only according to the condition of the mother." Matrilineal. www.aaihs.org/the-invisibl...

It was and my Grandmother would call this and all Westerns “shoot em ups” and I miss her.

I think voters might be a little more enthusiastic about the Democratic party if their elected officials didn't so clearly despise them

The Ecstasy of St Paul, by Nicolas Poussin, 1650, 📸 by @jaethephotog

If there's anything that the world has in common, it's men's utter disdain for women.

Eastern meadowlarks usually best me when I try to get good photos of them. Today was different.❤️ #birds #photographer #birdsofbluesky

Like he’s about to reach in his coat pocket and dig out some Swisher Sweets.

That's right folks. The triple evils of "war, poverty & militarism" are part of Coretta's politics BEFORE she meets Martin. She meets Paul Robeson and Bayard Rustin through this work long before she meets MLK. Progressive Party activists are massively red-baited--the FBI take notice of her then.

"Why doesn't the US have national health insurance?" Fascinating new paper from Alsan and Neberai out in QJE @qjeharvard.bsky.social finds: rise of private health insurance in the US was enabled by 'strategic, interest group-financed effort to shape citizen views and influence policy' #EconSky

The story of the AMA killing universal health care (and almost killing Medicare)...in the QJE????????? So important I'm not even upset that it doesn't cite the sociologists who studied this like Jill Quadagno :)

All the car parks to the supermarkets and hyper markets in this area are done. Plus quite a few much smaller parking areas. All new agricultural buildings have solar panel roofs as well.

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I laughed too hard here

The uncle line up for his beard from the regular barber shop with the beret? John Travolta wants to have a man to man talk with you after family dinner, son. You’re old enough for him to shoot it to you straight now. Let him rap to you.

"The A.I. economy we are building promises that companies will be able to make profits without making career paths. That’s the entire selling point."

"Passion and purpose are not the same thing. Passion brings you joy. Purpose brings you meaning. Passion gets you out of bed in the morning. But purpose allows you to sleep at night."

One of many gems: “Women are facing an economic apocalypse. Democrats have no plan for them. Republicans have a plan, and it’s a one-way ticket back to housewifery. The girl bosses who once promised us we could have it all are now selling the same uncritical A.I. takes as the men.”

If you want to feel empowered this morning, here's a gift link of @tressiemcphd.bsky.social banger article on women seeing through influencer attempts to convince us that we should fear the AI www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

In the immortal words of the theoretical physicist @chanda.blacksky.app: "Put down AI and read a fucking book." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

I'm a big Springsteen fan and the idea that he is somehow the musical vanguard against fascism by himself is hilarious, does the name Chappell Roan ring any bells?

What we find is that when you share with evaluators that they are being supervised by a Black supervisor, their stated beliefs about Black workers change. Those who are told that a Black supervisor is watching how they evaluate workers report that Black workers are, on average, more productive. 3/

It's official. Our FIRST academic publication is officially live @aeajournals.bsky.social! ✨ TLDR: In an online experiment, @emmarackstraw.bsky.social and I find evidence that evaluators assigned to Black supervisors perceive Black workers as more productive on average. #econsky #blacksky

I stand with these people and touched on this in my Nebula-nominated story “Through the Machine.” As an author, I don’t want my work narrated by a bot. As a reader, I don’t want to hear a bot narrate the book I’m reading. They’re coming at us from every angle, but it’s good to see people fighting.

Chief Justice Roberts says the court isn't political. This week, six justices "read" 107 pages of legal briefing in 38 minutes and let Alabama gerrymander its congressional map mid-election. The stopwatch says otherwise.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

If you're anywhere near Cambridge on May 29th, come see Jamelle Bouie, Martha Jones, Heather Thompson & other starry speakers reflect on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Tickets are *free* but nearly gone so hit the link below asap www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-un...

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

#BOTD Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925 – May 7, 1972) #PortraitPhotography #Photography #Surrealist

This Saturday: talkback about "Mexodus," award-winning musical about the Underground Railroad to Mexico.

My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government.

Ha muerto Valie Export y Estrella de Diego repasa su trayectoria de cuerpo entero elpais.com/cultura/2026...

Inflation & gas prices just hit a 3-year high. Housing & healthcare have never been more expensive. …and Trump wants you to think we’re in an economic golden age?! Who are you going to believe—a career con man or your empty wallet?

The attack on Black voting rights is a five-alarm fire. Saturday, May 16th, thousands march in Montgomery. Tonight there’s a Mass Call. Here’s how white allies stop watching and start showing up. All roads lead to the South. Yours included. 🔥👇 open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...

I doubt I know more about reconstruction than Trevon. What I do know is that Reconstruction wasn’t some shadowy, back room event. It was then as it is now — plain as day, obvious to all, boastful and unrepentant.

Slip away (slip away - r.i.p.) www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

This guy I was dating walked into my new (new build) house in RVA. On the edge of gentrifying, if you know what I mean. He looked around and said, “yeah see I wouldn’t buy this.” He was 47 years old and lived with his mother. Anyway.

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

anyway i am creeping up on 100K subscribers at youtube, come join me! i post a video a day, mondays through fridays. youtube.com/@jamelle-bou...

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

Having met Lupita on multiple occasions I can confirm that anyone with a whit of human desire would drink her bathwater if she offered it. She is absurdly fine. Luminous. And just as sweet and smart as can be.

this essay on Beowulf and the film Sinners is so good. #medievalsky "Reading across Beowulf into Sinners provokes a host of enlivening questions for both works. Above all is the ambiguity of what it means to be a sinner."

One photographer’s immigrants, laborers and child workers at the Frick Pittsburgh www.wesa.fm/arts-culture...

The History Of New York’s Tenements, The City’s Run-Down Housing For Millions Of Impoverished Immigrants In The Early 20th Century allthatsinteresting.com/new-york-ten... #history #USHistory Tenement in Brooklyn, NY, 1890

The battlefield that visitors walk today is not the battlefield of 1863, nor even the battlefield of 1900. It is the product of layer upon layer of decision, neglect, restoration, and reinvention. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...