So fucking important

This makes a ton of sense to me

How bad was the Venezuelan quake? It lifted my country's - Trinidad and Tobago - coastline in some areas by 20 feet. We are many miles from the epicenter, though only a few miles from the Venezuelan coastline. And yes, we felt it. trinidadexpress.com/news/local/q...

Im cryin. 😭 #betawards

dang the Guava girlies were really eating in the 90’s and 2000’s…Badu and Lauryn fed ussssss

The tribute to Lauryn was better than the D’angelo.

Ok Doechii is good for thissssss! And Tems is doing ok! And Tierra Whack!

I feel like the BET awards used to be so much fun! And the performances were good!

What the fuck is this? #betawards

D’Angelo ain’t got NO. FUCKING. BUSINESS. being dead!!!!

This DAngelo Tribute…hmm

I thought I was cutting my hair this year but…no. 🥲

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

This actually pisses me off so bad!! Lol

A Petersburg man charged with assault after stepping in to stop a man from beating a person with special needs had his charges dismissed on Friday.

I really hope people take this away from his tenure if nothing else: the basics matter.

🎵Everthing Pinkaaaaa 🌸💅🏽🎵

Exactly!

Since January 1, 2025, the City of Chicago has transitioned to using 100% clean, renewable energy to power all City streetlights and 400+ City buildings including O’Hare Airport, Midway Airport, Harold Washington Library, City Hall, and more.

I’m so excited about my chat with Sarah J. Jackson later today. Black people have always pushed journalism ahead in this country by telling the truth about it and I’m so glad she has taken the time to document their work. calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/sarah-...

I’m a @capitalb.bsky.social donor and you should be too.

The military services are again requiring new recruits to get a flu shot after an outbreak - just two months after Hegseth made them optional. It'll be mandated for larger swaths of the force in the coming weeks. abcnews.com/Health/milit...

Immigrant rights are women’s rights are trans rights are gay rights are sex worker rights. defector.com/life-as-an-u...

this......

We are disgusted by the racist attacks against Darializa Avila Chevalier. There should be zero tolerance for this hateful bullshit in the Democratic Party.

200,000+ Black New Yorkers have been forced out of NYC over the last 20 years because of costs. After rent, child care is the largest cost families face. So we’re making universal child care a reality. Families have until this Friday, June 26, to apply for a 2-K seat this fall at myschools.nyc.

What yall think Beyoncé did with the shed hair out the locs? She burned it right?

My grandparents taking us to Shoney’s 🥹☺️

I’d buy it 🤷🏽‍♀️

Where the blueberries come from?!!

Alert: @runforsomething.net is hiring a digital comms director. Help us find someone great! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Wow 🤩

A meticulous investigation of how Durham NC handed outsized property-tax relief to giant landowners. "A modest bungalow contesting a few thousand dollars was far likelier to walk away empty-handed than a global corporation asking to shed millions." @indyweek.bsky.social @writingthings.bsky.social

Counterpoint: science is always politicized. It just lost its dominant winning coalition amidst the collapse of the reigning political order. We urgently need strategy to regain it.

Imagine being a kid and learning both your parents were arrested by ICE. You’ll have to pay rent and survive on your own. I shadowed four siblings—US citizens near Mar-a-Lago—as they try to do that. I'll be thinking about their story for a long time 1/x www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Anyway, I had a really great weekend. - found a really fancy ironing board at Goodwill for $3.99 - made some teriyaki wings from scratch w/jasmine rice & marinated cucumbers - made a cobbler from blackberries from my neighbor’s bush! - scored cute workout gear at Old Navy’s athletic sale!

This weather is *insane* it feels like a hurricane, but less wind?

Translating this tortured headline: Allegheny County (PA) Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Daphy Michel's- a Haitian asylum seeker who was abandoned in the dead of winter by ICE- death a homicide

This is why ICE and DHS want to stop counting deaths that follow immediately after release. It's bad enough (they'll claim) that they need to account for deaths in detention. (And rapes, and beatings, and neglect...) apnews.com/article/ice-...

if you're wondering about the benefits of solar, my last electricity bill was $28.

Doing god’s work. Great NYT pic of the rainbow at the Kennedy Center last night for the “Great Unnaming”

Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.

I’m very excited for this! On a summer evening in 1972, a pivotal generation of Harlem Renaissance legends gathered at Duke Ellington’s townhouse. The trailer for “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” is out:

A farmer in Texas donated his land to a town to be turned into a public park. After he died, the city took the land and sold it for $10 million to a company building a data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

"The people inside Delaney Hall have learned that their humanity only extends one way. That is, they can be punished for crossing the law, but when the law crosses them, they are no one at all."

Trump promised you cheap energy. Instead, he launched a war with Iran that handed oil companies the biggest windfall in years. Now working families are paying the price.

HAPPY LITTLE GUY ALERT 🐣 🪶

Writing: some kind of jazz or afrobeats Driving: podcasts or 90s-2000s southern rap Cooking/cleaning: 70s/80s R&B or champagne funk