Breaking News: A judge largely barred federal agents from making arrests in immigration courts in New York City.

The U.S. Supreme Court is conducting a coup d'etat. It is at war with the very premise of an electoral democracy. Nothing about that institution or its work is legitimate. Nothing.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

We fought. We won. Others can too.

Fight, don't fold.

This is the bizarro world the Supreme Court has created with its latest voting rights decision. Thank you Jon Stewart and & @thedailyshow.com You can watch my entire conversation with Jon here: youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM

Just ordered @tiffanydcross.bsky.social's "LOVE, ME: A Letter to Black Women in a Toxic Country, Career, and Relationship" from my local Black/Latina-owned bookstore (The Lit. Bar, BX, NY) via their bookshop.org online shop. Can't wait!

Again, the civil rights era never ended. You are still in it. Black people never got the equality that we seek. The US government just eliminated all of the Black leaders. And what little gains were made, are now being rolled back.

“They want to create a generation of people who are proud of their worst sins, so that they can commit those sins again.” Thank you, Prof. Jason Stanley and @nhannahjones.bsky.social youtu.be/H15qaFpGhck?...

Excuse me, what did you just say? WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY??? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

It’s that time of year again: March 26 marks Equal Pay Day 2026, a symbol of how much longer women would have to work into the new year to catch up with men’s earnings from the year prior. https://bit.ly/40SsYH9

We just caught ICE in a bombshell lie. They do NOT have the authorization they've claimed to arrest immigrants at 26 Federal Plaza. Courthouse arrests must end now. There's never been a stronger case for why this rogue, lawless agency should be abolished.

This makes me so happy. This film, anchored by Michael B. Jordan’s performance, is so deeply meaningful to so many of us. Lovely to see this upright, talented young man recognized for his superb portrayal. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

A heartfelt, deeply informative and moving remembrance of Rev. Jesse Jackson from those who knew him well and worked with him. Thank you, @nativelandpod.bsky.social. youtu.be/-gjB7vEpLwk?...

In last night's State of the Union address, Donald Trump claimed: "We ended DEI in America." In an article in today's TIME, Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow from NYU argue that this claim is false (shocking, I know). time.com/7377439/dona...

It’s not “identity politics” to not want to be denied equality or mistreated because of your identity. In case anyone was wondering.

Imagine being Sunny and having to sit next to this.

A passageway hidden below a dresser at the Merchant’s House Museum in New York City had long been a mystery. It was recently linked to the Underground Railroad. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/n...

PLUS: Don Lemon just filed a motion to obtain grand jury transcripts after pleading not guilty to civil rights charges in Minnesota tied to his coverage of a church protest. Editor at large of @19thnews.org and NABJ president @errinhaines.bsky.social joins the hosts to discuss.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Pam Bondi is pure trash and an embarrassment to the legal profession and to what used to be a honorable institution - the DOJ.

Pretty much how every New Yorker is feeling about this unrelenting winter! Our resident Great Blue Heron dreaming of spring in the Central Park Loch. 💙🩶💙 #Herons #CentralPark #birding

This Great Blue Heron has chosen to winter in Central Park. I see it regularly, standing stoically on the ice--but never fishing. Hoping it is going to make it until the ice thaws! 💙🩶❤️ #Herons #CentralPark #birding

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Breaking News: Wynton Marsalis will step down next year as managing director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, 40 years after he founded it.

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Black women started 2025 with an unemployment rate of 5.4 percent. They ended it at 7.3 percent — the highest rate in four years. Black women’s unemployment is now equivalent to White women’s rate during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession. https://bit.ly/45uZOk3

Our resident Great Blue Heron has been weathering the blizzard with aplomb. I spotted it knee-deep in snow in Central Park's Loch during the height of the storm. 💙🩶💙 #Herons #CentralPark #birding

Snowed in? Check out my thoughts on last week's Beyond the Gates in my latest commentary, "The End of Apology Season." #BTG #BeyondTheGates danjkroll.com/blog/my-view...

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I was very surprised to see a Great Blue Heron doing some ice fishing in Central Park's Loch this morning! And in its full cold weather gear! 💙🩶💙 #Herons #CentralPark #birding

🚨BREAKING: A New York court ruled Wednesday that the state’s 2024 congressional map illegally diluted the political power of Black and Latino voters*, ordering an immediate redraw that would likely give Democrats another seat in this year’s midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

In a surprise appearance in New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen denounced the Trump administration’s ICE deployments and dedicated a song to Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this month.

What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.

To Dems squeamish about the phrase "Abolish ICE" -- it's not the self-defeating rhetoric of Defund or Abolish Police. INS, Customs, Border Patrol are intact to police immigration. ICE did not exist to snatch any random brown people and shoot moms in the head until 2003. We're okay walking it back.

Congratulations to the cast and crew of #BeyondtheGates on their NAACP Image Award nominations for OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES and OUTSTANDING HAIR STYLING (TV OR FILM). I believe #BTG is the first soap to ever be nominated in the main drama (non-soap) category.

Racism is just fascism practiced on Black people first.🤷🏿‍♂️ How cops treated Black people, is being expanded to immigrants and to all people that care about immigrants. The violence that's happening to ICE protesters in Minneapolis and Chicago, has always been happening in Minneapolis and Chicago.

If I'm lucky, I get a chance at a photo like this once a year. A Great Blue Heron standing on the edge of the receding ice on the Harlem Meer just after sunrise this morning. 🩶💙🩶 #Heron #CentralPark #birding

Wait, I’m sorry. Carmen de Lavallade passed yesterday? The legend? Oh, may she rest in paradise reunited with her beloved Geoffrey Holder. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/a...

Counterpoint: Your art is your own. You owe it to no one. Many US art forms, but especially jazz, were born out of joy in the face of resistance. It was not made to entertain the people being resisted. Your body dies when you die. But your art may be spoken of for hundreds of years. Cherish it.

FYI…. My special with Michelle Obama will air in full at midnight Eastern Time, Saturday, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve!

#BTG | My new commentary is posted a day early, so please check it out. I talk about Kat/Tomas, Joey's surprise PDA, Hayley going wild with the poison, Dani's surprisingly good advice, Kial with an IA, and I even made a festive #BeyondTheGates graphic! danjkroll.com/blog/my-view...

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Sixty years ago this month, Dolores Huerta led the charge for a national boycott on table grapes to drive home the importance of safety and fairness for farmworkers. https://bit.ly/4s16K1Y

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

I was thrilled to see a magnificent Great Blue Heron on the Harlem Meer this morning. What do you think of this gray on gray capture? 🩶🖤🩶 #Herons #CentralPark #birding

The Heritage Foundation, author of Project 2025, launched a "Capital Markets Initiative" attacking corporate DEI. Anti-DEI activists argue that DEI is a "woke" ideology. But investors, boards and CEOs say DEI is a business imperative. www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...