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No, the public has no misconceptions about the operations of SCOTUS. That the members of the court’s conservative majority are “political actors” is plain as the ass on a goat. The people who see that have a right to call it out.

The Black Zine Fair, produced by @prisonculture.bsky.social and Neta Bomani, is this Saturday May 9th in Brooklyn. It is without a doubt THE place to be on Saturday, if you are in NYC or even close by. If you can't be there, you can also join me in making a donation! pools.events/event/WFzHwJ...

Primavera. Jacaranda blossoms.

Mais flores.

Flores.

Anita Hill deserved (and DESERVES) so much better.

I’m reading chapter in a forthcoming book about Timothy McVeigh, his ambition for race war, “propaganda of the deed” per racist Turner Diaries. & thinking of current moment, decades on, SCOTUS, & realizing that fascist idiot got so much of what he wanted.

There is no compromise to be had with a movement whose whose whole reason for being, whose core identity is their hatred of Black people and their desire to dominate them. The right wing have their side quests and folk demons of the week, but the whole foundation is anti-Blackness.

The overriding goal of America's right wing is to restore chattel slavery so they can own Black people. That's it. Whether they will admit it or not, whether they'll even admit it to themselves, their goal is legal domination and subjugation through violence of Black people. Everything leads there.

Between January and May of 1979, eleven black women were murdered in the Boston area. Feminists organized in response to the killings, including the Combahee River Collective, which published this pamphlet.

Recently, I looked at the papers of black feminist Barbara Smith, a contemporary of Audre Lorde and Pauli Murray. These pamphlets are from the 70s/80s. I cannot help but reach the conclusion that gender-based violence and mistreatment (a far reaching term, I know) of black women is on the rise now.

Sunset.

“On August 21, 1781, she became the first enslaved woman to have her self-proclaimed independence validated in a court of law. She changed her name to Elizabeth Freeman to reflect her new status.” 19thnews.org/2026/04/revo...

Almada. Clear skies.

Unspeakable.

All of his businesses and property should be nationalized and dissolved and he should be stripped of literally every single asset and dollar. Put him in public housing and let him live off of whatever UBI the next Congress passes.

When you call a principled stand virtual signaling, you might be the problem.

The only way someone could be this rich is if other people remain poor. Redistribute the wealth.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon | Lebanon | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Distraction. The word most consistently overused.

RIP. I will never forget the police brutalizing him — and then that one cop stopping the other cop from helping him

Toni Morrison visited this morning & bade me read Baby Suggs’s sermon in the clearing—aloud. I offer you this excerpt: Here,” she said, “in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in the grass. Love it. Love it hard.”

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

The "duped voter" narrative is a comforting myth. If only we had better messaging. The reality is tens of millions of voters looked at a platform of mass deportation, ethnic cleansing, state violence, and the dismantling of civil rights, clearly understood it, and said, "Yes, that is what I want."

Israeli Army: Largest Strikes on Lebanon Since War Began The Israeli military says it carried out its widest wave of airstrikes on Lebanon since the start of the war with Iran, launching 100 strikes in just 10 minutes.

That issue? Trump being president.

One of dozens of videos coming out of Beirut. There are people under the rubble. Israel is committing multiple massacres

As expected.

We shouldn’t have to live like this—in a perpetual state of dread and uncertainty, tied to the whims of a mad man. #25thAmendment

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

This is a sick civilization. An open call to genocide. It is clear that Gaza is how we got here- tolerating genocide in one space begets another. Generations of our ancestors have worked to build something different, toward the preservation of earthly life. I hope I live to see this re-orientation.

It is such an indictment of the world we live in that just as the vaunted domestic checks and balances in the US have been shown to be basically fantasies, so are any international norm against and ability to stop a nuclear holocaust.

Light and shadows.

Spring. Primavera.

Bondi was awful, but no worse than Patel. Noem was terrible, but no worse than Hegseth. Funny that it’s only the women who get fired.

“The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again - Much more to follow!”

At various moments throughout each day it seems absolutely insane that this demented old racist white man could be continuing on this path absolutely untethered by the rest of the world.

Hmmm, wonder what Pam will do for her next act?

RIP Melvin Edwards.

The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Now if they were danish or afrikaner billionaires it would be fine bsky.app/profile/atru...

This court has shown a dedication to following whatever this administration has ordered. Fixed it for the @washingtonpost.com

Yes! ⤵️ Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land share.google/xiDcNpwza9M6...

"If one thing has been consistent in ICE’s ever expanding mission, it’s that the agency is being used by the administration to instill fear," writes Mathew Rodriguez. theintercept.com/2026/03/28/i...