Ms Rachel schools Obama on why he really should stop using dehumanizing language.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.

“What shocked me, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria. You would have plainclothed officers without any warrant come and take you just because of your political speech.” @oliverlaughland.bsky.social interviews Mahmoud Khalil

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

This man is an authentic American hero A Black man facing armed federal agents to stand up for his youth baseball team. Brave. www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...

Union station, DC

a first step to organizing people to do anything right now is just bringing people together for anything—to vent. to eat together. to make art. to remind people we have each other. to ask what we can do together. to keep the despair at bay.

"Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground" final lithograph of Käthe Kollwitz, 1942. The death of her son in battle in 1914 profoundly affected the artist, who expressed her grief by creating many prints on the theme of mothers protecting their children from the horrors of war #WomensArt

Venus Williams will headline the U.S. Open singles wild cards for 2025. Williams will make her 25th main-draw appearance at the age of 45. More from @cdeccleshare.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...

Michael Broadway died from an asthma attack on a scorching day inside an Illinois prison. Witnesses said a nurse didn't want to climb the stairs to his cell. A friend in a nearby cell put it plainly: “staff in these prisons DO NOT see us as human beings.” boltsmag.org/illinoi...

"... observe how so many in the Democratic establishment confuse triangulation with leadership and treat stability as a virtue in and of itself. There’s a chasm between what we say and what we deliver. We continue asking voters to show up while we refuse to show up for them." Delgado going IN.

Been thinking about this for days. So many recent re-examinations of our history have been made possible through archives held in Black cultural institutions. Cuts aren't only about erasing the past but undermining the potential to grapple with who we are as a nation in the present and future

When Republican voters surprise pundits, there's always a spate of opinion pieces arguing that we must take the time to understand the wants and desires of said voters. Apparently, when Democratic voters do it, the response is to say they're unserious people who need to grow up. Interesting.

Washington Post doing the job of war mongers and the military industrial complex. Remarkable.

David Wright Faladé: Black Texans were not ignorant of their freedom before June 19, 1865 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/19/o...

this is good!!

Chicago

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Literally still moving into the studio but did a 20min glam sesh and costume change for this interview with @blockclubchi.bsky.social 💁🏾‍♀️. Thank you for documenting a very special moment for me, @tiffany.thetriibe.com, @thetriibe.com and the WEST SIDE. blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/04/t...

Black & Beyond the Binary Collective is a Portland-based organization dedicated to building leadership, healing, and safety for Black-African transgender, queer, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, intersex, and asexual (TQN2SIA+) Oregonians. blackandbeyondthebinarycollective.networkforgood.com/projects/249...

The people on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which is meant to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza are saying there is a drone hovering over their ship, which they take as a threat given what happened last time. This is happening right now.

On Sunday, my friend, Jonathan Joss was murdered and it took me a minute to find the words... Like so many of our lives, Jonathan's existed at the powerful intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, visibility, and vulnerability. He was fierce, funny, flawed, and real in every way that mattered.

The music of my childhood. The music of my life. Happy birthday, Stevie❣️ Thank you for sharing your gifts with and for us.

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952, two colour lino cut. The US artist utilised printmaking with extreme skill to explore themes of her fellow African Americans in a 20th century era of Civil Rights activism #womensart

This, as I’m writing about racial immunitary logics and logistics

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

More than a museum, the National Public Housing Museum (which opens today!) is a “studio for activism.” Here’s why this place matters, for @dwell.bsky.social www.dwell.com/article/nati...

The NEH’s budget is less than 0.01 percent of the national budget. Call your representative. I did this morning. www.house.gov/representati...

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

“Israeli police have raided a leading Palestinian-owned bookshop in Jerusalem and detained two of its owners, citing a children’s colouring book as evidence of incitement to terrorism.”

“We need to renew our habits of assembly and recognize that we are part of a common project and that project has been given to us by our ancestors along with the responsibility to pass that project on to our children." -- Fred Moten #BlackHistoryMonth www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFTk...

Print therapy with Octavia Butler. #letterpress #parableofthesower

This NYT sleight-of-hand is part of why Trump’s insane racism flourishes. The implication is that it’s possible to “attack diversity” WITHOUT a “racist undercurrent.” And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.

Theodore Wright, civic leader, minister, graduated from Princeton in 1829. He helped found the American Anti-Slavery Association & 2 NYC high schools. He was publicly outspoken re human rights & privately a conductor in the Underground Railroad.

“nobody saw this coming” = “we considered everyone who saw this coming a nobody”

Workers in DC are fighting to block Musk's minions. "About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...

#OPINION "The only person I ever knew to use the phrase “communal infrastructure” in the context of friendship was Pableaux Johnson. By communal infrastructure he meant everything that a friend might need over time. " ✍️: Lolis Eric Elie Read more here: https://buff.ly/4hagMry

If you weren’t Pableaux’s friend, he just hadn’t met you yet. Photo by Cheryl Gerber.

Great read. I’ve been blown away by the incredible organizing in Chicago over the years to fight deportations and detention expansion. Lots to learn from their efforts and how they are preparing now.

Chicago’s first Black mayor, the late Harold Washington, then an Illinois state representative, led the push to commemorate the birthday of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. thetriibe.com/2022/01/lets...

Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...

Mohammed is worried because his campaign has been going slowly and he’s trying to take care of his family ❤️