This Pistons game has me tight.

When he was a Senator, Lamar Alexander voted against impeachment, for the 2017 Trump tax cut that disproportionately favored the rich, & for "skinny repeal" of the ACA, which would have kicked millions off their health insurance. Now, he has bravely written a memoir. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

This is nice but we must have missed when Senator Lamar Alexander did this himself 😕 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

In case anyone needs a refresher, the Mueller and Senate Intel probes documented that Trump and his team: - welcomed - received - benefitted from - and lied about Russian campaign campaign assistance, then obstructed the investigation. None of this has been discredited. tinyurl.com/5n8kjymy

"Elite" doesn't apply to the party of the world's richest families "Working class" luxury pickup truck owners, but not POC "Faith voters" but not the most religious group, Black Americans "Midwest" means White Obvious narrative biases pushed even by centrist "MSM" like NYT's senior editors:

Republican C-SPAN caller: “It’s hard for me to say this, but I think if I can open up about it in public it might help others… I regret my support for Trump, and I should’ve known better. He’s a con man. A liar. The worst, most corrupt president we’ve ever had.”

@adriennunez.bsky.social what’s up, my guy. #BKtoA2

As family homelessness hits record highs, school districts are offering parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night

Many excellent points in this @froomkin.bsky.social piece including: read the black press on this renewed attack on voting rights. "As in the 1950s and 60s, the Black press is revealing what the white press is slow to acknowledge." presswatchers.org/2026/05/its-...

@keithellison.bsky.social perhaps educate Klobuchar, who clearly doesn’t see her vote being threatened, so it’s not a thing.

Some of the identified individuals the US killed in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific showed "no indication of involvement with drug trafficking." And even if they were traffickers, they'd be low level. Killing them would make virtually no impact on the cartels or drug trafficking into the US.

This is really important from four of my law school colleagues who helped draft U of M’s institutional neutrality policy. www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

@gopcrimes.bsky.social ahem

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

KNOXVILLE: “Knox County Schools has banned the 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Roots", credited with raising awareness about Black American history…”😕🤔 Republican censorship continues. (Alex Haley is buried by his boyhood home in Henning, TN) www.wbir.com/article/news...

🤷🏿‍♂️No he didn't. Only white people believe this. People in Asia and the Middle East had been using a technique first developed in Africa, called variolation, to do the same exact thing, for hundreds of years. Jenner himself was innoculated against smallpox as a child, using the African technique.

In this essay on the movie "Detroit" [2017], I ask if it is possible to tell stories of racism that do more than retraumatise the already brutalised. What does it mean to tell stories of racial violence responsibly? Can the power of stories end a wretched night? folukeafrica.com/detroit-the-...

Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

164 years ago, on the 13th of May 1862, Robert Smalls escaped slavery by capturing the steamboat 'Planter' and steering it through Confederate lines. The US Navy commissioned it as the USS Planter and appointed Smalls as captain, making him the first black man to command a US ship. #otd #history 🗃️

“Every time Black communities get close to political power, we see this shift… We see states across the South reminding the country exactly why those protections exist in the first place.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The Trump administration thinks taking food away from struggling families is something to brag about. Now they’re jamming through legislation that locks in $187 billion in SNAP cuts while creating wasteful, unnecessary bureaucratic barriers for people already in dire need.

There's a growing movement led by Black influencers, academics, politicians and celebrities to promote destroying SEC athletics in response to Jim Crow 2.0 gerrymanders (encouraging athletes to enroll and seek NIL deals elsewhere) Not my place to have an opinion on it so just noting what I'm seeing

During his campaign, when Trump said “Make America Great Again,” a lot of Black folks heard “Make America White Again.” That’s why so many of us warned people, and WE WERE RIGHT. 🧵

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Pîsim is from the Maskwacis Cree Nation. He makes music for culture and collective liberation. Pisim wears many hats—artist, model, entrepreneur, speaker—but he is also simply a wonderful human being whose presence brings beauty to the world. #indigenous #hiphop #music

Legendary hip hop producer 9th Wonder receives his degree from North Carolina Central University, 26 years after leaving to HBCU to pursue music

WATCH — @realdlhughley.bsky.social : “I don’t understand why a 4/5 star athlete would go to a school where the state is ushering in a new iteration of Jim Crow… if you can’t run in a state, don’t run in a state.” #Memphis #Louisiana #Tennessee #Alabama @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

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.

Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that Alito’s claim is “simply not factual,” and that the turnout gap had “exploded” over the last three years. trib.al/8N53FLm

Why would a college player play for an #SEC team? Most of them are in #JimCrow states.

Justice Alito relied on misleading data to support his claim that “Black voters now participate in elections at similar rates as the rest of the electorate." Using the DOJ’s data, Alito omitted the fact that the racial voter gap is actually widening. trib.al/QIDuIYb

Roberts is now the most effective white supremacist leader in over a century, with Trump in sec. The two of them show how how conservative leaders have been this way for decades (actually centuries). Trump is new in style but not substance. Same old white supremacy.

1. Hegseth testified in Congress that the cost of first 60 days of the Iran War cost $25 billion. Internally, the Pentagon says its $50 billion. Popular Information crunched the numbers, and the real cost is much higher: At least $72 BILLION.

We’re building big in Canada and finding new partners who want to build with us.

Happy Birthday Bob Seger! Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/BobSegerHBD

Happy Birthday to the Motor City Rocker, Bob Seger, born in Detroit, Michigan 81 years ago today.

Washington Post satellite imagery analysis finds Iran strikes on US installations far more accurate and effective than disclosed; US bases unprepared for drones. "The amount of destruction is far larger than what has been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. government or previously reported."

@omarisankofa.bsky.social Fred here says the East is pretty much a wrap. #Vs

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

#EduSky #AcademicSky #HistorySky

Just a little profile update @acog.org @acogd2.bsky.social

Disappointed with the Raptors.

@omarisankofa.bsky.social are they really chanting “Angel Reese” at Wendell Carter?

Gordon Parks, Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan, 1950

Trump‘s inability to see the second order effects of his actions are incredible

The Detroit News obtained an audio recording of Michigan Republican Senate hopeful Mike Rogers calling for intimidation at Detroit polling precincts.

I am guessing that “FOUR” did not sound as ominous as “MULTIPLE.” Four from across New Jersey.

My latest. America is giving dying mall vibes. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...