For the first time since news of Mississippi’s $77 million welfare scandal first broke in 2020, a judge has sentenced one of its conspirators, even as six others await sentencing.

Double amputee Rodney Taylor revealed the horrific conditions he endured in ICE detention: “They refused to feed me for 3 weeks because they expected me to walk the length of a football field to get some food." https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/double-amputee-rodney-taylor-released-from-ice-custody/

lol my recent reads showing up on the timeline makes me feel good about what I’m getting more context about. This is talked about in “The Color of Kink” by Ariane Cruz

Why are yall not talking about it before they close voter registration? Or when candidates post their platforms on their websites? Or when we get election updates? (Rhetorical) Always last minute and always republican. STFU They the opps they rap about

Pizza Hut is doing their bookit program again. They can get a free personal pizza (max 5 in a month) during the summer. So if you need help pushing your kids to read you can't go wrong with pizza www.bookitprogram.com

White college athletes need to stop, too. It's not enough for Black athletes to do this, that would just make the racists all too happy to see no more Black people playing on their teams. But if white people boycott, too? The racists won't have competitive teams and the institutional prestige falls.

Y'all gotta stop with these AI flyers. You can use Canva for free

Honoring my need to be less informed. Every issue is not mine to shoulder. 🥀

People spent the last five fucking years telling Black people we were over reacting, we needed to act better and our message had to be filtered a certain way The fact everyone waited to this while still DOING NOTHING OF SUBSTANCE was a choice

My TikTok algorithm >>>

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

"So go get you some, BITCH! You solved the mystery Scooby Doo" 😂😂😂

They watered the source material down into almost NOTHING when it came to the movies and it was STILL powerful.

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Not directed at OP but I dunno why so many white people are still determined to believe that someone's racism is a mistake or a misunderstanding. No, they are saying this shit on purpose because they mean it!! Believe them!!

“You’re a POC…” I am BLACK!!!

You gone ban the ssri but NOT the guns???? That’s a choice

Imma have to bring notes to vote 😭 we have so many names on our ballot

These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.

The rebels after killing President snow 🤭

We been battling for 400 years! 😭😭🎯

Young, Gifted, & Black.

I cannot stress enough how much clarity I’m getting from reading “Jesus and John Wayne” by Kristin Kobes du mez. TBH, if it wasn’t for the misogynistic conspiracy theorist at my job I wouldn’t have gotten to this in probably a year. But I needed it sooner

*rubs temples* I want to scream until I shit myself to death. This not only not using alt text, it's fucking AI. It's complaining about data centers ruining nature. With AI. We are the giant pandas of sentient species, istg. The fermi paradox's answer is just that we fucking suck this fucking much.

I miss Legendary.

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.

The new issue of Africa's best news magazine is out -- with wisdom from @nanjala.bsky.social (among other good things). Her prescription for navigating our uncertain times? Read. "Read for joy, read for pleasure. Just read. And Imagine. There’s no point in a revolution if it leads to more misery."

We got a pedo in charge shit weird everyday for the last 2 years homestly

Timeline cleanse. Get it babies!

happens regularly.

That’s a come up

Yikes

I ain’t got nothing for nobody this week man

Contact IT and don’t try to log in again, deadass.

Thanks to @floodmagazine.bsky.social for the spotlight on @mauricechammah.bsky.social's Redemption Songs project! “The goal with Redemption Songs is to take at face value the idea that people in prison are artists as much as anyone else can be artists.”

They're already doing child support, and IRS/tax debt. What's interesting is you can have around $65,000 in tax debt, but only $2500 in child support arrears. By these metrics, I bet the next arbitrary debt barrier will be $1000! Maybe even $500 knowing people get lazy on follow-up! 😒

But not weed?? I—

relevant to current bluesky events

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

If you are skeptical, the Defense Department was caught suppressing info on an oil spill in the Chesapeake Bay YESTERDAY

Ive been guiding classes of kids thru music production and have been helping them make their own songs. Here’s a snippet of Clock It! “Good grades, clock it clock it clock it!”

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

In light of everything this reads a lot more like a threat than a job ad.

Unironically this was perfect comms strategy.

My overall political opinion is that we’re past the point of no return for the foreseeable future and have to start figuring out how we’re going to survive in a world that is more hostile than we would have expected a decade ago and is only getting worse. Everybody fucked up too badly.