ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

People talk about the 300k+ Black women who have lost their jobs as if they are statistics for their research projects and I’m here to remind yall, we are real ass people feeling the effects of it. In our homes, quality of life and well-being. To those of you in this boat with me, I see you. 💙

A woman just said to my son ‘oh, matching shoes!’ and I thought it was a super weird thing to say. Who doesn’t wear matching shoes? As she walked away I noticed she was wearing the same adidas as him 👟

If the Supreme Court strikes down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South. Here's how.

“Trafficking children to secret prisons hundreds of miles away from home” just isn’t the vibe these people want is it

To me, the band with the most indelible sound in music is Turmericquai. Ok look, this is a joke about the name Jamiroquai, but it’s also a joke about how if you spill something with turmeric on your clothes it won’t come out. I can’t walk you guys through all of these, ok?

“I’ve got no problem with gruel.” Under orders from Trump, officials seek to make the life sentences of 37 convicted killers more like a living hell. The men were spared the death penalty by Biden.

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

A must read for ANYONE who wants to understand why Black women are experiencing a uniquely bad labor market and why the 300,000 number isn't telling the full story. Dr. Valerie Wilson gets deep into the data around job losses and why paying attention to Black women matters. #blacksky

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

This is so so awful. He left four children (all Americans, not that it should matter) and a grieving wife (also an American, not that it should matter)

The forests that once sheltered the small town of Roseland are turning brown. Now, many residents are left wondering: Is what was left behind after the Aug. 22 blast safe? If it’s making the trees ill, what about them?

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

I would bet next week's pay that just about everything you know about world and national events you know because of traditional journalism. Even if you got it from some podcaster, Tik Tocker or Substack writer, who got it from traditional journalists.

Trump education department to divert grants from colleges serving students of color The U.S. Department of Education announced it will withhold $350 million of congressionally approved funds to colleges and universities that serve students of color and divert the funds elsewhere, saying that the…

Does America care about these kids? Will tears be shed in Washington D.C. for them? Will people even know their names?

The release of South Koreans detained after an immigration raid in Georgia is delayed owing to “circumstances on the U.S. side,” Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said.

In the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.

🧵1/7 Six people in the U.S. died from rabies in the past year--the highest in years. 🦠 TL;DR: vaccinate your pets, avoid wild animals, wash any bites, and get medical help if exposed.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?

Why are we entertaining the THOUGHTS and OPINIONS of this man who no background in medicine whatsoever and lacks any kind of expertise in public health? It's breaking my brain

The history books better make it clear that Black people didn’t support any of this.

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

A tiny announcement about this year’s Thomas Wolfe prize. englishcomplit.unc.edu/program/wolfe/ Sep. 30.

i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.

Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...

Checking in from Congress Heights over here in Ward 8 where people are quite sure mothers would be “grateful” to have people with automatic weapons around their kids. There’s a church youth fair happening, kid made me a decent sno cone.

thinking about posting jokes on here has anyone tried this

Why is the new season of #ProjectRunway taking a show that's supposed to be about skilled designers & turning it into typical trash reality? They got Heidi (should've got Tim too) back & should have gone back to their roots.

They’ve co-opted and restructured the information systems. They’ve (already) reconfigured the political systems around their project. Now, they are flipping values upside down and inside out. I don’t know that folks have accounted for those last two. Most are still trying to figure out the first.

More attention here please.

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds. Then the harassment began. Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel. Six credible threats to his life. More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

It just keeps coming… CBS uncovered a mystery third person caught on jailhouse cameras the night Epstein died. Not named. Not mentioned in the DOJ report. Spotted near his cell just after 4 a.m., two hours before he was found dead. Why now? Somebody wants this out.

Just read the Brown University agreement and this really jumped out. "The University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex."

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

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Oh I have been waiting on this one.

An 82 year old man named Luis Leon came to the US in 1987. He sought asylum from political persecution in Chile. He’s been in the US ever since & was granted a green card. He lost his wallet (and green card) in June & when he went to replace it he was disappeared by ICE 🧵

Men often wanted Joni Mitchell to be a wife, a muse, a siren, or a star. Instead they got a genius.