We’re witnessing a Jim-Crow era effort to silence Black and Brown communities. Join our movement call on Thursday, June 4, at 7pm ET to learn how to carry forward the legacy of civil rights leader John Lewis and protect the freedom to vote this summer:

New law: Anyone in a position of leadership who lies to the public gets the death penalty.

Let's go to Newark.

From the film credits, this postscript:

Great backstory to this. His great-grandmother was captured and kept at Sea World before activists won her release, ending the capture of orcas in NA. She went on to give birth to a line of 26 orcas, including this little guy. Make your ancestors proud, little guy! Sink a megayacht or something!

c.org/rySTQzFqm5 Please sign, even if you're not local to this.

EXCLUSIVE: I just revealed that Rep. @tomsuozzi.bsky.social lives at C Street. That’s the DC townhouse run by The Family, the secretive Christian group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast. Suozzi pays $800/month. He's kept it secret for years. There’s more…

The Minneapolis Police 3rd precinct police station tonight on the eve of the 6th anniversary of it being burned by protesters following the murder of George Floyd. "SAY HIS NAME" "YOU MUST BE BOLD BRAVE COURAGEOUS AND FIND A WAY TO GET IN THE WAY" "WE REMEMBER GEORGE FLOYD"

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

Same.

BREAKING NEWS: Two detainees have been freed from the Delaney Hall Detention Center after detainees began a hunger strike inside the facility & organizers started protests outside the facility on Friday (both are still ongoing), & after Governor Sherrill was denied entry into the building today.

A tank. A fucking TANK. Do y'all understand that our government is waging war on ALL of us? You aren't exempt. They have a multi-pronged plan to weaken us physically and psychologically and rob us of basic human rights. ALL of us. Your skin color is not going to protect you. You are not exempt.

Attention all big dogs: the page-a-day calendar is back. The 2027 Calendar is ready to preorder at theartofpants.com

As protests outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in New Jersey grow, it's important to internalize the lessons learned by @katmabu.bsky.social and the Broadview Six about putting your body on the line to confront fascism. Read my conversation with Abughazaleh here:

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

🎾 OMG 🥹 Naomi Osaka co-hosted a dinner party with some of the Black tennis players for this year’s Roland Garros (French Open) This is so beautiful ✊🏾

Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk was in tears on the court today as she started her French Open campaign with a win over Russian born Oksana Selekhmetova 6-2, 6-3, her 13th successive win on clay. The #15 seed explained her emotional turmoil after Russia nearly destroyed her family home.

#tdih 1779 ". . .we will not be eaten up by monopolizers & forestallers." Days later, militiamen threw 20+ wealthy men in jail for overpricing & formed a committee to lower cost of goods. From our #America250 lesson, “Founding” Docs We Don’t Learn About ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/po...

Remember this guy? Committed genocide, made birth control illegal, punished free speech, etc. Sound familiar? www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eUj...

The Trump administration continues to try to weaponize immigration law against Mahmoud Khalil, so we need them to know that the world is watching. Add your name to our petition to the Board of Immigration Appeals demanding they re-open and terminate the sham immigration case against Mahmoud.

A thousand congratulations to the great @drewphilp.bsky.social for winning the National Magazine Award in reporting for this harrowing, deeply humane story in @atavist.com . Richly deserved! magazine.atavist.com/2025/there-w... @seywarddarby.bsky.social

THE BIG REVEAL in my new book: I once applied to be a cop. (Yes, pacifist pansy ME tried to join the NYPD.) Read an exclusive exceprt from The Overseer Class in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/on-copaganda...

Federal agents have intimidated, threatened, and even arrested residents of Memphis who have documented their aggressive immigration enforcement activity in their communities. The First Amendment protects our right to record. We'll see them in court.

The WTA (WOMEN's Tennis Association, for those of you that don't follow the sport) is actively trying to punish and silence a Ukranian woman for speaking the truth about war. @wtatour.bsky.social Shame on you hypocrites. #Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/benrothe...

If this isn't proof that the military will just spit you up and throw you out, I don't know what is. There are other ways to find honor. There's no honor in what they're doing to our kids' minds and bodies.

The Dem establish does everything they can to cockblock and discredit people whose ideas we actually LIKE. They don't give a fuck about us. This is about their wallets. Fuck their scare tactics. Don't #VoteBlueNoMatterWho. We did. And everything is horrible. #GreedKills

#tdih 1970 in Mississippi: Police opened fire on students (& passersby) at protest of U.S. invasion of Cambodia at Jackson State. Phillip L. Gibbs (21) & James E. Green (17) were killed. 💔Just 11 days after Kent State & two years after Orangeburg Massacre. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Thanks to the support from individual donors like you, we’ve raised $275,350. We are so grateful! ❤️ But the work isn’t over! We’re still bailing out Black mamas and caregivers all month long and offering resources to every person we free. Continue to #FreeBlackMamas at bit.ly/freeblackmamas2026

Bulldozers preparing an expansion of the U.S. border wall with Mexico caused extensive damage to the Las Playas intaglio 280-by-50-foot etching in the Sonoran Desert. The intaglio, a site sacred to the Indigenous Oʼodham peoples of the Sonora, is estimated to be at least 1,000 years old.

Please read and help if you can. #FreeBlackMamas #MothersDay

Do this for your mama. Make her proud of how she raised you (or if she is/ was a racist, do it to piss her off lol).

@thrasherxy.bsky.social Would love to know your thoughts on Jimmy Carter- "raises questions about whether there can ever be an ethical president of the United States." Maybe your answer is in your book, but my to-read list is SO long right now.

Jack Thornell, a 26-year-old photojournalist for the Associated Press, captured the haunting moment James Meredith pulled himself across the pavement after a surprise shotgun blast sent him to the ground in Hernando, Mississipi, on June 6, 1966. See our gallery of Thornell's Mississippi photos:

Without testing all the available forensic evidence, Tennessee has no way of knowing if they are going to execute an innocent man. Join us and Ndume in urging the state to test the evidence immediately — take action at: aclu.org/tony-carruthers-b

Scene: Me boarding a 767 with a mask, two maskless flight attendants (FA) greet me. FA 1: Welcome aboard! FA2: Oh man, I forgot my mask! ME: Oh, I might have a spare if you want? FA2: Oh thanks man, but I have one...I just forgot to put it on. CUT TO: 30,000 ft BOTH FAs are wearing masks!

Thanks to your generous support, we’ve raised $137,382 so far to #FreeBlackMamas. ❤️ Will you help us reach $200K by tonight? Drop a coin + share this post 👇🏿

Mother's Day is coming up, so if your mother has everything and is a challenge to buy for, consider donating to National Bail Out in her name, and get black mothers home for #MothersDay.

I just bought myself a Mother’s Day gift. Freedom is so much better than flowers.

Poverty traps our Black mamas and caregivers in jail. And at the same time, jail traps our Black mamas and caregivers in poverty.

80% of incarcerated women are parents. Let’s reunite these Black mamas and caregivers with their families so they can return home in time for #MothersDay. Help us raise $500K to #FreeBlackMamas! bit.ly/freeblackmamas2026

It's that time of year, y'all- your own mama will be proud of you for helping! secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb... #MothersDay #FreeBlackMamas

This is one of my favorite recurring donations:

Every U.S. president, from Truman through Nixon, waged war on Vietnam. The human suffering & ecological devastation are impossible to calculate. The US was the richest, most powerful empire in world history. And yet it was defeated by the resistance of the Vietnamese, & anti-war movements. Read ⬇️

We can do better. if we apply ourselves diligently we can trample way more millionaires with many fewer elephants