Americans are using oatmeal to stretch their food and dreaming about robbing grocery stores while Republicans use government to make their rich friends richer. There are many words for this. Like plunder. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

Rev. Ed King, one of the last surviving founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and a longtime ally of Black Mississippians throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, died on Saturday, July 4, at age 89.

The administration is keeping immigrant kids separated from parents for months and months, often only releasing them after courts intervene. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

This is one of the more honest conversations I’ve seen on cable news in a while. Mara Gay explains why many voters are angry that their tax dollars are funding the war in Gaza while Americans struggle here at home. She argues it’s about what our government chooses to prioritize. 1/2

We are interviewing voters in battleground counties on camera, to understand what they want to see from politicians and from democracy itself. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/o...

The cautious centrists and center-left politicians who have dominated the Democratic Party for so long have failed. Voters see this, which is why the uprising within the Democratic Party is unlikely to be contained. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...

Took a quick dip before the sharks return.

“The British did not take it well,” Mayor Mamdani says in his Independence Day speech, maybe the most millennial language ever used to describe the American Revolution youtu.be/XcxRUkGAM-w

my essay this week was, icymi, on the people who wielded the declaration as a weapon against bondage (gift link)

Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country

The Supreme Court is one vote away from undoing the 14th Amendment.

thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record

Sick www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽 Black woman journo here who has covered multiple Grand Slams, including an ESPN Magazine cover story on Naomi Osaka and many pieces on the Williams sisters: I am available for commissions on Serena and Wimbledon! I was there for her final US Open match. I ask great questions!

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

NYC pool season begins today

Delivered www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/n...

From a city with stunningly little turnover in the Congressional delegation to almost a complete sweep-out in the course of about 8 years (going back to AOC's shock win over Queens boss Joe Crowley).

Brad Lander, the progressive who won a congressional primary in Brooklyn tonight, began his political career in the city council fighting stop and frisk alongside Jumaane Williams. That was circa 2011

Errol Louis of NY1 says New York is in the “middle of a political revolution of sorts.”

The booing that just broke out in the crowd in response to Hakeem Jeffries on the screen at the DSA slate election night party was so intense it immediately felt like Knicks fans seeing a Spurs fan after game 4.

Claire Valdez supporters chanting “DSA!” at their election night party in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn

Claire Valdez supporters in Bushwick celebrating Brad Lander’s win

now in video form: youtu.be/fOVt5CrAEvk

Before the shooting, a witness saw two women exit the store: one carrying a single box of diapers, and one carrying the infant child, WREG reported.

Images from the Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, where police deployed tear gas against residents protesting the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. Courtesy Action News 5: www.actionnews5.com/2026/06/16/c...

“ Trump’s obsession with voter fraud is just another expression of the reactionary populist belief that the people who inhabit a place are not equivalent to the people, who are entitled to rule” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o... @jamellebouie.net

This could happen to any Black mother and baby in America.

Police officers responding to a shoplifting call over some diapers shot and killed one-year-old baby Kohen Kartier Wiley. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

The People’s Beach at Rockaway

that’s right

The psychology behind this is actually kinda fascinating www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/n...

Cash: sweet, adorable, 10 months old and adoptable through Social Tees NYC Rescue socialteesnyc.org

Last night didn’t just feel like a comeback for the Knicks, but for New York City. Six years ago Covid killed tens of thousands of our neighbors (including Karl-Anthony Towns’ mother). Then more heartbreak and disappointment, from Trump to Eric Adams, Cuomo, ICE raids, a housing crisis.

“Merchants trying to import food have to navigate a process full of brokers, fee-charging middlemen and black-market profiteers, some of whom are in or have connections to the Israeli security services.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @emmagoldberg.bsky.social

sam alito in callais: it is just a coincidence that partisan gerrymandering looks like racial gerrymandering. it doesn’t mean anything tennessee republicans post-callais: yee haw boys we are gettin’ the negras outta government

"The effort to destroy Black political power in the South is among the greatest betrayals of Black Americans....It will have far-reaching consequences for all Americans, and for our democracy." @maragay.bsky.social on the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/o...

Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, legislatures in the South are rapidly dismantling Black political power to help a failing president maintain control of Congress, and claw back gains made by Black people and their allies in their own states www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/o...

Agenda is clear www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Zf...

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

Extremely good piece

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.

In 2025, HHS issued stop work order for federal research lab that studies Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens and fired its director. This lab was a world leader in accelerating development therapies and vaccines for Ebola and other viruses. 1/ www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Mississippi’s governor just called Bennie Thompson’s time in Congress a “reign of terror.” Who, precisely, is terrified here? And of what, or whom? My new column for @us.theguardian.com on what the post-Callais redistricting wave is actually building.

The horror. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...