Stevie Wonder pays tribute to Earth, Wind and Fire's "September" during tonight's "A Grammy Salute to Earth, Wind & Fire Live"

Wow. After being fired from @washingtonpost.com, my Substack, The Golden Hour, has been #1 rising bestseller in Culture for three days. Thank you all for the support!! Please subscribe! substack.com/@karenattiah...

An elderly white woman instructs a grown Black man to "sit correctly" on the train. He ignores her. She complains to the conductor. The conductor STOPS THE TRAIN & calls the police. While the man is handcuffed, her friend says to him, "you're not the minority anymore."

Someone on here said that above all they want respect. But genuine respect cannot be forced, it has to be freely given. Since they can't earn respect, they'll settle for fear & mythology. It really is the spiritual successor of the Lost Cause like Coates said www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 This is action

This logic, and this level of “evidence” is used to build gang databases throughout the country.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

I'm so happy for her and her family, this is such great news. But also.... Somebody needs to take Offset's phone away from him IMMEDIATELY. Delete all socials. Cancel his TV subscription. And book a six month silent meditation retreat. we not doing any more Jerry Springer theatrics

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate" (MLK)

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Some kids attempting to blow up journalists after days of politicians blaming the press for Kirk’s murder. Barely a ripple.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell

Pastor Howard-John Wesley on Charlie Kirk: “Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated. But how you die does not redeem how you lived. I can abhor the violence that took your life, but I don’t have to celebrate how you chose to live.”

#ResistanceRoots Alain Leroy Locke was born on this day in 1885 in Philadelphia. He became the first African American Rhodes Scholar in 1907 and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard in 1918. He is known for establishing the philosophical underpinnings of the Harlem Renaissance. /1

Do you know what the NYTimes said after Malcolm was assassinated... "The world he saw through those horn-rimmed glasses of his was distorted and dark. But he made it darker still with his exaltation of fanaticism. Yesterday someone came out of that darkness that he spawned, and killed him."

This is why we have to stop using reformist rhetoric. Y'all kept talking about cities with "higher crime rates" and they listened to you. This moment is too perilous for fearful and unimaginative thinking

They didn't even acknowledge the children in Colorado... Pause and really think about what's going on here. Collective grief is a sacred, spiritual act—especially for peoples whose grief is required by an unjust society. Be weary of lending your light to the darkness.

Bad Bunny, one of the biggest musical artists in the world, said he avoided the US in his tour because he thought ICE would set up ouside his shows.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Let’s pivot to the real tragedy. Prayers to these babies 🙏🏽

"We live in a country in which words are mostly used to cover up the sleeper, not to wake him up & therefore it seems to me, the adulation proffered [has] nothing to do with their achievement... It is an adulation which has panic at the root" James Baldwin

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

The "civil rights era" never ended. You are still in it. Black people are still asking for exactly the same things that they asked for in the 1960s: police reform, voting rights, and fair access to employment. And the exact same proportion of white US voters oppose it with both votes and violence.

This has to be the most cowardly generation of public figures in modern American history

When a mile-wide tornado hit St. Louis, the entire back wall of DeAmon White's house was blown off. The third floor of his mother's home was gone. The next morning, at 8 am, the phone calls started: Would he be interested in selling his home? @grist.org

"Forbes found contract records showing ICE purchased nearly $1 million worth of “cell site simulator vehicles” in May this year, indicating it’s taking the surveillance tool fully mobile. That was part of a contract first signed under the Biden administration in 2024."

“Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.” “Most of this technology” came from US companies.

New Census data reveals a damning economic reality for Black households. Black incomes fell in 2024 & Black poverty increased by some measures. Meanwhile the rest of the country saw record high income and overall decline in poverty. @centeronbudget.bsky.social www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

The pre-Reconstruction constitutional order is "alive and well." American law was built upon the idea that "[nonwhites] have no right that the law is bound to respect." The SCOTUS ruling on ICE racial profiling reaffirms that foundational idea. Dred Scott lives.

"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.

"[The Anacé,] an Indigenous group in the Brazilian state of Ceará, in the country’s northeast, brought a formal complaint before federal authorities, asking them to halt the development of a TikTok data center they said was being built on their land" restofworld.org/2025/brazil-...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say 'this was a crime, see,' so now I can't claim 100%..." not that there's any additional context needed to make this sound bad, but Donald Trump's first wife is among those who have accused him of rape abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

“At every gate through which we were to pass, we saw a watchman–at every ferry a guard—on every bridge a sentinel–and in every wood a patrol. We were hemmed in upon every side.” Frederick Douglass, 1845

The President is at war with Black America. Don't let them gaslight you. The administration is drawing up military plans for the federal occupation of Black America to terrorize us into second class citizenship. The only *crime* they are fighting is the decision to give us rights & freedoms

Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field. New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.

If you're interested in where data centres are located and planned for in Ireland, @thejournal.ie has done some really good mapping of this.

"Fascism is colonialism brought home"

Look guys, the martial law is temporary. It’s just a brief vacation from having any rights.

There's no choice but to fight.

You don’t say.

I'll just go do ahead and start the Replace DeBoer movement because Bama looks underwhelming.... again

Evanston has confirmed that it is deactivating its Flock ALPRs after many reports IL police were illegally sharing data with ICE and other federal agencies. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ILE...

So ChatGPT gets to decide when they send your "conversations" to the police/government. The same govt that is censoring free speech, shaking down universities & law firms, and sending the military to occupy cities. You're living in a dystopia.