#tdih 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X met briefly by chance before a press conference. The differences between them and the movements they represented are often oversimplified in textbooks and t-charts. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ma...

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:

ICE is in our airports, AI surveillance tech is in our ... everything, and the SAVE (Republicans' Jobs) act is still under consideration in our Senate. But do not fall to despair just yet! Our guests for tonight are fired up and ready fight, and you should be too. www.youtube.com/live/kVV1mP2...

watch the full episode on YouTube! new episodes every Wednesday! youtu.be/fpJN10WN3CA?...

Where is Vance? Is working on his presidential plan, sitting quietly, waiting for the exact moment to say, I am different from 47?

"Stop asking me about the long lines. Ask me if somebody's gonna eat today," Hydrick Thomas, president of the national American Federation of Government Employees union council that represents TSA employees, told reporters Tuesday. https://to.pbs.org/41rXFTC

Virginia basketball player Kimora Johnson’s story is pretty cool

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

How bout that. Privatization of TSA is right there in Project 2025, on page 134, and pages 158-159. static.heritage.org/project2025/...

Markwayne Mullin has an Associate Degree in plumbing. Do you think a Black person would be able to become THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY with that???

They put an actual Black surgeon in charge of HUD.

Fun fact: The privatization of TSA is in Project 2025.

Pretty telling that the Iranians can be trusted more to tell us what’s going with this war than the actual president of the United States.

Republicans Senator John Kennedy just admitted on Fox News that the Senate was prepared to fund TSA and end their shutdown, but Trump said no. Next time someone blames Democrats for the chaos unfolding at our airports, show them this clip.

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

🗣️In my new @statnews.com op-ed as a Public Voices Fellow on tech in the public interest with The OpEd Project, I write about how AI’s push into health care and its rapid adoption, without rigorous testing or patient and community involvement in decision-making, is deepening a crisis of trust.

For 62 yrs poll taxes requiring Americans to pay to vote have been banned. Trump wants an end run around the 24th Amend by forcing ppl to pay for passports or birth certificates when voters are easily verified by other means. The Senate must VOTE NO on the SAVE ACT which STOPS ALL VOTERS EVERYWHERE.

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

Remember when his Sieg Heil was just a gesture of heartfelt joy?

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Trump is not welcome to Memphis, Mane! And he can take his unsafe task force with him when he leaves. We want poverty eradication and real investment in Memphis, not military occupation.

“The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020”

Amazing life story an advice from this 99-yr-old woman! She is turning 100 this year 🙏🏽🌺💃🏽

If ICE in the airports does materialize this should be yet another sign to journalists to stop using terms like "immigration enforcement" or "immigration crackdown" with regard to ICE. They are merely Trump's paramilitary force to be used as he pleases.

A Louisiana mother’s nightmare shows the real dangers children face online. A 13-year-old was lured by a stranger and found 10 days later in a Pittsburgh basement. Even without social media, a hidden device gave access. The internet has no front door. Parents must stay vigilant.

#ICYMI: Noem denied that aide Corey Lewandowski was involved in approving DHS contracts. But DHS staffers say Lewandowski had approved numerous contracts at the agency and often needed to sign off on large contracts before any money went out the door. ➡️ More: https://propub.li/3Nh7wZd

Bob was more than a colleague to me. He was a friend. I hope that Bob Mueller‘s family is comforted on this sad day by the pride that those of us who served with him all feel. We were all fortunate to work with this great American. Bob made the nation better. Rest in peace my dear friend.

Democrats have offered to pay the salaries — fully fund, no conditions — for TSA. It’s Republicans who keep blocking that.

If I live to see it--God willing--nobody better say **** to me when this man dies.

Not quite the same thing but touches on similar themes:

#tdih 1937 Ponce Massacre 💔 Police killed 19 Puerto Ricans in a peaceful march to commemorate anniversary of abolition of slavery and to protest the imprisonment of Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos for alleged "sedition" (labor organizing). More ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/po...

Cartoonist: RJ Matson This is happening in the richest country in the world:

In 1969, around 50 Black students peacefully sat outside Delta State University President James Ewing's office, demanding respect in the classroom, better scholarship opportunities and more opportunities for Black teachers and staff.

I’ll be speaking at the Dallas County Democratic Convention tomorrow morning! Come say hi if you’re around! FIRED UP 🔥🔥🔥

New Reporting: Missing files, FBI investigated possible obstruction of justice following Epstein's death open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

It’s amazing how quickly Black women have been targeted by these laws and doubly so how little this factors into the analysis around the sexual and gender politics of this movement.

My resolution to overturn the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision — H.J.Res 122 — has now been co-sponsored by 72 Members of Congress. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

Oh fuck NO - Feds want charges against Breanna Taylors EXECUTIONERS dropped This DOJ is beyond weaponized..... She deserves justice apnews.com/article/breo...

On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama — this time under the escort of U.S. Army and National Guard troops assigned by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

This week we're joined by the amazing @olurinatti.bsky.social for an insightful convo about her work as a public defender turned content creator, why Jamal Bryant thinks the Target boycott is "over" plus a special crime and punishment edition of "name that white woman" and more! youtu.be/Ce1gS2fMce8

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

A viral video about a man named Solomon Fairfax, who earned the nickname the "Grim Reaper" of Charleston after spending years killing slaveholders, has hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. There’s just one problem: Solomon Fairfax doesn't exist

At this point they are just throwing ideas at the wall to see which ones make their valuation go up.

#NorthCharleston, #SC: 16y/o Keiniua was last seen on Saturday, December 13, 2025, in the Russelldale community wearing a pink sweater and blue jeans. Have you seen her? Please SHARE to #HelpUsFindKeiniuaRivers #KeiniuaRivers #HelpUsFindUs

This story needs to be circulated widely. www.wabe.org/woman-charge...

Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. The candidate’s father-in-law happens to be Sean Duffy, the U.S. secretary of transportation. www.propublica.org/article/sean...