Octavia Butler blocked reprints of her ‘lost’ novel. More than 40 years later, it’s back on shelves #booksky #blackbooksky #octaviabutler

When people say: “Democrats abandoned the working class” they are saying several things but not what they intend. A 🧵 First, the message is “working class” == White. All the Black people I know work. All of them. So these terms are a big choice that conservatives AND leftists repeatedly make.

The New York Times is playing the Republicans’ theft of Black political power — the return of Jim Crow —primarily as a sporting event. “Bullish Republicans are back in the game,” writes NYT.

This.

Interview with the iconic Lena Horne from the TCM Archives. #TCMParty #LenaHorne

The Supreme Court library www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

RIP Lena Horne June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010 youtu.be/AErWqNBhawI?...

Fighting the same klan in a different century @brotherjones_

Supreme Court gutted Voting Rights Act based on bullsh-t data www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

On this day in 1961, 21-year-old John Lewis and two other civil rights activists were severely beaten by a mob at the Rock Hill, South Carolina, Greyhound bus terminal while protesting segregation.

Caribbean Matters: The Mount Pelée volcano's deadly past—and present danger www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

I wonder why they are so emboldened?

The Virginia Supreme Court struck down a voter-approved congressional redistricting plan, dealing a major blow to Democratic plans for the midterms

British actors taking all American roles Druski strikes again 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Why are so many white journalists shocked about this? Because like most white people, they see racism as being acts of vicious, stupid cruelty. Calculated, cold cruelty, hatred with a surgical precision, is beyond our ken. We even think racism has to be vicious in order to exist. Not so.

Our president has become a hypocritical laughingstock on the world stage providing daily fodder for Iran's LEGOs News Network...

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Down, down, down From Greg Dworkin www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

France passes law on the restitution of cultural artifacts looted during colonial rule

NEW: The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email.

Pride Month in US Libraries: How to Prepare and Help Track Targeted Attacks in 2026 bookriot.com/how-to-prepa...

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

'Get Up Offa That Thing' and celebrate 'Godfather of Soul' James Brown www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Since they made him take the video down due to being reported. The internet lives forever! Sit with this truth, be mad at your ancestors for instilling it in some of you too.

Today in Chicago History: ‘May Day’ born after workers take to the streets to demand an 8-hour workday

My anthology about mental health, (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY is $2.99. That's less than half a gallon of gas! www.amazon.com/Dont-Call-Me...

Tina releases “What’s Love Got to Do With It” 42 years ago today — a song she hated, but she deferred to her manager, Roger Davies, who was sure it would be a hit. When it won Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Female Vocal, she gave one of the awards to him. 🔥

"He’s listed on the ballot as Bobby Al Jolson Berger" WHAT

Get to know FIVE librarians running for state political office across the United States. Here's who they are, what they're running for, why they're running, and why they think librarians make for *excellent* representation. That, plus this week's censorship news: bookriot.com/librarians-r...

New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).

NJ schools have too few librarians. Why that's a problem (also a problem this is paywalled, but maybe you can read it): www.northjersey.com/story/opinio...

"Reminder: CBC Roundup is a weekly series, published on Thursdays at 9 AM ET. As the “conscience of the Congress”, CBC Members stand on the frontlines of defending our democracy and deserve our full support, even more so now with the gutting of the Voting Rights Act"

EXCLUSIVE: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨 THIS SHOULD SET OFF EVERY ALARM: Louisiana is about to pull the rug mid-election. Let’s be clear what’s happening. 📌Absentee ballots already out 📌Early voting starts May 2 📌Election day is May 16 And just days before voting begins, Gov Landry is planning to suspend the primary entirely.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Brown v Board is on deck... Clarence Uncle Thomas already spoke out against it.... the irony... knowing whose seat he's sitting in.

This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.

What's happening with Imagination Library across the country is reflective of what's happening to libraries and other literacy goods nationwide. Keep an eye on this because states cutting the IL budgets is happening in drips and drops, but it's adding up.

NEW: Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women

Black women across the country are dying in childbirth at rates that should be terrifying to every single one of us. I wrote the Momnibus because in the wealthiest nation on Earth, Moms shouldn’t be dying of preventable causes. Now it's well past time we got it passed.

(1/X) The media's refusal to discuss Trump's personality disorder has made its coverage of Iran very poor. They pretend that Trump had some normal rationale for the war, some semi-imminent threat, but it's more likely he did it out of some kind of combination of a desire to distract from Epstein...

An account you're going to want to immediately block if you've ever spoken about kids' right to read No idea who the actual person behind the account is, but they love targeting librarians over on X and they'll likely just be looking to screenshot your posts here for clout (such that it is) there

They can all go to hell. These fake asses wanted him back and tilted the scales in his favor. Don’t act all principled now.

De Niro: Every morning when I get up, I reach for my phone to look at the headlines of the day, and for some time now, I start every morning depressed about the latest outrage from our would-be king. I mean, it’s amazing—every fucking day there’s something new and crazy, but it’s different today…

Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East. KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS

HR 7551, the National book ban bill, has passed the markup and is being recommended to the House with amendment. Here’s who voted how. This isn’t over. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS NOW.

While in 1868, The Irish Republic, a Fenian Brotherhood newspaper in New York, shunned the racist policies of the Democratic party which had almost total Irish Catholic support (and voted as a bloc against black suffrage) to endorse the Fifteenth Amendment. "Liberty, to be just, must be universal."

Gil Scott Heron - Winter In America #music #gilscottheron #musicsky

Ekua Holmes (born in 1955), artist and illustrator known for her mixed media collages #womensart