I like re-reading and sharing Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech every 4th of July. Here is a thread with some context but also the full speech is linked at the bottom (in text and audio form). Read it. Listen to it. It will open your minds to the ambivalence Black American’s feel about this day.

The European Commission refuses to release secret reports on Gaza infrastructure, in another sign of complicity with Israel By @skwawkbox.org

We went to Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair for the U.S.’s 250th anniversary. But the 16-day celebration is proving to be less than successful. Watch @premthakker.bsky.social explore the disastrous fair. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more!

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When dumb (with a B) meets dumber (also with a B).

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Jerusalem Demsas is Bari Weiss but black. Unfortunately for her, the silicon valley oligarchs who own social media and now legacy media are anti-black white supremacists. If she wasn’t Black, she would be appointed Editor in chief of CNN. She’s on a grift.

Mauritania still practices a slavery remarkably similar to what we had in the US--lifelong, race-based, inherited, chattel slavery. I've tracked 8 deportation flights to Mauritania under Trump. Plus at least 3 Mauritanians subjected to third-country removal. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

Thank you!

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@nytimes.com how much evil thought did you put into that picture you chose to use for this article?

Translation: “i’ll vote for Trump/Vance before I vote for Mamdani/AOC/Bernie” The fascist enabler wing of the Democratic Party continues their meltdown over DSA’s a few election wins.

This woman is awful. I hope Washington State voters will oust her in the Primaries!

substack is not a neutral actor

The House will vote on an amendment that would block funding to Israel. It should be a no brainer: Our tax dollars should not fund a genocide. We cannot continue to be complicit in Israel’s crimes against humanity.

Just because I believe the people of Palestine should not be slaughtered doesn’t make me anti-Semitic end of story please go fuck yourself. Have a nice day

The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

Tell me you don’t know what an “amendment” is for without telling me you don’t know what an amendment is for.

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

When Ezra Klein had Ta-Nehisi Coates on to discuss his book about Palestine, Klein basically called him an extremist and obliquely referred to Tareq Baconi as a terrorism-supporter, and then a year and a half later Klein is now saying exactly what Coates said but acting like it's his original ideas.

so does gavin newsom it's the same dynamic. they amplify white supremacists because they think white supremacy is uniquely important, interesting, and validating.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Jake Tapper is an open Islamophobe.

Me being one of those long time T-mobile customers, I’m not paying $6 more per line. I will pay more to leave and punish them. Let’s all leave and punish them. Ditch T-Mobile.

BREAKING: Melat Kiros has won the Democratic primary in Colorado’s 1st district. The democratic socialist has unseated the district’s 29-year incumbent by running on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, ending forever wars and more.

@melatkirosco.bsky.social congregations! Well done!

Who are the type of people who respond to these type of message from James Carville? Who is supporting the “good things are not possible” coalition of the Democratic Party?

"After 20 months of data collection and analysis, the research team submitted four major reports to Fairfax County... The results were clear: Unrestricted cash payments [of $750/mo] had a profound stabilizing effect, and in some cases boosted financial mobility for participating ALICE families."

Fuck off! You are currently the leading voice trying to defeat a wealth tax initiative in California. You killed Medical For All type legislation in California. We can see you trying to follow the political wind. Too bad no amount of spin can rehabilitate your corruption.

The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel Zucman

More of the same cowardice from the Labour Party. The Greens are the only hope for the UK.

Abdul El-Sayed running for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Michigan is simple the most impressive and well prepared Democratic candidate this election cycle. Listen to this really good interview - he talks about AI, wealth tax on the billionaires, and Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

@melatkirosco.bsky.social who is running for a US house seat in Denver is perhaps the most impressive DSA candidate since Zohran Mamdani. Denver go out and vote for Melat tomorrow:

Oh, and how do over 16 users authenticate that they are not under 16? By giving Elon and Zuck more of their data of course. Upload your passport please, and just for 2 factor authentication purposes, upload your birth certificate or DNA sample. Oh and pls do a full body scan with your phone camera.

Wait. This is real. He's actually arguing that the problem with the Salem Witch Trials was that they "weren't organized enough." WTF?

Silas Shelton had objected to Heartstopper at a school book fair, saying LGBTQ+ books posed a “mental health” risk to children. www.advocate.com/news/crime/h...

republicans project 2025: what if we proposed a wholesale conservative takeover of literally everything under the sun. all of it. everywhere. democrats project 2029: what if we maybe sort of banned kids from phones?

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is horrible. I am sorry this happened to your family. But I hope you felt a tiny fraction of this “sadness and rage” for the children being massacred in Gaza every day. I wish your humanity extended beyond your doorstep.

Today a White House spokesman was on NPR saying we obliterated their nuke program but also we’re negotiating with them to curb their nuke program. Because we live in the stupidest timeline.

Israeli soldiers use Palestinian teenagers as targets practice, targeting different body parts to shoot on different days. A purely barbaric nation!

Plus, we know older voters (who are supposed to be centrists) are a more reliable block of primary voters. So if the centrist Dems lost in elections that skew older/centrist, what is their argument for why low turnout primaries are bad for them than the insurgent left candidates?

Left: Justice Alito's description of the record in the TPS case Right: Former Secretary Noem

i wonder what race neutral policy stance trump was expressing when he accused haitian immigrants of eating the pets of their neighbors

There is always a tweet. 🤣