Maine isn’t that populous, but they truly couldn’t have found a less-shitty white mam to foist on us? in addition to his general awfulness, I have a strong suspicion if he’s elected he’d become fetterman 2.0 in a matter of months

“Too many people loathe Black folk, but what they really hate is Black joy. To see that through it all — over 400 years of enslavement, violence, and systems and structures designed to keep us down even at the expense of lower-class white people — we are still here.”

new from me - the predictable faux-outrage over Naomi Osaka and Taylor Townsend’s dinner for Black players had me wondering yet again: what is it those bigots want? You don’t want Black people in your schools and pools, but also don’t want us having our own. Pick a lane.

see how easy this is?!? cc newsom, talarico, et al

ah, yes…when international runners come here to boston next april for the world’s most famous marathon they’ll definitely want to fly into…west virginia? assuming new hampshire isn’t a “red” state

I’m so damn tired of these being the choices. none of us are free until ALL of us are free, and the sooner people from non-marginalized communities realize that, the better off we’ll all be

and thus, Talarico’s transformation into a white corporate Dem savior is complete: throwing trans folk under the bus to go with previous statements showing he’s not a fan of Black people either. no wonder he’s become a media darling.

props to this young man, who called out bari weiss’s cbs while receiving a cbs-funded college journalism scholarship ✊🏽✊🏽

On this day in 1892, a white mob destroyed Ida B. Wells's newspaper office while she was away and threatened bodily harm if she returned because she challenged the myth of Black criminality.

there’s a reason why we say we usually have no choice but to vote for “the lesser of two evils”…as in, still evil.

this is one of several reasons I’ve lost a lot of respect for him. he doesn’t eat subway or Pizza Hut or this stuff. but he took their money. gross.

If releasing your tax returns and the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.

what an absolute, unrepentant fucking asshole. if this interview was meant to humanize him after the met gala protests, safe to say it was a massive failure. he looks like a bigger pos than he did before.

good day, good people…this approach was brilliant imo

Everyone involved in posting this should be fired and everyone in the chain of command whose office is subject to impeachment, including the president, should be impeached. Just for this. I am not kidding in the least, and Democrats who let this go by without comment are putting us all in danger.

“Justice Samuel A. Alito, who did the dirty work of writing the Callais v. Louisiana decision, and the rest of the SCOTUS segregationists will cry that they had no intention of decimating Black people’s right to vote broadly, just the people who vote for Democrats who happen to be Black.”

my latest for @contrariannews.org - on the ache and fury of the new John Crow reality

There is an ache. And a fury. Let it drive you, folks. Read on through...the piece is good. @contrariannews.org @shalisemyoung.bsky.social good work. www.contrariannews.org/p/after-call...

we very unexpectedly had to say goodbye to the goodest girl yesterday. Coco’s health took a sharp downturn Tuesday and a little more than 24 hours later she was gone. 10 years with her wasn’t nearly enough

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

it’s funny how the idea that Dems are the elites is constantly pushed on us but it’s the maga set - self-proclaimed party of the working man - that never misses a chance to disparage her for being a bartender (and also take every opportunity to strip their supporters of healthcare, clean air, etc)

In a since-deleted interview, Virginia Rep. Jen Kiggans emphatically agreed when a far-right radio host said Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries should get his "cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.” “That’s right. Ditto. Yes. Yes, to that,” Kiggans said. trib.al/0n7dfGh

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

former transportation secy Buttigieg takes 4 weeks off to be with his newborns: conservatives lose their shit current transportation secy Duffy gets “some work” done during a *7-month* reality road trip: conservatives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m not the brightest, but ummm…doesn’t Jim Clyburn represent his district? as in the district he represents? and not the district of all of south carolina? racism is a mental disease.

If you're left-of-center and still subscribed to the New York Times -- whose leaders absolutely despise you and everything you hold dear -- I'm going to assume you're just a masochist at this point. There are good reporters there, but their bosses? They fucking hate you. They hate hate hate you.

blatant misogyny, blatant anti-Black racism. she understands dirt? and in a now well-established pattern, not a single person did anything to defend Rachel. I am so emotionally exhausted.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

Grand Wizard Alito said it’s fine if it’s partisan, so fck the ruling. do it anyway.

It's exhausting....

Roberts has always been the respectable face for white supremacy. He's worked his entire legal career to dismantle the voting rights act and eliminate Black political power. This was always the logical end.

White people disgusted by this racist display are making pithy jokes in the replies. I want acknowledgment that it’s physically painful to think about our black elders, in particular, enduring the consequences of a Supreme Court decision that augurs a return to the Jim Crow era.

you know what’s crazy…this isn’t entirely a lie. we are spending more - much more - on gas and “everything else.” but if we’re putting it on credit cards, that’s a fckin *problem*. not for the banks crushing us with fees and bloated interest rates, but for the rest of us.

another example why I have said for years that you will never, eva-eva-eva see my lightly-melanated Black ass on one of these floating petri dishes

roughly 2/3 of Memphis residents are Black and the white supremacists of Tennessee’s state legislature has stripped them of their ability to choose their representative in the House.

in a better country, parents that refuse the vitamin K shot for their baby would face negligence charges. it’s one shot at the time of birth. one.

We need to put our arms around Rep. Justin Jones as he seeks to fight the TN legislature’s new gerrymandering plan. @brotherjones.bsky.social

and yet maga lawmakers are over the country piss their pants at the thought of feeding children at school. also, y’all’s president is farther gone than the Artemis astronauts went

from me in Oct, after Ta-Nehisi Coates embarrassed Klein on his podcast as Klein defended writing that CKKkirk did politics “the right way” & exposing himself as the kind of white man that doesn’t gaf about lived experiences of Black & other marginalized people open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Smith College is now under investigation by the Department of Education for admitting trans students. archive.ph/Zn90w

Since the end of the Civil War, this nation has waged war on Black America, and Black Americans have largely (though not entirely) fought for democracy alone. We'll see this time if enough white people recognize that our fight IS their fight.

FIFA/global football not beating those anti-Black racism charges (the Banner is Boston’s biggest Black-owned newspaper)

I know the insipid twats in his regime just let dementia don decorate while they do the work of destroying, but honestly none of them will tell him to stfu about this damn test?!? it’s not a flex that he has to identify camels on a paper every goddamn week!

so overdue but SO deserved. Julie has been reporting on the Epstein class for years and this is the first time she’s been recognized by the Pulitzer board

greetings, friends: i know there’s a lot going on that’s far more dire, but this ran on @contrariannews.org a couple of days ago…it’s so disappointing seeing how some Black men continue to demean Meg the Stallion, but Black women continue to support her open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

good morning to the brilliant, beautiful Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and only Justice Jackson and may the spirit of John Lewis haunt the shit out of John Roberts for the rest of his miserable days.

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is what Du Bois meant when he said Black America stepped briefly into the sun and then fell under the veil.

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...