All in all, 32 states are holding supreme court elections this year, deciding over 60 seats. These courts could determine key issues including abortion access and redistricting across the country. Our new guide explores what’s at stake in each state: boltsmag.org/your-state-b...

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

Love depressing myself by looking for a job and the only real ones listed under “Urgently Hiring“ being for the gestapo. 🙂

To date, the lowest bail we have paid was $380 in Memphis, Tennessee, and the highest was $20,000 in San Francisco, California. Bail is not a public safety issue. It's a who has money issue. 👀 Join us as we get more Black mamas and caregivers home. 💕 #FreeBlackMamas at bit.ly/freeblackmamas2026

Do you ever think about how Trump's posting was this wild new thing in 2015 and now it's just background noise in politics? I think about this a lot. So I read all his posts this year and analyzed them because THE PRESIDENT IS SAYING A LOT OF STUFF YOU AREN'T READING. www.npr.org/2026/05/08/n...

The war on third spaces really comes for us all. Not being able to go to a bar and watch a game from your local team is actually disgusting for people who want to high five a person. It also means your favorite watering hole is that much closer to not existing anymore.

The KD Cerave commercial is genius. 😭

Our show is called On the Ground, here's our site where all shows are archived: www.onthegroundshow.org This morning's show isn't posted yet but when it is I'll share.

TB is very dangerous. A large outbreak at a school is very very worrisome.

In his opinion gutting the Voting Rights Act, Justice Alito cited misleading data to claim the racial turnout gap has closed. In fact, it has “exploded” over the last 15 years — thanks to the Supreme Court, says @kevintmorris.bsky.social.

Protesters packed the hallways outside the Senate hearing room at the Louisiana State Capitol. Lawmakers debated new congressional maps that could eliminate one of the state's two majority-Black districts. Read more:

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

I know everyone is stressed but nothing pisses me off more than a rude medical professional. I ain't asking you to be kindergarten teacher nice to me; I'm asking you to treat me like my health is dependent on you...for obvious reasons.

Damn. Really gotta be back to masking full time and just minding my business inside the damn house.

Seriously. It’s not too late to start masking again.

*taps mic* It’s never too late to start masking again. And with all this organizing talk, imma tell ya right now: masking is one of the oldest tactics against surveillance. Even if you don’t believe in science, you could be saving your own ass against biometric terrorism. ✨

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! This ep is a deep dive into hip-hop, power, politics, & resistance. Featuring A.D. Carson on his new book and Afroman, + RodStarz of Rebel Diaz on political education, organizing, and hip-hop as infrastructure. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u... youtube.com/shorts/JdCwz...

Israeli officials are "using the word 'cleanse' to describe what they’re doing" in Lebanon. "They’re just bulldozing homes.”

The Wolves jerseys are like the walmart little kid jerseys. SMH.

Aretha, Harry, Billie (when she had it!!), Sidney, etc. they was bailing niggas out. Funding printing operations. Paying mortgages/rent and for funerals.

Ain’t properly lusted after a fine Black man in a minute—

me too

gooooooo sports 😏

I have donated to the Black Mama’s Bail Out in honor of my mom for mother’s day every year for years, and since she died, in her memory. FREE BLACK MAMAS.

I want to scream. (this is about medical insurance, lack of billing transparency, and the three systems they want me to navigate to determine my out-of-pocket cost despite landing on the assertion that "you won't know until after how much everything will cost")..... Bitch - DYNAMIC HEALTH PRICING??

Yeah, if this is the logic animating the conversation, then we should just say “we don’t think white voters can handle any discussion of racism” and begin there rather than using “academic” as a euphemism.

Dozens of highly pathogenic outbreaks happen worldwide and you have no idea bc public health is invisible until it fails.

Our Library of Congress RPTF caucus, the HBCU Radio Preservation Project, featured by The Guardian today!

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

there's the school of thought that if they just package a set of policies with the right words white voters in red states will reward them and it fails because those voters aren't motivated by policy they are motivated by cultural grievance and you cant language your way out of that

yes! not only do we provide FREE masks, but often RATs as well! not sure what mask fits best? sometimes we even have a variety for you to try! don't know how you would get them? depending on the bloc, they may do handoffs, mail them directly to you FOR FREE, or provide them at your local library!🤩

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

I’m talking to my friends and family on social media (IG) mostly. The things that I engage with on here, is what I talk about (when I have the energy) on IG. It’s hard when you’re talking to them over the phone and they’re tuned out but I still say what I have to say. And they do engage me from time

this is so hard for me. i always feel like i'm pushing ppl away or lecturing ppl. and no matter my approach, offering information, engaging in questions, going off on a rant, i feel like i can see the "here she go." and i just feel so ridiculous.

i don’t beat them over the head with it usually, but when i need to i do. otherwise i talk about my feelings openly on a lot of this stuff and if they say something that bothers me i state that calmly and i ask a ton questions about why ppl think what they think. and i share why i think what i do

Im definitely finding convos that we get to as a way to segue into certain sociopolitical talk, but not shoehorning it. Learning to explain things without using “buzzwords” in order to not lose the room. But I do just hop on my shoebox unprompted from time to time. I do that the most on socials

Uhhh

Oh, here's how they frame Plessy v. Ferguson. Reconstruction apparently failed on its own and then the Supreme Court -- which had not been mentioned in this section until now -- just came along and noticed it was dead. Certainly it didn't do anything previously to weaken it. Nope.

I wonder what "state and local matters" they're talking about here?

If any historians want to suffer through the Florida Man Version of AP History, here's the document:

This week is so weird and sad for a lot of us in the Dead Mom Club. I'm co-hosting Dead Mother's Day Brunch this Saturday as a safe space to remember our moms and celebrate them, even though they aren't here. If you have it to spare, donate at $miasade13

I have a serious question for Black woke folks (I'm relcaiming woke, idc): How are you calling in your friends and family around the current political moment? *Are you* talking to them about specific issues and treating conversations as an opportunity to share political education? 1/4

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

SCOOP: A climate denial group with close ties to the Trump administration is asking whether all Americans 'should have the right to vote.' Read @rtakver.bsky.social in @desmog.com about a Heartland Institute podcast questioning 'universal suffrage.' www.desmog.com/2026/05/05/h...

Origami Tuesdays.

*sees accent talk on the SL* Obligatory post of one of my FAV videos about Southern linguistics ☺️

Kacey Musgraves Defies ICE, Brings Detained Mariachi band Onstage in Texas

On behalf of the South Asian delegation, we welcome @minakimes.bsky.social as the supreme ruler of the most important competition in the world