JD Vance falsely claims the shooting at a Muslim community happened today (it happened yesterday), then adds he didn't hear about it until this morning (how did he not hear about it yesterday?)

Nannie Helen Burroughs, educator, entrepreneur, advocate of women’s rights, daughter of formerly enslaved parents, founded a school in Washington DC in 1901. She observed, “Education & justice are democracy’s only life insurance.”

Sally Ride, beloved astronaut.

'I knew hours ago': Elon Musk's furious ex spills wild 'space technology' election claim www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-26...

Onlookers floored as Trump's astounding proposal to Xi revealed: 'Of course he did' www.rawstory.com/trump-xi-267...

The chairman of a Colorado county's GOP party was arrested on several charges related to soliciting a child prostitute.

Three federal challenges to Tennessee redistricting consolidated into one case tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/19/t...

After this Thursday’s show, the Ed Sullivan Theater will go dark, and we’ll lose one of the nation’s funniest and most courageous, truthful, and gentlemanly critics of Trump and his regime. Farewell, and thank you, Stephen. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/farewell-and-thank-you-stephen-colbert

REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? BLANCHE: Excuse me? REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct? BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family. REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy

Chapter 3, in which Lindsay admits that if the full Epstein files are released, it will destroy Trump. If there's nothing to hide, YOU DON'T HIDE IT. You don't go so far as to break the damn law if complying will just make your critics look foolish.

Remembering Malcolm X an African American revolutionary leader born #onthisday May 19, 1925.

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

On this day in 1918, a white mob from Brooks County, Georgia, lynched Mary Turner, a Black woman who was eight months pregnant, for speaking out against the lynching of her husband the day before.

'Experts have found that 18 of the brand-name drugs that are available through TrumpRx are cheaper to buy through GoodRx or Cost Plus Drugs coupons'.

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

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The word “Black” has been almost completely removed from a package of bills to address the Black maternal health crisis, frustrating some advocates who feel Black women are being erased from the policy.

Expand the court. Term limits. Democrats are more prepared than Republicans to do these things and potentially curtail the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction because the court has become a rogue threat to democracy.

Stephen A. Smith Thinks Voting Republican Will Make Parties 'Compete' for Black Votes. He’s Wrong open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Trump is wasting our time. Time we can’t afford to waste. New polling showing his disapproval rating rising even further suggests that Americans aren’t just angry about his specific flawed actions. They want to move past the Trump Era entirely. My column (link below).

Bernie Freakin Knows.......

Alt Headline: “State that stripped 2 congressional seats from its cities and took away representation from majority-Black Memphis potentially rewarded with Super Bowl. (After spending half a billion state taxpayer dollars on a new stadium)” @NFL www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

Vote For Us! by @esglaude.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/esglaude...

The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

He wants to repeal the women's suffrage amendment-- but relax, not right away. “If I said to you, ‘I think all white men should be put in cages—but not now...?" would that be okay?

May it go even lower.

#Onthisday May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Mellville W. Fuller, delivered its seven- to-one decision in Plessy v. Ferguson establishing the 'separate but equal' doctrine as national law and authorizing discrimination against African Americans in public accommodations.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon: "The Education Department will have to be voted on by Congress to close, but we are on the right path to do that"

The MAGA Supreme Court is Incompatible with Democracy open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

UPDATE— with the deadline passed, here’s the FULL LIST of candidates running in the new districts: sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com/s3fs-public/...

Worth seeing him speak truth! www.facebook.com/share/r/1DtK...

This is the homeschooling of standardized tests.

The Brown v. Board ruling happened 72 years ago today. The reversal of the Supreme Court’s previous “separate but equal” decision highlights how it’s possible to overcome bad SCOTUS decisions. But it took years of activism from brave people to get there. Keep fighting.

Remembering Donna Summer today on the 14th anniversary of her passing (May 17, 2012) album.ink/DSummerRIP

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

Historian of Reconstruction here, today Brown v Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas in 1954 put segregation on the road to extinction, implementing the 14th amendment passed in 1868. Yet the Warren court was accused of judicial activism by people whose unconstitutional overreach today is astounding.

Lamar Alexander Wants Republicans to Stand Up to Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

Fun fact: Billionaires will still be billionaires if they pay more taxes.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... | So honored to be included among these books!

Reverend stuns with speech at Trump's 'Rededicate 250' event: 'Shocking!' www.rawstory.com/franklin-gra...

Jesus Christ’s teachings are completely at odds with the way DHS treats immigrants.

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” — Plato

An attack on Black America is an attack on all of America. Remember: if they come for us, they’ll come for you next. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

The Supreme Court is using the Purcell principle to put its thumb on the scale against voting rights. “The Supreme Court has decided, case by case, that the Constitution’s guarantee of equal political power does not apply equally to everyone,” Marc Elias writes.

GOP senator's tirade against 'deadly' DOD move prompts calls for Hegseth's removal

Because “I’m not a scientist” is a shield, and “I’m basically a gynecologist” is a weapon.