Donald Trump's hand-picked SCOTUS majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in LA. His administration is targeting Latinos — and anyone who doesn't look or sound like Stephen Miller's idea of an American — to deliberately harm our families and economy.

Reading international news sources right now, as an American, painfully reminds me that there is an alternative timeline where Trump is not our POTUS and our government is working on serious things with serious people, generating serious news headlines. — www.africanews.com/2025/07/13/f...

Pride 2025 has felt like a constant funeral. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/w...

Good. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...

Per AF News, Trump ends life-sustaining humanitarian aid to South Africa, falsely claiming the SA government is stealing white-owned land. Trump also offers “sanctuary” and a “rapid pathway to citizenship” for SA white supremacists fleeing imaginary persecution. Link in comments.

WaPo disintegration as member of free press complete. Gift link to article in comments.

Trayvon Martin should've been 30 years old today. "His dream of flight and his flight suit was entered into The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in 2024" -Melissa Noel, Essence Magazine #blacksky #blackskyover30 #blackskyover40

#BlackHistoryMonth #DEI #LGBTQIA

Hooray for an almost all white, straight (supposedly), and able-bodied diverse administration! Get rid of discrimination! Meritocracy by idiocracy! capitalbnews.org/trump-cabine...

The US Copyright Office has declared that generative AI art and text generated by prompts cannot be copyright protected. (Read more: The Verge)

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Rep Harper!!

@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social @libradunn1.bsky.social AMERICA Walk in Their Shoes Notice from the so called "JUSTICE " department "The defendant YOU testified against is being released from depth.of corrections" I am truly SO SORRY.. You dedicated your life to serve & protect NOW THIS ⬇️⬇️🤬

ADM Fagan by all accounts was a very good head of the USCG, she just wouldn't take a loyalty oath to MAGA and they knew it. This firing is a shot across the bow to all generals and admirals that unless they pledge undying loyalty to Trump, they will be fired. MORE: news.usni.org/2025/01/21/a...

Clearly the truth about the transatlantic slave trade and its effects/influence on our country

"One of these subjects holds the record for the most Grammys ever awarded to an individual; the other is Luke Bryan. Beyoncé isn’t even asking for a seat at the table. After being rejected by the dinner party once, she went out and built her own damn table in true resilient Black-girl fashion."

Per AF News, banning the use of British and French colonial-style wigs by judges is a growing trend across Africa, where countries are revisiting colonial legacies and opting for systems that resonate with their people.

Happening in North Carolina right now: A Republican who just lost a state supreme court election is using a horseshit legal theory cooked up by Republican activists to ask the Republican majority *on the same court he wants to join* to overturn his loss and make him a justice anyway

On Monday, Judge Aileen Cannon rejected arguments from 45 trying to stop the DoJ from releasing Jack Smith's report. Her decision clears the way for AG Merrick Garland to release the report once her 3-day injunction expires at midnight Monday. Read the article for details of what & to whom.

I really wish “simply denying reality” would stop working so effectively for DJT and his sycophants

“Altadena was known as safe haven for African-Americans during the Great Migration. . . [T]hese homes aren’t just a place to live but family heirlooms that are now potentially lost forever.”

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

Our incoming POTUS sounding like an insecure, navel-gazing adolescent bragging about how many followers he has on TikTok as the basis for why SCOTUS should take his advice. I cannot believe we have to endure this fool again. #Trump #TikTok

The cause of the fires can be both climate change and arson. It’s not an either/or. We are living in hot, dry tinderboxes ready to explode at the slightest spark. That’s the climate change part. Don’t be obtuse.

There are 395 incarcerated firefighters helping combat the wildfires in LA right now. They earn up to $26.90 over a 24-hour shift.

Caruso’s team of “private” firefighters drew from the same water source - which at times ran dry - that desperate “public” firefighters were using to try to save the public. And Caruso dares to criticize Mayor Bass for being on a business trip when the fires started? #californiafires #wildfire

WaPo has fully taken the knee www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/m...

The kids are not okay. 💔🏳️‍🌈

#Tech law in 2025: a look ahead at #AI, privacy and social media regulation under the new Trump administration https://buff.ly/40kGrrN (Sylvia Lu @umichlawlib.bsky.social)

Still some young Alabamians and transplants that didn't realize Alabama removed its "unenforceable" anti-interracial marriage ban in 2000, the last in the US to do so. Public vote to remove it was 60/40. 25 years ago. So I guess I'll keep talking about it. #Blacksky #Blackskyover40 #Blackskyover30

Minority Leader Jeffries “coolness” is impressive. Jefferies recently spoke during the opening of the 119th Congress. When he mentioned, Trump‘s election, huge cheers rang out from Republicans. His response, priceless - “it’s OK, there are no election deniers on our side of the aisle.” ~ Sarge

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. propub.li/3DGXECO

I feel seen

All this discussion of echo chambers and having to “disagree well” *cough* and you’ve gone and made me tap the sign already.

Every reactionary centrist after this election.

Bondi must be asked at her confirmation hearing if Trump lost the election in 2020. Unless her answer is yes, the Senate must reject her nomination. You can't be an election denier & the attorney general joycevance.substack.com/p/gaetz-out

Feeling hopeful for CA-45. Democrat @congresstran.bsky.social Derek Tran's lead over GOP Rep. Michelle Steel continues to grow in Saturday ballot release. laist.com/news/politic...

Odessa, Texas has voted to pass a transgender bathroom bounty law that applies to PRIVATE bathrooms. This means even in queer spaces. If a cisgender person encounters a transgender person, they can sue them for $10,000 or more. This is the first law of its kind in the nation.

Tonight is probably one of the worst mental health crisis in the trans community I've ever seen. It's bleak. So many people are in crisis and I'm scared I'm going to wake up tomorrow and have lost friends. Please reach out to your trans friends and family. They could use some love.

Thank You, VP You brought the joy back to America, even if it was only for a minute.

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents. Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.

We know this because we lived this with Trump for the last eight years. Keeping focus is difficult. We're going to need to get better at this.

It’s mostly white people who talk about echo chambers. Maybe you need the internet to meet people with different ideas but the rest of us do not. We know what the “other side” thinks because we deal with it every day! Everywhere! We’re fine. Carry on. Happy Saturday!

I took this circa 2012. It is an appropriate and timely reminder. #goodtrouble #revolution #blacksky #photosky #addtoblacksky #protest

That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement

Amid the shitshow, some good news from my corner of the country: Dave Min has beaten Scott Baugh in the 47th (my district), and it sure looks like Derek Tran is going to pull off a dramatic comeback against the awful Michelle Steel to flip the seat next door.