Preakness belongs in Maryland. @govwesmoore.bsky.social please don't let it go to Churchill Downs. @vanhollen.senate.gov @repjohnnyo.bsky.social www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

It’s Kinetic Sculpture Race Day! https://www.kineticbaltimore.com Who else is going to be in Baltimore?

#Libraries #Librarians

This is good intel — people who use Deezer say good things about it.

Gen Z has rediscovered the X-files & is realizing how dystopian the America of today is compared to the 90s "Watching The X-Files... has solidified my belief that I would have likely been happier in an age that preceded me." midnightmurmurations.substack.com/p/the-x-file...

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the National Council of Jewish Women and Louisiana voters, my law firm has sued Governor Jeff Landry (R) and Secretary of State Nancy Landry (R), challenging the state’s decision to suspend the 2026 congressional primary elections. www.democracydocket.com/cases/louisi...

🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is Isla. She arrived at the rescue with a broken elbow that's fractured at the joint, leaving her in significant pain. Vets have splinted her leg to keep her comfortable for now, but she needs surgery to repair the injury. You can help her below ❤️‍🩹 1510.fan/isla-bsd

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Meta is raising the prospect of shutting down social media services in New Mexico in response to a push by state prosecutors for fundamental changes to platforms, including Instagram, to protect the mental health and safety of children.

I stand with workers, with immigrants, and with everyone who calls DC home. On May Day, we’re reminded that our fights are connected. From the picket line to the push for a free DC, this is about us having power over our lives. We show up. We stand together. And we don’t stop.

The superintendent just notified us via app that "we will use a rotating schedule of Remote Learning days at schools for the rest of the school year" because there aren't enough bus drivers The budget gets cut each year by $10M btw to siphon off money from public schools to private/charter vouchers

There is no NYC without unions. A people united and organized cannot be defeated. Together, we're showing the world what solidarity means.

April 30, 1863 #otd #SarahJGarnet, educator and suffragist, becomes the first Black woman principal in the New York public school system. She was the first Black woman to found a suffrage organization, the Equal Suffrage League. Sister of #DrSusanMcKinneySteward #BlackWomensHistoryMonth #SheShed

No no keep letting ChatGPT write articles this is ART

Maybe, just maybe we do something about guns instead. Where was all this money for teachers, supplies, and programs? www.campusguardianangel.com

TODAY: Americans are walking out of school and work to wield our power as workers, consumers, and students. Join us for the nationwide day of economic disruption: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i... Find one of the more than 3,000 events planned for May Day: www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/?... #MayDay

My latest Paris dispatch on how 300 streets outside of schools became some of the coolest places in the city. But even more importantly, these family-centric improvements provide ubiquitous reminders that this society prioritizes children

A Supreme Court that upholds gerrymandering in one breath and denies any protection from the overt use of race in the next is as destructive to this republic as any court that ever beat down Homer Plessy or Dred Scott. This is a betrayal of everyone who ever fought or died for American civil rights.

I can’t help but to root for Wemby

5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.

Israel illegally abducted these people *600 miles* away from Gaza. And Greece is accused of cooperating. If it did at all, the implications are huge. Would pin one NATO member against several others in the region – including Italy, Spain, and Turkey – who are slamming the attack.

Researching Black women pacifists, I found this powerful Mary Church Terrell quote. She identifies as a pacifist, then says: "But all pacifists are not cut according to the same pattern...I do not advocate peace at any price. The only kind of peace I like is one that is a just & honorable one."👇

"SAVE" was to limit women voters. Gutting the Voting Rights Act is to limit Black voters. Since Shelby, 100K+ polls closed in low income areas to limit non-white voters. Jim Crow America never ended—it morphed into new forms of restrictions that pretend to be race, gender & economically neutral.

John Roberts is just the klan in a different kind of robe.

"This decision will jeopardize maps for congressional seats, state legislatures, city councils, school boards – every level at which communities of color have fought for true representation," writes @slakin.bsky.social.

I released my 2025 tax returns, and now I’m urging all Members of Congress and candidates for Congress to do the same. I’m not a millionaire, and at a time when Michiganders are sick and tired of politicians running for office to get rich, we owe the public the transparency they deserve.

These surveillance regimes are not keeping you safe, they are actively preying on you.

The historians on the Supreme Court: "In a 1762 letter to his manservant, William Blackstone used the word 'small.' Ergo, child labor is consistent with our history and tradition." Also the historians on the Supreme Court: "Racism ended when Rosa Parks sat down on that train. Or bus? Whatever."

In 2021, a cat ran onto the field at Yankee Stadium, causing a brief delay during a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles. Fans in the stadium began chanting 'Let's go cat!" while kitty evaded security. Poor kitty looked scared but it eventually escaped through an open gate. #cat #baseball

“The supreme court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America, and they betrayed our democracy.” - Barack Obama

Warnock on SCOTUS: No one elected this Court—to decide what kind of remedies we need in this moment. It’s really not up to the Supreme Court to say, “Well, we have reached the threshold where this issue around race and inclusion is no longer necessary.” That is not the job of the Court.

No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

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

I've been hearing that the library waiting lists around the country from HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY are insane. If you run a community reading room anywhere in the US, and would like a free signed copy, send me a DM and tell me about your space I'm giving away TEN signed copies

Racism is over says the Supreme Court, which you can tell because it took literally a matter of minutes after they gutted the Voting Rights Act for Republicans in the South to start moving to make sure Black people in their states get no representation in Congress

Looks like it's time for this piece again: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

The Iran War is many things... first of which was a "gift" to Netanyahu, who'd been hounding Bush, Obama, and Biden to attack Iran... but even more notable? A gift to large corporations. THEY PROFIT, while we suffer.

This was true in 1976 and it's even more true all these years later.

Our sweet Loa passed today under an old, tall crabapple tree, on a bed of blooming violets. She was with her people. I miss her very very much. And I wrote about her here.

Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.

So Sen. Lindsey Graham did tell Karim Khan that the ICC is "is for Africa and thugs like Putin, it is not for democracies like Israel and the United States." Watch the ICC chief prosecutor's full and exclusive interview with me: zeteo.com/p/karim-khan...

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.