Today would be Coretta Scott King’s 99th birthday. CSK was a lifelong freedom fighter & more of an activist than MLK when they met. As a student she’d supported the Progressive Party’s 3rd party challenge for president opposing US militarism, racism & economic inequality. We need to know her.

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

I call them traitors.

Let's bury them in applications.

The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”

Release the #Epsteinfiles

GenAI grifters just admitted they do not know how to do research.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Some* straight men’s love for Drake goes deeper than gay men’s love for Beyonce…

the MEDIA have definitely memory-holed this, but the PEOPLE remember

Since today is officially National AI Literacy Day, I think it might be helpful to share work that challenges “literacy” as the best framework for teaching about and against AI and other technologies. 🧵

Anti-voting group released a sweeping new “model laws” handbook that urges lawmakers and election officials to restrict mail-in voting, eliminate same-day voter registration, conduct mass voter challenges and empower officials to deny/delay certification. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Wow, yeah, what a time to be alive... youtu.be/lA8WuXDXfcI?...

Check the list. If one of these clowns belongs to you, call their office and tell em they just lost your vote. Tell em you're gonna write in your dog.

Just scrolled by an anti-AI story from the Washington fucking Times so i'm really going to need Democrats to get on-message and start claiming that "AI==higher cost of living + lower quality of life + billionaire greed + consent violation" space, really fucking fast. Fucking MOVE.

What strikes me most about the latest VRA-gutting & it's aftermath is that by & large, white people really--and I mean REALLY--don't understand white people. Y'all really didn't see any of this coming? Over the last 50 years??

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.

Ironic, as Republicans have yet to assimilate into American culture and have actually declared war on it.

Missing from history books is a key moment in America’s culture wars. It took place in May of 1970 and later came to be known as the "Hard Hat Riot." The tactics used by Nixon to stoke division then are strikingly similar to those used by modern culture warriors. Watch.

very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.

White libs, progressives & leftists have spent my entire life telling me how worried we should be about nazism coming to the U.S., as though the Confederacy hasn't been showing up to their holiday dinners the whole goddamn time

i think it is a testament to the inherent radicalism of the reconstruction amendments that the supreme court’s main project with regards to them has been to limit and weaken their impact on american society.

It feels like the real beating heart of conservative politics in the US for the past 150 years has been "how do we un-lose the Civil War?" Everything else is window dressing.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

Didn’t get the kitchen together yesterday, so gotta knock that shit out now. Mr Cooke, Imma need your help with this one youtu.be/yBfsUCahFlo?... #BlackSky

Is he wrong, tho? #BlackSky www.instagram.com/reel/DYLLqY7...

SIIIIIGH That moment when you realize your last shopping trip was all aspiration, no plan… #Blacksky

As primary season continues, some Democrats claim the party needs to "move to the center" to win in November. Hogwash. Democrats can't repeat the same failed playbook of the last 50 years. It's time for them to grow a spine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQzG_TrhyrY

Good morning good people ☀️

Chief Senate Clerk Russell Humphrey and a sergeant-at-arms tear a banner away from Senator Charlane Oliver (D) Nashville. Oliver stood on her desk holding a banner which reads: “No #JimCrow2. Stop the TN Steal”. Photograph by John Partipilo National Civil Rights Museum, POLITICO

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.

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"It'll be okay as long as we still push through a Democratic majority." No, bitch, it will not be okay. It will never be okay that Black Americans do not have a voice and have to depend on the kindness of strangers who have shown repeatedly that they do not give a shit about us in the voting booth.

The rest of the world is watching and harassing Americans on social media instead of like, lobbying their governments to take action about any of the human rights crises, of which this is only one But it *is* a human rights crisis and an early stage of genocide

youtu.be/nUniTHXN52s?...

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.

“If Africans and their diaspora were truly inferior, it would be unnecessary to rewrite their history, obfuscate their accomplishments, and work for 400 years to limit their futures.” — Dr. Douglas S. Shipley

Suppression of voting rights was part of the case that civil rights leaders made to the UN that what was happening to Black Americans constituted genocide, back in 1951 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...

If every member of the Confederacy had been publicly executed for their treason when the Civil War ended, Christian White Nationalists would not be installing fascism throughout our government today. 🇺🇸

god forbid a French rat live out his dream of becoming a chef on a cruiseship