Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.

When you build warehouses and camps to imprison 10s of 1000s of ordinary folks you not only create fear, you create epidemics. This is a perfect storm--an admin that doesn't believe that measles vax are a good thing, and shoves people together under terrible conditions--this is how epidemics launch.

He is not well. If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.

My 12-year-old, following 2 feet behind me through the house, coughing: “I hope I don’t get you sick.” It’s a trap.

Have kids so you can explain infinity at 5:46 AM.

There is not one marginalized, racialized, or oppressed group whose oppression or destruction is an acceptable cost for saving "democracy." Not one. If saving democracy requires leaving marginalized people behind, that's not a democracy worth saving. Either we all get saved or none of us do.

A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests

My grandpa John M. Perkins (94) is a civil rights icon; I routinely meet people from all over, who’ve heard or read one of his many lectures or books. Whenever he mentions the eldest son of his eldest son, he brags about my intellect—he knows I get it from him. He’s where I get my confidence from 🖤

I'm so fucking proud to be a Californian.

Hoods off. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Two things that shouldn’t be for profit: prisons and healthcare, because the incentive for harm is too great. Keep ’em sick. Keep ’em locked up. keep the checks coming.

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.

Least surprising news item: Trump cheats at golf. No way! He cheats? Shut your whore mouth. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

National Parks are more than scenic views, they’re a promise to future generations to protect truth, history, & nature. Now, the Administration is pressuring the Park Service to scrub references to slavery & the Black experience. www.npca.org/articles/994...

Talk to me, those of you who are disabled or have disabled loved ones. How do you make travel less difficult?

“Would you appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the Jeffrey Epstein investigation?” “I have nothing to do with it.” Yeah, that’s a *pretty* weird answer to the question that was asked.

John Lewis walked, bled, and lived for justice. Five years since his passing, we honor him the only way we know how: By refusing to stay silent and getting in more Good Trouble.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

People who put a lot of weight into test scores are probably quite disappointed in the reality of day to day life.

The IOC and FIFA should pull the games from the US. We actually need to be sanctioned and consequenced for our horrendous war crime behavior here at home and around the world.

We live in a country where the top 1% just purchased the Supreme Court, Congress, and the White House. People will die, and those 1% are fine with it.

Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

This is one of America's saddest days, but it pales in comparison to the days that are coming for so many here.

California’s #1 import is oil, much of it from Iraq. To get it, ships pass through the Strait of Hormuz, controlled by Iran. California is the 4th largest economy in the world and pays $90 billion more in federal taxes than it gets back, to subsidize red states. Have a nice day

News🚨Last night the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that Republicans can’t decimate nutrition assistance by shifting huge costs to states in the big beautiful betrayal. We’ll keep fighting against this bill which takes away healthcare & food assistance to give tax cuts to the rich.

Ted Cruz "hates communists" because Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, who was *not* a communist, imprisoned and tortured Cruz's father for helping Fidel Castro, who *was* a communist and who freed Cruz's father from the non-communist prison. Proving, once again, that Cruz speaks absolute rubbish.

"We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests." -FDR, 1941 #birds #aves #FDR #baldeagle #featheredFriday #AmericanEagleDay #juvenile

Don't let the bigots pathologize us. Yes dysphoria kills. It sucks. Believe me, I know. But we are NOT our dysphoria and we are owed more than simply being trauma porn. We deserve gender affirming care because we're human beings and bodily autonomy is a human right.

🫶🏼 this #Grantifa

This is devastating. Trans rights are human rights, and it is incredibly unethical for the government to override the decisions of families and physicians caring for trans kids. 🏳️‍⚧️✊💙 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Facts matter.

"Well this is it, this is the one big bad thing of our lifetimes," I thought on 9-11

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house." The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

Wow no one could have predicted this. I’m sure AI will fix all this up. futurism.com/computer-sci...

Part of me is dying watching these ICE raids. It’s not new. It’s reliving history we should know better than. This is old, played out, and disgusting.

I’m in an arms race with a 4-year-old desperate to break into his dad’s office. I’m on attempt 3. It does not look like I’m going to win.

To our Government, Leave LGBTQ people the hell alone. Sincerely, The American Majority

The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

Found this on my phone looking for something else and I am dead

Folks don’t miss a beat 😂

Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night. When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠

I don’t know how many times we have to say this, but the U.S. government is not a business and shouldn’t be run like one. It’s a service—for the people.

They let this man ravage our govt & make decisions that resulted in suffering worldwide, & loss of jobs, livelihood & security at home. The irresponsibility & negligence ….. DO NOT LET SPEAKER JOHNSON NEAR A MIC OR CAMERA W/O DEMANDING HE ACCOUNT FOR THIS. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...