US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

2nd craziest thing a Will Smith has done live on the international stage

I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.

Kendrick wins again

So extra innings just keep going until someone wins??

Body slamming your teammate in order to make a catch to save the World Series is so funny and great. Knocked that man right out. 🤣

Never thought I’d be yelling at my at my tv over a baseball game

So much of what’s wrong with our society is grounded in anti-Blackness—the governing ideology of this thing we’ve called democracy.

The continued failure of mainstream media to recognize or acknowledge the racial demographic anxiety undergirding and enabling the political moment and eroding of democracy, government and the safety net, is an abdication that makes us complicit.

This is why so many politicians, and too many journalists, feel the need to show that white people need these programs in order to show that the “right” people — the deserving — also need these programs. Yet in covering the opposition to food stamps, etc, they rarely mention how racialized it is.

Republicans understand that the best way to kill social programs is to paint their beneficiaries as Black, as support for these programs declines — even amongst white people who need them — when they think large numbers of Black people will benefit. news.stanford.edu/stories/2018...

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.

Why did I just read the phrase "Britney Griner stud praise dance team" 💀

The ruling class has had 20 years to come up with something better than “buy less avocado toast” to explain why you can’t afford a house. And they’ve opted to just play the old hits.

Two Sky greats will be inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame next summer. Candace Parker and Elena Delle Donne headline the 2026 class announced Thursday.

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We live in an episode of Veep

Imagine saying we need to focus less on abortion when pro-abortion ballot initiatives are winning in states like Missouri and Ohio. Fuck off with this centrist circa mid-90s nonsense.

BREAKING: LSU is firing Brian Kelly, multiple sources tell @brucefeldmancfb.bsky.social. Frank Wilson is expected to be the interim head coach.

High rent isn't just a housing issue. It's destroyed community groups of all kinds, because nobody can get any space for meetings or events anymore

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

LSU….. girl….. love yourself. leave that man

If LSU does get a new head coach for 2026, then here is some free advice. Don't offer him a 10 year contract.

Texas A&M-LSU has been three different games and unfortunately for Brian Kelly LSU has only won one of them

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Workers can prepare for a lockout and use it to their advantage! That is likely something the WBPA is doing amid the stonewalling + intimidation from Cathy, Adam Silver, other #WNBA exec management. Learn about more about strikes vs lockouts from @labornotes.bsky.social:

Strike = union initiated, as in workers democratically vote to withhold labor, after bosses refuse to negotiate / meet key demands Lockout = ownership initiated, as in workers are literally locked out + unpaid as punishment Similar effects, very different provenance + strategy implications

THREAD: This was an all-white jury in rural Louisiana and a judge appointed by Trump. But when ordinary people hear about the everyday brutality pervasive inside our jails, they are outraged. But something deeper is going on here:

(my broad view is that everyone is trying to find an easy shortcut rather than the more difficult work of building an actual relationship between the party and both the voters it has and the voters it wants)

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

I’m trying this new dissertation writing strategy called Taking A Lunch Break. Who knew leaving my desk and not looking at screens for 1-2 hours could be so effective? #AcademicSky

Just cruel.

Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...

This is such a good episode. If you're confused about WNBA CBA negotiations, it really boils down to this: There is enough money for what the players are asking. The MNBA wants to enjoy the revenue of the WNBA, but not share the costs.

Isn't that cool! And the illustrations are very good. www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

Bella Hines is the real deal. I like how she sees the floor. #lsuwbb #ncaaw

Hi just so I'm clear. I wrote "donate to food banks" and do "food runs for mutual aid" because they are different things! Food banks want your money! they can do more with your money than with stuff. Mutual aid groups often want stuff! Mine has a food fridge!

food banks have already been under pressure over the past several years, and with SNAP benefits expiring they're going to be the only safety net for a lot of people please donate what you can. $100 can feed several families for a month because of the discounts and purchasing power they have

NEW WRITING: It's aimed at students, with some specific examples for astro/physics folks, but I think other people may find it useful too. 🔭⚛️🧪 "Knowledge is worth your time because of how it shapes your mind. And the authoritarians may take many things from us, but they cannot take our minds."

Pantries and meal programs exist everywhere and this is where people who lose SNAP will turn. No need to reinvent the wheel. These organizations need money and volunteers.

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]: 1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]? 2. Who's already doing work around this injustice? 3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them? 4. How can I be constructive?

This is ESPN's headline: Adam Silver: WNBA players can expect 'big increase' in salaries They could just as easily say: Adam Silver: NBA will not agree to share revenue with women the way they share revenue with men. Both headlines fit what he said. www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Everyone makes it about Trump and Epstein, but it’s about this whole ring of men. That’s what makes me upset, because we know they were there. We saw them. We know there were royalty, princes, very powerful people in academia and tech, and we saw them at parties.

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

That’s called burying the lead

LMAOOOO the loserest losers who ever lost

these are a different set of republican racist texts than the previous set of republican racist and nazi texts