In 2025 alone, there were 616 anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced to U.S. state legislatures. SIX. HUNDRED. AND. SIXTEEN. As a Black, Jewish, and queer person, I know scapegoating and Christian nationalism when I see it.

POV: You just heard that two transgender residents of Kansas are suing the state after it invalidated their driver’s licenses without warning

So you’re telling me that child marriage is still legal in Kansas, but it’s illegal for a trans person to have a driver’s license or birth certificate with their aligned gender identity? This country is so a** backwards.

Trump lied to the nation tonight and said the SAVE Act will protect our elections from fraud. The truth? We don’t have a voter fraud issue, we have a voter suppression issue.

What we got versus what we ordered

Congressman Al Green holding up a sign that says "Black People Aren't Apes" as Trump walked to the podium for SOTU is powerful symbolism. Last year he was censured for disrupting Trump's address, and this year he's bringing that same energy. This is good trouble.

MAGA: We're not a cult, stop calling us that! Also MAGA:

Reporting live from the Capitol! I guess this is just gonna be a diatribe of straight lies. Buckle in folks.

At this point if Trump being racist *shocks you* then you’ve either been living under a rock or you’re willfully ignorant. Regardless, I fear y’all are failing an open book test.

Much of the Midwest is under a severe weather advisory right now. Temperatures are in the negatives with wind chills as low as 25 below zero. I need you to understand how badass it is that thousands of people still showed up and showed out.

Massive anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis today draws thousands despite -10 degree weather. Their statewide strike calls for no work, no school, no shopping, and ICE out of Minnesota FOR GOOD. Cheering you on from Illinois!

Fled Cruz back at it again with his same old shenanigans. This time, fleeing to California while Texans brace themselves for a severe ice storm. It's giving me flashbacks to 2021 when we were freezing in our homes and he was jetting off to Cancún. A pitiful excuse for leadership.

Where one form of bigotry is tolerated, others will inevitably fester. Our liberation has never been individual. Our safety has never been siloed. Community is how we get free.

As a Black Jew, moments like this remind me why an intersectional lens is critical. This synagogue has long been a symbol of Black and Jewish solidarity. As both the only synagogue in Jackson and the largest synagogue in Mississippi, it carries tremendous symbolic weight.

On January 10, 2026, the only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi was set on fire. The suspected arsonist reportedly targeted the shul because of its “Jewish ties,” calling it the “synagogue of Satan.”

Anyone weaponizing the suffering of the Jewish community to spread anti-Muslim hate is scum of the earth. If your response to one kind of bigotry is to spread another kind of bigotry, you posses zero understanding of how we actually get free.

Randy Fine, a Jewish Republican Senator, is calling for the mass expulsion of Muslim people from the U.S. and a Muslim travel ban. In a recent post he claimed that “diversity is not our strength.” Which is ironic considering that this same logic was once deployed against Ashkenazi Jews who

Wondering how the Australian government is responding to the antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach? By tightening their already stringent gun laws. Including, but not limited to:

10-year-old Matilda is the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach massacre. Yesterday at her funeral a rabbi read remarks from teachers who described her as “our little ray of sunshine.” And as an homage to her family nickname, Matilda Bee, the gathering was marked by a plethora of bumblebee balloons.

Shame shame I know your name #bftbpartner @backfrombrink.bsky.social

November 4th is Election Day! Polls will be open from 6am to 9pm. Y’all know what to do 🙂↕️🗳️

Damn proud to be a Chicagoan right now. We resoundingly say NO to ICE and the national guard invading our home!!

If you only believe in free speech when people are saying things you agree with, then you don’t believe in free speech. Hope that clears things up.

Brendan Carr, the FCC Chairman, threatened ABC and Jimmy Kimmel after his comments about Charlie Kirk. Now Jimmy’s show is indefinitely suspended.

First Stephen Colbert. Today Jimmy Kimmel. And now Trump is calling for Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon to be next. Let’s call this what it is: a coordinated attack on free speech. No amount of gaslighting changes that fact.

Living in the United States is such a dysregulating experience. My nervous system is in shambles.

And y’all wonder why this generation of kids struggles with high rates of anxiety

MAGA argues that all this discussion of racism and slavery is dividing us and thus needs to stop. You know what’s really dividing us? Refusing to reckon with our storied past and how it proliferates into the present moment. What’s dividing us is the failure to engage in genuine repair.

What you refuse to reckon with will reckon with you

“yOu LiBs ArE oBsEsSeD wItH tAlKiNg AbOuT rAcE!” Are we obsessed with race or are we insistent on naming the harm caused by people who uphold racist systems? Stop the problem and we won’t have anything to talk about. See how simple that was?

Call me crazy, but if you’re more offended by slavery being taught in museums than the tragedy of slavery happening in the first place then maybe…just maybe…you’re the problem.

The most wild thing to me about this claim from the White House that the Smithsonian museums are "too woke” is that we already get a super tempered history of slavery in this country. We’re rarely taught that enslavers used to literally eat us.

Cracker Barrel unveiled a new logo without the old white man. MAGA called it a “woke rebrand.” Within a day, the backlash forced the company to restore the original logo. Nothing like a challenge to the status quo to bring out unfettered white backlash and fragility.

So tired of people like Snoop Dog proliferating the idea that seeing PG queer relationships on screen is inappropriate for children or too inconvenient to explain. Like bro you’re “scared” for your grandkids to see two married animated women kiss on screen? Really?

This is Mariam Abu Dagga, a 33-year-old journalist killed by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. In her will, she told her 13-year-old son: “Never forget me and remember that your mother did everything she could to make you happy, comfortable, and at ease.”

When told about the hospital strikes, Trump muttered he was “not happy” and wanted to “end that nightmare.” Blasé, empty words. This is the same man who bankrolls Israel with our tax dollars and attacks free press here at home while defending an ally murdering the press in Gaza.

Israel has now killed at least 197 journalists and struck hospitals again and again. Yet it continues to claim having “the most moral army in the world.” What morality is there in starving children, bombing doctors, and murdering reporters? This isn’t morality.

Netanyahu called Israel’s strike on Nasser Hospital — which killed at least 20 civilians, including 5 journalists — a “tragic mishap.” That was not a mishap. This is genocide.

The hypocrisy is the point.

Because we don't do performative allyship in this house thank you very much! 👋🏼

I swear y’all better leave Ms. Rachel alone! She’s just out here advocating for Palestinian babies who deserve peace, safety, and a real childhood like every other child on earth. If that offends you then you’re the problem.

Why should anyone have to explain why a Black woman would refuse to be “escorted” by police? An institution rooted in slave patrols and systemic anti-Blackness? Of course she said no. Of course.

Let’s keep it a buck: Black women have always borne the brunt of hyper-surveillance and punitive measures in the U.S. What’s being done to Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier isn't a deviation from that status quo, it’s an explicit continuation of it.

Texas Republicans literally locked Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chambers for refusing to sign a “permission slip” forcing her to take a police escort. She’s not a criminal. And treating her like one after drawing maps that silence Black and Brown voters is a shameless display of misogynoir.

The White House recently tapped PragerU as an educational partner. Yes, the same PragerU that made a cartoon Frederick Douglass video downplaying slavery. And yes, the same PragerU founded by Dennis Prager, who once complained he couldn’t say the n-word as a white Jewish man.

It's always the most lawless and disorderly who are out here screaming the loudest about law and order smh

The second I hear law and order my spidey senses start tingling. Yours should too.

I just know he salty af right now. STAY MAD!! 🤭

Republicans gerrymander to silence Black and Brown voters. Democrats gerrymander to platform them. Are they both ultimately doing this to win elections? Yes. But don’t get it twisted, not all gerrymandering is made equal.

We can play the moral absolutism game right now and scream about how all gerrymandering is bad, or we can have a very grown up conversation about the fact that we cannot afford to lose these midterms. We have to protect the seats we have and pick up a few more.