It’s time. Meet in Selma. Saturday, May 16th. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

Anyone in Alabama, I would strongly encourage you to make it to Montgomery this Saturday if you can. They'll be bus transportation from Birmingham and several other major cities allroadsleadtothesouth.com

It's been a collective and community effort to press the Mayor to honor his campaign promise to public libraries. We're still not there yet. Please follow @nycplan.org if you live in NYC for next steps in the ongoing process to actually fully fund public libraries in our great city.

If Dems are looking for good ideas to bring down electricity bills, I recommend that they ditch the slopulism and look to this excellent analysis from @rewiringamerica.bsky.social for ideas:

Rep. Kiggans agreed with a disgusting, vile comment, and then outright lied about it. She needs to apologize and then resign. We are a multi-racial country, and if a Member of Congress cannot see the beauty in our diversity, then they have no place serving in the People’s House.

Iran’s *trying* to crash the economy, you naive Pollyanna banker. That increases their leverage and the chance of getting concessions. Trump—the guy you backed for president—got the US in a bad position, unable to get a deal and unwilling to admit failure. But it’s stupid, you say? Yes. Yes it is.

Amid pressure to relinquish control of CNN to Trump, @raskin.house.gov and @frankpallone.govpeeps.us expand investion into the dangerous proposed Warner Bros. Discovery aquisition over CBS News.

Major media eagerly repeat claims by the Trump regime that they know are lies, but they’re quite wary of reporting the obvious truth that the president is out of his mind.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) defended his decision to suspend his state’s ongoing primary election to redraw the congressional maps, even after 45,000 ballots had already been cast, saying that discarding those votes was “not a big” deal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.

the transportation secretary filming a reality show over the course of seven months while serving in the president's cabinet is one of the fucking weirdest developments of trump 2.0

It’s Voting Day in Nebraska! Get out and vote! 🇺🇸💙

the court failed to provide the appropriate level of deference to a constitutional referendum and no one is obliged to honor its conclusion that the results should be invalidated.

again, i don’t think any of this is necessary. just say that the court was out of bounds, that it may be correct on the definition of “election” but that this technical matter has no bearing on the results of the referendum, which occurred in a free and fair contest.

two things can be true... 1. yes 2. And also there is a scrutiny and surveillance of Black women (because that's what we are talking about in the WNBA Black women) that is not given to any other group of people www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Hey man, you need to stop taking my fucking videos, cropping off my handle, splicing it with other clips (which you presumably also stole), and then slapping your name on it. It’s one thing to download my TikTok and post it instead of just sharing here, but we’re hitting lawyer territory here.

“May I finish,” she begs shakily after the mildest pushback. Keep pushing back.

Same. HUGE gap between experts & everyone else. This was already expert consensus 2 years ago. Now? Trump's horrible & evil war have wrecked the perception of oil & gas as stable and cheap in the decade when solar, wind, batteries, EVs are SURGING worldwide www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

This is what @katemac.bsky.social & I called the "hyperagency of consumers", thats outpacing policy or public investment & transforming energy systems www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw... In UK heat pump orders doubled in a single month; EV and solar orders are rising worldwide. In Europe...

“From where we stand now there are two ways forward: one is the self-induced downfall of the American republic; the other is to reconsider American ideals and to restructure American politics so as to bring the people greater power over a more just future.” Insightful post from Timothy Snyder

Then, for this story, I asked MLB about these allegations that the league didn't speak to alleged witnesses who believe they could have helped build a case. Here's what MLB said to my new questions: [File not found.] You can read the whole thing here:

quick thread 🧵 After MLB investigated and cleared a player who allegedly choked his fiancée from discipline, I asked league commissioner Rob Manfred how the league uses input from people who participate. Here's what Manfred said: www.readeyeblack.com/p/mlb-promis...

Racism as an ideology depends on lies. So racists, especially those who consider themselves to be intellectuals, tend to be very accomplished liars.

So are they gonna rename it Project Freedom Go, then Project Freedom Max, then just Freedom, then back to Project Freedom, then—

If anyone’s looking for alternative to NYT Cooking, heartily recommend America’s Test Kitchen. Their app is great, they air on public tv, and they’re union!

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

Not the first time a Supreme Court has essentially canceled what the voters wanted. See Bush v Gore.

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

Yup. Ignore it and do it.

The way I think this works for Democrats who are committed to procedural extremism: - State Dems ignore the ruling, hold elections under the new map - It goes to federal court, SCOTUS sides with state court ofc - Incoming Dem house ignores SCOTUS

I'm interviewing Rankin and Jordan at noon today on my YouTube channel, Facebook, and Substack. Got a chance to talk to them yesterday, and they're interesting— they see the resumption of state power as key to recovering democracy.

I wrote about the emails Josh Shapiro didn't want you to see, exposing too-cozy ties between Pa. gov and Amazon, whose $20B plan for loud, energy-guzzling data centers across the state has sparked a citizen revolt Amazon delivers a political headache. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/tech...

People here love books but I also think it’s true that they don’t organically *discuss* books they love here as much as on other platforms like Bookstagram, Book Threads, and Book Tok. It’s good for those of us who have followings to make our followers aware but that’s not a whole book culture.

People kept insisting it was the New South! No more racism!

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Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

Still the best film adaptation of The Odyssey

"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

Yeah. Just to be clear: The right's embrace of challenge coins is weird and anonymous. Gluing them to doors in the West Wing is . . . grandpa-let's-get-you-to-bed behavior.

Rep. Justin Jones burning a Confederate flag during the special session on Tennessee redistricting Jones: “It’s a form of Jim Crow terror — this is about race. This is about power. This is about silencing communities that have historically been excluded”

Thanks to your generous support, we’ve raised $100,406 and bailed out 15 Black mamas and caregivers so far! Drop a coin + share this post to help #FreeBlackMamas 💕

NEW: John Roberts likes being political. He just doesn't like the accountability that comes with it. Roberts complained Wednesday that people view the justices as "political actors." They are, though, issuing political decisions that have real-world consequences. Today, at Law Dork:

Conversations about the future of higher education in the US need to start from the unfortunate, basic fact that both Democrats and Republicans agree with Reagan that government should not subsidize curiosity driven learning and inquiry.

The struggle for #ReparationsWON reminds us about the power of art & imagination to help us envision & enact what might feel impossible or improbable. The ordinance eventually passed was based on a draft by @jmogul.bsky.social submitted to a speculative art project by @ctjmfoundation.bsky.social