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.

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...

On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.

The next wannabe governor from Florida was spared prison, had his record sealed, and got not one, but three chances at redemption. Now he’s pushing a D.C. crime bill that would deny those same chances to young adults in the District. That screams “opportunities for me, but not for thee.”

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

Rain puddle reflection, St Ann street, New Orleans

Jimi Hendrix performance of "Red House" at Woodstock in 1969. 🎸🔥 #smlpdf #sheetmusic #Noten #partituras #spartiti sheetmusiclibrary.website

Crockett: How is it that you can explain that we still are running up the credit card and we have nothing to show for it except for the fact that we won't have food on the tables and we won’t have health care.

As Neiman Lab notes, studies show most Americans trust PBS because it is publicly funded, which frees the platform from commercial pressures. READ: loom.ly/LATyjYg

A streetlamp on Bourbon reflects a group of musicians, New Orleans

Anita Baker released her debut album 'The Songstress' 42 years ago on May 31, 1983 album.ink/ABsongstress

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Ross’s Turaco - such a fascinating bird! 📍Entebbe, Uganda. #Birds #NaturePhotography 🪶

Because the reporting across outlets hasn’t mentioned it I want to stress that Justice Jackson referenced the courageous & resolute stance of federal judges J. Shelly Wright in Louisiana and Frank Johnson in Alabama who issued school desegregation orders in the face of “Massive Resistance” to Brown.

And they voted for him so... that means they voted for this

pretty sure I could listen to this every day for the rest of my life and hear something startling and new every time www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqpr...

Deep river fishing, Algiers Point, New Orleans

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

Makes me easily identifiable 😆😂. Cheers to you! Glad to connect over here!

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The plan to prove that the most incompetent White men are preferable to the most highly qualified Black men has been a smashing success. Between the tariff lunacy tanking the economy, the chain-sawing of the federal govt, & Signal-gate (parts 1 & 2), the supremacy is not looking very supreme.

Among the awful here: He used his personal phone. What a sloppy mess: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

kendrick doing maad city over "sweet love" by anita baker wasnt something I knew i needed. shouts to the Villain of course. SOOPA. cant wait to see this concert.

Converting my 401K into cartons of cigarettes for barter before the market opens tomorrow.

Or because they don’t want the hormones & antibiotics in our chicken & beef. For heaven’s sake we didn’t require labeling on genetically modified food until 2022. Lutnick has really turned out to be consistently ridiculous in his rhetoric.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes blocks the Department of Defense from carrying through with a policy directive designed to remove transgender servicemembers from the military.

Another view of the total lunar eclipse at its 2am peak. It took some walking in Mississippi River mud to get these photos 😊

#InternationalWomensDay 31 awesome records by female artists you should really listen to!! In random order #Musicsky 14/31 #AnitaBaker #March8

James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by state troopers.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Where was the public pushback and vocal warnings from the medical community BEFORE RFK was confirmed?

New from me: A school district in Pennsylvania voted against adding a Black author's book about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to the curriculum. Then, the community decided to do something about it.

My dad, Walter Coles, has been doing some of his finest work at 86 years old and 2 1/2 years post quadruple bypass surgery! 💙

The Black Gospel Archive at Baylor University is the world's largest digital collection of gospel music. Now it wants to collect oral histories around its rare recordings.

RIP, Angie Stone. And thank you 🌹🕊️ 🎶Spring has come and Winter's gone, my love But don't look around for me, chile I'll be gone, gone, gone, gone Not afraid Because the seasons have changed I'm gonna count my blessings And just follow the sun...🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgG0...

A federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration's firings of thousands of probationary employees, calling the actions illegal.

AGEISM

Look at this leader. Lift her up.

The House bill cutting benefits now goes to the Senate. I am asking you as a member of the NO Women and Children's Shelter board of directors to join me in lighting up our Senators phones to demand no benefit cuts to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Cassidy: 202.224.5824 Kennedy: 202.224.4623

RIP Queen! 💐🙏🏽👑 youtu.be/sI7UOwOhKEs?...

Rest in Power Roberta Flack

This is the story.

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

A judge ordered the naming rights of the extremist group the Proud Boys be given to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.

They are all caving… this is the disaster we thought it would be, on an accelerated timeline

!Just found a LP copy of this, STILL WRAPPED, online and had it sent off to my friend the reverend in Providence, who's a walking talking encyclopedia of Gospel music and he doesn't have this. 'Same Old River' is one of the most glorious Gospel cuts ever put on wax. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj1I...

If you're not afraid of this, you're not paying attention... www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...