Happy Caturday. Dudes rock.

Really wish I could go viral on BlueSky. I created an app that merges Mutual Aid with Black Businesses: on the app, you can shop Black Businesses on 1 app, all Black Owned conveniently under 1 roof. On the same app you can see people struggling with overdue bills/rent/evictions etc & give them aid.

#tdih 1950 SC African American parents filed lawsuit for equal educ. called Briggs v. Elliott. They all paid taxes; but district spent on each white student ($221), Black student ($45). Faced brutal backlash 💔: fired from jobs, denied right to purchase farm supplies, denied loans, & death threats

"You can't be having all these trans women being murdered by men in the headlines when you're trying to convince the public that the safest thing would be for trans women to use the men's bathroom and locker room. "You run the risk of people seeing through the propaganda that way."

I know the rural framing is mostly bait lol. But in the last year I’ve really had my fill of having to hear about the Noble Rural Voter who lives in a fake alternate reality of information, hates all culture, and wants my friends to die, all while taking from them economically

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

Um okay so Well, see, the thing is So what we have here is Oh fuck where to start

I’ll never be over this.

"It feels like ​he hears us," said Bruyette, "that he is fighting for us." Pure delusion by these people.

Really appreciate Reuters coming in once more to reinforce the point I was making this week about Trump voters: They were happy to say they voted for a better economy, but it was never true. What they voted for was the racism, and they got that, so they’re satisfied.

New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:

🫡🫡🫡 to Ms. Grier

What a beautiful way to share people's history.

Duncan Robinson making some great passes…

Kevin Harlan saying “He-Man!” was hilarious.

This is why the only Biden legacy that matters will be the second Trump presidency.

Zohran Mamdani becomes one of the first mayors in the US (and among a small handful of prominent US officials generally) to recognize the Nakba — the mass expulsion and forced displacement of 700,000+ Palestinians. Connected directly with a Nakba survivor:

Are we sure Trump didn't offer to sell the US to Xi?

Gov. Gavin Newsom portrays himself as a resistance leader—though in his budget proposal, he is once again attacking Medicaid funded home care that helps disabled people live independently. My latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

having such a visceral reaction reading this, everything I miss about having records, tapes and CDs: the J-cards, the album covers & inserts, the CD booklets. The album art was such a massive part of the whole for so many records. Digital stuff doesn't compare. We lost an entire aspect of music.

On Sunday, May 24, 11 AM, I'm leading a tour for Strong Sactown & Preservation Sacramento called "Not-So-Missing-Middle Housing" in the Newton Booth and Poverty Ridge neighborhoods of Sacramento, CA, starting at Zoe Coffee & Tacos, 1829 22nd Street. #missingmiddle #urbantruth #janejacobs

There comes a time in a certain kind of man’s life when he looks into the distance and thinks should I become Pitbull?

It is remarkable how many establishment Dems simply do not understand they are in the middle of an existential war against MAGA politics, and that there’s no co-existence possible here.

He looks like a member of a boy band whose now in their late 50’s.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

I think voters might be a little more enthusiastic about the Democratic party if their elected officials didn't so clearly despise them

“De La Soul Is Dead” was comprised of 27 tracks—10 of which were skits or interludes—and the tape ran almost 74 minutes long… CD’S ONLY HELD ENOUGH SPACE/DATA FOR 74 MINUTES OF MUSIC. WE DIDN’T LEARN THAT FACT FOR ANOTHER 5 YEARS. The cassette J card contained comic panels with skit dialogue on it

USA funeral plates being sold at Walmart

you mean like increased maternal health care? universal health care? access to safe abortions? sexual education? free contraception? closing the income inequality gap? weird, cuz those are things that would increase birth rates but are never the policy levers these creeps want to pull

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Just laughing at how it’s possible for a black woman to be so beautiful and talented that she sends a racist into a six day public stroke

MPD does this every year and it’s literally a policy to surveil and police the Blackest parts of the city without concern for any constitutional protections.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

This is so outrageous

SCOTUS overriding the FIFTH CIRCUIT on a stay just shows how awful they are

Update: Texas killed a man tonight. AP: “Edward Busby Jr. was pronounced dead at 8:11 p.m. [CT] following a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay over his disabilities claims.” apnews.com/article/texa...

Salute. Had a high school classmate pass away this week from a four year battle with ALS.

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

“at least two boxes had been built and used by staff in November and December of 2025.” November and December of 2025.

What was that possession?

“Maximum Overdrive - The Return”

I don’t think California gets enough credit for how gross its politics are

Is the Wings mascot supposed to be the horse from Clash of the Titans?

Odyssey Sims with an absurd running three at the buzzer

Olivia Miles with an absolute DART of a pass to Natasha Howard 🎯 #Lynx

And she double-pumped that shot…

When you see a basketball player go down like that it’s a high chance it’s ACL/MCL type of injury.