*sigh*

My aunt, Priscilla Stephens Kruize, can no longer live on her own at age 87 & assisted living costs are huge. Our family launched a fundraiser to help fund her care until she gets financial aid. She is a civil rights HERO who has given so much to others - and now she needs us. gofund.me/8db8323e6

It's the final day to back Shed! Your support ensures that the talented artists behind this film are fully supported and production values remain high. The campaign closes on Wednesday, May 13 at 8am. Please support today if you can: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...

Thanks to indie film lovers, we've made our campaign goal! We still have a funding gap to meet our entire film budget. There are FOUR days left to support us on Kickstarter. Please pledge today if you are able: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...

this one is getting close and i know @stephaniejeter.bsky.social has some stretch goals in mind. join me in supporting if you've got some money burning a hole in your pocket! funding artists is so vital at this time while opportunities are drying up for under represented voices.

My latest film is stacked with a truly impressive team including @lillywachowski.bsky.social! Our Kickstarter is 66% funded with 9 DAYS to go. If you love indie film, please consider backing our project today. Read our feature in SCREEN Magazine for a deeper dive.

Fringe Millennium Dark My So-Called Life The Killing Dying for Sex The Leftovers The Twilight Zone Curb Your Enthusiasm Modern Family Living Single Westworld No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Doctor Who Abbott Elementary

Hey Chicago folks! wanna direct your attention to this cool and fun event for Brave Space Alliance on 5/21 where Angela freaking Davis is the keynote speaker!!! A fireside chat on her work as an advocate, educator and on the importance of building community and coalition to create lasting change!

Illinois is proud to launch our first-in-the-nation incentive to promote environmental sustainability in the film and television industry. Productions recognized as certified green will be eligible for an additional tax credit.

We're eight days in and have hit 61% on Kickstarter! Join our very cool backers and talented team of artists in bringing this thrilling indie film to life. You'll have our gratitude and some nice perks too! Support Shed here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...

Another plug from one of my faves! 😍 Thank you, Kate, for your pledge!

Thank you @lillywachowski.bsky.social for the plug 🥹! I'm tremendously excited to launch this new film and with such a great team. Please support and share if you can! Every bit counts!

#Blacksky Quote with a song about blackness you love!

I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

This is Indy. He just made history as the first dog to win a major acting award. He won the Astra for Best Performance in a Horror or Thriller after starring in the supernatural horror Good Boy. 14/10 congrats Indy

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

Before federal agents killed a Minnesota mom, they killed a man in Chicago and shot a woman 5 times. blockclubchi.co/4jxafcA

Representation for women in the director’s chair dipped to a seven-year low in 2025, according to the annual study from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.

And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV. There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

Annie Easley was a NASA computer scientist and mathematician who made major advances to NASA’s energy technologies and rocket systems. Her work included being a human computer, running rocket launch experiments, and research alternative energy technologies. #BlackHerstory #BlackHistory #Blacksky

2 measles cases were found in Chicago and suburban Cook County. buff.ly/wt9fgKT

My Governor, my city. Standing up for equity. #resist

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

More than 600 Academy members standing in bold solidarity with Hamdan Ballal. You love to see it.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Unabashed bigotry on full display. “Under President Trump, the SBA is committed to putting American citizens first again — starting by ensuring that zero taxpayer dollars go to fund illegal aliens,” SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler [pictured] said in a news release. www.wbez.org/business/202...

BREAKING: #BLACKSKY Consumer Reports: Dangerous Chemicals Were Detected in 100% of the Braiding Hair We Tested, from brands including Magic Fingers, Sassy Collection, Sensationnel, Shake-N-Go, and others. Carcinogens were detected in all of them.

Fascism is rising quickly and this is what the Democrats have to offer in response.

Now more than ever.

Two months early, but I appreciate the joke anyway 😆

Important! Constantly posting on social media that “now is the time to organize” isn’t the same as actual organizing. We have an opportunity to turn BlueSky into a space where substantive organizing can take place. Most of us are not savvy organizers but we can at least put our heads together.

Under the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, you do not have to speak with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, answer their questions, or sign any papers if they ask, according to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. thetriibe.com/2025/01/what...

UPDATE: Secret Service agents — not ICE — were denied entry at a Chicago school despite initial CPS reports, a CPS source said. Secret Service agents were looking for an 11-year-old who posted an anti-Trump video, the source said. https://buff.ly/3EatFDz

"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine."

Contrary to popular belief and framing, the MeToo movement did not fundamentally shift the status quo of institutional empowerment and protection of predators. The widespread idea that it did has put victims at a further disadvantage when they come forward about institutional betrayal

If anyone’s looking for alternatives to GoodReads, I highly recommend StoryGraph. It’s owned by a black woman, and the platform is so much more accessible and easy to use.

This is incredibly alarming, especially alongside the passing of Prop 36 (a so-called “tough on crime” measure).

Californians voting for Kamala and slavery is the ‘split ticket’ that worries me the most.

A federal jury convicted an ex-Kentucky police officer of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor

New Orleans students Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson, credited with solving the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, have discovered nine more solutions to the problem

Every story you’ve seen about this election erases South Asian voices; *none* cite numbers about our vote. Here’s the reality: South Asians favor Harris by nearly *fifty points*. They favor her at least 2-1 on *every issue* — including a whopping 76% strongly in favor of abortion.

Do yourself a favor and watch The Outsider, if you haven’t already. Spooky and mysterious, masterfully directed, perfectly cast, top notch writing (with Dennis Lehane on the team!).