Teyana Taylor is beautiful. Just watched and listened to her "Escape Room" short film/album.

Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com. I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team. Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.

Join us next Thursday October 2nd at 6:30 online for a conversation with Jo-Ann Morgan, Julius Fleming, La Donna Forsgren, and Courtney Thorsson for a conversation on Black Arts and the Black freedom struggle: www.eventbrite.com/e/cbfs-black...

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

I want you to read one of my 2022 investigations again + understand that the response you’re seeing from your children’s school boards-the harassment + firing of teachers, administrators & staff-is tied to a network of folks who have been in this game for years: www.propublica.org/article/geor...

I hope this marks a long term reversal of fortunes for the white evangelicals invading East Africa. They’ve been getting heinous laws passed in a lot of other countries, but especially Uganda.

Democrats Pour Millions into White Media, But Continue to Starve the Black Press BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Black voters, the backbone of the party, walked away in numbers unseen in modern times. ... blackpressusa.com?p=1127436

“If they are willing to do that to a congressional candidate on camera in front of press, imagine what they are willing to do to their detainees behind boarded-up windows.”

NEW: With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, we wrote about the pseudoscience underpinning yesterday's chaotic, bizarre, disturbing autism announcement at the White House www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

White nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes has never been more popular, and he has a plan in place to leverage that popularity to infiltrate all aspects of US society to spread his racist, antisemitic worldview. And it's already happening... www.wired.com/story/nick-f...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

"Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced they will immediately withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), labelling it an "instrument of neo-colonialist repression"." www.bbc.com/news/article...

About to check whether Heathcliff and Riff Raff ever met

“It is, of course, a very bad idea to structure foreign policy around the Rapture.” — THEY KNEW (2022)

The Black Women Who Knew That Civil Rights Were Human Rights time.com/7316791/blac...

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Been talking to people quite a bit about how it's easy to understand "cancel Disney+!" but harder to understand the initial and bigger problem is with Nexstar and Sinclair, so lemme make it easier. Find your local Nexstar channel Find your local Sinclair channel

If you're on LinkedIn, here's the opt-out for LinkedIn's AI bullshit using your content. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Thousands of Brazilians protested in all 26 states and the federal district against a possible pardon for former President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies, who were convicted of attempting a coup.

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Hundreds of Maryland schools love their Blue Ribbons. The feds ended the program.

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact. www.wired.com/story/silico...

There are 69,484 Black immigrants in the Chicago metro area originally from a country in Africa, making up 5.2% of the city’s population, according to an American Community Survey analysis of the 2023 Census.

this is the energy

I realized all the condescending replies are people who refused to do the work before now, and chastising Black people is their way of making themselves feel better about it. "They're doing nothing in this pivotal moment!" - they say, ignoring the pivotal decades preceding it

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

Charlie Kirk was a staunch proponent of open debate and free speech... FOR HIM.

The brilliant @itsafronomics.bsky.social just published a book you MUST READ! Over 300,000 Black women have lost their jobs this year, and if you want to understand how it happens, this is the book to read!

"Debate-me-bro culture, that's not real persuasion. Folks who are interested in this kind of debate-me-bro culture are not interested in persuasion at all. They're interested in the performance of their own intelligence," says @devawo.bsky.social. newrepublic.substack.com/p/is-america...

Democrats like Hakeem Jefferies and April McClain Delaney should find new ways to disgrace themselves outside of public office. Step aside.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

Join FTP on October 9 to learn from people who have found different ways of supporting their local public libraries [Virtual event]. Sign up and importantly TAKE SOME ACTION where you are. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Alarming reports that the Trump admin is trying to silence history at the National Park at Harper’s Ferry—where abolitionist John Brown led a raid seeking to arm slaves for a revolt. Signs being targeted include those that refer to “racial discrimination.” archive.is/gGV2d

Terrific thread. I’m honored to be a part of this event tomorrow. Planning to pick up on many of these themes. Will try to raise some questions about Du Bois’s “counter-revolution of property” thesis in an age of end-times fascism. Streaming: csrea.link/DuBoisZoom

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

New hardcover books are so sexy lol

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

I'm extremely pleased to share this conversation at the Center for Brooklyn History about my new book with the great Annette Gordon-Reed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhF...

As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

Leaders of A Beautiful Struggle (LBS) in Baltimore has been saying that Sinclair and its chairman David Smith are dangerous, right-wing bad actors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIyO...

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

Jimmy Kimmel has millions The teachers who got fired ? Don’t The Black women who were put on websites for THE FIRST HALF OF THIS ENTIRE YEAR don’t The immigrants scared to go outside because they are kidnapping them out of cars? But yeah!!!! Now it matters?!?