I'm Black everyday, but during Black Birder's Week, I'm Blackity Black! #Blackbirdersweek2026, #weouthere , #frolicking , #nature , #joy , #urbanbirding , #birds , #getoutside

Primary. That ass. Expeditiously. California.

Local grocery store ran out of yellow onions and chicken breasts … seems strange.

Kinda burying the lead here, NPR

I don't know what is going on with this popular repurposing of "restorative justice" to mean "no consequences for perpetrators" but hear me when I say, absolutely the fuck not

You want to know why some of y’all get side-eyed?! We are standing at the edge of the greatest rollback of Black voting and political power in over 150 years. Not abstract. Not theoretical. Real. Black representation across the South is on the chopping block.

The fundamental issue, on top of the racism, is we've created a society where it seems like to live a life of basic dignity is a zero-sum game. So, we question who gets into Harvard, not why Harvard is so important to our society.

Want to join us for Social Viruses in Vancouver this summer? One week to go until we start looking at applications (May 7th). To apply: socialviruses.zoology.ubc.ca #socialviruses #evosky #lovevirology #virosky

I have thoughts about the latest RFK Jr. statements about black children and their removal from Their homes… am curious to see who outside of black folks also have thoughts and actually DO something about it.

‘Surveillance pricing’ is when companies use your personal data, run it through AI, then use it to charge you more. It should be illegal. I have a bill to ban it.

The rapid withdrawal of international health aid by the United States (US) constitutes a public health emergency of international concern Via @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/us-withdrawa...

It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.

A necessary read. Those of us who believe in the promise of multiracial democracy must demand more from those who represent us. This Court has consistently undermined hard-won progress toward a freer and more equal country. Everything must be on the table. No court should have this much power.

Rescue them for what ?!

I like the politicians that visit with Black churches and clergy *after* they've already won their elections, instead of just before.

Happy May Day, proles

Gianni Infantino is an embarrassment to FIFA. A Trump-loving, insensitive, tone-deaf, amoral clown who has no understanding of right and wrong and who cares about nothing except his own agenda. He is everything that football should not be.

University administrator challenge: actually find ways to support your researchers in these times rather than saying the same only tired meaningless words

If you’re mad about Louisiana, you can do something to help us in Louisiana. I literally grant write and fundraise alone so I can put women & girls through school, pay their rents, & provide them menstrual products. Don’t talk about us in Louisiana like we’re dead. tpfwoman2woman2026.funraise.org

MUTUAL AID REQUEST: i have a student who has had to leave an unsafe housing situation. they have a safe place to go, but had to leave their clothes behind. planning on taking them to Costco + a few thrift stores this afternoon- if you want to chip in, my Venmo is jfmclaughlin92

“Why would scientific institutions be cozying up to the very people who want to pull them all down? Why do they insist on whitewashing what is happening, helping the perpetrators burnish their credentials?” HooooooooBoy, @gregggonsalves.bsky.social has nailed it in his new piece.

The Voting Rights Act “was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent. “Only [the American people] have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the members of this Court.” trib.al/bChcU7j

Really good piece from @adamserwer.bsky.social about the recent case in the Supreme Court regarding the Voting Rights Act. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The US already spends more than every other major country COMBINED. And we have borders with friendly neighbors and two oceans between us and any potential military enemies. So why isn't GOP slashing military spending if they are walking away from defense of allies in Europe and Asia?

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

Okay so, Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette....anti-DEI/MAGA Trumper had her invitation to give the commencement speech at SC State University - an HBCU - rescinded due to student protests. As a result, now they're calling for the school to be defunded

This is not it. What exactly has Cuba done to warrant war ?

Taught my last class until fall today 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾

One item I got at the book fair is titled "Afro-Americans Stand Up for Middle East Peace" edited by James Zogby and Jack O'Dell. Published in 1980, this is collection of writings by Black leaders on Palestinian rights. Contributors include Jesse Jackson, Rev. Joseph Lowery, Walter E Fauntroy, others

ICYMI: The House Appropriations Committee voted 35-25 yesterday to advance a bill that would underfund WIC and cut fruit and vegetable benefits for almost 5.4 million toddlers, preschoolers, new moms & pregnant women in low-income families.

I think you're onto something. I think we need to (re)establish the norm that there are "inside thoughts" and "outside thoughts".

1) He doesn't know how an IRA works 2) This is NOT a thing a POTUS should be "selling."

Latest grift just dropped.

Alito authoring opinion saying fixing a racial gerrymander is also racist and then musing, 2 hours later, during oral argument about Trump's racist effort to end humanitarian protections against deportation for Haitians, about how he doesn't like dividing up people by race I loathe this man so much

Sorta like going to South Carolina and skipping the Black folks. This tracks. A whole bunch of people are about to find out they lied to themselves about who the base is

I agree wholeheartedly with the comment to this post. For years when asking for funding for various initiatives, we were told some funds are not accessible because they exist to protect the university during tough financial periods. Aren’t we there yet?

Well damn.

If you want a picture of the Republican future, imagine a bench full of white men— & men who wish they were white— declaring in law that only They know what the Real racism is, & it's when they, personally, have to acknowledge any systemic inequalities which have disproportionately benefited them.

. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."

Underlying the current acute crisis in US research created by DOGE and Vought et al, there is a more longstanding problem-- the US has not been adequately funding its scientific enterprise for some time, given the size of the workforce and the importance of its mission. 4/n

I genuinely think the best way to deal with this shit is to run nonstop psa's showing cows being milked and how much shit is involved. actual shit

My grandmother had been alive long enough to see the VRA created and effectively ended in her lifetime. My mother was born the year after it passed. It did not last a single full lifespan.

I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

I just saw that if you were born in 2008 or later in the UK you will never be allowed to legally purchase cigarettes and people are very angry but I remain shocked that you can still legally buy cigarettes anywhere. Booze next.

John Lewis was beaten with clubs wrapped in barbed wire on the Edmund Pettus Bridge fighting for voting rights. Today’s SCOTUS decision takes the sacrifice and fight of all who marched before us and throws it away. We must keep marching — too many have fought too hard to give up.

I’m in the photo…

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...