You're looking at a 200 year-old wisteria vine at Byakugou-ji Temple in Tamba, Hyogo, Japan. The delicate pink/purple blossoms create an otherworldly place where magic can happen. But here's an interesting fact: wisteria are in the legume family (Fabaceae). This is a magic beanstalk.

And respect our beliefs which are formed by decades of experience and knowledge of our history. We didn’t just wake up and decide to be progressives, it’s in our DNA.

In other news, I'm at the beginning of my low carb journey... just in time for all the produce in Michigan to be questionable *during one of the only seasons where we get local fresh produce.* Life is beautiful, y'all. /s

historians can you confirm whether or not this is the original "t shirt raising a lot of questions answered by the t shirt"

If you live dishonorably … in death i will call you dishonorable

This...explains a lot actually

correct you if you’re wrong?? bitch this is the internet i’ll correct you even if youre right

Directly appealing to Black voters is one of the most progressive things that campaigns can do in this primary season. Talk to people! Don't assume their politics. Treat Black Gen X, Boomer, and Silent Gen voters with as much care as you do "middle American" "undecided" working class White voters.

You didn't see me say a lot about the Maine Senate race for a reason: I don't live there. @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social does; I trust her. I already know I'll have to take a Bluesky hiatus over this Michigan Senate race. Our elders are being dragged instead of being appealed to. It's exhausting.

Sigh. Black voters were already leaning toward Stevens thanks to the mailers we recently received implying she had Obama's endorsement. This.. doesn't help. Local history: before 9/11, Black and Middle Eastern relations in Detroit and Dearborn were not good. Any solidarity's a post-9/11 phenomenon.

It always strikes me as weird that you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but our libel laws are structured in such a way that you can't speak honestly about people until after they have passed. Also, it's good to be reminded to live your life so that people will not celebrate your passing.

Detroit News has picked up another Lawrence story... please, I implore folks to help us NOT elect Mike Rogers in November. We're trying our best up here. Help us help YOU!

Our DSA Ypsilanti Working Group tabled for two days at the Ypsi Juneteenth this year to support the Black community. We were just giving people free water and being present to support the celebration because we know we are all in this community together! Everyone was great, and we will be back again

say his name. nolan wells.

We’re not letting Nolan Wells go.

Great reporting from Sam Robinson of the Michigan Chronicle. michiganchronicle.com/el-sayed-lau...

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

It's not controversial to say that the Clyburn of 1969 is not the same as the Clyburn of 1992 and is not the same as the Clyburn of 2020. We all change over time and when your power increases you change even more.

See Andrew Young, etc. etc etc...

Thanks to @mekka.mekka-tech.com for actually listening to the podcast and telling us the real deal. HuffPo needs to issue a retraction if they truly put words into Lawrence's mouth. bsky.app/profile/mekk...

100% endorse (and admire @thrasherxy.bsky.social) - we *need* The Overseer Class now more than ever! Get it from your local independent bookstore: www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...

first and foremost, black overseers defang black militants. puerto rican liberationists. native american liberationists. and then the white left. but black overseers are a big problem.

ppl keep tagging me on this and he’s right, tho he wasn’t (as this headline implies) talking about about generic black leaders, he was talking about overseer class types in congress specifically—and william lawrence is correct

See, this is why I shouldn't log on instead of touching grass on Saturdays! I get in trouble every time. 😆 I will scrap over my mama 'nem! Let me get on the road and get to the African World Festival downtown. Littlest one is feeling better (asthma). Peace, y'all - don't tear up my mentions, pls!

I will say that I believe that holding elders accountable is intracommunity work. And -- this is key -- accountability is almost always mutual, and within the community, should be (ideally) done in love.

I will say that I believe that holding elders accountable is intracommunity work. And -- this is key -- accountability is almost always mutual, and within the community, should be (ideally) done in love.

Since Lawrence didn't say "defang" and was taken out of context, I take accountability and sincerely regret jumping to conclusions based on the Huffington Post. I appreciate that he noted that it wasn't his conversation to have. Similarly, I respect other coalition members' intracommunity dynamics.

There are no bigger critics of the Black faces in high places model of Democratic politics than Black people. So please, sit down. This is a longstanding INTRA community dialogue.

Oh look, someone who actually listened to the podcast, speaking on it. That's your first mistake, actually listening and not jumping on decontextualized quotes. Don't ever do that online...

Thanks to @mekka.mekka-tech.com for actually listening to the podcast and telling us the real deal. HuffPo needs to issue a retraction if they truly put words into Lawrence's mouth. bsky.app/profile/mekk...

He did not say that "Black leaders defang the white left." He said that there is a gap growing between young Black progressive voters, and older Black centrist politicians. "It's not something I can talk too much about, because I'm white, and it's not my struggle." Scrub to 41 minutes and listen.

Super disingenuous framing by HuffPost. Look. I'm the king of calling Bernie and his Bernie Bros and the DSA Bros out on their anti-Black racism. This is not that. He was asking a *Black leftist*, how they address nonsense from *Black centrist* because as a white leftist, this is not his place.

My Detroit fam loves Rashida Tlaib... she & her people have shown up. Her office is very responsive. I've also heard good things about El-Sayed as Detroit's chief health officer. What am I not seeing/hearing?! I'll admit that I live in A2, not in Detroit, so I'm not around on the day-to-day level.

the amount of times i have seen white leftist refer to Black people as traditionally conservative and unwilling to vote for progressives is too damn high. especially when many of the theories these white folks use espouse were built and developed by Black socialists and leftists.

There is no winning coalition or way out of this mess without us.

"Defang". Jfc. White people stole teeth from Black people. These ignorant racist jerkdicks.

where have all the captions gone?

Dems increase your online engagement 20x with this One Weird Trick (donors hate this!)

I don't think these times have been a solvent for decency at all. This has been a precipitation process. It has made decent people coalesce & show themselves. We're also seeing how many people had just been superficially feigning decency, because that used to be a social/professional expectation.

Thank you DownBeat Magazine for selecting me as your “Beyond Artist of the Year” in the 74th Annual Critics Poll.

He regrets he got caught. This is WHO they are.

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

They didn’t enslave ‘people of color.’ They enslaved black people.

I hope that someone is writing a long read about the month after Charlie Kirk died and the collective psychosis experienced by white people on the Right & embarrassed white Liberals. It will be important to document the calm and incredulous responses by Black people and some other POC in comparison.

We were sitting up here, minding our business, drinking our water, eating our food on a perfectly good Saturday! 😭

Detroiters know it... remember it was Black Detroiters who put Rashida Tlaib in office, giving you the first Palestinian American in Congress. We have never, ever been the problem. And I think that makes folk very uncomfortable.

I'm a Black progressive Gen Xer, an El-Sayed intended voter doing my best to convince my politically savvy Black Boomer mama to vote for him over Stevens (she's seen the negative attack ads against him on TV). It does not help my case that he endorsed Lawrence. THIS MESS DOES NOT HELP US.

There is no way forward without Black people end of