"Cinco de Mayo. . . reminds us that Texas remains a former Mexican province called Tejas, that braided histories of our state and Mexico, of Texans and Mexicans, cannot be undone," writes @tacotrail.bsky.social. Read more on the history of the holiday here:

A Secret History of Psychosis cc: @hhsgov.govmirrors.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/h...

RFK Jr., who has more in common with sewer rats than other people, complains that Americans overuse psych meds. As a result, his misguided policies could fuck things up real good for friends, family members, acquaintances, complete strangers, and maybe even us. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s... 😠

Green Party candidates for AZ Gov. are Risa Lombardo, a MAGA darling with no known ties to the Green Party (not unlike Mike Norton and Arturo Hernandez, faux Greens who ran for the Senate); also, William Pounds, an unfortunate write-in candidate (rexstreams.substack.com/p/my-arizona...).

AND I AM SO SERIOUS

A very merry fuck Bezos tonight and every night to one and all 💫

baby's first publication 🥹 morning friends! I'm so excited to share that a short story I wrote for Plantin Mag is now live 💕 "somewhere under the yucca trees" is my love letter to the desert, a reckoning with home, and a vision for reconnecting with our ancestors

Happy 5/4 from a different type of nerd

Wonder why lawyers aren’t that diverse? Answer:

no such thing as good white people. you can be white and be a decent person yes, but that's different and involves a renunciation of solidarity with white people. it involves countless everyday refusals that the vast majority of white people do not want to make.

I don't think there's such a thing as "good people", period. I think that there are only people who do good and bad things.

What's good, Mike?

These contrarians ALWAYS end up on the side of white supremacy.

Everyday calling out Republicans and Donald Trump is a patriotic duty of every American.

Sly and The Family Stone released ‘Stand!’ 57 years ago on May 3, 1969 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/SlyFSStand

love the ingenuity of this piece by @nickmakoha.bsky.social - best understood when first played with audio to later be appreciated when reading alone... ICARUS: A SELF-PORTRAIT — 1984 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

More than 40 global media outlets are bringing attention to fellow journalists who are being threatened for seeking to tell the truth. #OneFreePress #FreeThemAll www.forbes.com/sites/kather... via @forbes.com

Read this important thread about Septima Poinsette Clark on her birthdate today and take a few minutes to consider what she'd think about the destruction of the VRA if she were alive.

Gett Off!

The whitewashing of the civil rights movement & the state it countered is a huge part of how we got here. My latest: “Black organizers of the civil rights era didn’t organize against ‘racism.’ They organized to sabotage the laws and institutions of a white nationalist government.“

Is God Is comes out in two more weeks. Let's go!

In novels like “The Grifters” and “Pop. 1280,” Jim Thompson reinvented noir as worldly existentialism. Harilaos Stecopoulos reviews a new Library of America collection that gathers his finest work.

A nation not totally blinded by white supremacy and oil billionaires would understand that the Ethopians are the smart ones here 👍🏼

Cam, and the rest of us, disagree.

Are you even listening tekobsessed.bandcamp.com/album/toar03... 💸

It’ll be gay marriage next. Then interracial marriage. Then segregated schools. They’re already working on that. Then whites only public spaces. They’ve already re-segregated the federal work force by firing as many Black people as they could.

Although the state’s attorney won't give certificates of innocence to men who were exonerated, like Tyrece Williams, she had no problem letting violent federal perpetrators slide during Operation Midway Blitz.

Thank you, Lana and Lilly!

So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

Even when people do vote, republicans do everything the can to stymie progress. Or undo the results. Or flagrantly gerrymander. We have to start coming up with something better than Vote. That isn’t going to cut it.

Toni Morrison on Rodney King protests: "What struck me most about the people who were burning down shops was how long they waited. The restraint, not the spontaneity. The moment they became anarchic was when they saw those tapes. But they waited for justice for almost a year… It didn't come."

Huh

I was on Twitter since 2008. I watched "the influence" you're talking about, and what you're calling influence, I call theft. People MINED us for content and views. The influencers who got on used their proximity to us to market themselves to white folks. What did that influence get US? Nothing.

Blacksky isn’t Black Twitter and that’s a good thing. Black Twitter was killed because it was built on a platform we made relevant but had no say in. Blacksky is not only an opportunity to correct that, but to also build a new vertically integrated Black network. It’s just time to move on.

oh look, the New York Times normalized anti-democratic autocratic racism again whoops a daisy funny how this happens constantly

My latest is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Our rights shouldn't even be up to courts. Are they rights, or not? That's how you know this whole thing is a joke.

If you can take it away, it's not a right, it's a privilege. We NEVER had the right to vote.

Name a Queen Latifah album that you love more than this one. album.ink/QLBlackReign

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

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New zine: No One’s Illegal on Stolen Land (1988-2026) historyiswhat.noblogs.org/files/2026/0...