Black and white photograph of six-year-old Ruby Bridges, wearing a dark dress and white cardigan and carrying a School bag, accompanied by three FBI agents in dark suits.

Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃

The Trump administration is pushing to strip language from a resolution that affirms the country’s territorial integrity and condemns Russia’s occupation of Crimea and other regions, according to two people familiar with internal UN discussions.
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

The nest time you see a story about the kid who got over 1500 on the SAT and got rejected from their dream school remember this: ~40,000 people break 1500 on the SAT each year, and they're all applying to a lot of schools.

John Roberts and his miserable excuse for a high court of justice are presiding over a great disassembling of the United States and the rare American experiment in government by its people. It began with Citizens United and it continues relentlessly. This is a second civil war in slow motion.

This is amazing!!

I hadn't seen this when it was announced. The Department of Agriculture has conducted this survey on food insecurity for 30 years. No more. So miserable. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Screenshot of a post by Bernie Sanders. It lists money that Donald Trump has received in 2025. $3 billion: mostly from crypto $940 million: law firms $400 million plane: Qatar $36 million: CBS $25 million: Meta $24 million: YouTube $16 million: ABC $10 million: X Now $230 million from DOJ?

That we know of.

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender.

Breaking News: The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

I feel for his family and the folks on the small campus police force. Also, there was another school shooting today in Colorado.

I did not expect this. I had hoped he'd fade into obscurity, not this.

Please tell me this is a joke.

CARTOON OF DAY

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YouTube video by 10,000 Maniacs - Topic Hey Jack Kerouac

#MusicChallenge
#FirstNameInSong (Day 11)

10,000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Kerouac
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BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

Child rapist! Child rapist! She’s a child rapist!!

Jeanine Pirro is an election denier who called the J6 attackers "hostages" & has unfairly attacked DOJ

She is the latest Trump nominee to be confirmed by a MAGA majority in the Senate that has abdicated "advise & consent"

I explained @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social @msnbc.com

White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt.

Promises made, promises broken www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

'I don't care about Direct File': IRS chief says agency plans to end free filing program Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Bill Long said the agency will end its Direct File program.

"Nearly 300,000 filers used Direct File for the 2025 tax season, and 94% of users who completed an IRS survey rated their experience as 'excellent' or 'above average.'"

A photo of a billboard near Mike Johnson’s office in Louisiana that reads “HEY, MIKE JOHNSON: STOP HIDING/RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES” alongside images of Jeffrey Epstein, Trump, and Johnson.

All across the country, we’re putting up billboards in GOP districts that call Republicans out for covering up the Epstein files. We want to do more of this, but the number of billboards and districts depends on the amount of money we raise. Pitch in if you can: secure.actblue.com/donate/epste...

I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.

Sorta feels like "they are actively gutting cancer research" should be finding more purchase out there

He’s rewriting history.