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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

I mean this from my heart.

That is the experience of every Black woman in corporate America.

White people agreeing with you behind the scenes but leaving you out to swim alone and fight everybody’s battles with ZERO public support

She has Sjögren syndrome.

And imagine the realities for people with chronic health problems who don't have millions.

*hard stare*

NO ONE should have to go through this shit.

Bless Hannah Hampton, Chloe Kelley and Lucy Bronze!

Arsenal win Women’s Champions League in final glory and dethrone Barcelona In a stunning upset Stina Blackstenius’s goal gave Arsenal a 1-0 win and the first triumph for an English team in the Women’s Champions League era

Arsenal win Women’s Champions League in final glory and dethrone Barcelona www.theguardian.com/football/202...

For those puzzled why the strong box office opening of SINNERS is being framed as disappointing somehow, Vulture gave the game away two days ago.

Studios are freaking out about letting the copyright revert to Coogler, so the film can't be seen as a success. The fix is in.

Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman traditionally remains in place as administrations change.

Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military.

Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

Well done Madison Keys!

Far from Hollywood's wealth, Los Angeles fire survivors feel forgotten Residents say that insurance companies might shortchange less affluent households.

The media has focused on wealthy, White neighborhoods. But the fire in Altadena--a racially and economically diverse suburb--deserves more attention, because insurance may not cover their rebuilding costs, forcing families out and leading the neighborhood to gentrify.
www.reuters.com/world/us/far...

Do You Have Insights Into Dental and Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System. Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and how the appeal process really works.

We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:

Sigh. Arsenal really needs to win their games when Liverpool and Man City drop points.

The idea that you *must* coexist with and listen to people who are cruel, unjust, and just plain unpleasant to be around is the logic of abusers, by the way