Thelonious Legend

listen...

Unless it is essential for your livelihood and pertinent to what you do

i would not talk about "what you do" on the internet

i’m taking on a new personal project this month. i’ve just collected a large collection of 35mm film negatives of black american life in the 1970s and 1980s and am going to begin digitizing them into an archive of their own.

i’ll write about my progress here.

Despite being outspent 3-to-1, Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez crushed expectations, winning 62% to 38% in a Louisiana state House special election.

How to confirm your voter registration status | USAGov Find out how to check your voter registration. Make sure you are still registered to vote and your name, address, and political party affiliation are correct.

Please make sure you check your voter registration status, immediately and frequently. www.usa.gov/confirm-vote... It's never been more important than now.

This is overriding a ballot initiative approved by voters.

Never let imposter syndrome hold you back!

There is no value in sharing that meme and I have absolutely no interest in seeing it on my TL.

It took decades for the Evers family to receive justice for his assassination & for his murderer to be punished.

It took about a year for our fascist white supremacist administration to take us right back through the looking-glass.

💯 Perfectly stated.

Opinion | One Thing Trump Can’t Do to Us

I wrote about how we're dealing with a war of attrition at the hands of a callous and cruel administration, and how we cannot let them whittle us down to their level. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

'John Fetterman Has Completely Sold Out': Philly DA Slams Trump's 'Favorite Senator' Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) condemned Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Fox News for likening ICE agents to "wannabe Nazis."

Krasner is calling them out:
“John Fetterman is ... the favorite Democratic senator of Donald Trump,” And that’s because John Fetterman has completely sold out the principles on which he ran for office.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/larry-...

A reminder that the New England Patriots plane is flown by Omni air who contracts with ICE to fly people in chains to Africa and Asia several times per week.

Go Seahawks.

Yep

WNBA gotta be sweating

invest in these women

NABJ Chicago calls for the immediate release of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort arrested after filming Minnesota church protest • The TRiiBE Journalism organizations condemn the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort as vindictive attacks on press freedom.

UPDATE — The Chicago Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is calling for the immediate release of Lemon and Fort, and for all charges against them to be withdrawn.

thetriibe.com/2026/01/jour...

Borders also keep you in

Just started watching this week and it was good enough for me to binge Season One. Good stuff

😂😂

Great great pass pro on the go ball to Shaheed vs the Rams four man rush

Somebody said “Eric Adams really didn’t give a damn about us”

😂😂😂

“CBS Evening News” With Tony Dokoupil Is a Right-Wing Show for Absolutely No One I watched the first two weeks of Bari Weiss’s attempt to reshape evening news. I’m left wondering who it’s even for.

theintercept.com/2026/01/25/t...

We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding

We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning

Succinct

You misspelled "BORED".

IDGAF what a non-Black person thinks they’re talking about.