In the words of Sterling K. Brown: "They can't erase us because there is no country without us."

📽️:NAACP

AI is not inevitable. If we had sane people in government that were not in thrall to billionaire tech CEOs, LLMs could be regulated, forced to obey existing copyright laws, and banned from places where their use is inappropriate, such as college classes. This should be a moderate position.

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"

Enjoy! The attire for the Chicago opera runs the gamut. From informal (jeans and khakis) all the way up.

U.S. denies entry to 14 Ethiopian athletes ahead of World XC Championships - Canadian Running Magazine According to a report from LetsRun.com, only four of the 18 Ethiopian U20 athletes had their U.S. visa applications accepted

US vetoes most Ethiopian athletes for the World Crosscountry Championships in Florida by denying their visas. Ethiopia will be unable to record a team result in either the U20 men’s or U20 women’s races, ending its 44-year medal streak.

I’m sure the Olympics and World Cup are going to be fine. 😡

Promoting a New Segregation The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again.

"The GOP now fuses myths of white male victimhood with censorship that erases decades of academic scholarship detailing how Black Americans—not white men—face systemic discrimination in America." www.liberalcurrents.com/promoting-a-...

14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?

This piece on Cassandras and anti-alarmists by @polphilpod.bsky.social is well done, and I bet some Bluesky users will see themselves in.

I've said it before, I'll say it again--these sons of bitches on the Court piss me off w this 'presume the legislature acted in good faith and wasn't being racist' thing

why on Earth would I presume that?! what on Earth does it take to overcome that presumption?!
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The period known as Redemption is little known to most Americans — I’d argue intentionally — but it’s the period after the fall of Reconstruction where Black people are stripped of their rights, democracy falls in the South and the system of racial apartheid is entrenched.

The Supreme Court Wants Republicans to Keep the House In 2026 A federal district court found that Texas Republicans’ redistricting proposal is an illegal racial gerrymander. The conservative justices couldn't care less.

"The Court’s order reimposing Texas’s racial gerrymander is best explained not by legal principle, but partisan preference and political power. The Republican justices ruled as they did because they want to help their allies."

The MAGA #SCOTUS "showed its ass." @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

May I ask for 50 reposts? New York Magazine is a big deal! Thank you Bluesky!

Same!

Started and finished just to know what you were talking about. That was wild! Now to get the group chat to watch

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

If your immediate response is “Whatever - my insurance comes through my employer,” know that when these healthy folk drop out, the rates go up for employer-based care, too.

Excellent book. Highly recommend

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/p...

View from the sky of tens of thousands gathered in Chicago's Grant Park for the No Kings protest

Helicopter view of Chicago #NoKings in Grant Park via @cbschicago.bsky.social

Thousands of people gathered in Chicago's Grant Park for No Kings

Watch Live: #NoKings Chicago in Grant Park www.fox32chicago.com/news/no-king...

The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Frost: We need housing not handcuffs. We have a housing crisis in this country. Every time the rent goes up $100, homelessness goes up 9%… We shouldn’t be criminalizing homeless people for the failures of government

Please and thank you!

The Trap of Law and Order Under Fascism “There’s no rule of law that’s going to get us out of where we are,” says Andrea Ritchie.

This week, I talk to @dreanyc123.bsky.social about the role of criminalization in authoritarianism and fascism—and why we need more outlaws, and less confusion about what the law protects and who it targets.

And this is another example of this administration’s “meritocracy.” Just the dumbest people

Trump, the Smithsonian, and the battle over U.S. history | CBC Radio From the Smithsonian to the classroom, President Trump is targeting cultural and educational institutions to promote a ‘patriotic’ version of history. We speak to a leading civil rights figure and historian about why that matters for the present.

Listen to this podcast with Bryan Stevenson on the moves the U.S. is making to censor the Smithsonian and institutions like it that are trying to tell the truth about the history of America.