This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Texas Democrat Sues After Republicans Lock Her In State Capitol Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier was told she was not free to leave the building after refusing to sign a permission slip requiring a 24-hour police escort.

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier is suing over "illegal confinement" after Republicans locked her in the state Capitol for refusing police surveillance

WASHINGTON (AP) — National Guard troops from West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana have begun arriving in Washington.

Nancy Mace: "In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I've worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here."

(Mace is taking credit for legislation she voted against!)

Donald Trump Inviting Sex Offender into White House Raises Eyebrows Published Aug 01, 2025 at 4:55 AM EDT Updated Aug 01, 2025 at 11:30 AM EDT

The normalization of pedophilia from Trump is honestly proof positive that the evangelicals are a cult. There is absolutely no reason that convicted sex offender Lawrence Taylor, who ADMITTED he has “no idea what we’re supposed to be doing” is now appointed to help KIDS

Kelly: "I had another situation here with a kid who was on his little league trip in a baseball tournament. Border Patrol pulls over the vehicle, identifies the brown kid, he winds up in lockup for a week...this isn't what the American people wanted and I don't think it's consistent with our values"

Al Jazeera Says Its Correspondent Anas Al-Sharif Has Been Killed In Gaza, And Israel Confirms It Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli strike, while he and other journalists were inside their tent

#FoxNews "host bodies" just in case you thought you were human or something
(Florida Speaker Jose Oliva in a 2019 interview)

you have no idea what black americans are about to do with this picture.

a post which says "Bush wasn't taking rights away nor was he trying to cheat elections. The most harm caused under him was the Great Recession."

it must be hard to run a country when the whole population gets hit with the men in black memory erasing device every 4 years

Help Kat Get on the Ballot! · Kat for Illinois In order to win, first Kat needs to get on the ballot! Join us as we kickoff petitioning season at our campaign headquarters! We'll be getting into the nitty gritty about signatures, talking about me...

Tonight is our campaign petition party!!

Drop by the office (7016 N Clark St) to sign your name on our petitions, eat some food, and learn how to collect signatures: www.mobilize.us/katforillino...

Beyoncé looks great in Levi’s jeans.

DOJ Seeking Voter And Election Information From At Least 19 States The move's alarmed states, which have the constitutional authority to run elections and are protected from sharing individual data with the government.

In an alarming move, the Department of Justice has demanded voter and election information from at least 19 states

Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it

I truly believe he's convinced HIMSELF of his own lies, as narcissists do.

Four Pics you're using to defend your face card

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

"Well well well, suddenly we understand gender dysmorphia, don't we boys?"

part 1

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

A photo of labor activist Chris Smalls, talking into a mic

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me:

“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

Life keeps getting worse every day but I got yuri to draw

going out on top 🫡

WE UP. Here y’all!

STUDENT LOAN BORROWERS:

Trump’s new bill (signed July 4, 2025), eliminated SAVE, PAYE, and ICR—but current borrowers on an Income Driven Repayment (IDR) plan other than SAVE can stay on Income‑Based Repayment (IBR) through at least July 1, 2028

So your payment isn’t automatically jumping.

BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files.

As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed.

Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.