Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has proclaimed April 2026 as Confederate Heritage Month.
The proclamation does not mention racism or slavery—just the importance of gaining "insight from our mistakes and successes."
Historian Kevin M. Levin describes it as a sign of "a cause in retreat."
In these dark times, I got to write a positive story for @msmagazine.com about how women impacted by incarceration are building new futures: msmagazine.com/2026/04/21/w...
if there is a path to either national nonpartisan redistricting or proportional representation, it is going to go through one party or another. but the first step toward it actually happening is for that party to win power, and you go to war with the system you have, not the one you want.
Alarmingly, a lot of people are very interested in talking about birthright citizenship no thanks to <waves hands at situation>. Here I have a wide ranging discussion with Toby about that and broader US citizenship and migration.
just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down
I don't care for Booker, he's far to the right of me, but there's a line that is constantly crossed in the discourse.
Same with Harris being "unqualified" or "weak." Disagree vehemently with her politics, yes. She wasn't unqualified.
Racial resentment isn't just something that exists on the right.
“We got the diagnosis when one of the tests of her spinal fluid had come back from London. Renae had subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a rare complication of measles. The doctors told me it was fatal, and there was nothing else they could do”
Turns out that we are our brothers’ keeper. And kids’
Baby gets measles before old enough for vaccine. Dies 11 yrs later.
Mom: “Refusing vaccinations doesn’t just put your own child at risk. It puts other children at risk. I don’t know where Renae picked up measles. It’s one of the most contagious viruses that exists.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
The family album of Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver, prominent leaders in the Black Panther Party during the late 1960s, depicts aspirational homemaking in diaspora, capturing the tension between rest and motion as they navigated exile with their children.
Read an excerpt from Leigh Raiford's new book "When Home Is a Photograph" in @hyperallergic.com:
"A highly mutated COVID-19 strain is circulating in CA...
The emergence of the BA.3.2 strain, nicknamed 'Cicada,' comes amid broader uneasiness abt COVID vaccination rates among seniors..."
The timing of its spread "...underscores that COVID has lately morphed into more of a summer disease in CA."
Globe photojournalist Stan Grossfeld explores how photography has become a blessing for a functionally blind photojournalist and disability advocate who is hell-bent on making a difference.
Remember when states were tripping over themselves to be Amazon’s pick? Massachusetts, you dodged a bullet here.
You're telling me a giant corporation lied & underdelivered on promises to the public to get $750 billion in tax breaks
This is my surprised face
How We Get Free
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a virtual conversation with Ula Y. Taylor about Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
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Kash Patel is suing the Atlantic, because what you really want to do is open up discovery to a bunch of investigative journalists.
I read a little more on the horrific Shreveport murders, and most of what I want to say is not fit for public consumption. Except: It's the guns, and it's also the toxic masculinity that endangers especially women and children everywhere.
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An empty shelf with hanging label with “the edge of space-time” written on it
Bestseller sold out at my local @chanda.blacksky.app - luckily I pre-ordered.
New Sarah Bradlee Fulton statue being dedicated in Medford today, Patriot’s Day. (And yay for coverage in local journalism)
www.gottaknowmedford.com/statue-of-me...
#BOTD Carrie Mae Weems (April 20, 1953) #Photography #Artist
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
Yeah I gotta say if it turns out *this* is the thing that bothers us, rather than, say, what is done to the image of Christ found in the poor and dispossessed themselves, then all those Calvinist warnings about idolatry basically seem correct to me.
Antonio Muñoz Molina, escritor: “Hay un exceso de opinionismo porque es más barato que el periodismo”
Most people drive short distances from their homes and many can charge at home. We are in a rental right now, so we have a trickle charger. Yes it’s slow, but the car is literally just sitting there overnight anyway. Like most people’s.
A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”
Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.
