Black women are not just reaching for the stars, they are leading the mission. Vanessa Wyche, Stephanie Wilson, Jessica Watkins, Amber Alexis Turner, Kiarre Dumes, and Jori Kates are helping drive NASA’s Artemis program forward.This is what it looks like when Black women have the space to lead.
Despite the cruelty inflicted upon Black Americans, they've never killed our resistance. It's unbreakable.
When I ran away from slavery, it was for myself; when I advocated emancipation, it was for my people; but when I stood up for the rights of women, self was out of the question, and I found a little nobility in the act."
— Fredrick Douglass
The violence Black women endure today is a byproduct of the chattel slavery and Jim Crow eras, where assaulting, raping, and killing Black women were rarely punished. There's a lack of respect for us because our country has failed to reckon with the past.
Black Americans live in a country that constantly tells them they're not good enough for the opportunities extended to others.
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
Maya Angelou
"The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman."
— Malcolm X
Gas prices are sky high. A war in Iran is far from over. Airlines are running out of jet fuel. And the GOP is stumbling into an important midterm season. So who is Donald Trump making time for on his busy schedule?
The 297 people most invested in $TRUMP, his meme coin.
What to know about US-Iran standoff over the Strait of Hormuz
What to know about US-Iran standoff over the Strait of Hormuz https://aje.news/350684
Images show Israel building permanent military bases in Gaza as US-backed reconstruction plans stall.
Democrat Eric Swalwell of California and Republican Tony Gonzales of Texas both resigned from Congress this week after being accused of sexual misconduct involving former staffers and threatened with expulsion.
On this day in 1989, NYPD officers arrested five teenagers—four of whom were Black and one of whom was Latino—subjected them to coercive interrogation, and charged them with rape despite their innocence. All were sentenced to 5-13 years.
BREAKING: 8 Children Killed in 'Extensive' Mass Shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana
"This is a tragic situation, maybe the worst tragic situation we’ve ever had in Shreveport," said the mayor.
'The Whole Country's Going to Get Blown Up': Trump Renews Genocidal Threats to Iran as Ceasefire Collapses
"Whether he means it or not, his saying it is an indelible moral stain on our country," said one law professor.
Amazing how a chant by helpless college students that also appears in the Likud charter is suddenly genocide, but a threat as civilization-wide death by the guy who has the nuclear codes is "diplomacy."
Beyond reprehensible hypocrisy. Dangerous hypocrisy. Deadly hypocrisy.
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MAGA Sycophant Elise Stefanik says that college students chanting "from the river to the sea" is an open call for genocide against Jewish people, but Trump's threat that "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," is mere diplomacy against Iranians.
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Palestinian digital autonomy has been constrained by settler colonialism bolstered by neoliberal privatization.
Israel is approving the construction of new West Bank settlements at an unprecedented rate because it knows its window of impunity is closing — especially if Iran emerges intact from the war and the Republicans lose the U.S. midterms.
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#Palestine #Israel
There’s a divide between those seeking to end all U.S. weapons deals with Israel and those who want to allow some exceptions. interc.pt/4tUB8Lt
The conventional thinking that Trump will eventually suffer Nixon’s fate has been proven wrong. The Republican Party of the 1970s was tethered to constitutional governance. Today’s GOP has degenerated into a neofascist political cult, writes @blumslaw.bsky.social.
"[Palestinians] are not superior to any other life, but no other life is superior to us."
Palestinian-American activist, academic, and author Noura Erakat tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the double standard the West applies to war crimes against Palestinians.
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Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.
⭕️ Israel has committed 2,492 violations of the Gaza ceasefire since October, averaging 13.1 per day, according to a report shared by the Palestinian side with mediators and obtained by Drop Site News Six incidents were recorded on Saturday alone, including Israeli forces shooting and killing a civilian near tents of displaced persons north of Rafah, intensive gunfire near Beit Lahia, and the explosive demolition of residential buildings in Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City. Since the “ceasefire”, 775 Palestinians have been killed — including 207 children, 86 women, and 21 elderly — and 2,171 wounded, of whom more than half are children, women, or elderly. Israel also continues to hold approximately 34 square kilometers beyond agreed withdrawal lines and has blocked repairs to electricity, water, and sewage infrastructure. Aid and movement restrictions remain severe: Aid Entry ▪️ Only ~38% of agreed humanitarian aid has entered — ~228 trucks per day vs. 600 agreed ▪️ Fuel deliveries at just 14.8% of required levels Rafah Crossing ▪️ Rafah crossing fully closed on the reported day ▪️Only 3,150 of 11,600 planned crossings carried out (~27%) ▪️ Medical and humanitarian travel is effectively blocked
⭕️ Israel has committed 2,492 violations of the Gaza ceasefire since Oct., averaging 13.1 per day, according to a report shared by the Palestinian side with mediators & obtained by Drop Site News
6 incidents were recorded on Sat. alone, including Israeli forces shooting & killing a civilian near...
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.
Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
Mexico’s Health Care Transition Could Provide a Model for the US | Pretty much every other country in the world has settled on one model for everybody, because it’s cheaper and better. We could solve a lot of problems in America by following this example.
I hope people understand that Louisiana, and the South, are the way they are because the people in power will do everything they can to keep us down. Good for him for saying it to their faces.
Wow this is disgusting.
Inside U.S. power structures, an apocalyptic current tied to Christian Zionism is gaining ground, where actors like Christians United for Israel and officials like Pete Hegseth frame the war with Iran as the fulfillment of prophecy.
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A coordinated Christian nationalist network is translating the “Seven Mountains Mandate” into governing power, using Project 2025 to institutionalize religious influence across federal agencies, education, and media while advancing policies that recast civil rights through a theological framework.
