we ALREADY disbanded this type of thing before we can do it again bsky.app/profile/lisa...

When Black Women Used Hair Braids to Escape Slavery A history lesson in brilliance and resilience

When Black Women Used Hair Braids to Escape Slavery
A history lesson in brilliance and resilience

lessons we could use right now

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This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up A snapshot from America before the impact of the EPA and the effects of rules regulating clean water and air were felt.

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If they spent the last 50 years trying to tear it all down? We just have to spend the next 50 years building it back up.

We don't let them win.

Ever.

Even if it looks like they are in charge & things are bleak. If we don't give up they have not won at all.

Elon Musk got brain-captured by the reheated John Birch Society conspiracy theories of Mike Benz and went on tilt against USAID.

Black people prove once again that we are sophisticated and strategic voters who not only know how to navigate a political system trained against us but can defy mis- and disinformation.

Thank you, Virginia.

What do Levi’s, Hanes, and Chewy have in common?

California AG Rob Bonta just revealed evidence alleging that Amazon used its power to pressure them, and countless other brands, to inflate prices of listings on rival online marketplaces as part of wide-ranging price-fixing scheme.

Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering A Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama, today returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspi...

1. The central claim in the indictment of SPLC is a lie.

The DOJ/FBI accuse SPLC of lying to donors about seeking to “dismantle” extremist groups while secretly funding them. But the funds were used to infiltrate & help law enforcement dismantle these groups. Kash Patel knows this is the truth…

12. One thing I’ve learned studying extremism these past 25 years: cognitive dissonance among extremists is very real. They’ll simultaneously celebrate an action while blaming their perceived opponents for it: “The 2020 election was stolen, January 6th wasn’t that bad, but the deep state did it!”

A powerful Trump ally is arguing for big changes to federal hospital financing. Paragon Health claims government policy has led to today's problems.

An influential Trump-aligned think tank goes after hospitals www.axios.com/2026/04/22/t...

On California farms, workers say threats to deport them are on the rise Farmworkers described instances in which bosses threatened to call ICE on them, sometimes because they complained about workplace violations.

📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀:

Farmworkers say threats of deportation are rising across agricultural communities — making workers more afraid to report labor abuses or speak out, as immigration enforcement is increasingly used to intimidate and silence them. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

In Our Glorious AI Future, There Will Be No Such Thing as Money (For You) “In the future, there is such a thing as money. But there’s no such thing as your money. All the money is our money.”

"Gone is the notion that striving will result in a better station in life (for you). Gone is the accumulation of wealth and property (for you). Gone even is very the concept of ownership (for you). Those things exist only for us now. They are our cross to bear."

The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche Another dark day for DOJ.

EXCLUSIVE: The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche.

Another dark day for DOJ.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

6) If you want to track this system like an investigator, ignore the shiny “AI” language and watch the connectors: which databases get linked, who defines watchlist categories, what agencies gain access, and what new laws make those links permanent. We need to pay attention to the Palantir/Oracle's

1) “800 million cameras” is the headline, but the story is the architecture. China’s surveillance state works like a full stack system: cameras, biometrics, databases, and rules that make identification routine. It is governance by continuous ID checks. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Federal government terminates contracts with Portsmouth Naval Shipyard workers unions An executive order by President Donald Trump ordered union collective bargaining agreements to be terminated across the country.

Hundreds of workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard just lost their union protections with the stroke of the President's pen. It is an outrageous act that should concern us all.

www.bangordailynews.com/2026/04/21/y...

That’s why you’re hearing women say they don’t want to date. Don’t want to marry. Don’t want to gamble their safety on potential. It’s not bitterness, but calculation. So when women say they’d rather be alone, what they’re really saying

These firefighters do not exist In which a network of fake Facebook accounts uses scare stories to promote dubious websites that sell carbon monoxide detectors

More detail in this article:
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collage of 21 Facebook ads for carbon monoxide detectors

In recent weeks, various alleged firefighters and home inspectors have been running fearmongering Facebook ads for carbon monoxide detectors sold by dubious websites. There are, however, multiple problems; for example, many of the pages running the ads are renamed accounts with AI-generated avatars.

The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win.

These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

“Algorithmic conspirituality”- what a fantastic and terrifying phrase, and a desperate search for meaning. Makes more sense that tea leaves fortune telling.

Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money. These are 8 of the most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence-based organizations. You may not have heard of them.

These are eight of the most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence-based organizations. You may not have heard of them. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

The number of angry messages I got from insecure men on my article demanding men be accountable for rape culture & 'Rape Academy' reminds me to share my article repeatedly.

Men: Stop being insecure. Stop being pathetic. Start holding rapists accountable.
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NAACP calls for pause on approval process for Ferguson Data Center Project The NAACP St. Louis County Branch is calling for a pause on the approval process on the Ferguson Data Center Project.

They’re framing this as if Ferguson is just a standalone place when it’s actually nestled alongside other small municipalities. Soooo essentially North County is on the brink of getting a data center.

This is crazy.

www.firstalert4.com/2026/04/20/n...

[Office of Sustainability Event] AU Sustainability Symposium - Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) Join the Office of Sustainability and faculty from across American University on the 56th Earth Day for a robust program covering the breadth of sustainability work across the history of the United St...

As for me, I'll be talking about our work on building community resilience in the face of extreme events and disaster at the Sustainability Symposium at AU then joining colleagues at the Brookings Institution to discuss Climate Policy to rebuild the middle class. cece.american.edu/office-of-su...

🌏 Happy Earth Day 2026 🌎

I hope everyone is taking today to think about the wonders of our blue marble and how we all work together to protect it.

Amidst all the GOP whining tonight, a reminder that the Democrats would currently control the House were it not for the late, illegal GOP gerrymandering in GA & NC in 2024.

Protesters gathered outside SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas as the company hosted Wall Street analysts ahead of a highly anticipated initial public offering.

The Shadow Contract is a 4-part deep dive into how a US spy-tech firm landed a £330m deal for our NHS data. It’s a story about power, privacy, and you.

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