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☝🏾🇺🇸Mad yet? Credit to @assemblydems Earlier today, @brotherjones_ stood alongside the California Legislative Black Caucus (@CLBC ) to call out Republican-led gerrymandering efforts targeting Black and brown voters across the South and nationwide.
Our democracy works when every voice is heard and every vote counts.
We will not be silent. We will not be intimidated. And we will not go back.
https://gofund.me/0411fb2ac
Meet Dalton Eatherly, better known online as "chud the Builder," a 28 year old Tennessee livestreamer who has built his entire brand around one thing: pointing a camera at Black people in public and hurling racial slurs at them to provoke a reaction. He films himself calling people the most vile names imaginable, posts the videos for his followers, and frames the whole exercise as some kind of free speech crusade. Outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville, a confrontation with a man named Joshua Fox, a 31 year old disabled Army veteran, turned into a shooting. Fox was shot in the stomach and the shoulder and had to be airlifted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for emergency surgery. He survived, which is honestly the only good news here.
Eatherly, who had already been arrested days earlier for skipping out on a $371 restaurant tab while screaming racial slurs at staff, is now charged with attempted criminal homicide, aggravated assault, employing a firearm during a dangerous felony, and reckless endangerment. A judge set his bond at $1.25 million, citing both the severity of the charges and the fact that the shooting happened steps from a courthouse full of bystanders, with video showing a ricocheting bullet hitting nearby walls.
Depressingly enough, Chud’s GiveSendGo fundraiser has already blown past $150,000. Meanwhile, the GoFundMe set up by Fox's wife to help cover medical expenses for the husband she almost lost is sitting at roughly $75,000. The alleged victim of a racist attack that nearly killed him is raising less than half of what his attacker is pulling in from supporters who apparently think "the right to scream slurs at strangers" is worth bankrolling. This pattern of far right figures getting arrested, crying persecution, and then crowdfunding their way to six figures while their victims scramble for help is not a bug in the system. It is the system working exactly as the people funding it intend.
Listen to me....THIS IS ALL THEY SEE IN YOU WHEN YOU'RE IN COURT. PERIOD Let’s make them lose their jobs because you're doing the right thing. STAY OUT OF PRISON
Credit @dannyfcollins
Mass incarceration is modern day slavery.
13th amendment is the abolishment of slavery except when punishment for a crime.
Black Codes.
Convict Leasing.
Jim Crow segregation.
War on Drugs.
Truth in Sentencing Laws.
And today we are reverting back to be openly and brazenly racist.
Racism never ended. It keeps evolving.
Because, it’s #BlackGirlMagic 👏🏾
Credit @blklivesmatter
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Her name means “first fruits,” and she’s claiming it. In 120+ years of Major League Baseball, a Black woman has never held majority ownership of an MLB franchise. Kwanza Jones is about to change that through a historic $3.9 billion purchase of the San Diego Padres. Black excellence, not just on the field, but in the ownership too. 👏🏾 #BlackPlayMatters
It's almost over🤬
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They are burning books. Yesterday, Jake Lang, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate, burned a copy of Antiracist Baby. He also burned the Quran near the Islamic Center of America in Michigan. He previously burned the Talmud. Lang spent four years in prison after striking officers with a bat during the 1/6 insurrection. Trump pardoned him. In January, a Nazi-saluting Lang said, “White people in America, you will be replaced, and your children will be Black Muslims if you don’t stand up now.”
🎥 @bgonthescene
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Credit @joyannreid
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I love this pope ❤️❤️❤️ pontifex #popeleoxiv Repost from @converts_to_islam • No American has ever sat on the throne of Saint Peter. No pope has ever stepped foot in Algeria. And until April 13, 2026, no Catholic leader at this level had ever removed his shoes and stood in silent prayer inside one of the largest mosques on earth. Pope Leo XIV — born in Chicago, the first American and first Augustinian pope in Church history — touched down in Algiers as part of an 11-day, four-country tour of Africa. His first major stop was the Grand Mosque of Algiers, the third-largest mosque in the world. He removed his shoes at the entrance, walked inside, and spent nearly 10 minutes in silent reflection beside the mosque’s imam. On the flight home, Leo XIV told reporters that Christians and Muslims can coexist peacefully — and he pointed to Algeria and Lebanon as communities that have made it work. He urged Catholics to approach Islam with less fear and more openness, framing the visit as a signal about the direction of his papacy, not just a diplomatic gesture. Not everyone is celebrating. Conservative Catholics say this kind of outreach glosses over real theological and geopolitical tensions between the two faiths. They argue that coexistence messaging at the highest level of the Church risks papering over serious doctrinal differences. Leo XIV’s answer was essentially this moment. He walked in anyway. #islam #pope #mosque Algeria allahuakbar
