Transgender Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Dies at 78

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
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I say lean into it

Launch Operation "67" and prep folks for a new Founding

Middle school teachers should be paid a heck of a lot more.

“Rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the ICE raids and money for legal aid and other services are among the provisions in the declaration.”

We live in a racist country and have racists who sit on the Supreme Court, making racist decisions that impact 350 million people for decades.

First they abolish the New Deal; then they abolish the Great Society - just so White men can stay in power.

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Vic Mensa, an American rapper born and raised in Chicago, breaks down ICE raids and the politics of division.

Fr for the govt shutdown is gonna continue cuz the federal workforce is regarded as Black

And the segregationist can't support that in anyway

New National Mall ice sculpture just dropped. Democracy melting in front of the Capitol 🧊

We already debated and answered this a few decades ago

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NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

D'Angelo and HER

When art moves with purpose, creativity becomes a catalyst for change. Ava DuVernay, Yara Shahidi, and John Legend’s conversation urgently called for us to see art anew as movement. To align what we make with what we believe and to create work that truly moves the world forward

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

Via @phillewis.bsky.social GET CHECKED BLACK MEN & WOMEN EVERY YEAR FOR LIFE!

Black adults who live in the United States have a 59% higher risk of premature death than other races…… if you have access to healthcare fasho go get checked… if you feel uncomfortable get a loved one to come with you ❤️

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

It’s week two of the Republican shutdown.

House Democrats are here in D.C. to protect your healthcare and fight for federal workers.

Where are House Republicans?

What??? 😭💔

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Rest in power, Mama Major! 💜🙏🏽

It was a blessing to live in the same earthly timeline as you. A true freedom fighter, you never stopped reminding trans people—especially Black trans people—of our worth and our power.

Because of Major, our foundation is unshakeable and our liberation inevitable.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

What I learned from Miss Major was persistence and also keeping a sense of humor. I was lucky to see her work in various organizing meetings over the years. She was a model of how to be a good elder. Truly grateful for everything she did to make the world better. Time for the rest of us to continue.