🗣️ The office, led by Volker Türk, issued a social media post on Saturday saying the racist messages sent online targeting the Gauff were “appalling and illustrate that Black female athletes are specifically targeted for vitriol and racial abuse”. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o... #BlackskyNews

UN condemns Coco Gauff abuse and warns: ‘Black female athletes are being targeted’

The United Nations’ human rights office has condemned the racist abuse of Coco Gauff and called for solidarity to help push back against racism and sexism

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Housed within the nation’s largest publicly accessible collection of intolerance, the new Jim Crow Museum of Racist Imagery invites visitors to witness historical oppression, and the enduring resistance of those refusing to be silenced. | Angela Wilson www.theroot.com/from-racist-... #BlackskyNews

Black Fact: Book bans are on the rise, and banning a book is one of the fastest ways to silence a community. This week and every month after, grab a banned book and learn from someone else's truth. What's on your list?

"No one is saying the NYPD should stop enforcing the laws. Just stop singling out Black and Hispanic young men." David R. Jones' Urban Agenda column takes on Mayor Mamdani and the NYPD playbook. #UrbanAgenda #NYPD

URBAN AGENDA: Police Misconduct Costs Millions. Mayor Mamdani Must Toss the NYPD Playbook.

Mayor Mamdani campaigned as a police reformer, yet his administration has kept many of his predecessors' most notorious policing strategies in place.

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Do these people know that Kanye was employing Milo Yiannopoulos before he was deported? He hasn't improved or changed for the better.

Anna Stesia@onlychyld.blacksky.app · last mo.

I had no idea Kanye West was on tour. I didn’t know people were giving him money to do things again.

hegseth is substituting fitness drills for actual strategy because he lacks the depth to handle modern warfare. it's a classic case of substituting performative masculinity for competence while the real threat from iran remains unaddressed.

Rep. LaMonica McIver isn’t just fighting for reelection — she’s fighting for freedom 19thnews.org/2026/08/lamo... via @19thnews.org

Rep. LaMonica McIver isn’t just fighting for reelection — she’s fighting for freedom

The New Jersey Democrat is a month out from her due date — and a federal appeals court just ruled that the government can charge her over her actions at the Delaney Hall immigration facility.

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Information on how you can help those in Indiana. Please share.

And notice their grievance with their acolytes is their stupidity and lack of competence. Not their vileness.

hammancheez but spooky@hammancheez.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Party that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh

Thank you. We're going to see a million variations in the future of "native born white/heritage American" in an effort by people whose ancestors immigrated from Europe attempting to exercise exclusive control of the discourse on the appropriate boundaries of citizenship and belonging.

💜 Big 💚 Roux 💛@thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

We’re not gonna let “native born whites” catch on when talking about the Americas, kids. That’s not a thing.

Black Angelenos: What is your assessment of Karen Bass and your mayoral race?

Can someone remind me of why we're supposed to be celebrating Trump's birthday again?

Khashoggi's Ghost@urocklive1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Having a reality TV presidency with a leader who thinks the job is all about the spectacle and has zero class and very little knowledge and understanding is pretty humiliating, too.

That video had to get out. S/o to St. Louis.

Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee says he won't stop Thursday's scheduled execution of Tony Carruthers, a severely mentally ill man who was forced to represent himself *at his own capital murder trial* because the judge simply got tired of dealing with him

Tony Carruthers Was Forced to Represent Himself at Trial. Tennessee Is About to Execute Him

In the years since his 1996 conviction, the state’s case against Tony Carruthers has collapsed. But he still can't get a new trial.

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I don't think I've ever heard of an executive first proposing to sue his own executive agency--while in office--who then drops the suit and simply demands a couple of billion dollars for a "slush fund" for himself, f/b/o his thugs and cronies.

Fascinating article on how autocracies function partly by giving losers a route to career advancement. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

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Morgan J Freeman@mjfree.bsky.social · 5mo ago

m gonna post this video everyday so we NEVER FORGET what the INSURRECTIONIST Donald J. Trump did on Jan 6th

Promoting debunked stories about Cuba and offering aid is supposed to help the U.S. look like the good guy. It isn’t changing any minds open.substack.com/pub/extremea...

Historians shouldn't make predictions, but I'm calling my shot. Donald Trump will use the N-word in public before June 1.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

TRUMP: We have a ballroom that's under budget. It's going up right here. I've doubled the size of it because we obviously need that. REPORTER: The price doubled TRUMP: I doubled the size of it, you dumb person. You are not a smart person.

So can we have a single day where we don't pretend to not understand why people voted for Trump--thrice?

Cristian Farias@cristianfarias.com · 6mo ago

With very ominous language, Justice Elena Kagan says that today’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais ends the Supreme Court’s “now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” 6-to-3 vote in favor of white voters who challenged a Black-majority district in La. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

So Jermaine's still out here looking like extruded plastic. And whoever left those skin flaps on either side of his head needs to explain themselves.