on this day 105 years ago in 1921 the Tulsa Race Massacre began when white supremacists destroyed Tulsa's Greenwood district. This group of citizens destroyed 35 blocks of "Black Wall Street", killed 300, and left 10,000 Black citizens homeless.
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Semi-retired b-ball coach WNBA/NBA…Electric Solar-powered Fat Tire Scooter aficionado…passport renewal done
"Hello daddy. I hope you are OK. Tell everyone from my class hello." here's some of what I saw and learned this week when I visited the Dilley ICE family detention center in Texas.
Trump's Iran war is turbo-boosting the balcony solar movement. cleantechnica.com/2026/03/28/b... #solar #balconysolar #solarenergy #solarpower #solarpanels #pv #solarpv #greenenergy #cleanenergy #affordableenergy #energy #us #energypolicy #iranwar #epsteinwar #utilitybills #coal #sustainability
Balcony Solar Is Spreading Across The US
The balcony solar movement has reached the US, as Trump's war in Iraq sends ratepayers scrambling to after clean, local, affordable power.
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Thousands of protesters filled Bicentennial Park Saturday for the largest "No Kings" rally yet in OKC, followed by a march throughout Downtown | Alex Gatley & Brett Fieldcamp report:
Largest ‘No Kings’ protest yet sees thousands march through Downtown
Thousands of protesters filled Bicentennial Park Saturday for the largest "No Kings" rally yet in OKC, followed by a march throughout Downtown.
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Heartbreaking analysis of what is a complete breakdown of the rule of law, sanctioned by the leaders and a Supreme Court that is supposed to uphold it. Injustice and inhumanity are now the followed government norms.
MdDoogie3@mddoogie3.bsky.social · 6mo agoI don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/
Authoritarian regimes make you feel like shit because they will never admit they’re losing. But Trump is losing — and it’s because of the organizing work you’re doing.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
1. In the early hours of June 12, 1963, after Medgar Evers, the first field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi, was returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers on voting rights. Hours after JFK had given his Civil Rights address, Medgar Evers would return late to his home in the early morning
RIP Sly…brought the energy back in the good old days at Woodstock. youtube.com/watch?v=tQ0P...
Sly The Family Stone Higher And Higher live
YouTube video by Carlos López
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Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.
New interview with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social (who I recommend you follow) on the Trump admin nightmare, the wasted Biden years, and why you should never give up: organizingmythoughts.org/sarah-kendzi...
Sarah Kendzior: "Don't Give Up On Other People"
"If you still care, then I think there's still potential for this situation to be turned around," says Sarah Kendzior.
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
She’s been warning us for ten years about the autocratic nightmare descending upon us. Thank you for coming to Tulsa @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and for being a true American voice of truth in a sea of chaos.
Nails it. “This should have been obvious to anyone who had dealt with a schoolyard bully. If you give him your lunch money the first time, guess what? He will now be waiting for you every day. The only way to break the cycle is to refuse to cooperate; the sooner the better.”
Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · last yr.Loving the reposts and likes! Not to nag, but I really do think you'd get even more out of reading this. I really dig past the "attaboys" and into how this is not about courage, but rationality. Fighting back is smarter than lying down.
The path might have been circuitous. The process might have been trying. But the ending for Paige Bueckers and UConn? It was as perfect as it gets. "[Bueckers'] journey," Geno Auriemma said, "has been the most incredible for any kid I've had." www.espn.com/womens-colle...
'It's truly storybook': How Paige Bueckers and UConn got their fairytale ending
After four years of disappointing endings, Paige Bueckers finally lived her -- and UConn's -- dream-come-true.
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Yes! I hope everyone in Tulsa will go to the Hands Off rally there today!
I hadn't seen this yesterday, Elon Musk saying two lawyers were "undermining civilization" which "seems like a generational trauma transfer issue." What a strange insult. Does he know their parents or something? Ah, I see: they're both Jewish. It's Musk being a Nazi. Again.
There is no line the Republican Party is not willing to cross with and for Donald Trump. They have now reached a point where even Mitch McConnell, whose place in history as one of democracy’s worst gravediggers is secure, refuses to go. A reminder of how far things have already escalated.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · last yr.52-48, Senate votes to confirm RFK Jr. as the next Health and Human Services secretary. All Republicans voted YES except one: Mitch McConnell, who joined all Democrats in voting NO.
Extremist governor criticizes his more extremist Superintendent of Education that he appointed. oklahomavoice.com/2025/02/12/o...
Oklahoma governor rejects immigration checks in schools, says Walters should be 'held accountable’ • Oklahoma Voice
Gov. Kevin Stitt gave a searing indictment of state Superintendent Ryan Walters' performance as Oklahoma's schools chief.
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Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
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The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a great org, asks individuals & orgs to sign their letter requesting Congress act to restore data that has been removed & ensure a similar purge does not reoccur. #EconSky #PolicySky #sociology #PoliSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
They’re running the “Twitter Files” playbook agains the entire US government, and just as in that case, the claims are a bunch of half-baked conspiracy theories built around idiotic misinterpretations and intentional mischaracterizations of bits of data and out of context communications.
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫@bostonjoan.bsky.social · last yr.REALITY CHECK Doge has not discovered ANY actual fraud or crime. Musk and the DOGE youth have army of X trolls culling data from a gov funded transparency website called USAspending.gov. They gin up outrage by making wild accusations against granting agencies. It’s textbook media manipulation.
if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement?
Jeremy Stahl@jeremystahl.bsky.social · last yr.Breaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Dept of Education may take down many sites soon including studentaid.gov Folks should go to the website and download all their loan data (under "my activity" on the "My Aid" page), including docs related to loan consolidation, payment plan apps, FAFSA forms, and PSLF
I wrote about Trump's executive orders, including his attacks on trans and undocumented people, and how we should be orienting ourselves to defy fascist violence in this moment. This piece includes commentary from @chasestrangio.bsky.social and @silkys13.bsky.social.
A Brutal Beginning: Orienting Ourselves Amid the Shock and Awe
We must be prepared to live and act defiantly, deriving no legitimacy from the illegitimate brutes who would govern us.
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These are the words of an extremist. At the moment we should band together to condemn domestic terrorism, this guy incites fear against teachers. Shame on him. Students and teachers deserve better.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2y agoOK Schools Chief Ryan Walters says that public school teachers are the ones responsible for domestic terrorism. He says teachers have turned classrooms into “terrorist training camps” by indoctrinating students to “hate America.”
New in PN: We can't memory hole the Election Day bomb threats "Putin, Trump, and Republicans have learned that potentially violent election interference targeting Democratic voters is fine as long as you win. If they aren’t made to pay some sort of price, why wouldn’t they do it again?"
We can't memory hole the Election Day bomb threats
Healthy democracies don't normalize this stuff.
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