Ray Mitchell

@raymitchell.blacksky.app

Marketing Consultant. Author, Magical Websites for Coaches. Granddaddy of the absolute best Grandson. Fight me. Isaiah 58:6-7 voter.

If three NYers were shot up by strangers that got away it would be on CNN and NYT/WSJ above fold. If three subway riders died after being pushed on 🚇tracks by strangers it would be on CNN and NYT/WSJ above fold. Three NYers were killed by hit-run drivers and nary a peep?

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · yesterday

Hit-and-run drivers killed three New York City cyclists in three separate crashes this week, with the latest victim a 40-year-old Brooklyn man, NYPD said. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/08/21/h...

There's something so moving to me as an Irish-American about the detail of both of these kids being named Liam, which a hundred years ago would have instantly identified you as Irish and is now just a name for a regular old American, which is all these kids are trying to be

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · yesterday

When the public made noise for Liam Ramos, the little boy in the bunny hat, ICE let him and his father go. Now they’ve kidnapped another 5 year old named Liam. They’re disappearing little kids. Make noise for every one of them. Shut Dilley down.

The fucking audacity Doris “Dorie” Miller was a Black mess attendant in a segregated Navy who grabbed an anti-aircraft gun he had NEVER been trained to use and fought back during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was a war hero. Trump’s 1/ A draft dodger 2/ Started a war that we’re losing

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congresswoman lauren underwood has had 14 of her bills signed into law between two presidents. she doesn't get the media attention that others get for obvious reasons, but she is one of the FEW doing the actual work of legislating.

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Like Adams, the potential political appeal of SAS was supposed to be his ability to say conservative things while still being popular among Black people or considered cool among Black people; without that second part, the appeal doesn’t exist.

Four years ago today, Amber Thurman died because politicians put politics over the health of Georgia mothers. Amber’s death was preventable. This anniversary is a painful reminder that abortion bans have fatal consequences. May her memory be a blessing.

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I pray Stephen A Smith does not survive this backlash with respect to the Black community. And I am not saying he loses his job. I’m saying one thing he really really wants is to be the Black Community Icon that he always thought he was. His feelings are HURT by this. I need more.

Nixon over Vindman was only an upset if you weren't listening to people in Florida. Nixon is a lifetime Floridian; Vindman came off as yet another recent arrival who proved to know little about the needs of Floridians. Nixon meets people where they are. And she can win the Senate seat.

Two private jets operated by Journey Aviation just landed in southern Poland. This is how ICE deports people to Ukraine. Using a third country to send people to an unsafe country, which includes countries at war, is called chain refoulement, and it's banned under a US-ratified treaty.

An ADSBx map showing two Gulfstream Vs going from Mesa, AZ to Rzeszow, Poland.

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

My latest, on how the British/global media hounded Jason Arday to death. “Given the history of white media’s key role in terror against Black people, at what point do we call such actions of journalism outlets digital terror campaigns? “ karenattiah.substack.com/p/jason-arda...

Jason Arday's Death and the Age of Digital Racial Terror

What Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age.

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