Poverty is a policy choice. New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

I don't think I've ever seen a story suppressed as hard as this Minnesota assassinations story

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year. Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year. Capitalism kills.

MIND YOU DEMOCRATS HAD STRONGER CONDEMNATIONS OF ZOHRAN MAMDANI THAN ANY REPUBLICAN EVER. THEY SPENT THE LAST WEEK PUTTING MORE EFFORT INTO TRYING TO TAKE HIM DOWN THAN SAVING ANY SEMBLANCE OF HEALTHCARE WE HAVE LEFT BECAUSE LEST WE NOT FORGET OUR SYSTEM HAS BEEN CRATERING.

I just hope one day we finally take ‘Black Excellence’ off its pedestal so we can finally make room for Black integrity instead. Success is nothing if we have zero morals, principles, or understanding of mutual care.

I grew up in section 8 housing filled with love. went to undergrad using Pell Grants. in grad school my mama use to mail me her food stamp card. everything that made it possible for me to get a PhD has been cut. i'm sad for the the little black kids having their future stolen.

For The Guardian, I wrote about the homes of Black writers like Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Lucille Clifton and the urgency to preserve them lest their literary legacies be erased & forgotten forever. theguardian.com/culture/2025/j…

When Fannie Lou Hamer went to a hospital in 1961 to have a uterine tumor removed, she left without her reproductive organs. Dubbed a 'Mississippi appendectomy,' it was part of a statewide effort to reduce the Black population through forced sterilization. ko-fi.com/Post/Over-8000…

A massive number of Prince George’s residents and advocates have shown up *in the rain* to protest a proposed data center in the majority Black county

If you want to know why your rights to free speech are constantly under threat it’s because white people only ever mobilise like this for white people.

You cannot prevent disability. I want people to understand that. Even if you eat healthy, exercise, and have access to healthcare. Disability can and will happen. Advocate for free healthcare. Advocate for better resources. Advocate for accessibility. Advocate for inclusion.

Mahmoud Khalil was thrown in prison for 3 months for protesting Gaza and the day ABC pulled Kimmel off the air (for two eps!) a judge upheld Khalil’s deportation. Rümeysa Öztürk was kidnapped off the street and imprisoned for writing an op-ed on Gaza. I feel like I’m going insane

This is amazing - a periodic table showing every element and how it’s used. Chemistry really is everywhere. 🔬✨ What’s your favorite element?

Im BEGGING y’all: please just give money. Foodbanks are one charity where money goes a LONG ASS WAY because they get subsidized prices for the food they purchase. I only raised $3K by myself and it was enough for almost 11,000 full MEALS they told me. Donate MONEY.

Slavery. Through mass incarceration. They will arrest people who are angry, hungry, protest, etc. and jail them in for-profit prisons where they’re forced to work for free or next to nothing. This will terrorize others who will stay quiet, obey, and rat out their neighbors.

This is what it looks like when billionaires own the media.

Rap beefs be like ‘I don’t like you so I wrote you this poem’

And you know what she's right. Dionne Warwick was a VOCALIST first and foremost.

The CDC is funding a hepatitis experiment on Black babies. “This is another Tuskegee,” the official said. “We are allowing children, infants, to be exposed to Hepatitis B when we could prevent it, and then follow them for five years to see what happens." trib.al/9e4zb1K

No hyperbole but: finally watching Sinners last week completely altered my creative trajectory. I wanna do different things and swing in another direction. Go bigger and brighter.