Rep. Barbara Jordan

Tribute to the legendary Congresswoman, the former Gentlelady from Texas, the voice that made a nation listen to a painful truth, the Honorable Barbara Jordan.

[Rep. Barbara Jordan @BarbaraJordanTX]

"And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution."

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

As Malcolm X reminded us, Black women are too often unprotected and disrespected. Cherrie Moore deserves REAL accountability, including more serious charges against the former Shelby (NC) Police Department officer. We must ensure no woman endures this kind of violence again.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

⁨⁨Gentrification, The Quiet Eviction

They drain the value, flood the streets with harm, price out the locals, and call the theft “regeneration” while the community pays in bodies and displacement. This is a clip from Boyz n the Hood (1991).⁩

[creative scorpio @vinivinidogo]

Bringing back the 1930s

[Native Land Pod @nativelandpod]

After everything we've survived in this country, they still expect us to figure it out with one hand tied behind our backs. And somehow, we do.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

The video of Cherrie Moore's encounter with a Shelby (NC) police officer is as disturbing as it is heartbreaking! What could EVER justify a Black woman who weighs about 110 pounds being slammed to the ground with such force?! There is nothing that can excuse his actions, and we intend to hold him accountable! Justice demands nothing less.

🎥: The Charlotte Observer

[Inspirenaire @Inspirenaire]

When being intentionally nice pays off more than the pay off. I liked to see it. 🫵🏽🇺🇸🤌🏾
@Damondarl1

[Vincent Tumeo @VincentTumeo]

Strange Fruit, Strange Loyalty

By: @VincentTumeo | May 19, 2026

How Black voters were taught to misidentify the hand that held the rope — and why no party should ever own a free people.

Somewhere between the lynching tree and the voting booth, Black America was taught to forget who built the tree. Not because they forgot the pain. They remembered the rope. They remembered the fire. They remembered the segregated schoolhouse, the back door, the police dog, the fire hose, the rotting textbook, the white-only sign, the grandfather who could not vote, the grandmother who knew when to lower her eyes.

They remembered schoolhouses with leaking roofs, broken books, no buses, no dignity. They remembered Billie Holiday singing “Strange Fruit” like a nation on trial — a song that forced America to stare at Black bodies hanging from Southern trees.

But somewhere along the line, the political story was rewritten. The pain was remembered. The hand was misidentified.

Let us name the hand plainly. The hands that defended slavery were Democratic hands. The hands that enforced Jim Crow were Democratic hands. The hands that resisted Reconstruction were Democratic hands. The hands that stood in schoolhouse doors were Democratic hands. The hands that filibustered civil rights were Democratic hands. And many of the hands beneath the Klan hoods were Democratic hands.

That is the history Black voters were taught to blur. The hood came off. The campaign button went on. The plate was served. The flag was waved. The promise was made: housing, justice, repair, safety, reparations, protection.

And then Black voters were told: the Republican is the danger. He is the wealth. He is the landowner. He is the bad man. Meanwhile, the political tradition that once held the rope learned how to hold the rally.

But I need to be clear about my own voice. I do not write this as a Black man. I write this as an American looking at the record, listening to Black pastors, Black commentators, Black family advocates, Black conservatives, Black dissenters, and Black witnesses who are asking why the most loyal voting bloc in America keeps receiving the same broken schools, unsafe neighborhoods, weakened families, symbolic representation, and recycled promises.

This is not an attempt to speak as Black America. It is a refusal to let party mythology speak for Black America.

And some of the hardest criticism is not coming from white conservatives looking in. It is coming from Black voices saying what the political class does not want said out loud: that government dependency was sold as a lifestyle; that fatherlessness was excused; that churches were politicized; that schools were broken; that police were demonized while neighborhoods became unsafe; that civil-rights language became a business model; that Black suffering became campaign currency.

That is not liberation. That is management. That is the old bad object returning in a new suit — speaking softer, smiling wider, promising more, and asking for the same thing every cycle: your loyalty, your silence, your vote.

Bondage is not always a chain around the wrist. Sometimes bondage is an inherited script, a familiar fear, a family habit, a church habit, a party habit, a political reflex repeated so long it starts to feel like identity.

That is not unique to Black people. Every people has inherited patterns. White families have them. Black families have them. Hispanic families have them. Men have them. Women have them. Churches have them. Nations have them. The question is not whether a people inherited a pattern. The question is whether they are free enough to recognize it, confront it, and break it.

Malcolm X saw the political version clearly. He was not speaking in academic theory. He was describing the psychology of a captured vote. If a party can count on you without fearing you, it does not have to serve you. It only has to manage you. That is how a powerful voting bloc becomes a political chump.

And now, in 2026, the question is no longer historical. It is immediate. The country is in a fight over borders, ballots, fraud, public benefits, foreign wars, race-based districting, judicial power, government waste, criminal enforcement, national sovereignty, and whether America will remain strong enough to protect its own citizens before it funds the failures of the world.

This is not the hour for blind loyalty. This is not the hour for racial reflex. This is not the hour for inherited fear. This is the hour to ask what every free voter should ask: Who benefits if my family stays broken? Who benefits if my child cannot read? Who benefits if my neighborhood stays unsafe? Who benefits if I remain angry? Who benefits if I never own anything?

Who benefits if I distrust every Republican before hearing him? Who benefits if I trust every Democrat before testing him? Who benefits if I call accountability racism? Who benefits if I confuse welfare with freedom? Who benefits if I confuse Black faces with Black power?

Look at the results: failing schools, unsafe neighborhoods, public housing rot, drug economies, broken families, no ownership, no leverage, no accountability, no measurable return. Just another speech. Another promise. Another plate. Another flag. Another command: vote Democrat, wait, hope, repeat.

No. That script is over.

The question for Black voters is not whether every Republican is good. They are not. The question is not whether every Democrat is evil. They are not. The question is whether Black voters are free enough, awake enough, and honest enough to stop rewarding failure because grandma did, the church did, the union did, the neighborhood did, the celebrity did, or the civil-rights machine told them to.

Judge the man by his record. Judge the party by its fruit. Judge the promise by the outcome. Judge the hand before you shake it.

Not every white man is your enemy. Not every Black face is your representative. Not every Democrat is your friend. Not every Republican is your oppressor.

A Black face in office is not Black power. A government program is not freedom. A campaign promise is not deliverance. A plate of food is not justice. A flag in your hand is not ownership. A race-based district is not liberation if it only protects a party machine. A civil-rights slogan is not justice if it leaves the family weaker than before. A church is not righteous if it teaches people to depend on government more than God. A leader is not a leader if he profits from the suffering he was elected to solve.

The Black vote is powerful enough to decide elections. But power without discernment becomes property. Power without leverage becomes dependency. Power given away every cycle becomes bondage by habit.

So here is the call: stop voting like clients. Start voting like builders. Vote for family. Vote for fathers. Vote for schools that teach. Vote for neighborhoods that are safe. Vote for work. Vote for ownership. Vote for discipline. Vote for faith. Vote for inheritance. Vote for accountability. Vote for whoever produces those outcomes. Fire whoever does not.

Stop voting from inherited fear. Stop voting from racial reflex. Stop voting from resentment. Stop voting for symbolic comfort while your communities decay. Stop treating Republican support as racial betrayal. Stop giving Democrats what Malcolm X warned them they had already taken: your guaranteed vote.

Make every candidate earn it. Democrat. Republican. Black. White. Liberal. Conservative. No exceptions.

The Black vote is not owned by Democrats. It is not owed to civil-rights nostalgia. It is not a plantation asset. It is not a permanent down payment on promises never delivered. It is an arsenal.

Use it like free people.

#MalcolmXWasRight #PoliticalChumps #BlackVoters

[Gary Chambers @GaryChambersJr]

Yall gone hear me one day.

Black turnout exceeded white turnout in Louisiana’s May election.

Black voters are 31% of registered voters, but made up 34% of the people who showed up.

I was on here every day telling y’all to vote because this is what happens when Black people participate at higher rates. We influence elections the same way we influence culture.

Jeff Landry lost all 5 constitutional amendments. Even in Republican parishes, voters rejected his agenda.

Never underestimate the power of informed, organized Black voters.

And to be clear, this happened while Black folks are underfunded in this work in Louisiana.

One thing the record will always show is, I did my part.

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[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

You know that famous Denzel quote “if you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud too” ? I’ve been thinking about it lately. Sometimes the things we want the most in life bring us the most problems. Have to be ready for all of it. I hope whoever is reading this can relate.

[💥𝐹𝓇𝑒𝒹𝑒𝓇𝒾𝒸𝓀 THE UNION 𝒟𝑜𝓊𝑔𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓈💥 @AmazingDouglass]

@RepMikeLevin @PrincessBravato Dear @SenSchumer @RepJeffries,

Your line.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

Hungary’s incoming PM has said that Viktor Orbán used Hungarian government funds to help finance CPAC, the flagship networking event for GOP candidates, members of Congress, and conservative media in this country.

Under U.S. law, that is not just a Hungarian problem. Foreign governments are barred from spending money in American elections, and Americans are forbidden from soliciting or accepting it. If these allegations are true, this is a direct attack on the integrity of American democracy.

We need a full investigation by Congress, the FEC, and the DOJ. The American people deserve to know exactly what flowed from Orbán’s government into this country’s political ecosystem, who was on the receiving end, and what it bought.
https://t.co/pMFylxAkbQ

[Rep. Barbara Jordan @BarbaraJordanTX]

WOW!

[StringofPearls @PattyTodt]

Let’s not forget the mysterious murder of NYT whistleblower Suchir Balaji.

He was a former OpenAI AI researcher who publicly criticized the company’s use of copyrighted material to train ChatGPT as illegal. He quit in August 2024 after a New York Times interview and was listed as a potential witness in copyright lawsuits.

He was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26, 2024 (age 26) from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. San Francisco police and medical examiner ruled it suicide with no evidence of foul play.

His parents dispute this, allege homicide/cover-up (including suing his landlord for evidence tampering), and claim no suicidal ideation.

The parents describe what was clearly a violent crime scene and are still seeking justice.

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

After reading this piece on Sam Altman, one can reasonably conclude he’s put profit over loyalty, principles, and company governance.

There’s business savvy and ruthlessness, and there’s Sam, who at multiple points in his career has been the subject of investigations and forced departures from companies he’s founded.

When those closest to him raise alarms, they should be heeded by those whom he tries to con into business dealings.

While Dario is also insufferable, it should be obvious to all why both him and Elon, who worked closest with Sam, find him to be a dishonest swindler.

The last takeaway I have — this article is written by a gay Democrat, one of Sam’s own people, and even he is quite unconvinced that Sam is a good person.

OpenAI was clearly changed from a non-profit to for-profit to benefit Sam. It’s clear he lied to Elon and his co-founders.

“I think there’s a small but real chance he’s eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer.”

This is the truth and the world sees it.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.”

You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening.

The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement.

Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year.

Source: @heynavtoor

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Why is that?

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Republicans Announce Plan To Keep Doing Opposite Of What Everyone Voted For Them To Do https://t.co/AIdkkDbiU4