Calandra Jackson

[Calandra Jackson @Calandra10206]

I had a wonderful time at the Teaching and Learning Conference. AACPS is a fabulous place to teach. The Yoga class relaxed me and celebrating my strengths in the Positive Education class inspired me. Merci beaucoup!!!♥️

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[Calandra Jackson @Calandra10206]

@HashemiMarzi @CrazyVibes_1 I wasn’t aware of this story either.

[China in English @En_chinaNewsX]

🇨🇳 Xi Jinping:

"The world asks: Why do people love China?

We answer simply: Because we did not send them bombs, but factories and schools.

We go to them with development... not wars and problems."

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸 Marco at 2:00 PM — No international waterway or airspace should ever be used or nationalized by any country. That should never be accepted as a new normal.

🇮🇷 Iran at 3:00 PM — You stormed into our country, bombed a school, and killed 170 innocent children. Should that be accepted as normal?🔥

Absolute belt treatment 👏

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

On this Memorial Day, I honor my father, who fought in Saipan in WWII. It’s a solemn day. He fought for a country he loved but didn’t love him back. He fought to form a more perfect Union. His fight is my fight today as our Civil Rights protections are being removed.

[Cliff W @CliffW08950229]

She was so right about Clarence Thomas.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

“Malcolm X Warned Us: People Don’t Hate Lies… They Hate Uncomfortable Truths.”

Most people claim they want the truth. But history shows something darker.

The moment truth challenges comfort, identity, religion, politics, or privilege, people often reject it, mock it, or attack the messenger. That was the tragedy of Malcolm X.

Malcolm X understood that ignorance is not always the absence of information but sometimes the refusal to confront reality. He believed many systems survive because people are emotionally attached to comforting illusions.

Decades later, his words still feel painfully relevant.

The real question is not whether truth exists. The question is: Are people mentally prepared to hear it?

Do you think society genuinely values truth, or only truths that feel comfortable?

Reference: Speeches and interviews of Malcolm X, especially his discussions on media, power, and public consciousness during the 1960s.

Credit: African Echo

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Iran’s foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi just released this statement:

“Every time a diplomatic solution is on the table, the U.S. opts for a reckless military adventure. Is it a crude pressure tactic? Or the result of a spoiler once again duping POTUS into another quagmire?

Whatever the causes, the outcome is the same: Iranians never bow to pressure and diplomacy is always the victim.

Also, the CIA is wrong. Our missile inventory and launcher capacity are not at 75% compared to Feb 28. The correct figure is 120%.

As for our readiness to defend our people:
1,000%“

[Iran (24) @urgent_Iran24HD]

👀 The double standard is astonishing. When Trump seizes ships from Venezuela and Iran, it's "good and fair." But when Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz and targets violating ships, it's "piracy and terrorism." America never sees its own reflection.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This is why lifetime positions in the Supreme Court must be abolished. All it took to take America back to the days of Jim Crow was six woefully out of touch conservative Supreme Court justices to gut The Civil Rights Act. Women have lost autonomy over their bodies and Black people have lost their representation in congress.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

I'm pretty sure that Thurgood Marshall would be rolling over in his grave. Knowing that he was replaced by a black man whose only job has been the repress and deny black people equality.

Ironically, Clarence Thomas met his wife Ginni in 1986 at an affirmative action conference, which they both opposed. They bonded over making sure the playing field was never level for blacks and a year later in 1987 they married.

What's so perplexing about Clarence Thomas is that he benefited from affirmative action during his admission to Yale Law School in 1971. Yale aimed to increase minority enrollment to roughly 10% of the class. He later decided that wasn't a good thing.

Clarence Thomas benefited from affirmative action. Then he decided, no other black person should.

Self-hatred is a helluva drug.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: Pope Leo XIV appoints the youngest bishop in the United States.

Robert Boxie III, 46, is a new auxiliary bishop of Washington.

Boxie has been outspoken against the White House’s attacks against racial diversity.

“It’s really frustrating — especially this moment that we’re living in. The attacks on ‘DEI’ — I don’t even know what that means anymore. It’s a term that’s been hijacked. It means a lot of things to a lot of different people.”

“I think at its core, it’s what America is all about. We are a diverse nation with people from all over the world. Diversity is a good thing. Diversity is of God.”

“And the fact that it’s been turned into something negative — or something that should be avoided or not talked about — just flies in the face of who we are as Americans.”

“So much of our history has been exclusive, especially when it comes to race. And it’s just un-American; it’s un-Christian; it’s anti-Catholic.”

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

In September 1946, Albert Einstein called racısm America’s “worst disease.” Earlier that year, he told students and faculty at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the oldest Black college in the Western world, that racial segregation was “not a disease of colored people, but a dısease of whıte people, adding, “I will not remain silent about it.”

When Albert Einstein moved to America, he was disappointed to see how Black people were being treated. Even in his new hometown of Princeton, he observed separation of the whıte and bIack societies. Einstein thought of segregation as “unacceptable.”

Albert Einstein rarely accepted honorary doctorates, but he did so for Lincoln University, a small historically Black college in Pennsylvania in 1946. He also gave a lecture before a small group of students who were seen with him in the photo. Also taught Black university students, but the press didn't like to publicise it as the idea of educated equal Black people scared the establishment.

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

Today’s Supreme Court decision in 𝘓𝘰𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘷𝘴. 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘴 gutted what remains of the Voting Rights Act. This ruling opens the door to racial gerrymandering that will take us back to Jim Crow. This is a betrayal of Black voters, America, and democracy. Another Bloody Sunday.

[Calandra Jackson @Calandra10206]

@brandilwells You are NOT ALONE, Sir!!! Lord, have mercy!!! Sick and tired! Every day feels like Groundhog Day!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🇮🇷🇺🇳 BREAKING: The United Nations has elected Iran as one of the 34 Vice Presidents of the 2026 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, despite objections from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, and the UAE.

This outcome exposes the West's deepening diplomatic isolation and the bankruptcy of its approach to non-proliferation. Years of maximum pressure, sanctions, withdrawals from agreements, and military actions have failed to rally the Global South or enforce compliance through multilateral institutions. Instead, they have driven broader resistance, empowering bloc voting that now hands procedural roles to Tehran even amid IAEA concerns.

The same powers that lecture on rules while maintaining their own arsenals, shielding allies' capabilities, and bypassing diplomacy when convenient now watch as the NPT's credibility frays under their watch. This is not strength. It is the predictable backlash against selective enforcement and eroded legitimacy.

When coercion substitutes for consistent leadership, the rules-based order unravels from within.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🚨 CNN "experts" say Iran’s disdain for the US is because “they hate our way of life.” Ex-MSNBC host
@JoyAnnReid
wasn’t having it. She schooled the panel on the 1953 CIA-backed coup in Tehran: The one that overthrew democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh after he nationalized Iran’s oil. Installed the Shah’s brutal dictatorship. Sparked decades of resentment. Delivered the 1979 Revolution. That “disdain”? It’s called blowback. Not “they hate our freedom.” They remember what we did to their freedom. Media: stop the gaslighting. Start with history. 📷 💥