Rod Washington

Jesus saved me! Shreveport raised me! 👌🏾ΚΑΨ made me ♦️ΗΠ Spr 99. Faith-Family-Friends. ⚜️WHO DAT!⚜️Monroe Proud! #MakeItHappen #KeepGrinding Opinions R My Own

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Who are the masked cowards who call themselves the “Patriot Front”?

They’re exactly who you think they are.

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

"A teenager turns down Kansas, Kentucky, UCLA and Michigan to take graduate-level coursework as a college freshman at Berkeley, and the response from the people paying him millions isn’t excitement. It’s suspicion. That was never a scouting report. That was a diagnosis. And the disease was intelligence."
https://t.co/PToZcTIglv | @theGrio

[Donna Brazile @donnabrazile]

American history belongs to us all. Any attempt to erase history will fail. It lives in our very DNA.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr became an owner and advisor to a company that wants to ship guns through the mail

…but that’s been illegal for nearly a century

…so his father just rescinded that rule

…to help his company.

It’s not a coincidence.
It’s corruption.
https://t.co/qJxiM5XLYz

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 2016, police shot and killed Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr. Sterling was on the ground with his arms and legs fully restrained when he was shot.
https://t.co/Om62CSlrNe

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

👏DO👏NOT👏LET👏THIS👏STORY👏DIE👏

Texas Attorney General, and now Republican nominee for the Texas Senate Ken Paxton gave his friend 28 days in jail after he repeatedly raped a young boy.

He does not have to register as a sex offender.

He didn’t even lose his license to practice law.

[Black, Blessed & Unbothered @MelanatedTalk]

Stacey Abrams breaks down Donald Trump’s calculated march toward authoritarian rule. She connects the dots with surgical precision: discredit the media, undermine the courts, politicize law enforcement, and attack elections. It’s a playbook.
#America250Year
#AmericaNow
#America

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

An instant Pulitzer Prize winning photograph

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The detector said she cheated. She is autistic.

Her name is Moira Olmsted. Adelphi University. February 2026. Turnitin flagged her essay as 100% AI-generated. She was disciplined.

Two other AI detectors classified the same essay as human-written.

She sued. She won. The court called the school's decision "arbitrary and capricious."

She is not the only one.

In May 2026, a high school student in Palo Alto was expelled after an AI detector flagged his work. He faced visa revocation. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

A researcher at Griffith University just proved mathematically why this keeps happening. The paper is on arXiv. The finding is one sentence.

AI text detectors have a structural flaw that no amount of better engineering can fix.

Here is what the math says.

If a university wants its detector to catch 80% of cheaters, at least 750 out of every 10,000 innocent students will be wrongly accused. That is not a software problem. It is a theorem.

If the university tries to limit false accusations to 1%, detection power collapses to 6%. It catches 6 out of every 100 AI-written papers. The other 94 get through.

There is no setting where the detector is both fair and effective.

The reason is diversity. Every student writes differently. Non-native English speakers use simpler vocabulary. Shorter sentences. Clearer structures. So does AI. A Stanford study found that 61.3% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers were misclassified as AI-generated. A separate analysis tested 14 commercial detection tools. Zero out of 14 reached 80% accuracy.

The students most likely to be wrongly accused are non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and anyone who writes with clarity and precision. The qualities that make their writing effective are the same qualities the detector mistakes for a machine.

Vanderbilt University understood this. They disabled Turnitin's AI detection in 2023 after calculating that even a 1% error rate across 75,000 submissions would produce 750 wrongful accusations per year.

750 students accused of cheating for writing like themselves.

The paper's conclusion is not that we need better detectors. It is that the diversity of human writing itself makes accurate detection mathematically impossible.

The same thing that makes your writing yours is the thing that gets you accused.

https://t.co/L91ldtXP05

[Rod Washington @RodWash1911]

@historical_Afr @michaeleaves 🙏🏾✊🏾✌🏾

[Melinda Deslatte @MelindaDeslatte]

Gov. Jeff Landry has issued his first veto from the regular session, nixing a bill by Lafayette Sen. Gerald Boudreaux that would have increased the cap on compensation somone can receive from the state for being wrongfully convicted. SB125: https://t.co/X5mHnYvVxs #lalege

[Chris @CPark_1985]

Obama isn’t a felon.
Obama isn’t a sexual predator.
Obama isn’t was never impeached.
Obama was never arrested.
Obama didn’t lie to his followers about an election that led to the storming of the capitol.
Obama had 1 scandal, a tan suit.
Obama was a popular vote winner 2X

[Donna Brazile @donnabrazile]

This is racial discrimination!

[Melinda Deslatte @MelindaDeslatte]

Gov. Jeff Landry has signed the new congressional map bill into law.

[Melinda Deslatte @MelindaDeslatte]

Louisiana will use a new congressional map for the fall elections, drawn by lawmakers after the U.S. Supreme Court declared the previous district configuration unconstitutional. This map eliminates one of Louisiana's two majority-Black districts: https://t.co/zJY0ygH230 #lalege

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

BREAKING: The Louisiana Senate passed a disturbing anti-homeless bill that pushes homeless people into jails, forced treatment, and unpaid labor. Hours earlier, the same lawmakers voted to give themselves $1,000 to cover housing expenses, recognizing housing is too expensive.

[Rod Washington @RodWash1911]

@SNFonNBC @NBCSports Cooks - WR

[Julie O'Donoghue @JSODonoghue]

In two weeks, Louisiana GOP leaders have:

*Prevented a NOLA Black Democrat from taking office by eliminating the position
*voted to cut N.O. judges
*Suspended elections
*Voted to cut a Black Congressmen's seat
*Threatened to remove 8 more N.O. officials

#lalege

#lalege

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

Under the cover of darkness, at 4:30am, far-right members of the Louisiana state legislature just advanced a new gerrymandered map out of committee that 𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲’𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆-𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘀.
40,000 votes had been cast in the district's election but it didn't matter, they suspended the election via a 'State of Emergency' and told voters their votes were null. We have returned our state 125 years to the era of Jim Crow. With every generation I’m reminded how vile America has been to my people. This has nothing to do with political parties. This is a white racist attack to destroy the Black community’s political power.

[Justin J. Pearson @Justinjpearson]

Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on.

This move strips nearly 2 million Tennesseans from the representation they deserve in TN state leg.