Beyonce?!?!

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[Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @RepJasmine]

Leon Black didn’t show up for his Oversight deposition today — defying another congressional subpoena.

I don’t know who told these billionaires that the rules don’t apply to them, but let me help them out: Nobody is above the law.

And let’s be clear, Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t some stranger to this man. Leon Black paid Epstein more than $180 MILLION.

We’ve had enough with the games. Oversight Democrats are demanding he be held in contempt. The survivors deserve answers — and we won’t stop until we get them.

FOLLOW. THE. MONEY.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

MAMDANI: “We are spending tens of billions of dollars on killing people. That money could have been used to make life easier for our people.

There always seems to be money for war, but not to feed the poor.”

[Ik Nnadi 🇳🇬 @NnadiArts1]

And to the 1% who stopped to look:

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Over 400 Years of Institutional Racism.

Slavery (1619-1865)

Black Codes (1865-1866)

KKK (1865-)

Jim Crow (1877-1954)

Redlining (1934-1968)

War On Drugs (1971-)

Mass Incarceration (1973-)

Three Strikes Law(1993-)

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

A crowd gathers outside the Myers family home, trying to scare away the first black family in Levittown, Pa. August 16, 1957.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Honoring all those enslaved people that built the U.S Capitol.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

What our ancestors were doing on 4th of July 1776.

[Dylan Park-Pettiford @dyllyp]

11 stars for the Confederate states instead of 13 stars for the original colonies is a detail most Americans won’t notice because of our public school system.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

I think a lot of people need to be reminded of this.

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

So glad the boy is okay! ICE agents are still raping and killing people inside detention centers. There is no propaganda in the world that will hide the fact that they are the modern-day Gestapo and deserve to rot in hell.

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

Capitalism turned 2Pac into a brand. His image is celebrated everywhere, while his Black Panther roots and critiques of racism, poverty, and inequality are rarely discussed.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

The kids are alright; it’s the adults that need to stop trying to silence them when they stand up for what’s right.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project.

She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it.

Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda.

Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly.

She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype.

Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection.

The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table.

Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests.

Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

[O.J. Spivey @OJPhilly]

If voting didn't matter, they would not go through tremendous lengths to keep you from doing so.

[justin’s interlude @stilloverjustin]

just joined the 8% of black men with a master’s degree 🎓

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.

The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

[Michael Agwu @MichaelAgwuart]

Not to brag, but i made this artwork completely from electronic waste

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.

[Brown @YoursBrown]

Poverty is expensive in a way that people don’t understand. If you can’t afford a dentist you have long term teeth damage. Not affording healthy food means poor health. Not affording ‘good schools’ means missed opportunities. It is a compounding cycle.

[✯ @sine_minaj]

People don't hate working, they hate working and still being poor.