Cato the Elder

ICE delenda est.

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@sadgrlcine Inshallah Jordan Peele is. Were they hanging out with him somewhere in the PNW or……?

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@TinasheTunisie I like him but I wouldn’t mind somebody else who might give Luna + Weah another shot.

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@TinasheTunisie Tbh I was pretty upset he didn’t call up Luna for the World Cup and then didn’t call up Weah for this CONCACAF leg, considering he has been lights out in Ligue 1 and the Champions League recently.

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

I’m having horror flashbacks to when I was 22 and my gf dumped me out of nowhere while she cried. I literally even pulled the Cindy Parlow Cone and gently patted her on the back to comfort her. HELP!!!!!!!!!

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

A heartfelt thank you from Mauricio Pochettino.

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@NickZararis please 😭😭

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@Tyre_94 Ossoff & AOC already polling so high without even gesturing towards running is encouraging to me.

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@KailSovl @scott_colom Beautiful photos as always. Thank you + congratulations!

[Sun Ra @KailSovl]

Mississippi is ready for a change we all in with @scott_colom this is only the beginning!

Photographed by Me

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@avsinseider He’s like a friend that I worry about

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@felschwartz The fall of the American empire is lit dawg, we’ve even got our own Rasputin.

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

That’s nice! Did the guys buy him a Gucci purse or some other gift to congratulate him?

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

Celebrating Hallsy in Helsinki 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣

[Wesley @WesleyLowery]

Many news articles are rightfully noting that Scott Colom becomes the first Black senator elected in Mississippi “since Reconstruction.”

I think it’s worth more fully articulating why that is and the history tucked into that two-word phrase.

Mississippi has always been one of the Blackest (by population %) states in the Union, and after the Civil War, in 1870, it elected as senator America’s first Black member of Congress — AME minister Hiram R. Revels. Four years later, he was replaced by Blanche Bruce, a former slave, who became the country’s second Black senator.

Then, in 1890, state lawmakers in Mississippi called a state Constitutional convention in order to functionally strip Black residents access to the ballot box — introducing a $2 annual poll tax as well as literacy tests.

As a result, Black voter participation plummeted. These were innovations, and became the inspiration for similar “Jim Crow” laws across the South during the period that followed Reconstruction.

For the next 136 years, Black voter registration and turnout would be a major focus of civil rights efforts in Mississippi — including the work of Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer — often in response to acts of racial violence including the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till.

Even so, no Black official had managed to be elected to a statewide office in Mississippi since the 1890 convention until yesterday, when Scott Colom was declared the winner of the 2026 Senate race.

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

James Meredith becomes first Black student at University of Mississippi, 1962, under court order, amidst violence:

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@Tyre_94 That is some sexy pepperoni

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Tonight let's please honor the memory of Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, who was murdered at the age of 37 outside his home in June 1963 and gave his life for civil and voting rights in Mississippi:

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Remember and honor Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner and the price they paid when they were murdered for voting rights in Mississippi, 1964:

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@shotsonnate You were their good luck charm! What a great game, glad you got to enjoy it.

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@khelifimes In the KC Current jersey!!!!!! What a legend. I love this guy

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@Tyre_94 It’s so weird & but I like that! Obviously I’ll watch Connie Britton in anything. Did you catch the lead kid’s performance in the recent season of “The White Lotus?” He was great in that also.

[Darializa for Congress @DarializaforNY]

From being a Columbia University encampment organizer to becoming the next Congresswoman for Columbia University's district. 💗