Umm we typically don’t get called or end up getting dismissed from duty. After I was dismissed a few years ago, I did research on the racial disparities at all stages of the jury selection process.
- A dismissed Black juror
Zohran Mamdani balanced a $12 billion deficit, announced 200,000 affordable homes, froze rents for 2 million tenants, and got working New Yorkers into the World Cup for $50 in 151 days — which means every politician who told us it couldn’t be done was lying.
It’s a cotton and linen summer. Hibiscus tea summer. Omega-3s from fish summer. Affogatos summer. Reading in the sun summer. Nervous system reset summer. Morning walks summer. Sunset watching summer. Less screen time summer. Praying hard summer. Self-expansion summer
Pope Leo XIV on AI:
“Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word [disarmed] is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”
🚨 🇺🇸MAJOR BREAKING: They are marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge again.
61 years after Bloody Sunday. The same bridge. The same fight.
Today in Selma, thousands are gathering at the spot where Alabama state troopers beat peaceful Black marchers in March 1965.
That beating shocked the country into passing the Voting Rights Act five months later.
This week the Supreme Court finished gutting it.
(video: ib2_real)