Abdul El-Sayed: “We don’t live in capitalism. We live in corporate socialism. If you’re a corporation, you can buy a politician to get that politician to rig the system for you so you make more money and you ex out every other market in which you compete. You need good healthcare. You need a good education. We need childcare. We need good roads and bridges. We don’t need to send our money to big corporations to subsidize them, we need to be invested in people so they have the human capital to be able to do all the things as they graduate and come out”

Many thanks to Brian Krassenstein! “The weirdest thing about leaving America is realizing how much of America is just a sales pitch. You spend your whole life hearing “greatest country on Earth,” then you go overseas and see clean trains, safer streets, affordable medicine, cities where people can walk without playing Frogger with an SUV, and workers who take vacations without acting like they committed treason. And then you come home. You come home to potholes, medical debt, school shooting drills, $17 airport sandwiches, people living in tents under highways, politicians wearing flag pins (or worse, gun pins) while doing absolutely nothing for the people standing in food bank lines, and billionaires being treated like they’re the fragile ones. And somehow we’re all supposed to stand there, hand over heart, and pretend this is normal. I don’t hate America. I hate what America has been taught to tolerate. I hate that we call basic things “radical.” Healthcare? Radical. Paid leave? Radical. Clean air? Radical. Kids not getting shot in math class? Somehow political. Meanwhile, the loudest “patriots” are usually the same people telling struggling Americans to shut up, stop complaining, and be grateful. Grateful for what? A flag doesn’t pay rent. A bald eagle doesn’t cover insulin. Fireworks don’t fix bridges. And chanting “USA” doesn’t make a broken system less broken. America has incredible people. That’s the tragedy. The people are better than the system they’ve been forced to defend. So no, I’m not going to call America the greatest country on Earth just because it has the best marketing department. Real patriotism isn’t pretending the country is perfect. Real patriotism is being angry that it isn’t” - Brian Krassenstein

Montgomery's bus boycott ran for 381 days. It needed cars, gas, insurance and drivers — and money that could not be traced to anyone who could be fired for giving it. A cook solved that problem with pound cake. Georgia Gilmore. She had testified in court about being thrown off a bus, and lost her job for it. Dr. King helped her set up a kitchen in her own house. Then she organized women across Montgomery into a fundraising operation she deliberately named the Club From Nowhere — so that when the money arrived at mass meetings, nobody could be identified, targeted, or sacked. They sold sweet potato pies, fried fish and pound cake at beauty shops and on street corners, week after week, for over a year. Her kitchen fed the movement and funded the carpools. King ate at her table. Kennedy ate at her table. The boycott is remembered as speeches and lawsuits. It ran on pie money from women nobody was writing down. Georgia Gilmore’s story is one of the many stories in black history that is never spoken about. Black history is not only about the famous names. It’s also about the people whose courage, sacrifice, and stories were nearly forgotten.

Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held, to prevent interference or intimidation. You’d think an Attorney General would know this.

Happy couples do not have better relationships by accident. They have better mornings by intention. Neuroscience shows the first 20 minutes after waking set the tone for everything that follows. Here are 7 things couples who stay in love do every single morning:

Sheriff Lucious D. Amerson studied the Klan’s playbook. Midnight raids. Disappearances. Terror in the dark. Then he flipped the script. 🔄 This is what we need to do NOW…to stop these hangings. #BlackPeople #FlipTheScript

A new exhibition imagines what if Emmett Till had lived. Its curator Sarah Lewis tells me it’s intended “to celebrate his unlived life,” noting that “it’s impossible to understand American history and the catalyst for the civil rights movement without engaging with the history and life of Emmett Till.”

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

Jey Uso: “Solo, this your warning shot...” Solo Sikoa: “BOW! PEW! PEW! PEW! BOW!” Solo Sikoa really said: "BOW! PEW! PEW! PEW!" 😭😂 Absolute comedy 😭😂 #WWERaw

Racism is not merely a failure to understand another person. It is a failure to understand yourself. The moment you need someone else's humanity to be smaller so yours can feel larger, you have already lost sight of what it means to be human.

Anti-blackness is baked into the American cultural personality.

Hey guys, this app is absolutely suppressing my posts. I’m gonna need you to repost me, please. 🫶🏽

Lindsey Graham on Trump: “He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for” (2015)

75 Years Ago, Her Father Said She'd Never Come Home Again. She Never Looked Back. The wedding had no family in the pews. Mary was 19. Her father had made himself clear: if she married Jake Jacobs, she would no longer have a home to return to. In an era when interracial marriage was met with slammed doors and worse, Mary chose Jake anyway, and walked down the aisle with empty seats where her relatives should have been. Outside, the world was just as cold as her father's warning. Landlords turned them away, one after another, some without even a reason given. Strangers made their disapproval known, on the street, in stores, wherever the couple simply tried to live their life together. And then came the heartbreak no young couple should have to carry: their first child was stillborn, grief compounding the isolation they already felt. Most people would have understood if they'd given up on each other, or on the world. They didn't. Mary went on to become a teacher, shaping generations of children who never knew what she'd endured just to stand at the front of that classroom. Jake found steady work and never stopped showing up, for his job, for his marriage, for the family they were determined to build despite everyone who said they shouldn't. Slowly, the doors that once shut on them started, quietly, to open. Not because the world apologized. But because Mary and Jake simply kept living, kept loving, until the marriage everyone once condemned outlasted the people who condemned it. Seventy-five years later, they're still together. Seventy-five years of a marriage that was never supposed to survive the first winter, let alone become a diamond anniversary. Seventy-five years of proving that a father's ultimatum, a landlord's rejection, and a stranger's cruelty don't get the final word, love does. When asked the secret to lasting this long, Mary didn't talk about grand romantic gestures. She talked about choosing each other, quietly, every single day, especially on the days when the world made that choice hard. "We just never stopped," she said. "That's all it ever took." That's it. That's the whole secret. Not fireworks. Not perfect harmony. Just two people who decided, again and again for 75 years, that they were worth choosing. Somewhere, there's a wedding photo with empty seats in it. And somewhere else, there's a couple who filled every one of those empty spaces with a life nobody could have predicted, and nobody can deny. If this is the first time you're hearing about Mary and Jake, tag someone who needs a reminder today: love doesn't ask permission. It just keeps showing up. Inspired by a story featured in Solihull Life.

"I want to be a great American, like my enslaved foreparents." To reflect on our nation's 250th anniversary, Bryan Stevenson joined Ezra Klein from the New York Times to discuss what it truly means to be a great American. Watch the episode: nytimes.com/2026/07/03/opini…

Watch Bryan Stevenson in discussion with the New York Times's Ezra Klein on what it means to reflect on our history on America's 250th anniversary as we continue to push for an era of truth and justice. nytimes.com/2026/07/03/opini…

It should be easy to condemn the President for wanting a fellow senator to be sentenced to death. Classic word salad answer. Classic Todd Young.

The sick bastards at this Kentucky church staged a mock immigrant execution for kids at summer camp. This is child abuse.

“Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love.” #MLK #SundayWithKing