Naa Marteki Reed 💃🏾 💖

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

Why she threw the drink: “fans … were making inappropriate comments about Kyle Kuzma’s fiancée, Winnie Harlow, as well as other unspecified “inappropriate & misogynistic things”. Winnie is a Black model with vitiligo who they were calling ugly. Britt is MAGA, but was defending a Black woman.

Flying back from the best city in the country (Philly) to the second best city in the country (Chicago). Also, fuck the NFL unless they give Jalen Hurts additional compensation. Partial franchise ownership would be a nice start. 🦅

The way trans peoples' lives have been turned into a malicious political applause line is excruciating "Bill goes to school & comes home Jill"—no, but Bill's family had to flee to another state bc B/Jill faces daily violence & bullying by kids & adults LOL PLS CLAP My trans siblings I'm so sorry ❤️

Trans rights are human rights and anybody that fucks with trans people, fucks with every single one of us. and I will personally knock the shit out of a transphobe and not forget to moisturize. the secret: impact gloves

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Winning feels good. Channeled my inner Rihanna for some celebration shenanigans. 💰🍾✊🏾 Run me my coins, @washingtonpost.com!

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

Struggling to engage with the concept of “father and son Republican operatives Timmy and Tommy Teepell.” Come on man can even one thing be like 5% less stupid

I just watched a 3-minute IG reel that started with some righteous fury about Jalen Hurts' condition and treatment, then suddenly shifted to "and they CONCEALED that info from EVERYONE WHO BET ON THAT GAME, and I'm pretty sure that's ILLEGAL" and now I want to go back to sleep forever

Eagles fans all over the place: calling for NFL to heavily fine the team they root for, which is the equiv of booing the team for playing super badly or of throwing snowballs at a drunk Santa for being bad halftime entertainment. Me, I’m a Philly fan, this is me. (Quoted post correction: no sleep)

*looks at my name* That’s a new one. I spelled it out, but I guess drive-thru speakers aren’t the best quality? 🤷🏾‍♀️ Next time I’ll use the NATO phonetic alphabet like I do for financial- and healthcare-related things. Get ready, @culvers.com! 😛 (Because the food is delicious and I’ll be back.)

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

ZOHRAN BABY BOOM Looking through the baby name register, there's been a massive Mamdani-induced boom in England/Wales. 2023: 3 baby Zohrans 2024: Fewer than 3 baby Zohrans 2025: 23 baby Zohrans (There's no way I can make this work for a London news outlet, some New York journalist rip this off.)

This is not beautiful to see. This is the most racist democracy on planet earth, and people just expect Black people to sing negro spirituals and "overcome." It's not working. This still happens for one reason and one reason only: white US folk don't hold each other accountable for this racism.

New goal: never get a “what” reply from a dictionary to something I said

14 days without a fix, after uninstalls & reinstalls & data wipes. Solution which I’d been planning to do for a while: delete the bsky app, migrate to blacksky.community, & download the #Blacksky app. UI problem disappeared. Better experience for multiple reasons so far.

Wait, does he need to have the Secret Service staff labeled now, so he can tell who they are and why they’re telling him to do things? In all my past years as a federal employee, I’ve never ever seen the Secret Service wearing explanatory t-shirts announcing themselves to the world. Until now.

I paused the video to double-check: yes, you saw correctly, she’s wearing a Primus shirt.

Heading off now to the IHSA girls’ flag football regional semifinals with my older child’s varsity team playing! Send good vibes or prayers to her team, especially the defense. (She’s plays safety or defensive back.) 🎗️🎗️🏈🏃🏽‍♀️ First college visits are later this month!

Is anyone else’s Bluesky Home page not loading anymore? All other parts of the app work now on the official iOS app or on Mac OS Chrome, but not the Home screen. Is @support.bsky.team still a thing, or do we still have to tag @pfrazee.com directly for UI problems? (Or UX problems…)

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

Council voted unanimously to make Philadelphia one of the first cities to explicitly endorse a nationwide boycott of Starbucks amid a unionization drive, and to pledge not to use city funds at the coffee chain until it reaches a contract agreement with its workers. www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

Today’s clown show at the Senate keeps going more ridiculous. The breaking point for me was when I was reminded that the committee chair (Grassley) is from Iowa, and learned that Schmitt went to university (Truman State) just around 30 miles from the border with Iowa!

In which Eric Schmitt, rumored candidate for VP in an (ugh) JD Vance 2028 presidential run, pre-emptively loses 22 electoral votes in Georgia and Iowa

I’m just in full Philly mode today www.instagram.com/reel/Ddxe8yf...

Talking about my struggles with being overweight still makes me uncomfortable, since weight can carry moral judgment in ways that other health challenges don't. But that fear stops too many struggling from getting treatment that could extend their lives.

This 80 second clip of Justice Robert Jackson’s opening statement will send shivers down your spine. Commit it to memory like the Gettysberg address. It’s even more important than Lincoln’s speech because we forgot his words the first time. We can’t promise “never again” if we don’t remember.

New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century reut.rs/4yIJjwO

A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations

House GOP leaders cancel votes on Thursday - sending lawmakers home later today until after the elections. That means the House can avoid a vote on the Hegseth impeachment plan from Rep. Thomas Massie R-KY.

This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...

Holy fuck they broke Karl Rove. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/14/b...