The Sneaker Philanthropist

The Mamdani administration today announced its own click to cancel rule, to make sure that every subscription transaction in the city is as easy to end as it is to start. The FTC did this in 2023, it was challenged in court & Trump's FTC didn't defend it. NYC is doing it now.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces that 2K, free preschool for 2 year olds, will be full day and full year - from 8am to 6pm, 260 days a year. 3K and prek typically end at 2:30 and are closed over the summer - a major difference for working parents.

Hollywood Knows Diverse Films Make More Money. So Why Are Black Filmmakers Still Being Told to Wait? thewrap.com/creative-conte…

Conversations that need to be had. “Straight black men are pussy when it comes to fighting oppression and that’s why there are wars against the gays”

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Do you remember in The Lion King when scar told the hyenas if they helped him become king he will make their lives better and then their lives didn’t get better and he blamed them for it. And upon realizing this, the hyenas ate him. Do with that story what you will.

There are 306 Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. (and 14 states do not have one). If you are looking for one to support, please go to their website: nab2.org/directory?utm_…

why do people never gossip about how you helped them 😭

"Chuck Schumer Is a Terrible Democratic Leader With Terrible Judgement on Candidates" When it comes to Senate candidates, the Democratic leader rarely picks well – and both the party and the country suffer, writes Ryan Cooper for Zeteo. zeteo.com/p/chuck-schume…

he was 14 when he was falsely arrested and prosecuted. 14. years. old. his trial lasted a single day. he spent 17 innocent years behind bars and the rest on state supervision. impossible to heal. and no one will be held accountable.

Bron scared of Memphis but has only heard good things about Israel you can’t make that shit up 🤣

Rubio: Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military Trump, two days later: We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military

@TheDemocrats Lmfao. Y’all are so damn lame and useless. Folks are not going to vote for eatablishment dems because it means absolutely nothing will get done.

Today, we released a playbook for campaigns, organizers, and Democrats across the country to help build winning campaigns in 2026 and beyond. When Democrats organize everywhere, we can win anywhere. Learn more at democrats.org/playbook.

You aren't participating in capitalism, you're being exploited by it, like the rest of us. Capitalism requires a permanent underclass to function, who do you think that underclass is

An all-white jury sent a Black Oregon firefighter to prison for self-defense, while the man he says attacked him walked away untouched. atlantablackstar.com/2025/05/31/bla…

Not even apartheid South Africa codified executions for only one ‘race group’. Israel is now the most racist state the world has ever known. Shame on every government, every company, every individual who offer it support.

No Kings protest exists in a different political universe from leftist organizing Leftists are focused on direct action & doing things that are responsive to reality Like figuring out how we’ll feed ourselves when the food supply chain collapses this autumn, or how to keep the govt from kidnapping us & our neighbors or how to stop the growth of the US imperialist death machine or how to end the multiple genocides happening or how to protect ourselves when the govt unleashes all its military force against its own citizenry as the infrastructure collapses This is not the same universe of thought as “who do we vote for months from now in an election we aren’t certain will happen, under a government that stopped following the constitution a long time ago”

james baldwin was so right when he said “the children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

Graham Platner to Chuck Schumer: “You need to stop having a problem with the illegal wars we have been starting simply because of the paperwork that wasn’t done properly. You should be against them because they are fundamentally immoral, unethical, and illegal. We should have absolutely no discussion about funding them. Wars that are killing people for the benefit of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, those wars should not be waged, period”