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Literally enlisting people in using growth hacking tactics *against* the networks themselves. I don't know that this is replicable, I don't know how this changes down the line against an adversary who might be even more brazen in their interference, but it worked this time.

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

Alabama HBCU could feel impact from $549 million Missouri lawsuit https://mrf.lu/2fbj3

The lawsuit stems from allegations that Black land-grant universities like Alabama A&M have been historically underfunded with long-term consequences for the institutions and their students.

USING YOUR LIBRARY CARD IS REVOLUTIONARY PRAXIS ... PASS IT ON 🗣 September is national library card sign up month! Don't let the month go by without getting yours!

Let’s go, Bulldogs!!

It sounds broke…to me. Smh.

She also really debunks the common justifications about religion, region, and age. Your grandparents and parents have shitty values because they have shitty values, not because of anything else. They could do better. Anyone can use their eyes to see the world and have the correct read.

Our map of data centers in Alabama: open, under construction and proposed. Let us know if we missed one, and we'll add to the map www.datawrapper.de/_/nEvkf/

Alabama HBCU bringing back football after decade-plus absence https://mrf.lu/2RLhV

Stillman, a Historically Black College in Tuscaloosa, shut down football — along with its entire athletics program other than basketball — at the end of the 2015 season. However, that will soon change.

Birmingham to create downtown park, day space for homeless: ‘Meet people where they are’ https://mrf.lu/2cKPp

The park is designed to connect individuals with housing, healthcare, treatment and critical services. Officials said Birmingham Oasis will provide a safe place for people to spend the day when overnight shelters are normally closed. More 👇

A national Republican organizing group is putting more resources behind an effort to flip the congressional seat held by Alabama Democrat Rep. Shomari Figures.

Happy birthday, Ida B. Wells! In celebration, try this mixer activity to help students uncover Wells’ radical legacy and resistance, then and now: Explore “The Heroes We Need Today: Teaching About the Radical Ida B. Wells”: 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...

“Black lawmakers and activists across the Deep South argue they have been abandoned by the Democratic Party to fight an existential crisis on their own. They say they’ve been let down by nearly all corners of the party.” Essential read:

Atlanta has embraced Angel Reese as both an All-Star and a cultural figure. For the Dream, one trade became an inflection point for a franchise, a community and the future of women's basketball in the city: nyti.ms/3TpjQZO

The ONE thing that the PodSave guys and the Bro'cialist set managed to agree on after a decade post-2016 is they hate "HR Ladies" who remind them of their moms more than fascism, and they don't want to get off that horse yet.

Four million Americans will turn 18 this year. Why aren’t we registering them to vote? | Laura W Brill

#tdih 1964 in Tuscaloosa, AL 500+ Black marchers were violently attacked by KKK & police during protests to end segregation on “Bloody Tuesday.” Marchers took refuge in 1st African Baptist Church as police smashed windows w/ fire hoses & filled church w/ tear gas. No one was ever held accountable.

Have they fixed the wastewater problem here? That would be actually helpful to the people there.

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Beautiful! Let’s go Anissa from Black Lightning!! The only reason that I started watching Rivals.

Angry at those who keep pretending it’s all just about “economic anxiety” and “polarization.” Angry at the fact that we are constantly asked to come up with exculpatory tales, to please not call those pursuing a political project of re-segregation racists - so mean! - or segregationists.

Angry about a mainstream discourse that has somehow declared it uncouth, or not “sophisticated” enough, or too “divisive” to acknowledge that racism, patriarchal domination, and Christian supremacism are the animating forces in today’s Republican Party.

This is why Democrats have to start fighting on the same battlefield as the fascist tech billionaires. Bot nets, troll farms astroturf groups, dark money SuperPACs, demoralizing and shaming messaging targeted at MAGA voters, social media algorithm manipulation on a massive scale.

That is a great shot of those girls with A’ja

BREAKING: Birmingham residents sue the city, data center company Nebius Inc., among others to stop the construction of a multibillion-dollar AI factory www.al.com/business/202...

Birmingham is one of several Alabama school districts national researchers say are "on the rise" after improvements in math, reading in recent years. Glad to contribute to this piece with @APNews colleagues -- www.al.com/educationlab...

looking to speak to a freelance/independent journalist in the montgomery, alabama area about a potential assignment. message marisakabas.04 on signal!

BREAKING: The Alabama House voted 75-29 to pass legislation that could change the state’s congressional map during ongoing primaries — a last-minute attempt to diminish Black voting power before the midterms in light of SCOTUS’ ruling last week. The measure now heads to the state senate for a vote.

The South proving at lightning speed why the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

There is way more motivation for them to constantly scan for evidence black people are overreacting than motivation to be aggressive about racism and other types of oppression. Thats the only reason this "anti-woke" thing got legs in the first place.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

Sydney Park is so good as young Amanda. She has Sonja Sohn’s speech patterns and mannerisms down to a T. #WillTrent

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Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Makes a Black Neighborhood a Testing Lab for AI Policing In America’s most surveilled city, a community loses forest land and gains a network of AI-enabled cameras. capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-...

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all. Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy. This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.

In Rural Mississippi, a Black Town Bets on New Homes to Build Wealth capitalbnews.org/jonestown-mi...

🔗: https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2026/04/hgtv-star-to-headline-free-birmingham-home-expo.html??utm_campaign=aldotcom_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky HGTV star Carmeon Hamilton, will bring her design and improvement skills to Birmingham Saturday.

Not to get on my soapbox, but... ...honestly, if the new tech bubble has shown us anything, people who are already wealthy don't want us to think for ourselves. They want us to dream of their future, not ours. But we should do it anyway. 🧼 📦

🔗: https://www.al.com/news/2026/04/automatic-registration-for-us-military-draft-eligible-men-to-begin-this-year.html??utm_campaign=aldotcom_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky Draft registration will be automatic; voter registration, not so much.

“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.” Coretta Scott King