You want to know why I am never in the ‘ Just write off the South’ crowd?
Because, I know that half of this country’s Black population lives in those Red States. I will not abandon them.
I’ll say it again. I don’t think half of those states are actually Red. I believe they are Voter Suppressed.
Please note. Even though Texas is only at 13.02 % – the raw number is over 4,000,000
California is only at 7.16% – the raw number is 2.8 million
BMB Empower Network
@BmbEmpower
Black Population by State in the US1. 🇺🇸 Mississippi – 38.49%
2. 🇺🇸 Louisiana – 33.22%
3. 🇺🇸 Georgia – 32.29%
4. 🇺🇸 Maryland – 31.72%
5. 🇺🇸 Alabama – 26.76%
6. 🇺🇸 South Carolina – 25.5%
7. 🇺🇸 Delaware – 23.66%
8. 🇺🇸 North Carolina – 21.61%
9. 🇺🇸 Virginia – 20.76%
10. 🇺🇸 New York – 17.6%
11. 🇺🇸 Tennessee – 16.84%
12. 🇺🇸 Florida – 16.36%
13. 🇺🇸 Arkansas – 16.02%
14. 🇺🇸 Illinois – 15.35%
15. 🇺🇸 Michigan – 15.18%
16. 🇺🇸 New Jersey – 14.8%
17. 🇺🇸 Ohio – 14.5%
18. 🇺🇸 Connecticut – 13.22%
19. 🇺🇸 Texas – 13.02%
20. 🇺🇸 Pennsylvania – 12.84%
21. 🇺🇸 Missouri – 12.64%
22. 🇺🇸 Nevada – 11.32%
23. 🇺🇸 Indiana – 11%
24. 🇺🇸 Massachusetts – 9.75%
25. 🇺🇸 Rhode Island – 9.5%
26. 🇺🇸 Kentucky – 9.49%
27. 🇺🇸 Oklahoma – 9.33%
28. 🇺🇸 Minnesota – 8.5%
29. 🇺🇸 Wisconsin – 7.51%
30. 🇺🇸 Kansas – 7.48%
31. 🇺🇸 California – 7.16%
32. 🇺🇸 Nebraska – 6.3%
33. 🇺🇸 Arizona – 6.08%
34. 🇺🇸 Washington – 5.79%
35. 🇺🇸 Colorado – 5.48%
36. 🇺🇸 Iowa – 5.27%
37. 🇺🇸 Alaska – 5.17%
38. 🇺🇸 West Virginia – 4.86%
39. 🇺🇸 North Dakota – 4.11%
40. 🇺🇸 Hawaii – 3.68%
41. 🇺🇸 New Mexico – 3.36%
42. 🇺🇸 Oregon – 3.21%
43. 🇺🇸 South Dakota – 3.13%
44. 🇺🇸 New Hampshire – 2.55%
45. 🇺🇸 Maine – 2.45%
46. 🇺🇸 Vermont – 2.23%
47. 🇺🇸 Utah – 1.95%
48. 🇺🇸 Wyoming – 1.65%
49. 🇺🇸 Idaho – 1.31%
50. 🇺🇸 Montana – 1.12%📌 Data is from 2023. For most recent and accurate data visit the source.
Source: World Population Review
5:32 PM · Dec 16, 2025
https://x.com/BmbEmpower/status/2001072860194836955?s=20
Jack Schlossberg pays tribute to his late sister Tatiana
Story by Caroline Hallemann
Earlier this morning, Tatiana Schlossberg died following a battle with leukemia. She was just 35 years old.
Her family, including her husband, George Moran, and their two children, as well as her mother Caroline Kennedy, father Ed Schlossberg, brother Jack, sister Rose, and sister-in-law Rory, announced the sad news via a statement on the JFK Library Foundation’s Instagram account.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” they wrote in tribute.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/jack-schlossberg-pays-tribute-to-his-late-sister-tatiana/ar-AA1TiVq6?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=695413cfa135487fbc53621b64567846&ei=38
Acyn
@Acyn
Phang: If that happened in January, how in the actual hell is Blanche now telling the American people that they suddenly discovered a million more documents?
Pardon my French, but GTFOH. We didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday. As far back as January, the entirety of the Epstein files were transferred to Main Justice at DOJ under the supervision, guidance, and leadership of Pamela Jo Bondi.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2004678057970598076?s=20
The United States versus Elon R. Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
US Senate, Massachusetts:
Markey over Moulton, because the latter should not be rewarded for being a jackass with perennially bad political instincts.
Do I like the fact that Markey would be 86 in January 2033? No. But that’s not the point here.
3:51 AM · Dec 28, 2025
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2005215069869920532?s=20
Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦
@ClaudetteGGibs1
One thing I have noticed is that is no DEI in the Epstein list. It’s all white males, no trans people, no Black people and no Hispanics.
2:54 PM · Dec 27, 2025
https://x.com/ClaudetteGGibs1/status/2005019463738151289?s=20
Emoluments Clause
@Emolclause
#BREAKING: Ari Melber opener: “…Trump’s relationship with #Epstein dates all the way back to when they socialized together, decades back, and that includes criminal investigations that we are now learning more about, including how Epstein initially outran so many serious probes, which brings us, as we end the year, to this important BREAKDOWN tonight.”
https://x.com/Emolclause/status/2004967274302586927?s=20
music data
@music__data
Happy 71st Birthday, to the legendary Denzel Washington.
He’s known boundary pushing dramatic roles that have amassed over $6 BILLION in revenue. He has earned two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, Two Emmys & a Grammy nominee, and named the Greatest Actor of the 21st century by ‘The New York Times’.
https://x.com/music__data/status/2005150895873409397?s=20
Lady_L_
@Lee_Raa_Tuu
As a married woman, I would never advise any woman to get married.
Like, literally never.
It’s not worth it.
Because nobody tells you how heavy it feels living with a man who was never taught to be a partner.
You do not just share a home.
You share stress.
You share emotional labor.
You share the burden of his moods, his ego, and his silence.
And the scary part is…
you can be married and still feel alone.
People think marriage is love.
But many women are surviving it, not enjoying it.
You start missing the peace you used to take for granted.
The quiet.
The freedom.
The version of you that was not constantly “trying.”
So no, I will never sell that dream.
If it happens, it should add to your life.
Not erase you.
1:56 PM · Dec 27, 2025
https://x.com/Lee_Raa_Tuu/status/2005004807266816268?s=20
Hoodlum 🇺🇸
@NotHoodlum
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
https://x.com/NotHoodlum/status/2005414960151863775?s=20
Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
“EVERY ADMINISTRATION LEAVES ITS MARK on the military…This past year will be remembered for something different: erosion of the professional, legal, and ethical guardrails that have guided, protected, and enhanced America’s armed forces for generations.”
https://x.com/BillKristol/status/2005688711066116443?s=20
scary lawyerguy
@scarylawyerguy
Suffice to say, if the Biden or Obama DOJ was just casually tracking the travel itinerary of a reporter it would be a Watergate-level scandal, but the folks who gave Alex Thompson a standing O for “courageously” reporting on Biden’s age have nothing to say about this 🙃
https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2005624945536360753?s=20
philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_
“The vast majority of student debtors who seek discharges in bankruptcy are getting them, in large part because of a simpler legal process that was introduced three years ago.”
https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/2005662246995890543?s=20
Fred Wellman
@FPWellman
This fact is a lie to start with. It isn’t “poor” on the ACA. It’s 24 million Americans who rely on it because their jobs don’t provide healthcare including millions of small business owners and gig workers. One of the reasons I’m running is the hate and disrespect these people feel for the Americans they are supposed to represent. They hate working people. Dan here has managed to become a multimillionaire in office. My opponent Ann Wagner made $3.6M in her portfolio in May alone. They hate working people.
https://x.com/FPWellman/status/2005641909503479953?s=20
WarMonitor
@TheWarMonitor
CBP used explosives on a home in Huntington Park, CA while a mom and child were inside, searching for the father. He was accused a week earlier of ‘deliberately’ crashing into an unmarked CBP vehicle, but video appears to contradict that claim.
https://x.com/TheWarMonitor/status/2004981349254664240?s=20
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
It seems a Border Patrol agent brake checked a guy following him, causing a rear-end crash. After briefly detaining the driver, they let him go. A week later they blew up his front door in a highly publicized raid with videographers on hand, while lying about what happened.
https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2005491374419067235?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
MAJOR NEWS: Trump just claimed the U.S. took out a “big facility” inside Venezuela, potentially the first land strike on Venezuelan soil.
This is a massive escalation with zero explanation to the American people.
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8:31 AM · Dec 29, 2025
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2005647745361879335?s=20
Austin Kocher, PhD
@ackocher
George Retes, 25, the U.S. Army veteran and father who made headlines earlier this year after he was stopped and arrested by ICE on his way to work, is speaking out in a new ad campaign launched to combat the DHS’s massive recruitment efforts.
https://x.com/ackocher/status/2005607482417185202?s=20
Steven Rattner
@SteveRattner
Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ passed this year will add record amounts to the national debt while enacting regressive tax cuts and pushing millions off of Medicaid.
@nytopinion
https://x.com/SteveRattner/status/2005682572182036707?s=20
Charles Ornstein
@charlesornstein
“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a
@usedgov
spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters,
@MegsNewz
, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column:
https://x.com/charlesornstein/status/2005654281144455669?s=20
Suzie rizzio
@Suzierizzo1
The Criminal Trial for Kilmar Albrego Garcia has been canceled and the Judge is holding a Vindictive Prosecution Hearing Instead! This doesn’t look good for the DOJ and Kristi Noem because they’re going to have to testify about what they did to this man! 🤬
https://x.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2005555871548346740?s=20
Chris Murphy 🟧
@ChrisMurphyCT
I like Coach Cal – we’ve had good talks on NIL. But this is not good. The continued fiction that young Black athletes cannot “handle” wealth is nonsense. Just like coaches who make millions and change jobs w/o consequence, players should get what the market says they deserve.
https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/2005697868745605367?s=20
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
A dozen U.S. senators are calling on the Justice Department’s watchdog to examine DOJ’s failure to release all records pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein by the congressionally mandated deadline — saying victims “deserve full disclosure” and the “peace of mind” of an independent audit. https://tinyurl.com/y9xrtavv
11:41 AM · Dec 29, 2025
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2005695650877382784?s=20
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
TIKTOKER SHOT BY ICE HAS INDICTMENT THROWN OUT
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot by ICE during an immigration arrest in October. An officer fired into his vehicle, hitting him in the arm.
The case is now dead.
A judge tossed the indictment after finding the government violated his constitutional rights. Parias was denied access to his lawyers, held far from them while in ICE detention, making it nearly impossible to prepare a defense.
On top of that, the government blew its discovery obligations. Body camera footage and other evidence were withheld for weeks, produced late, and continued to trickle in well past court deadlines.
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2005662311173021776?s=20
Stop saying THE GOVERNMENT.
IT’S NOT THE GOVERNMENT.
IT’S TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS.
PERIOD.😡😡😡
Mike Nellis
@MikeNellis
So Trump’s FEMA is refusing to pay out buyouts for mortgages on homes in North Carolina that are no longer livable after the storms last year. Many of them are going to have to foreclose. This shit is why people hate the government.
3:46 PM · Dec 26, 2025
https://x.com/MikeNellis/status/2004670126294028746?s=20
(((DeanObeidallah)))
@DeanObeidallah
Trump officials threaten to sue musician who refused to play for Trump. You must play for the leader or you will be punished. This is right from Stalin’s playbook
https://x.com/DeanObeidallah/status/2004986012691476713?s=20
Emoluments Clause
@Emolclause
#BREAKING: Ayman: “When it comes to tech, the media, universities and big corporations, we have seen many bow to the Trump administration, but one tech company stands out for ACTIVELY ENABLING some of Trump’s most controversial policies—#Palantir, and its CEO Alex Karp. Palantir and its AI tools have played a key role in advancing Trump’s agenda through immigration enforcement and military operations, some have been called it the world’s SCARIEST company….its clients include DOD, ICE, Israeli military and many others [CIA].”😳
https://x.com/Emolclause/status/2005276658517840274?s=20
Skipper
@DogsRgrr8
Blanche says the Southern District of NY just discovered a million documents from the Epstein files
Katie tells them to f’k off because those documents were handed over to the DOJ last January
The bullshit from his defense team never ends
#DemsUnited #DV1
https://x.com/DogsRgrr8/status/2004904971381391672?s=20
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
Politico claims Republicans are defying Trump on mail voting. While they’ll use any method to back their own voters, it’s a mistake to think the party isn’t aligned with the president’s push to restrict it — if anything, they are driving the effort.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2005290393701621908?s=20
Chris Murphy 🟧
@ChrisMurphyCT
Good morning. Let me tell you how Trump’s corruption works.
The U.S. wouldn’t allow the chipmaker, Nvidia, to sell advanced chips to China. But that was costing Nvidia billions in profit – so they just wrote huge checks to Trump’s vanity projects, and Trump changed his mind.
https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/2005290450626732318?s=20
2000 Live
@25YearsAgoLive
President Clinton holds a press conference in which he reiterates that the U.S. will be debt-free by 2010.
https://x.com/25YearsAgoLive/status/2005311892894663126?s=20
scary lawyerguy
@scarylawyerguy
People under 30 have no idea how good things were under Clinton. Just no concept of what it’s like to live in a world free of major wars with a domestic economy running a surplus but the media hated him (and Gore), Bush seemed like a fun hang, and the rest is (sadly) history
https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2005313762342084879?s=20
Democratic Wins Media
@DemocraticWins
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Republican Mike Turner, when asked if Trump sides with Russia or Ukraine, fails to say where Trump stands. This is insane.
https://x.com/DemocraticWins/status/2005315390830944434?s=20
ProPublica
@propublica
A North Carolina district investigated for racial harassment against Black students urged the Ed. Dept. to nullify its findings.
“The election of Trump … has made it crystal clear that DEI at the federal level is dead,” the district’s attorney wrote.
https://x.com/propublica/status/2005292736442720600?s=20
Fly Sistah 🪷
@Fly_Sistah
The last Fire Commissioner, Robert Tucker, under Eric Adams was also never a firefighter, but no right wing conservatives made a big deal about it because he’s white with a penis.
https://x.com/Fly_Sistah/status/2005287644226576482?s=20
See no lie told at all. It’s crystal clear.
Michael Freeman
@michaelpfreeman
There are three objectives to his presidency: (1) stay out of prison, (2) use government to seek vengeance on his enemies and (3) leverage the presidency to rake in cash.
https://x.com/michaelpfreeman/status/2005290159831765471?s=20
The New Yorker
@NewYorker
We don’t have a complete account of Donald Trump and his family’s finances. But a clear picture has emerged: enrichment of the First Family on a scale that is unprecedented in American history.
https://x.com/NewYorker/status/2004990814460457189?s=20
🔰Chief Georgist Shill 🔰
@BlueRepublik
American politics is annoying because Republicans get to constantly pretend like they’re the fiscally responsible party who cares about the deficit…
while every Republican administration of my lifetime has increased the deficit, and every Democratic administration decreased it
https://x.com/BlueRepublik/status/2005368838087684382?s=20
Dave DeCamp
@DecampDave
Trump didn’t just bomb Nigeria on Christmas, he also bombed Somalia. But of course there was no media coverage. AFRICOM hasn’t answered me in a while but by my count, we are up to at least 127 US airstrikes in Somalia this year, more than double the previous annual record of 63.
https://x.com/DecampDave/status/2005320574890123722?s=20
Kate from Kharkiv
@BohuslavskaKate
About the press conference:
Trump is absolutely detached from reality. He doesn’t understand how to end this war or what he is doing. But he visibly enjoys bragging about his relationship with putin and their sweet phone calls in front of Zelenskyy. To him, it’s a kind of power flex, but in reality he is simply admiring a war criminal in front of the president of the victim nation. It doesn’t looks powerful, it looks sadistic and dumb.
5:10 PM · Dec 28, 2025
https://x.com/BohuslavskaKate/status/2005416034845532296?s=20
ProPublica
@propublica
We tracked 29 executive powers traditionally held by North Carolina’s governor and other Democrats that have been targeted by the state’s GOP-majority legislature.
At least 17 have been stripped away, leaving the governor the nation’s weakest.
https://x.com/propublica/status/2005398390595571765?s=20
Marco Foster
@MarcoFoster_
Harry Enten breaks down the polling that shows Donald Trump underwater across the board: -12 approval rating. -43 with independents. -16 on the economy. -6 on immigration. A total failure of a presidency.
https://x.com/MarcoFoster_/status/2005396580946604471?s=20
NOT ONE LIE TOLD.
Yurok Around The Clock
@HellcatBruce
Your lives will improve dramatically if you never let a Republican hold office again for any reason.
Everything else is noise and excuses.
4:58 PM · Dec 28, 2025
https://x.com/HellcatBruce/status/2005413086531056055?s=20
ostensibly
@CentristMadness
Trump is regularly receiving IVs in his hands and the White House is engaged in an obvious and massive coverup about it. At a certain point this coverup is essentially treasonous.
5:40 PM · Dec 28, 2025
https://x.com/CentristMadness/status/2005423565546615073?s=20
scary lawyerguy
@scarylawyerguy
I’m not a doctor so I won’t say this is definitively true, but what I will say is that the same press corps that obsessed over Biden’s health has been largely disinterested in doing any digging on Trump’s health.
https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2005424133384102208?s=20
Michael MacKay
@mhmck
When his aircraft landed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, President Zelenskyy was met by Prime Minister Mark Carney – the head of government of Canada.
When he landed at Miami, Florida, not a single U.S. official met Zelenskyy.
Canada is Ukraine’s ally. The U.S. is Russia’s proxy.
11:39 AM · Dec 28, 2025
https://x.com/mhmck/status/2005332734391267459?s=20
Chris D. Jackson
@ChrisDJackson
Would you look at that.
@JoeBiden
’s popularity is going up to 43% while Trump is at 35% and dropping.
Should have stuck with Joe. 🤷 What an epic fail just a year later.
https://x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/2004672838977061307?s=20
Jamesetta Williams 💕
@jamesetta_w
Joe Biden is more popular than Trump is today, and was more popular at the same point in his term at the end of 2021. Next year in 2026 may we all act like it, and encourage journalists to cover Trump accordingly.
https://x.com/jamesetta_w/status/2004944486263345201?s=20
this is what I call living your best life.
Front Office Sports
@FOS
Dominique Pender got a teaching degree at Columbia, a finance degree at Howard, and is a VP at Citibank.
He’s also an NFL referee.
Here he is sprinting 30 yards across the field to separate Giants and Raiders players on the sideline.
https://x.com/FOS/status/2005438540646097286?s=20
Financial Times
@FT
Pope Leo’s pick to lead New York Catholics signals shift away from Maga
https://x.com/FT/status/2005272932117860431?s=20
AROUND THE WORLD…
WHO SHOT JR?
Super 70s Sports
@Super70sSports
When J.R. Ewing got shot it was pretty much the only goddamn thing anyone cared about that whole summer. Everyone who was there will confirm this statement to be accurate.
https://x.com/Super70sSports/status/2005386567016485307?s=20
Steve Rosenberg
@BBCSteveR
How does Moscow view Donald Trump at the end of 2025? One Russian paper today: “The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World…he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” #ReadingRussia
https://x.com/BBCSteveR/status/2005542703874863214?s=20
Lesley Abravanel 🪩
@lesleyabravanel
Reich: The Greatest Generation didn’t just win wars; they built a middle class where workers shared in the gains they created. Then the Boomers treated those hard‑won institutions like they were automatic—letting corporations bust unions, buy our politicians & squeeze workers.
https://x.com/lesleyabravanel/status/2003095325578313824?s=20
Front Office Sports
@FOS
Dominique Pender got a teaching degree at Columbia, a finance degree at Howard, and is a VP at Citibank.
He’s also an NFL referee.
Here he is sprinting 30 yards across the field to separate Giants and Raiders players on the sideline.
https://x.com/FOS/status/2005438540646097286?s=20
philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_
Beyoncé is now a billionaire, according to Forbes
“A bold pivot to country music led to the most successful concert tour in the genre’s history and helped Cowboy Carter lasso a 10-figure fortune—becoming just the fifth musician to do so.”
https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/2005630988488200223?s=20
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊