Carole V. Bell

#OnThisDay: Bloody Sunday Today marks the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, which occurred #onthisday in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The march was named for the 600 marchers attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was there that law...

Sixty-one years ago today, on Bloody Sunday, Alabama law enforcement attacked peaceful civil and voting rights marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. They broke John Lewis’s skull. 🗃️ #EduSky nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

We are all going to HAL

As someone who had great (rigorous and moral) religious schooling early in life this drives me crazy.

Quite an opening paragraph.

Daryl Hannah responds to her depiction in Love Story with a the New York Times oped. Honestly good for her on bravery and calling out the bs in this venue.

As someone who teaches in Florida I’m really not sure what to do with this.

you can tell that this isn't a real problem, because if it was this would be written by someone it happened to and not someone who it didn't happen to saying "but if it did that would have sucked."

Election Live Updates: A Record-Setting Texas Senate Primary Goes to the Voters

Election Live Updates: A Record-Setting Texas Senate Primary Goes to the Voters www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Iran war live: Iran warns will attack ships trying to pass Hormuz; drones hit US embassy in Riyadh Tehran’s ability to disrupt transit in the Hormuz Strait has rattled markets and choked global trade. Trump says the military campaign against Iran could last longer than four weeks, and the U.S. emba...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected the war against Iran was ‘not going to take years,’ as the conflict widened with Israel attacking Iran-backed Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and Iran hitting Gulf states that host US bases. Follow our live coverage: reut.rs/4tW44U6

Well said!

Sorry but Yasmin’s soul has been dead for a while. She’s like a zombie who will not stay down. Amoral. Predatory. The millennial Lady Ghislaine. I like #Industryhbo but I don’t get why this is supposed to be ambiguous.

She’s Gotta Have it. 1986

Born 99 years ago today.

Explainer: Why is the US attacking Iran? The United States and Israel launched their most ambitious attacks on Iran in decades on Saturday in an operation that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The US and Israel launched their most ambitious attacks on Iran in decades. Trump's biggest foreign-policy gamble comes after he campaigned for re-election as a 'peace president' and after saying he preferred a diplomatic solution to the Iran standoff reut.rs/4clLkHk

As others have noted, this is on the White House website:

Me watching Bridgerton:

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

Ominous. Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...

There’s a Bride of Frankenstein movie. Bride. Coming March 6. Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal!!!

Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

Pure pleasure. A favorite mystery by a favorite author of some of my favorite contemporary mysteries.

“Shah Alam’s death comes just 15 months after his arrival in Buffalo in December 2024. He is survived by his wife and two sons.” Border Patrol leaves nearly blind, non-English-speaking refugee to die in the winter cold a few miles from his home

Same

I get that completely. The interviews Dr Roberts is giving are fascinating. Amazing story.

Did Her White Father Marry Her Black Mother for Love, or for Research?

Sociologist Dorothy Roberts dug into her father’s life’s work to write a new work of her own and unlocked family history along the way.
Did Her White Father Marry Her Black Mother for Love, or for Research? (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/b...

3 Fizzy, Fabulous New Romcoms

New #RomanceColumn! We’ve got a screamingly funny cursed knight plus evil sorcerer queer romance, a sweet small-town bad-boy romance with a beekeeper heroine (yay bees!), and a New York-set romcom romp with a Regency cosplayer hero and screenwriter heroine (gift link): #romancelandia #booksky 💙📚

Poll says more people than ever are describing the direction Trump is moving the country as "change for the worse."

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi answers questions from reporters after leaving a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington

Nancy Pelosi: “We’re gonna win the House — we only need a few to win, but that’s not what this is about. I want 10x that. If we need 3 to win the House, I want 30 — we came out ahead on redistricting. They should never have gone down that path. They did, we won.”

This dude @rokhanna.bsky.social is out here making sense

In Another Break With Trump, Pope Leo Skips U.S. 250th Celebration for Migrant Island As Trump builds his presidency around America’s 250th anniversary, the pope heads to Europe’s most symbolic migrant crossing — days after rejecting the president’s “Board of Peace.”

NEW: JD Vance flew to Rome to formally invite Pope Leo XIV to join America’s 250th anniversary celebration.

The first American pope has declined — days after rejecting President Trump’s “Board of Peace” invitation.

On July 4, he’ll be in Lampedusa, standing with migrants.