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MOTHER

cosmopolitan: ANGELA BASSETT DID THE THING! And, by "the thing," we mean follow the #MetGala theme perfectly!

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FLAWLESS (heavy on LAW)

Zendaya attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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This MAN.

Also loving the nod to Andre

OPULENCE! Absolutely love the rich brocade robe that Brian Tyree Henry is wearing. Gorgous.

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STUNT

Diana Ross at the 2025 Met Gala

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Give me that Black Queer Excellence

Doechii — Met Gala 2025

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Best dressed on theme female. Hands down

Teyana Taylor attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/FilmMagic) if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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rip james earl jones

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Twitter is not disappointing me.

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Who is Kamala Harris?

These are all from her Wikipedia page. I have picked the top 5 for each of these sections. Maybe you think other things are more important, these are just the things that stood out to me:

Highlights as District Attorney of San Francisco:

was tough on gun crime: created a gun crime unit, set 90-day minimum sentences, raised bail for gun-related crimes, and prosecuted all assault weapon possession cases as felonies.

created a hate crimes unit specifically focused on LGBTQ hate crimes against children and teens in school.

was (and is) against the death penalty; during her time as DA did not cave to pressure in several cases to seek the death penalty.

helped create the San Francisco Reentry Division, aimed at helping prisoners reintegrate after their sentences are through; the program became a national model.

refused to enforce prop 8, which was at the time California's ban on gay marriage.

Highlights as Attorney General of California

introduced the Homeowner Bill of Rights and fought against banks, mortgage companies, and credit card companies.

fought for financial reimbursement for public employee and teacher pensions.

fought for environmental protections and secured settlements and indictments against several oil companies for oil spills.

conducted a review of implicit bias in policing and the use of deadly force and introduced implicit bias training.

declared a law that California law enforcement had to collect and report police violence.

Highlights as a California Senator:

condemned Trump's Muslim ban.

opposed Trump's appointments of Betsy DeVos and Jeff Sessions, his nomination of Neil Gorsuch, and voted against confirming Kavanaugh.

tried to make lynching a federal hate crime.

urged the Trump administration to investigate the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China.

voted to convict Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Highlights as Vice president:

as President of the Senate, cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate that ensured the passing of the American Rescue Act.

has cast more tie-breaking votes than any other Vice president in US history - she is responsible for many of the achievements of the Biden administration actually passing the Senate.

created task forces on corruption and human trafficking.

created a women's empowerment program.

has criticized Israel's actions during the current conflict in Gaza and called for an immediate ceasefire.

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I seen people on Twitter, leftist I think, accusing Harris of giving unfair sentences for weed possession in the past. Could I ask you how true that is since you seem knowledgeable about this?

hello

the true story is, in the 7 years Harris was San Fran DA 45 people were sentenced to state prison for marijuana convictions, compared to 135 in the 8 years under the DA before her.

the head of her drug enforcement department said “Our policy was that no one with a marijuana conviction for mere possession could do any (jail time) at all,”

Link

So the true story is that, years before "decriminalization" of possession was a thing people were pushing leftie DAs to do, Harris was doing in in the 2000s

Some people are mad she was against a 2010 ballot measure to legalize (she objected to their failure to have anything about driving while high) and remained neutral as part of her job as California AG on a 2016 ballot measure (the AG's office has to write official explainers of ballot measures that are sent to Cali voters and she felt it was unfair for her to weigh in)

But in 2018 she was endorsing legal weed in 2019 she pushed her own legalization bill that would also wipe out offensives she got a lot of good press from pot circles at first when she ran for President because she was clearly the most pro-weed person running

Indeed President Biden was more conservative on the issue, the only candidate not sure about legalization. Now President Biden has taken big steps pardoning everyone convicted of a federal offensive and working to reschedule Marijuana from a class I to a class III (ie proscription) drug, but Harris is likely to push for a full federal legalization which would be huge

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rb for bigger sample size. i'm actually really curious about this.

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good news for trans women: kamala harris is not, in fact, a vicious transmisogynist. the actions of her office and of the california department of corrections were wrongly attributed to her and her alone by people who wanted someone else to win, and when harris did become involved in the cases, she rewrote the entire policy for dealing with trans inmates so that they would get the care they need.

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I 🖤 us.

Anywhere

Everywhere

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THEY TRIED TO BLACKBALL MY GIRL AND TAKE HER OUT OF THE INDUSTRY

THEY CAN EAT A MYRIAD, A PLETHORA, A COMMUNITY GARDEN OF DICKS

SLEEPY HOLLOW SHOWRUNNERS GET OFF THE FLOOR

FOX EXECS GET OFF THE FLOOR

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WHAT'S HAPPENING IN CONGO?

Stay informed. Spread awareness. Donate. Organizations/People to Donate to:

Help Children To Orphanages & Provide Aid to Goma

Emergency Relief for displaced children in DRCongo

Help the Busimba Family Rebuild their lives

For Displaced People in North Kivu, DR Congo

For Displaced women in DRC

To create a fund and mutual aid chain to help orphans move to safer areas

Donate to FocusCongo

Donate to CongoFriends (PayPal)

Action Against Hunger

Eastern Congo Initiative

Resources to Learn About the DRC:

Thread to multiple books to understand what is happening in the DRC

Raising Consciousness About the Challenge of the Congo

A thread from 2019 talking about the situation in the DRC

A list created by trinityy777 to keep yourself up to date on what’s happening in the DRC

City of Joy Documentary (Content warning: mentions of rape and violence)

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