Blackout Briefing

Five Things That Matter Today * A Black commuter on the D.C. Metro became the image America did not want to explain. Reuters documented Patriot Front’s July 4 march through Washington, and a Reuters photograph showed a Black passenger surrounded by masked members of the white nationalist group on public transit. The viral shorthand called it a girl on a bus surrounded by fascists. The verified rec...

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I’m Xplisset. This is Blackout News, a daily briefing on the biggest headlines and the stories below the fold that hit Black people, LGBTQ people, and everybody living close to the edge first. Today: the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Trump attacks the judges and signals a workaround, and Trump admits he’s weighing “limited” strikes on Iran. Then the Blackout Files: proof-of-citize...

I’m Xplisset. This is Blackout News, a daily rundown of the biggest headlines, plus the stories “below the fold” that hit Black communities and LGBTQ people first.\n\nToday: Prince Andrew’s arrest in the Epstein orbit, what the U.S. version still refuses to prosecute, and the latest Iran war talk with the missing context mainstream coverage keeps skipping.\n\nFull receipts, links, and the complete...

I’m Xplisset, and this is Blackout News, a daily rundown of what happened today and what it means if you are not protected by the system. Today’s emotional weather is pressure: that familiar squeeze where institutions decide what you’re allowed to know, and who gets punished for saying the quiet part out loud. We’ll hit the front page fast, then we’ll go below the fold for the stories that land fi...