as a reporter, the part of this that i’ve simply never understood is how the next person to ask a question when he does something like this doesn’t simply repeat the question that set him off. it’s not just solidarity with your colleague, it’s an important question that remains worth asking

Ruby Bridges is 71. Emmett Till would have been 70. The Civil Rights Act is only 61 years old. Loving is 58. Less than a generation ago.

TIL that Mamdani's mother is film director Mira Nair. I mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

So the next time people want to appeal to the right, it’s because they are right wing themselves. Because the proof is in the pudding after what happened last night.

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

"Racism is not a natural condition of poverty but a political weapon that rich men use to constrain poor people’s political power. [Hard politics for Dems is] not wanting, even for a second, to be confused with the people who would do that." @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

Why are credible news platforms still platforming these kinds of lies and liars who tell them?

Just gonna add a giant olive on a bamboo skewer and Jerry's all set for Halloween @darthbluesky.bsky.social

North Charleston #nokings

South Carolina Democrats win nearly 45% of the vote yet hold just 1 of 7 congressional seats. That’s not balance, that’s a rigged system. We stand with Rep. Clyburn in fighting for fair maps and fair representation. #SCDems #SCPOL #FairMaps #SouthCarolina

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Brown pelican nests at Crab Bank Seabird Sanctuary, Charleston. SCDNR video 🐦🦉

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition. It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated." -Anne Frank

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show, freighted in all manner of bracing and defiant political symbolism, was the most-watched performance in history, with 133.5 million viewers. Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd. Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show, freighted in all manner of bracing and defiant political symbolism, was the most-watched performance in history, with 133.5 million viewers. Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd. Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

I’m becoming more and more concerned that people at high levels of public discussion cannot identify the difference between a genuinely viral conversation vs a bunch of bots making noise.

Class is in session. Fun fact about disinformation: In order to change actions, you don't always have to convince someone something is wrong. You might just have to convince someone that something might not be right. The friction of uncertainty can stop someone in their tracks.

If this deeply degrading, wasteful and dangerous stunt proved anything, it’s that the best thing Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace. Immediately.

@nhannahjones.bsky.social: Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & racist throwback views about Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

It is really frustrating to see these narratives develop around with the administration without people pointing at the pardons for Jan 6 and saying, "you pardoned people convicted of assaulting officers. You literally do tolerate violence."

A great example of the divide in America. It seems to me that the president of the red states of America is the great divider.

Roxane Gay: I have not been able to get those words out of my head. "The world will always be broken, she sings. Repair it anyway." gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Hidden recording device found in State Election Commission meeting room www.thestate.com/news/local/c...

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

Come work here-- a terrific environment and loads of research support: jobs.elon.edu/jobs/258d1c5...

FASCISTS: *taking over* DEM. CONGRESSMAN: Rejoice! My bill to award the 1980 hockey team a gold medal has passed!

Something is happening in South Carolina.

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Grateful to have this man as dean when I was doing doctoral studies at USC. He was thoughtful, intelligent and he added heart and soul to the academic environment. Bierbauer made the university a better place, I appreciated every minute he spent on my work. www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/p...

Grateful to have this man as dean when I was doing doctoral studies at USC. He was thoughtful, intelligent and he added heart and soul to the academic environment. Bierbauer made the university a better place, I appreciated every minute he spent on my work. www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/p...

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

Folly Beach yesterday. Photo: Grace Beahm Alford @postandcourier.bsky.social

Conservative ideology boils down the exclusive franchise to murder others, and if you think that's overstating it, I would invite you to observe that hundreds or thousands of unofficial lawless kidnappers cosplaying as official lawless kidnappers is no threat whatsoever to the conservative mind.

A hugely important point is that international students pay full tuition, so they actually make it CHEAPER for US students to attend college, by allowing for more money for scholarships. Across the board, the reality is we need MORE international students.

Choose Your Weapon

@drannieandrews.com keep working the upstate! The lowcountry got you covered.

Japanese glorybower, Charleston 🌱

yes www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saj6...

Local Republican forgets to credit Biden's infrastructure bill for this funding. Imagine that. @scdemocrats.bsky.social @drannieandrews.com www.live5news.com/2025/07/31/f...

an utter lack of curiosity is a defining quality of the worst people u know

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

I remember when this happened.