I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.

They say you don’t really understand a policy until you feel it in your bones. Not read about it. Not debate it. Feel it at 3 a.m., when the house is so cold you can see your breath and you’re bargaining with the thermostat like it’s a luxury item instead of a lifeline.

as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them

The wonderful new chart chat episode has me thinking how Free To Be You And Me may have a reverse curse. Alive & well: Marlo Thomas-87 Alan Alda-90 Rosey Grier-93 Shirley Jones-91 Mel Brooks-99 Dick Cavett-89 Lived past 90: Carol Channing-97 Harry Belafonte-96 Cicely Tyson-96

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

ICE Drones coming to a city near you.

This is how it’s done.

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

This is where we are right now. It’s NOT okay.

The Trump regime has decided that ICE is not Gestapo enough so it’s boosting the role of the Border Patrol thugs who enjoy zip-tying children and tear-gassing neighborhoods in Chicago.

Just a reminder that — in the middle of a shutdown — House Republicans are on a paid vacation solely to avoid releasing the Epstein files and lowering your health care costs.

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

At least 6 vehicles racing through a quiet suburban neighborhood; multiple agents, all of them armed and masked. the excessive response plus the violence against this 15 year old girl is outrageous.

He was corrupt, he was callous, a wretched mayor, but you gotta hand it to Eric Adams: he got extremely far in politics for being one of the weirdest people ever.

The split in the Democratic Party—between those who can name and respond to what is happening and those who cannot—is growing into a chasm.

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Exactly this

Just checked- Kimmel’s ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ is also no longer on HULU/streaming. Guess they pulled all of his stuff 😵

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

if we meet and I show interest in the culture of your country what I really want to know about is what kind of dumplings you have in there

Liberals say the Supreme Court had destroyed our democracy. They're wrong—it has destroyed our Republic.

Russians dropped a glide bomb on elderly people who were waiting in line for their pensions. More than 20 dead. Please. Don’t look away and don’t be silent. This is all I could ask for

Pirates attacking shipping routes could never have cut small oceangoing traffic by 80 percent. It took a mad king.

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

Conservatives, foaming at the mouth: “Everything should exactly like it was 100 years ago! 🤬 Only women should be cheerleaders!!! 🤬 Respect traditional gender roles!!!!” 100 years ago:

Struggling to read, strugging to locate a man sitting directly across from him, but somehow still the leader of the free world or whatever

When you’re having trouble with your DUI field test…

Newsom: If California, one of the most un-Trumped states in America, is not successful, it’s at our peril. We may not get this back. I’m telling you, we may not. He is rigging this next midterm election before one vote is cast. He tried to wreck our democracy after the last vote was cast last time.

This appears to be a live feed of the demolition of a homeless encampment in D.C. Maybe under Whitehurst Freeway? Hard to tell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL1c...

Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"

This was an act of terrorism This was an act of terrorism This was an act of terrorism

Just a quick note: Federalizing the D.C. National Guard is not the same thing as “martial law.” I’m not saying that makes it good, but martial law is when the military *supplants* civil government, not just doing law enforcement. Don’t credit him with more power than he has (because he’ll take it)

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

As you listen to an unhinged Trump try to justify deploying the National Guard in DC, here's reality: Violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

"For the last time, I didn't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia ring, we were just best friends for over a decade and then finally had a falling out when he stole this seventeen-year-old blonde girl from me. I trust that settles it."

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if you took a dementia test and thought it was an IQ test you failed both the dementia test and the IQ test

This is genuinely the news every day

I sure hope this isn't a typo

genuinely fascinating how the extremely rich are willing to pay 200 million in political donations to not pay 10m on taxes

I’ve uncovered a fascist sleeper cell.