Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

Stop calling it Christian nationalism. The movement that has consumed that political right bears little resemblance to the teachings of Jesus or the practices of the vast majority of Christians in this country. Call this movement what it is: white nationalism.

FYI, there’s little confusion among experts about our biggest threat: “The FBI and DHS assessed [racially motivated violent extremism], primarily those advocating for the superiority of white race, likely would continue to be the most lethal [domestic violent extremism] threat to the Homeland."

We gotta stop saying "this violence has no place in the US." This violence is a defining aspect of life and politics in the US!

I was just at my kid's preschool event, what probably would've been called "mommy & me brunch" back in the day -- and I was the ONLY MOM there. A class of 12 kids -- and all dads. So shout out to women of my gen for giving a🖕🏾to the patriarchy. Millennial moms are out here reclaiming their time!

The problem with this line of thinking is there's only one identity block that's never had to take its specific political disagreement to the streets -- and that's because it's the one identity block that controls the systems that make the decisions.

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime. This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

"It’s a very human, and in a way very beautiful, desire to normalize, to habituate, to find our footing in any situation, and to keep on living ... except it has a way of normalizing things that we really shouldn’t live with." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy." www.wnep.com/article/news...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with one of the subjects’ descendants.

This piece spends a lot of space talking about the income divide. Meanwhile, its starkest finding is actually this: "In not one of the counties where Mr. Trump steadily increased his share of the vote did a majority of adults have a college degree." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I've been in NYC for just 2 weeks and have been physically or verbally threatened or intimidated by men on 4 different occasions. Today, a man stalked me as I got off the train and walked through the subway alone with my kid. Is this city scarier than I remember or are my nerves getting weaker?

Truly ecstatic to be named among this group of exceptionally talented journalists

1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC. The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."

The difference between journalism and being a propaganda mouthpiece. That's the difference between so much "news" and real journalism like marketplace. We don't need dozens of platforms repeating the lies. We need context and facts.

You can’t credibly or responsibly just restate what administration officials say about trade deals and then try to cya by saying “officials provided no evidence”.

@simonesnews.bsky.social Yes!! So excited for you! wallacehouse.umich.edu/announcing-t...

Nearly half of US adults no longer believe in a Constitutional American value that's been viewed as foundational to our democracy and the perception of American exceptionalism. We're fixated on one man's mindset, but I'm far more interested in understanding how tens of millions of Americans got here

You know your parents are Boomers when .... their response to the monthly cost of your 2 bed/2 bath rental is "Wow! That's almost as much as my mortgage!" and they live in a 5 bed/4 bath mansion in a gated community that's also a protected arboretum 🫠

I appreciate the unflinchingly honesty of Lena Sun's reporting on measles and vaccines. My only Q: Why can't we cover all subjects (climate change, systemic racism, democracy) with the same unflinching, euphemism-free honesty? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Trump: "Joe Biden handed us over a country that was in very serious trouble economically." (This is a lie.)

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Just heard about the bouncy castle lady. Has someone let her know that we tried child-friendly protests back in the 1960s? Here's how that turned out: www.history.com/articles/chi...

"Amid anti-DEI push, United Daughters of the Confedracy rewrite civil war history"

The Trump admin's actions erasing our past are nothing new. But when we talk about historical efforts to whitewash slavery, we call those actions "racist" or "white supremacist." Why not this time? Were the United Daughters of the Confederacy just "anti-DEI"? www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Did Americans lose critical thinking skills, or is the lack of critical thinking a pre-existing problem that's now easily exploited via technology?

Call it what it is: Lying.

"Wading"??? The racial views Trump is parroting here are foundational to eugenics. The president is nose-deep in white supremacy www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/a...

"One source of expertise lies in the people and institutions in marginalized communities throughout this country and around the globe who have had decades of experience in navigating a world where simply looking out for one’s own best interests is insufficient for individual or collective survival."

Just checked out Stephen Miller's Twitter feed for the first time and....yikes. Someone could write a masterclass on propaganda just off that account. He's priming the American public to accept an autocratic president, and - based on the disturbing number of likes - he's succeeding

"Take him seriously, but not literally" was always a canard. The fact that it's still driving some news coverage is perplexing

News coverage of Trump’s Smithsonian order exemplifies the perils of prioritizing objectivity over truth. These stories perpetuate propaganda by leading with Trump's words (what's 'anti-American ideology'?), bury the order's real impact (ex. re-erecting Confederare monuments) and

"DEI" has become a racially disparaging term used to malign successful Black ppl and women. If journos can't use the word "racist" to describe racist acts of our gov, then we shouldn't use "DEI" to whitewash them. The term shifts the problem from the racist actors to the targets of those racist acts

We are living in an age when stating the obvious makes you politically biased

Are we ready to call this what it is yet? This isn't "anti-DEI" -- a phrase that adopts the actors' sanitized wording, strips their actions of historical context and normalizes an abnormal administration. History, truth & journalistic responsibility demand we call this what it is: white supremacy

"'Falsehood' and 'false statement' are not weak ways of assessing what Mr. Trump says." Yikes. How many times does a president have to lie before we can tell the truth - that he lies? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/i...

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

I've said for years that anti-Blackness, racism and white supremacy should be considered as misinformation / disinformation. To study the history of race and journalism is to see that White supremacy was an effective disinformation campaign. And through that, we got Jim Crow, a fascist system.

"First, stop with the pussyfooting about what’s happening." The always-on-point Margaret Sullivan said it in one sentence, but still worth it for every journalist to read her full piece margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/four-essen...

My favorite quote on the walls of The Washington Post newsroom is one attributed to Ben Bradlee: "The truth, no matter how bad, is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run." It's never resonated quite as much as it does in this moment. 1/3 open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

PLEASE READ THIS. I don't often employ capital-letter directives, but this piece offers the exact contextualization that Americans need right now. The author, digital security expert Davi Ottenheimer, has an international history degree from London School of Econ www.flyingpenguin.com?p=65793

So we're dismantling aid to the African countries left impoverished by centuries of colonization, human trafficking and resource exploitation -- and then calling the white landowners there refugees? Are we allowed to call this what it is yet: white supremacy? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Karen's pieces are labeled opinion, but history shows us that what she's saying here is fact. These "anti-DEI" policies are *segregationist* policies in politically correct clothing. It's white supremacy made palatable for the masses. @karenattiah.bsky.social

i think it's super cool that the government is run by the klan right now

How many ✋🏻 nationalists and ✋🏻-nationalist sympathizers must this administration have on its team before journalists can start saying the obvious?

All of this. The entire thread. And on MLK Day, it's worth noting that the people John is writing about here are the grandchildren of the white moderates that King wrote about in his Letter From the Birmingham Jail.

Justice Jackson's cowrie shell collar is making a statement. The shell is full of significance in African spirituality - seen as bringing good fortune and warding off negative energy. So, don't know for sure, but gotta suspect there was some conscious choice here

Learned a new word today: Kakistocracy.

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It is absolutely bizarre to hear SCOTUS debating the risk of TikTok *potentially* manipulating Americans' opinions against the US government when we are currently living with the consequences of Facebook and other social platforms actually having been used to do that very thing