Elon Musk out here turning Twitter into Radio Rwanda

“The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.” -bell hooks

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

This guy has been a "progressive" for all of five minutes and hasn't held office. His "record" is: prep boy who wanted to kill people, became a mercenary to kill more, got a Nazi tattoo, spent time abusing women and posting misogyny, then ran for Senate. When did he "transform"? A week ago? A day?

Relying on police issued fines to fund your city is a thing that gives cops tremendous unaccountable power in addition to ensuring revenue collection falls heavily on those with less to begin with.

I try to remember that whenever we talk about how much of a fucked up horror show the world is, what we mean is that the world is full of good people being wronged and beauty being destroyed, that we risk losing all of it—not a denial of the good in the world but its affirmation.

here's what i wrote

“In a preliminary MIT Media Lab study, 83% of participants who wrote essays using ChatGPT couldn’t quote a single sentence from what they’d submitted moments earlier. ‘It passed from the computer screen onto the homework assignment without ever entering their brain,’ So said.” 🫠

Yes! This!! If your school is talmbout getting GPT+ accounts for kids (or staff) but can't provide you with decent wifi or weather stripping on those old janky windows, you should fight someone.

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Anywho let me get back to work. I actually LIKE being a leftist. I'm not embarrassed by the Left(s). I'm not apologetic. I think we should be loud about our ideas and our programs. They are the right ideas.

A good measure of how crazy things have gotten is if you pretend we're in a Star Wars movie and then imagine how long the opening crawl would have to be for an audience of people from 2025 to be caught up

This essay explains everything that is going on in the USA, with abundant citations. They Want Us Dead www.welcometohellworld.com/they-want-us...

Eternally relevant:

Every day the Iran war ends and someone tries to kill the president. Tomorrow it’ll be the same.

Useful to remember that politics is mostly a zero-sum struggle between the power of the state and the power of capital, and tax cuts help capital win. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/state-powe...

US media keeps using the phrase “heightened tensions with Cuba” to describe what is in reality unilateral US aggression, with illegal sanctions and threats of illegal invasion, against innocent people who repeatedly say they just want to be left alone.

I want all of us to expect more and better from politics and politicians.

When people say: “Democrats abandoned the working class” they are saying several things but not what they intend. A 🧵 First, the message is “working class” == White. All the Black people I know work. All of them. So these terms are a big choice that conservatives AND leftists repeatedly make.

The state legislature is taking final votes Wednesday to put several constitutional amendments restricting tax rates on November's ballot. They passed the House thanks to support from two Charlotte legislators who recently left the Democratic Party. www.wunc.org/politics/202...

“Toughest immigration bill ever written” they said.

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I'm probably too quick to draw analogies to the Reconstruction era and its aftermath (professional hazard!). But these reports about Trump creating a reparations fund for J6 insurrectionists has me thinking the Reconstruction-era Klan and its sympathizers

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

First time I read Black Reconstruction, I reread this preface at least 5 times. I now explicitly write/talk about my work with this energy: "I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience."

The entire state of Louisiana voting against these racist white folks effectively trying to segregate the school system in Baton Rouge makes my heart happy. We not dead in Louisiana. We are not a lost cause.

Getting closer

The set up of the Reuters story is that Trump is underwater 80-20 on this issue but here are two dozen people who think differently.

My latest free newsletter is about one of The New York Times's specialties: publishing the opinions of wealthy elites as if they are news.

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

Trump allies keep bringing meritless lawsuits against the government, which Trump's DOJ then "settles" for enormous sums of taxpayer money now Trump is personally getting in on it, negotiating with himself for a "settlement" in the *billions* we're being robbed ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I doubt I know more about reconstruction than Trevon. What I do know is that Reconstruction wasn’t some shadowy, back room event. It was then as it is now — plain as day, obvious to all, boastful and unrepentant.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Genuinely this is the moment where it's very clear that without explicit protections, conservatives will seek to eliminate minority success and achievement at all levels. I don't care what polls well. We either affirmatively support living in a multiracial society or we don't.

The people who are the most right about things have the least power and those who are wrong about everything rule the world.

74% of us want government regulation of AI 65% of us oppose building datacenters Oppostion to AI and datacenters is universal across all ages, incomes, education levels, and political backgrounds No constituency supports what tech is imposing on us against our will poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

White people are not angry enough about the blatant reinstitution of Jim Crow.

Pretty cool how one side gets to cheat and the other isn’t allowed to win fairly

We’re watching, and failing to respond to, a social engineering project meant to make impossible any belief in modernity having any positive aspects. This is a sociopolitical revolution, not a benign “political era.” An excision of alternatives to constrict human imagination and possibility.

John Roberts is one of the most successful proponents of white supremacist power in US history. It's every decent person's job to destroy his legacy.

Incredible read. Worth your time

Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Below is a description of a segregation ordinance from 1910. Look at the way that real Jim Crow segregationists justified their policies and remember it when Roberts, Alito et al say that Callais and Shelby County aren't racist and that they're just calling balls and strikes.