America has tried to be a real multiracial democracy for just over 60 years and that attempt has been contested at every step along the way. The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

Portland City Councilor Dan Ryan blamed the press after taking heat for choosing not to address the contents of a story published in the Mercury the day prior. Here are the receipts 🧾

before I go to bed, I feel obliged to emphasize how tonight’s rampage in northern Minneapolis was, by no exaggeration, a glorified episode of klan night riding by federally deputized groypers. Yes, DHS always had these people but the difference now is that they’re in charge and with a $175B budget.

This isn't sustainable they're gonna just start randomly shooting people. Walz and Frey own every death every injury every hospital visit every missed day of school happening right now.

this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

Scenes from a personalist regime: the president’s personal lawyer threatens to arrest the elected leaders of an occupied city

"During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for."

White People Stop Saying Woke 2026.

Yes it's a feat of scholarship in particular because Hinton unearths a previously untapped set of records that she uses as the basis of the research. Folks should definitely read the book: wwnorton.com/books/americ...

Popularism was always bullshit, selectively choosing which polling results mattered to advance a particular (donor funded) agenda.

Elon Musk: "I'm a free speech absolutist!" Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned." Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen?

Fucking Black people does not mean that you love Black people. 🙂‍↕️🤎

White supremacy explains many apparent contradictions. Conservative calls for free speech were always about freedom to use slurs without sanction. Calls for small government were always about denying Black folks rights and state protections. This is conservatives achieving their goals.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

If Cole really tries to go with the chest thumping "I'm The Greatest" raps after what the entire world saw in 2024 it will confirm the man has absolutely zero self-awareness.

Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.

Even now, with the intersections perfectly visible, “identity politics” and “woke” are still used as pejoratives.

For way too many people, addressing police violence against Black people isn’t a “real” challenge to the system etc. etc.

This is a big reason movements like BLM very often aren’t considered resistance or left movements and it’s *constantly* reflected in our rhetoric.

it's very clear that this is a template for how they're going to approach other cities they do not and will not have enough people to do it everywhere all at once but if you live in a city there's a very good chance that an occupying army will show up at your door in the next few years

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The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.

The GOP has explicitly advocated that the Education Department be abolished for decades, an issue which never polled as well as abolishing ICE does today. Abolishing the Education Department was part of the GOP's 1984 platform… and Reagan won 49 states.

LOL Jack Daniels is just like "Yeah keep us out of this mess thank you very much"

"if we win, that will answer every question" is in fact precisely the problem with this entire generation of democrats. it was the thinking that permeated the early biden administration and guess what: the problems weren't solved and in fact got much worse. need someone who will put power to use

bitchassedness

Part of why we are here is that there WERE in fact millions of white people who took to the streets in 2020 after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and others were killed by the cops. So no it's not the case that white people are just out in the streets now. Fascist white people were ENRAGED by this.

The people celebrating ICE enjoy watching masked men terrorize and abuse women and children. They love it! They enjoy watching the videos of the violence first, then create justifications for that violence in reverse. Their ICE support is predicated on wanting the violence to escalate and continue

The big problem with a lot of Blue Dog Dems is that they don't care about policy: they just want to reduce their % of "votes with party." So they choose votes where some corporate lobby is opposing the bill: they get money and "independence."

a lot of people in the media need their ass beat too but nobody wants to say that but i will

fuck the mainstream media, support independent journalism 🤍

Gonna put the over-under at about 95%

I mean I was already rooting for the Texans, but this just takes it to another level.

Wow I can't believe Democratic voters don't feel great about a party whose prominent figures are going with "We're completely feckless and can't sustain even token opposition" as a public strategy.

A true blue collar hero AND a poet?? This man deserves a statue

Agree this should be done simply on its own merits. But also because if ICE is to be fully dismantled and its' goons prosecuted, it will be imperative to make sure the general public is fully aware of the depravity they are engaged in to get full public momentum behind its abolition.

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

You know what's really weird? Not *one* fucking question to any of the other Mayoral candidates about their ties to this group, or their refusal to condemn them. Let alone daily haranguing about whether they were sufficiently withering in their criticism of the words that these people used.

Rockford Files is a sacred artifact of 70's television and I hate everything about this.

I'm bizarrely excited for this Spurs/Thunder rematch.

This is honestly the point they make it impossible to comply so they always have a reason to do what they want

It's become glaringly obvious that they want to call them "race traitors" so badly.

This moment (among other things) has demonstrated that it's the wine mom/PTA volunteer/Bake sale organizers who are willing to square up directly in the faces of masked federal goons threatening them with assault weapons. While the neckbearded chattering classes derisively sneer about "wokeness"

You calling people “wine moms “ derisively in your column while your colleague begs us to be less woke Ashleigh is in lululemon yoga pants on an organizing call about what info she needs to get if someone gets disappeared

Just sitting here trying to enjoy my afternoon coffee and I'm being attacked like this smh.

Yeah the thing that a whole lot of people are choosing to misunderstand is that assessing a President's tenure generally isn't considered by just doing a 1-by-1 tally of positives to negatives ("He did X number of good things and Y number of bad") Some decisions loom very large over the rest.

a queer woman lightly mocked an ICE officer so they shot her wife right in front of her. now they’re trying to justify it by making it a capital crime to mock them in many ways that’s a core tenet of right-wing ideology: Lesser People should be forbidden (by force if necessary) to laugh at you

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