This blatant xenophobic racism against an entire group of immigrants is unacceptable, and every member of Congress who cheered it is a horrifying stain on America.

Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

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Scintillating read on how a gross mix of pink slime, overlapping problems at mainstream outlets, and sexism (always) led to the bogus "AOC fails in Munich" storyline.

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com: An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? www.propublica.org/article/okla...

Service industry alums/workers RISE UP

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In 1507, the German mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller coined the term “America” in honor of the Florentine adventurer Amerigo Vespucci, and placed it on a world map. In 2007, the Library of Congress paid $10 million dollars for the map. But "America" here didn't refer any part of the US. 1/

Happy birthday, Nina. 💜

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🚨 NEW BILLY PRESTON DOC🚨

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

RIP Frederick Wiseman. Attention is love.

Watching this live was *exhilarating* Also I am still peeved cuz I didn't come up with Boo frickin' Radley either...!

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Bad Bunny thread 🧵🐇❤️🩵

JD Vance getting booed, as called around the world (auto transcribed & translated, mostly):

📢 "These workers are not eligible for protection under the Washington Post Guild and are, in many instances, being laid off with less favorable terms while also facing immense logistical challenges and, in certain cases, serious security risks."

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

His racist beliefs and actions go back to the beginning and are CVS-receipt long. None of this is new though it remains disgusting and disqualifying (as should be Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, it would seem, but what do I know). And during Black History Month...!

In the wake of the horrific ICE killings in Minnesota, many prominent Democrats have called for ICE to wear body cameras. Yesterday, @equalityalec.bsky.social talked to @democracynow.org about how important it is that we don't get distracted by meaningless & counterproductive reforms.

My mom, after this speech: "Rachel, I think he's a Good Bunny."

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A comedic genius. 💔

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

💔 Liam Conejo Ramos 💔

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

French guy from Best Bus thread behind the wheel of Air Force One tonight?

A thread on becoming metaphorical firefighters 🧵

"Life Magazine, April 19, 1968" (1995) by Alfredo Jaar 👑 Gordon Parks's photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral procession ⚫ Black mourners 🔴 White mourners Taken at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2016.

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"I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder & Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder, & I could not move." — Claudette Colvin Claudette Colvin ¡Presente! has died at age 86. 💔

The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

A 🧵 from Rick Steves, who remains the best.

🧵 about Christopher Anderson's (Vanity Fair) 2000 photojournalism in Haiti. We're all on a sinking boat, always. *That's* when you make pictures. When you are aware of it and want to try to understand.

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Happy Muntadhar al-Zaidi Day to all those who celebrate! 👞👞

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Cataloging and packing my books for a move; forgot I got a signed copy of Claudia Rankine's "Just Us" mailed from the virtual event (September 2020!). Check out this time capsule of a title verso page. Target: Not Getting a Dime of Mine Since January 2025.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

brb joining Bong Joon Ho's army

I feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous THIRD AMENDMENT content. (!!!!!!)

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And thus the hands of fate gifted us all

When Frustration Threatens Desire, by Kerry James Marshall, 1990, 📸 by @drewhallowell