i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true. 🔥

NYT: "Boasting about his own record and at one point questioning whether the U.N. served a purpose, Mr. Trump sought to portray himself as the only leader who could solve the world’s problems. “I’m really good at this stuff,” he said. “Your countries are going to hell.”

Did they laugh at him at the UN this time or just look on in horror?

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Six days ago, the Trump administration strong-armed ABC and Disney into suspending Jimmy Kimmel. Thousands of Americans spoke out to protest this blatant attack on free speech, and now Kimmel will return to television tomorrow. Never doubt the power of collective action.

lovely relic from World War I: metal cigarette case (?) intended as a gift to Australian soldiers serving at the front, Christmas 1915 (on display at my hair salon, Cambridge MA)

Must read: “We are where Hungarians were in 2010, where Russians were in 2000, & where Germans were in 1933. Those places’ futures were not inevitable; had elites & even ordinary people made different choices, catastrophes could have been avoided. Ours still can be too.” www.vox.com/politics/462...

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

This is what we need from elected officials -- a commitment to stand up for their constituents and, just as important, a willingness to tell right-wing trolls to get bent.

Won't be watching Trump's event in Arizona tomorrow--I've already seen footage of the Nuremberg rallies

A picture worth a thousand words. “None of us have ever done this before. All of this is new, and I just wanted to stand up as American and be seen and make my presence felt.” - 65-year-old Evanston resident Curtis Evans, holding an American flag.

i honestly think the level of energy these guys have about getting people to RSVP to a protest doesn’t make any kind of sense unless you take into account that most of the people saying “don’t RSVP“ are Black women and then you see they’re just dunking on Black women Then the energy makes sense

Are you buying a book today? Consider ordering from Loyalty Bookstore in DC, which has see a 60% drop in sales since the federal surge. They specialize in Black, POC, and Queer books. loyaltybookstores.com

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

In case you were wondering when the comedians and educators are silenced and under attack, that’s when you should be VERY worried

Is this the time for pirate radio????

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

“But several things can be true at the same time: (1) Political violence is never acceptable and needs to be condemned. (2) Political violence must not be the pretext for silencing political speech. (3) It’s more important than ever to push back against autocracy…” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

My open letter to DePaul's class of '29. (Obviously applicable to students anywhere.)

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Looks like the ICE presence in Chicagoland—and I emphasize the “land” part—is purposefully operating in a way as to avoid media coverage. By grabbing people here and there on city edges, outskirts & random suburbs, they don’t attract activity that generates coverage, let alone protest.

SEPT, 1933, GERMANY: The new Nazi government arrests tens of thousands of homeless citizens and disappears them into prisons and camps in what they called Beggars’ Week [Bettlerwoche], carried out by the SA and SS, with the support of the police.

"I am reminded—for a second time in my life—that the stakes we have in a democratic system of education are always under threat and that, for those of us who value it, the fight for its preservation is an urgent, if never-ending, challenge." Joan Wallach Scott 🗃️ www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Hi folks. We've seen this before during the Cold War. Check out Ch. 5 in "Threat of Dissent" to learn more. 🗃️ And, remember, in Kent v. Dulles (1958), the U.S. Supreme Court held that American citizens have a fundamental right to travel. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

This is, I believe, the first official word from the Government on what happened yesterday in London. Not only inaction in the face of violence and hate, but a celebration of it. I passed through London twice yesterday with my two kids & what Labour seem to be missing is that people aren't just...

#OTD in 1944 the Germans burnt down my grandparents' home in reprisal for local resistance actions. My 15-year old father watched in horror as the Germans chased down and shot at his father, who managed to escape. Photos: the original house and the post-fire ruins.

We simply do not have to play along.

Your regular reminder that, whatever problems they may have, there are exactly <zero> societal institutions that are <more> protective of disagreement & debate & viewpoint diversity than universities.

I believe this 1000% Showing students how we got here. Teaching them how to evaluate evidence for themselves. Enabling them to evaluate the present for themselves. SO important right now. Understanding the past is our future.

Come be my colleague! Research Chair in Trans Studies position open at @uvic.ca www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

Governor of Utah, "I was praying that it was an immigrant." The USA is a hellhole, to smear immigrants like this on stage in front of the whole country when they had nothing to do with it. This is disgusting.

what can I read on gamer culture? anything qualitative or ethnographic especially welcome

the FBI didn’t even find him. they are useless

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

I know professors personally who have had their lives destroyed by being doxxed by the Professor Watchlist organized by Turning Point USA, for saying the "wrong thing" in class one time. I will not celebrate violence but I also will not pretend this is "practicing politics the right way."

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.