As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Pointing out once again that the main problem is white folk. Not sarcasm, just the plain unvarnished truth

I’d never seen this one.

Michigan DBs got better hands than their receivers 😑

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

Happy Birthday Nile Rodgers! Revisit our interview with the music legend here: album.ink/NileRodgersInt

The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!

I am proud to be born a Muslim. I am proud to be born in Somalia. I am proud to have become an American. None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet. Drink some water and touch grass.

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

We have a big Latinsky update today. Recently we announced that the #AddToAfrolatinsky hashtag will add posts to our feed. Today, in partnership with @rude1.blacksky.team and @blackskyweb.xyz, I’m thrilled to let you know that #AddToAfrolatinsky will now add accounts to Blacksky’s feed as well.

“This isn’t the America I know” Black People:

Watching this Adan Syed project and, whew #MarilynMosby.

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

#TodaysBrightSpot The Studio Museum in Harlem shows that lasting impact happens when you bet on people and give folks a chance. When you build community, mentor fiercely, nurture artists and curators, and give this talent room to grow, the art world changes. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

coates is genuinely a generational writer

I'm really concerned that white people are just not up to the task. A lot of y'all are well meaning but you're just not up to the task because you've never been systematically oppressed and you refuse to listen to people who have been

More tomorrow, but now might be a very good time to consider subscribing to What’s Alan Watching? alansepinwall.ghost.io

@jillwine-banks.bsky.social any help?

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

I’m in Asbury Park, NJ and a guy in a massive Ford F250 festooned with NY Rangers stickers is idling next to me BLASTING Buju Banton. #America

"To Trump, Miller is a useful battering ram, the policy answer to his lingering question of “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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omfg other korean LG energy solutions workers in tennessee are preemptively leaving apple.news/ADhXzmk7nTJm...

The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves. The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.

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@mgoseth.bsky.social I’ve counted 3 drops so far. Are following them as well? #WRTE

There are exactly <zero> other industries like this:

New York City, it’s great to be home!

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Hello to all. I study US Latinx history and have a book coming out Dec 23, 2025 from Illinois Press: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience It examines placemaking via leisure and labor (available @illinoispress.bsky.social and Amazon) bit.ly/47BdTOH

So Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk’s killer, is neither a Democrat, nor transgender, nor an immigrant, but instead a 22-year-old white guy from a Republican family in Utah who loves guns and wore a Donald Trump costume on Halloween. — Did I get that right?

Sept. 12, 1775: "Our Negroes are quite quiet since the execution of one of the most sensible and most daring of them, named Jemmy, a free Negro," writes a man of Charleston, S.C. He refers to last month's hanging of river pilot Thomas Jeremiah after a dubious trial.

@phillewis.bsky.social fyi

“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.

An anti-CRT movement targeted an accomplished educator — driving her out of two Georgia school districts. The mission began inside a golf community clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon, where parents were coached on how to land a Fox News appearance. (Published June 2022) By @nicolefcarr.bsky.social

"our President's laws" idk guys we gotta like at least bring back shaving heads in the public square when the pendulum swings.

Priscilla Williams-Till, a cousin of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till, is running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi as a Democrat against incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. She says that Hyde-Smith's infamous remark about being "on the front row" at a public hanging helped inspire her to run.

***Job Opportunity*** Assistant Professor of Spanish — Latin American and/or Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 40/ apply.interfolio.com/173081?fbcli...

The timing shows that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was claiming "state secrets privilege" over a deal that had been signed *after* those covert flights to El Salvador. @notus.org: www.notus.org/courts/el-sa...

In an urgent clarion call to Democratic leaders, as the government funding fight heats up once again, Jay Kuo argues it's time for decisive leadership. It's time to stand up to fight MAGA fascism. It's time to demand concessions. And if you don't get them, shut down the government if you must.

Who has an extra @tigers.bsky.social ticket tonight in the Bronx vs the @yankees.com?

Another scumbag. We have such a short time on this earth. Here’s how Dershowitz will be remembered- and our theories of why he went off the deep end were 101% right.

A Supreme Court majority just declared IF Justice Sotomayor spoke Spanish in front of a Home Deport, masked ICE agents can #racialprofile & cuff her. If that seems like an exaggeration, read her dissent or just ask profiled “immigrant looking people.”

For some people, living under military occupation is an American tradition

There is no indication that republican leaders or voters even know what current immigration policy looks like. Their views are driven by Breitbart blowups about caravans, Haitians eating cats and MS-13. Change the policy all you want, they'll never give you an ounce of credit for it.

Just get to half without any more scoring.

Michigan OL has got to step up

More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance. Read more here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...

On this day in 1913, eight Black men at a Texas prison farm suffocated after they were placed in an underground cell as punishment for not picking cotton fast enough.

Good heads up especially for media: do not take a bunch if correlations by motivated actors seriously. If they don’t preregister their hypotheses and data, chances are the results are spurious and cherry picked