Agenda is clear www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Zf...

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

Extremely good piece

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.

In 2025, HHS issued stop work order for federal research lab that studies Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens and fired its director. This lab was a world leader in accelerating development therapies and vaccines for Ebola and other viruses. 1/ www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Mississippi’s governor just called Bennie Thompson’s time in Congress a “reign of terror.” Who, precisely, is terrified here? And of what, or whom? My new column for @us.theguardian.com on what the post-Callais redistricting wave is actually building.

The horror. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

Thomas Jefferson envisioned America as a lily white republic that rigorously excluded Black people. Join us next week - online or in person - for a frank discussion of race and racism at the founding of The United States. events.leapevents.com/tickets/anne...

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

Profile in courage www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Great thread

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

The first, and necessary step, is absolutely overwhelming, devastating turnout.

Would rather disenfranchise Black people than save themselves from a tornado

Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

Partisanship in America has never been “colorblind.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Pretty convenient that so many Black Americans live in tightly packed residential patterns. You know, just by chance. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

very funny that this guy is literally like “tax the rich? that is the n word to me, personally” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

“They are at the top of the great American economic pyramid for a reason. They should be praised and thanked.” - Vornado’s Steven Roth www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

clear goal of republicans in these states is to, in the words of carter glass, “eliminate every Negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”

Wrote a piece for @slate.com on how our theories of partisan polarization gave the SCOTUS majority more intellectual cover to kill the VRA slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Voting Rights Act wasn’t something nice America did for Black people. It was a crucial piece of the legal framework for our multicultural democracy that people alive today risked their lives to create. It’s the right day for a visit from a British king.

"So when, say, Louisiana goes back and eliminates many black opportunity districts in its state, it can claim it is doing so to help Republicans, not whites. That’s an outrageous proposition given the considerable overlap between those two groups in Louisiana." -- slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court decision affirms the refusal of the United States to take any responsibility for about 200 years of slavery, exclusion and plunder, perverting the very meaning of our history and language to vilify the modest, incomplete measures taken over a few short decades to address this crime

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

A summary from Justice Kagan in her blistering dissent: “Under the Court's new view of Section 2 a State can, without legal consequence, systematically dilute minority citizens' voting power.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Local nyc art

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Nice reminder here that the legacy of Jim Crow is not only racism but authoritarianism apnews.com/article/new-...

Strange agenda for a political party facing a referendum this November. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Spring is here again: You can now ride the Coney Island Cyclone gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

Two Black officers and two women www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Not a lot of sleep at Mamdani’s City Hall where a group of young and hungry progressives are out to prove the left can govern. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

Reading. (Reid's book is great, btw.) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Ghana showing the way. www.bbc.com/news/article...

U.S. treasurer’s name won’t appear on currency anymore, so Trump’s can instead. The U.S. Treasurer: “There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name..” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...

Disturbing and important story about what is happening in our military www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

“Heidi Altman, vice president of policy at the National Immigration Law Center, said the deployment to airports was an affront to Americans after they had ‘watched ICE agents terrorize their neighborhoods for over a year’” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

Interesting afacwa.org/pay_tsa/