been waiting to make my @splitzoneduo.com debut since forever. it's been one of my favorite podcasts for a long time. so glad to hop on and talk about something that i care about a lot — and that I'm currently writing about.

Building a school on top of a prison takes the school to prison pipeline to a whole new level.

[curled up like a humpback shrimp] i could use a massage

Not fair to say this is just racism. There’s a lot of sexism too. In the tech industry in particular, anti-DEI freak outs often boil down to “Oh no, women! This was supposed to be my safe space. Everyone knows girls are dumb and boys are smart, I’m just bold enough to admit it.”

This is just racism, based in a total fabrication

RCP wept

The inclination to turn down Black history which is American history, is the sort of white supremacy culture we're dealing with. The man was simply educating on the subject at hand and that was considered "subversive".

It’s time to reckon with the full activist life & legacy of Coretta Scott King. And particularly on Memorial Day, we need to see her as the antiwar leader that she was, leading her husband & the nation. She had that global perspective and anti-militarism when she and MLK met in 1952. A month-long 🧵

"Actually the normies are all turning to socialism now." Ya that's not true and you people would actively hate them if they were. You sent death threats to Will Stancil for doing activism against ICE while being a cringe normie who ruined the aesthetics of your cool radicalism.

this is from the intro to his Wikipedia page. not the details. just the intro.

I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s why the Pope’s woke encyclical is a disgrace.

Finally, direct acknowledgment that Trump’s efforts failed. I’m often critical of New York Times coverage, so I want to recognize when they’re accurate. Now, if they could show this to the part of the news division that rushes to make “Peace Deal Achieved, Trump Says” the top headline repeatedly.

hell of a quote to give when your new movie has a transphobic joke in its trailer

That waterpik be knocking loose food you don't even remember eating the day before. Like when did I have spaghetti?!

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

the white nationalist neo-Confederate victory lap continues in earnest.

Amazing that the Supreme Court who took representation away from communities of color is also okay with government harassing communities of color. Just a coincidence, I’m sure

Yeah I understand a lot of libertarians and “don’t tread on me” types are disappointed in the way the movement abandoned its principles in the face of Trump but like, come on…

This is, in a very real way, a projection of the way white people stole wealth from Black people during the first Redemption. Many of these targets for lynchings were successful or even just surviving businessmen and farmers with property coveted by local whites.

Related to the conversation yesterday I imagine many of these small towns grab up all these tanks and whatnot partially by fantasizing about having to go into the big city and pacifying it someday.

Y’all don’t want to admit it but it’s true

As CBS Radio passes into history tonight, spare a thought for Otto “Deacon” Gardner—the prisoner who started the network’s news legacy with one remarkable broadcast. I wrote about him for @columjournreview.bsky.social and discussed him with @onthemedia.bsky.social: www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-... 🗃️

It is funny to be in the middle of an energy and medicine revolution while the part of the tech industry that draws attention to itself is entirely devoted to scams and exploding rockets.

This is the kind of shit the Russians were saying right before they decided to meat grinder 30,000 guys a month in Ukraine.

Every cat ever:

I love it when media people are so busy kissing trump’s ass they accidentally say something they’re not supposed to bsky.app/profile/lemi...

i was asked recently if i thought clarence thomas saw himself as a villain. i said yes and this is a good example. he is totally bloodthirsty and loves the idea of the government executing people.

Worth noting that this is actually a meta-question-- it's not "what policy do you think is good?" It's "what policy do you think other, imaginary people would think is good?" This encourages the "Everyone Think Like a Pundit Rather Than as a Citizen" disease that plagues political commentary.

a movie so horny if you released it today they would throw you in jail

2/The arrogance of the Supreme Court is threatening the rule of law. I noted very early on, that I did not support Supreme Court reform because it is very important in the democracy to have independent judges and independent juries. I have obviously changed my mind.

www.politico.com/live-updates... republicans poisoned the smithsonian women's history museum bill because they're ideologically opposed to women, history, and museums in that order

“.. What is happening is an assault on democracy, and they’re using the easiest vector, which is anti-Black racism, because it’s the easiest thing you could do, the laziest thing you can do,” Nelson said. @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m...

Reality bath from @gelliottmorris.com: Given Biden approval rating & inflation/consumer sentiment, "the surprise of the [2024] election is that Harris did as well as she did...the Dem nominee was on track to lose the popular vote by 4 points. She lost by 1.5." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...

My latest for Truthout. Black job loss due to structural racism in Trump 2.0 truthout.org/articles/bla...

People who lost family members in the fight for the Voting Rights Act tell @talkingpointsmemo.com how they feel about the Supreme Court’s decision demolishing it. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

oh, it’s all gender. Trump isn’t just a figure of aspirational wealth. He is a figure of aspirational patriarchal masculinity, and and for a genre quite obsessed with the performance of masculinity. It all makes sense.

to be blunt the thing that explains this is just misogyny

You just described pretty much every black Republican under 40.

“I think Ronald Reagan was the literal devil but I am neutral to positive on Trump” is such an amusing place to land on the political spectrum

i like run the jewels quite a bit but it is very funny listening to killer mike rap about killing cops knowing that he is a big brian kemp supporter and couldn’t say whether he opposed trump in 2024

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

congrats to jared polis for getting played like a chump

Yeah, what's the one thing Gerald Ford is remembered for? More than anything else? What cost him the White House in 1976?

Welp, congratulations Jared. This is how you will be remembered forever.

NEW: Tina Peters speaks out in defense of Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D), says the Democratic censure of Polis for granting her clemency is further evidence of an election rigging coverup.

Something I first learned of, in part, because of listening to Robert Johnson. youtu.be/G-83fZi-JB8

They are called "Hot tamales" they taste completely different, and have been in the Mississippi Delta since the 1920s when white people imported Mexicans to work cotton fields in the summer. Black people tried to remake them but had different ingredients and boom the Hot Tamale was born!