The destruction of the federal government disproportionately affects black women. The federal civil service has long been a good career option because of the strong equal opportunity enforced in the civil service that has historically blunted the double discrimination that black women face.

Kabas connects the various threads of journalism's crises and nails the rotting core of it all: too much of big name media has the stink of the billionaire elite attached to it these days.

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

I've fallen down the rabbit hole of small town life in the USA in the 1880s-1930s [as research for the book currently called "The Money of the Poor"]. And even though I *knew* it, there's still something awful about the census form that lists a woman's age as 24, who's had 7 children, 5 living

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

When the 🧵 hits so well, and then the alttext hits harder 😘👌

Hi. I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold. I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)

Once upon a desert sandy As through winds the trav'ling man he Spied the face of Ozymandy Lying, simply lying there Suddenly there was some writing Pon the plinth that he was sighting That the sand and time were blighting Quoth the statue, "Now despair"

Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?

I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.

Paris: Boys will be boys. You can't blame him for thinking Helen was beautiful and she was asking to be stolen away

Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll start. Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later

ACLU-DC’s Michael Perloff: “[G]overnment officials can't punish you for making them the punchline. That's really the whole point of the First Amendment.”

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

The idea that political dissent can only be the product of “paid protesters” or “outside agitators” has a long history. Here is the Mississippi columnist Tom Ethridge in June 1963 concerned that attendees at the upcoming March on Washington might be “whipped into a frenzy by skilled agitators.”

The spirit of Dollree Mapp has joined the battle

it’s such a privilege to be able to teach from the heart

Making the Democrats sound 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases cooler than they are.

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Ugh defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Why I cancelled my subscription

Teachers should also get more time to be pleasurably bored! It’s a solution for many things!

America today is a puzzle of contradictions: it proclaims freedom yet fears its own police, it venerates strength yet trembles before old age, it boasts of prosperity yet cannot afford its own steak. At the center sits its weary ruler, a man older than his republic can bear.

Trying to imagine what a historian of this moment will look for in sources. A visiting foreign journalist's account of the collapse of the Republic, perhaps?

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The press, once celebrated as a pillar of freedom, now cowers under the thumbs of billionaires. Once-brave journalists have become court stenographers, transcribing lies and calling them news. The Washington Post, no longer a watchdog, but a leashed poodle, tugged by the whims of Jeff Bezos.

The capital trembles, & at its center is the 79-year-old ruler, Donald Trump, so aged that his own government seems to wither around him. His reign illustrates America’s gerontocratic culture: the elderly cling to power and youth is seen only as a source of campaign rallies and military recruits.

Dispatch from Washington, D.C. I arrive in Dulles Airport, just as the capital is preparing for its recurring October 1st ritual: the potential and probable Federal government shutdown. For the outsider, this strange rite may appear chaotic, but for Americans it is as old as their democracy.

The “growing body” here is a tumor, malignant and metastatic

durbin underrated as one of the worst mcclellan democrats in the senate

Dispatch from Washington, D.C. I arrive in Dulles Airport, just as the capital is preparing for its recurring October 1st ritual: the potential and probable Federal government shutdown. For the outsider, this strange rite may appear chaotic, but for Americans it is as old as their democracy.

And here I thought Mr. Robot was being overdramatic by calling it Evil Corp... EviCore is just one letter away and doing all the evil by denying Americans the healthcare they paid for.

We fought the bloodiest civil war this country has ever seen for birthright citizenship. We amended the Constitution. We have all understood what that amendment meant--from the moment it was debated in Congress to this moment now.

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

Just so everyone is clear, this right here is what an actual violation of the First Amendment looks like. When the head of the FCC says a company needs to do something about someone who displeased the administration or lose its license, that’s no joke unconstitutional

John Stewart called it out long ago on CNN Crossfire. Yet here we are.

trying to talk about Harpers Ferry without talking about slavery is jokes like, slavery is the only reason why you know about Harpers Ferry. wouldn't be no Harpers Ferry National History Park _without_ that part of the nation's history, you revisionist shits

Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

better things are possible!!!!

Kavanaugh has just said it: if you say "I'm a citizen", ICE has to immediately let you go.

It's the end of the world as we know it

Five— five!!— grafs until the NYT suggests to readers it might not be lawful. Complete and total abidication of their responsibility to readers to inform and not parrot propaganda.

RIP, Joseph McNeil, civil rights hero. My students are always amazed and inspired to learn about the brave actions and innovative protest of four college freshmen. myfox8.com/news/north-c...

it is a real problem that none of the people who interview these guys are equipped to ask a question like, “what gives this president greater legitimacy than a law passed by a democratically-elected legislature, signed by a previous president and affirmed by subsequent legislatures and presidents?”

yo this guy is cooking

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...