The Trump admin. is encouraging reporting on discrimination... against white men. Georgetown Law Prof. Paul Butler says "It's to foster this sense of grievance and victimization from white men so they don't focus on how Trump is busting unions and taking away their healthcare." #Velshi

While Trump's tariffs haven't brought the major crisis many feared, there's a sense of precarity going into 2026. Former IMF Deputy Director @elerianm.bsky.social explains that "the trading system needs a certain amount of predictability" to function, & Trump has upended that predictability. #Velshi

How is a single mother of a teenager faring in this economy? Just ask “Betty”. Ali Velshi checks in with an old friend - and @calebsilver.bsky.social - to break down how “out of control” costs are impacting everyday Americans. #velshi www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

producing this interview with Rob Reiner back in October was one of the highlights of my young career. what a loss.

Operation Metro Surge is state-sanctioned racial profiling used as a tool of political intimidation. But Somali Minnesotans aren’t intimidated, we’re brave and resilient, and our neighbors have our back. We don’t cower to bullies.

“It’s embarrassing that the President is willing to denigrate the presidency in such a matter,” says @ilhanmn.bsky.social about Trump’s continued attacks on her & the Somali community. ”We're not easily intimidated or easily bullied, we know what our rights are.” #Velshi

Viola Ford Fletcher, a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died this past week at 111. She was a reminder of "Black prosperity, Black thriving, and Black resistance to white supremacy," says Michael Eric Dyson. "We have to continue to tell these stories," adds @imaniperry.bsky.social. #Velshi

Will be on @velshimsnow.bsky.social shortly to talk about Border Patrol (1) framing peaceful protesters for violence, (2) brutally assaulting them, then (3) getting caught by courts thanks to bodycam footage that tells the whole sordid story. slate.com/news-and-pol...

re-upping this piece i wrote last month in light of "PARASOCIAL" being cambridge dictionary's word of the year. we all live in the world PERFECT BLUE foretold.

From Chicago to Charlotte, Trump is expanding his federal deployments across America’s cities, and New York could be next. "It's one city, it's all cities," says @cmgreer.bsky.social. "New Yorkers are getting organized" to protect their immigrant neighbors, adds @nyccomptroller.bsky.social. #Velshi

As U.S. citizens are increasingly being swept up in ICE arrests, fascism expert Jason Stanley says it’s “a way to normalize the targeting of everybody” and scare Black and brown Americans away from public life. #Velshi

Starting today, we come to you from our brand new @ms.now studios in New York's Times Square! We have a new name and a new home with the same mission to bear witness, break down complex stories, strip away distractions, and get smarter together. Join us at 10 a.m. EST! #Velshi

"I'm always taking stock. There's never a moment when I'm not… Are there IEDs? Is it a risk of kidnapping? Are there drone strikes?" Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist @lynseyaddario.bsky.social says about her dangerous career. "There's no way to do my job from a hotel." #Velshi

#Frankenstein is on Netflix today! As a certified Frankenstein fanatic since reading it in high school, I had to write this deep dive on Guillermo del Toro's new version, where it's shockingly faithful to Mary Shelley, and where del Toro puts a new spin on it. open.substack.com/pub/oscarkim...

Election day in New York is just two days away, and the  city's mayoral race is heating up for the final stretch. Democratic frontrunner @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, joins us at 10 a.m. EST. #Velshi

nearly three decades after its release, Satoshi Kon's 1997 masterpiece PERFECT BLUE is more relevant than ever in its warnings about the dark side of fandom and parasocial relationships open.substack.com/pub/oscarkim...

"Every economist around the world uses this BLS data," @justinwolfers.bsky.social warns of worrying consequences of the Trump administration's dismantling of the Bureau of Labor Statistics that stretches beyond the U.S. "It's important that it's a well-run organization." #Velshi

“Our job now, as communicators, is to start communicating to the rest of the country," acclaimed filmmaker Rob Reiner says of intensifying political pressure on the entertainment world. He warns the Trump administration's fear tactics are "just the beginning." #Velshi www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

Politics are squeezing Hollywood. Award-winning director, producer, and screenwriter Rob Reiner will join me at 12p ET to discuss the role media plays in an era of intensifying political pressure.

For @johnfugelsang.bsky.social, Christianity is about “siding with the underdog and the marginalized,” but the right has “hijacked” rhetoric around the faith “as cover for meanness.” He says many turn away from organized religion because “they’re turned off to all the cruelty and hypocrisy.” #Velshi

Happy 15th anniversary to my favorite movie, David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's masterpiece, The Social Network! I wrote this piece for the 10th anniversary back in 2020, with my take on the film's legacy and its foreshadowing of what was to come for the internet. wesleyanargus.com/2020/10/08/1...

The US is on a slippery slope towards autocracy.@staceyabrams.com says she has a blueprint for fighting against it: organize, mobilize, engage, & demand change. Abrams joins @ 12pm ET on how we can all commit to the fight for democracy. #Velshi

After a woman was aggressively wrangled to the ground by ICE agents at a NY courthouse, @nyccomptroller.bsky.social called out their conduct. Lander joins @ 12pET on how elected officials and everyday people can hold power to account.

In 2025, deadly diseases like smallpox and polio aren’t exactly a major fear. And that’s thanks to vaccine development. Historian Kyle Harper says vaccines are the innovation that “has done more than any other to contribute to human health” #Velshi

The Intercept reports Google gave ICE investigators a student protestor's personal Gmail data. Roger McNamee ( @moonalice.com ) warns Americans: "We are going to be the victims." Immigration attorney @allenorr.bsky.social adds "we are behind" on digital privacy regulations. #Velshi

There’s an organized anti-science movement that smears experts on climate change, vaccines, and more as "cartoon villains," says @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social. His co-author of the new book "Science Under Siege," @michaelemann.bsky.social, calls disinformation an "overriding crisis." #Velshi

With Sen. Eric Schmitt’s recent speech defining America as a nation by and for white Christians, the GOP has gone mask-off. @nhannahjones.bsky.social says Schmitt’s vision is “very dangerous” and says "the truth of our history is just so inconvenient" for the MAGA crowd. #Velshi

Oyster farmer and veteran @grahamformaine.bsky.social hopes that his economic populist campaign will make him the one to unseat Republican Susan Collins. “I just think that we need to send regular working people up to Washington to represent regular working people,” Platner explains. #Velshi

The far-Right has been leaning into an alarmingly nationalistic ideology. A sitting GOP senator said this week "if America is everything & everyone, then it is nothing & no one at all." @nhannahjones.bsky.social joins me at 10aET on why we cannot ignore this overt racism. #Velshi

Budget cuts made it “challenging to do my work,” says Dr. Jennifer Layden, a fmr. CDC official who resigned this week. “The work of public health often goes unnoticed until there is a major outbreak,” says Layden, which makes Trump and RFK Jr’s undermining of the CDC so risky. #Velshi

Trump claims to have “solved” between 6 and 10 world conflicts, a claim that, to put it lightly, doesn’t check out. @anamariecox.bsky.social says Trump is ill-suited to diplomacy because he, "does not believe in win-win," approaching it in terms of "deals with a winner and a loser." #Velshi

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Most Americans recognize Putin as a dictator, says Putin foe @billbrowder.bsky.social. And that used to include Marco Rubio. Now, Browder says Rubio and the GOP are "scared of crossing Donald Trump." @vkaramurza.bsky.social calls Trump's "shameful" Alaska summit "a major victory for Putin." #Velshi

Watching Trump and Putin’s summit, one could wonder if it was 1938 or 2025, says @vkaramurza.bsky.social. He draws parallels to past dictators and wars, warning that we should learn from history that "you cannot achieve peace by appeasing an aggressor." #Velshi www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

DC's 700k residents have no voting representatives in Congress– or power to stop Trump from militarizing their city. The @aclu.org‬ Monica Hopkins says DC’s lack of representation is “comical,” calling Trump’s recent moves a “brazen abuse of power” that prove why DC needs statehood. #Velshi

Defense Attorney Abbe Lowell says Trump's weaponization of the DOJ to target his opponents (including Lowell's client, NY AG Letitia James) “makes George Orwell’s ‘1984’ look like a Mother Goose nursery rhyme," and is creating a regime that targets Dems while Republicans "get a free pass." #Velshi

On rising authoritarianism, “you have to draw the line early and you have to enforce the lines hard," says Garrett Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social, and learn history's lessons. Unlike in WWII, if fascism or authoritarianism takes hold here, he says, "it's unclear" who could stop it. #Velshi

From the firing at the Bureau of Labor Statistics to public pressure on the Fed, Trump wants to bend economic numbers and institutions to his whim. Nobel Prize-winning economist @josephestiglitz.bsky.social calls these actions "unconscionable," warning “confidence in the US economy will erode.”

As the president politicizes fact-finding institutions like the Bureau of Labor Statistics and inflicts tariff chaos globally, Nobel Prize winning economist @josephestiglitz.bsky.social joins me at 11a ET with the economic consequences of these moves and how they affect you. #Velshi

Trump and Zeldin revoking the EPA’s finding that greenhouse gases cause global warming is like “trying to repeal the law of gravity” or pretending the Earth is flat, says @govjayinslee.bsky.social. He calls the move, which guts our ability to fight climate change, "a danger to human health." #Velshi

Trump's EPA administrator thinks the real environmental threat to Americans isn't harmful greenhouse gas emissions, but rules that limit them. @govjayinslee.bsky.social joins me at 11a ET on the 'endangerment finding' repeal and what happens when the EPA protects pollution instead of the planet.

As we brace for higher prices on things like electronics, cars, and groceries due to Trump's trade war, we should now also prepare for a squeeze at the doctor's office and the pharmacy. I'll tell you how tariffs are directly affecting healthcare coverage and drug prices at 10a ET. #Velshi

World leaders and US politicians alike know that the way to Trump's favor is extreme flattery, from Nobel peace prize nominations to proposals to make his birthday a holiday. John Harwood and @deanobeidallah.bsky.social join me 10a to discuss the consequences of these over-the-top tributes. #Velshi

Anyone can go to immigration hearings to bear witness, offer support, and stand up for due process and the rule of law. We must keep showing up for our immigrant neighbors in whatever way we can. Always a pleasure talking with Ali Velshi! youtu.be/jHKWznvDMS4

NYC Comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social was arrested earlier this month by ICE for accompanying immigrants to and from court hearings. He encourages everyone to join him in showing up and bearing witness. “That’s your right as a person in this democracy,” Lander says. #Velshi

very excited to have produced this interview with @bradlander.bsky.social for @velshimsnbc.bsky.social! Tune in at 10!

Kasper Eriksen is married to a U.S. citizen & has 5 kids. In April, at what he thought was a citizenship hearing, he was taken into ICE custody. @mariahinojosa.bsky.social & @paoramos.bsky.social join @ 10aET on the countless other stories like Eriksen's & Trump's cruel war on immigrants. #Velshi

When I took a journalism class in high school, we were assigned to pick a journalist we admired to present on, then write an article emulating their style. I chose @eosnos.bsky.social. Getting to produce this conversation between him and @velshi.com was a fun full circle moment.

When @eosnos.bsky.social was on the plutocrat beat at the New Yorker, he uncovered a new Gilded Age of excess. He joins me at 11a ET to dig into "The Haves and Have-Yachts," a collection of his essays on the ultra-rich, and the way the billionaire mindset affects society and politics today. #Velshi