BREAKING: In place of Jimmy Kimmel’s return, Sinclair and Nexstar will broadcast 90 minutes of Ezra Klein criticizing you for not reading “The Bell Curve”

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

We’re gonna need a bigger reconstruction.

Ira Katznelson's and Eric Rauchway's spider-sense must be tingling today.

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

Honestly, I wished all the Gen Z kids that helped Lex in the tower would have gotten the Cabin the Woods control room treatment.

As America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.”   For @zeit.de, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen.   Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Riley Fanning. #NewYorkerCartoons

I've got some extra copies of There Is No Place for Us, and I'd love to give away 5 signed books. Just repost, like, or comment to signal your interest. I'll pick names at random on Friday. Totally optional: feel free to share how the struggle for stable housing shows up in your life or community.

The University of Houston is looking to hire a political theorist specializing in American political thought. Full details are available here: careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...

American Press: "We can't be sure Trump is personally getting late night hosts fired for criticizing him." Trump: "Broadcasters should lose their licenses if any of their late night hosts criticizes me."

And Nexstar has the same thing. www.nexstar.tv/stations/

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

Glad we're clear the Richard Hanania collaboration wasn't a slip-up.

Hey, maybe Barnard can invite some of the pro-Palestinian students they expelled to come back to campus to speak! /s

The amazing thing about Trump is that he says right into the camera on the White House lawn while stone cold sober the sort of stuff Nixon would only scream in solitude at the White House fireplace after a bottle and a half of whiskey.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

I want you to read one of my 2022 investigations again + understand that the response you’re seeing from your children’s school boards-the harassment + firing of teachers, administrators & staff-is tied to a network of folks who have been in this game for years: www.propublica.org/article/geor...

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women. Someone, plz ask him.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Rosa Parks moved to Detroit after the Montgomery bus boycott because she was fired from her seamstress job and blacklisted from work in the city

Chicago folks, the Art Institute's exhibition of Elizabeth Catlett's work is open and I highly encourage you to visit. I saw the exhibition 3 times when it was at the Brooklyn Museum. You will thank me later. www.artic.edu/articles/121...

Homeless people are people, and they deserve to be housed, fed, and safe.

It is nothing short of a miracle that I became a professor. Not because I’m not competent. Not because I lack anything to say. But the racism. My god the racism.

Hey friends, I’m celebrating three years on Substack by giving away two copies of Stephen Shore’s new #photography book. I would love more people to hear about this. You can learn more below. Please share! www.flakphoto.news/p/three-year...

I, for one, am surprised that the racist witch hunt concocted by serial liars was based lies.

"Brazilian democracy was not shaken," one of the judges said, referring to the"virus of authoritarianism."

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

He was not even arguing civilly! That's the thing! Setting the content of what Kirk said entirely aside, the idea that he modeled reasoned, respectful, fact-based debate and charity towards one's political opponents is completely insane! The form was also extremely bad!

Congratulations to @briannarosen.bsky.social on the upcoming publication of Perpetual War and International Law: Enduring Legacies of the War on Terror. My contribution: How Law, History, and Culture Enabled Perpetual War. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I’ve been thinking about how the white moderate think about free speech. Where calling for violence and the dehumanization of entire groups of people is merely supposed to be pluralism at work rather than an a threat to that pluralism.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

These people genuinely know nothing of the history—white conservative state & vigilante violence has been arguably *the defining feature* of U.S. history. They apparently also know very little of the present, in which, again, the very opposite is the case.

A photo of white people protesting the 100th birthday celebration of W.E.B. Du Bois held at Carnegie Hall, where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech honoring Du Bois and defended his communism. Printed in the U.S. Anti-fascism Reader. credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mu...

For the second time in four days, a large protest march is assembling in Chicago's Congress Plaza. Organizing groups, incl. the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, called for today's protest in response to the DHS announcing "Operation Midway Blitz" targeting Chicagoland yesterday.

Kavanaugh in 2023 in the argument on Biden’s loan forgiveness: “Some of the biggest mistakes in the Court’s history were deferring to assertions of executive emergency power. Some of the finest moments in the Court’s history were pushing back against presidential assertions of emergency power.”

Beware the “Trump’s political genius” fallacy! There has never been any actual evidence for his “brilliance” – and it’s a narrative that only serves to strengthen Trump while offering a convenient exculpatory tale for both those who support him and those who failed to stop him.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.” My latest in @thenation

Hi all, I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market. As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated! Sincerely, Nathan

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

Be like Danuta Danielsson. Born in Poland in 1947, her mother had survived a German concentration camp. Danuta walloped Seppo Seluska, a Neo-Nazi skinhead, with her handbag during a march by far-right Nordic Reich Party supporters on 13 April 1985 in Växjö, Sweden. 📷 Hans Runesson

So if you remember that frustrating article a couple of weeks ago at the Dispatch suggesting that we ought to save the sciences by shoving the humanities overboard, I wrote a response to the financial illiteracy and moral cowardice of that position: thedispatch.com/article/univ...

Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, which is fitting I guess as RFK jr is basically the Secretary of Pestilence. We just need Famine and Death to round it out.