As Black people have been saying since 2015 or so, MAGA means Jim Crow.

This game was very winnable but Brock *really* wasn’t ready to play. He looked like a completely different player.

Brock clearly still hurting.

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

Yesterday The Intercept posted the piece I wrote for them to X. That account has 800K followers. As of now, the post has 5,500 impressions, 8 likes, and the only reply includes a Pepe the Frog image and the n-word. So yes, seems like the algorithm is working as intended!

What happened to Kimmel is authoritarianism. What’s going to happen to Disney is cancel culture. One is lead by the people, the other by the government. There is a difference.

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links 2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands 3. The whole app is open source This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site. We 💙 the open web.

I'm going to spend a lot of time hammering this between now and the 2028 primary, but everyone should vote for the candidate they like the most and not play 11-dimensional electability chess

UCLA has 677 H1-B workers in 2024. Do you think the taxpayers of the State of California can afford an extra $67.7 million just because? www.myvisajobs.com/employer/uni...

Nicholas Kristof continues his work to keep us aware of the costs of the aid cuts. Children are dying, and it's getting worse.

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

you don’t need to run candidates who have bad culture war positions. you maybe do need to run candidates who code as moderate independent of their culture war positions.

Hey Google, how’s that million dollar bribe working out for ya?

Kimmel wasn't suspended for being insensitive to Kirk's death. he was fired for mocking Trump's insensitivity to Kirk's death.

Agree with this. I don’t love Obama’s framing here of “taking cancel culture to a new level”. “Cancel culture” was a result of free citizens exercising their own speech rights, not government coercion.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

I am pleased to share this excellent piece by Dr. Beth Linas about an aspect of restricting COVID19 vaccine access that is often overlooked: the specter of rising cases of LongCOVID. Thank you @bethlinas.bsky.social for this important writing!

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

Do we have a kicking curse? 😩 #49ers

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

I have many thoughts about Charlie Kirk—and perhaps even more about the white elites, including some on the left, who insist we can’t hold multiple realities at once. We can. And we must. A brief 🧵

Wow.

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

violence is bad (i’ve been pretty consistent on that for a long time), and when you ignore the terror and violence that man unleashed on marginalized people in your pieces about violence being bad, you are erasing his victims

I am continually shocked, though perhaps not surprised, to see white liberals in America put their racism and bigotry on full display. It’s a gut punch every time.

This afternoon, in addition to Charlie Kirk, there was a school shooting. Bullets don't know and don't care if you are a Republican or Democrat. It is time for Republicans and Democrats to find a way to work together to reduce gun violence. www.wcpo.com/us-news/crim...

🧵Here's lots of advice for finding & getting vaxxed, based on suggestions in this piece (with my takes added). I know this is long, but I'd hang onto it, b/c these tips may also help you down the road if (when) other types of vaccines become harder to access: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

In the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.

No. I reject this. I want to live in the other timeline 😭

🔎💉Looking for covid vax? The vaccines.gov site is still down (ofc) but Moderna's appears funtional: products.modernatx.com/mnexspike?ga... Even better, if accurate (it seemed so for my area) is Pfizer's, which gives availability info for Pfizer, Moderna & Novavax!: www.vaxassist.com/pfizer-for-a...

Trump gets booed at the US Open today.

Ugly but they did it #49ers

Simpering cowards one and all. This is almost unbearable to watch.

Not going to stop thinking about the comment that Trump is sending Confederate armies to occupy Northern cities. How much more is there to say? That’s not a “distraction.” It’s what the white supremacists who tried to secede have wanted for over a century. It’s not a distraction to them at all.

Imagine what could have happened if we had a president who tried to unite us in solidarity in the face of an unprecedented pandemic.

I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Governor Lisa Cook Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

I think the main thing people are grappling with is whether we can, in fact, trust candidates who don’t believe in trans rights to be anti-fascist.

Patrick Henry expressed concern that the President “may easily become king,” James Madison replied that this would not occur because “[t]he purse is in the hands of the representatives of the people.” Full Henry quote on "you Senate" below: teachingamericanhistory.org/document/pat...

Business & academic economists, please check it out. If you agree, please sign and share here, by email, with your colleagues, your friends, your associations, by any means possible. Private sector voices carry weight with relevant audiences. #FinTwit #NumbersDay #EconSky

I’m glad President Obama is getting in this fight but this video feels like it was made in 2015.

The defining feature of U.S. democracy has been the unwillingness to hold white conservatives to the rule of law. Time & again, when democratic systems seemed to threaten their power, white conservatives sabotaged existing systems. That dynamic makes democracy impossible.

I keep saying this but it remains true: Dems have not learned the central lesson of Reconstruction, that multiracial democracy cannot survive when those working to overthrow the rule of law & fair elections are allowed to operate with impunity.

Reminder: It does not matter if Lisa Cook filled out a form wrong or if the raid finds some document in a file folder in John Bolton's house. These actions are wrong no matter what because they selectively target opponents of the government. The rule of law is under attack.

the GOP is trying to do nationwide Jim Crow backed by the post-9/11 surveillance state. the thing about Jim Crow is it wasn't in any real sense a democracy, and the one party rule was enforced with violence. the thing about media like WaPo is they'll deny this up until the day the work is complete

If you haven’t realized that the Trump regime is focused 24/7 on ending what remains of competitive elections in the US & using false claims about crime to normalize a police state, you aren’t paying attention.

It is journalistic malpractice to use the present tense in the headline, subhead, and lede of this article and @nytimes.com should immediately issue a correction.

crazy, what is it about lisa cook that might have led the white house to baselessly accuse her of mortgage fraud in order to force her out of her job?

the Trump 2.0 project is best understood as a national reimposition of Jim Crow