As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

GREED ON STEROIDS Broke legal U.S. residents are being deported to only God knows where, but for $1,000,000 bucks you can come to America. #GoldCardVisa

Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.

FEDERAL EXTORTION OF #HARVARD Imagine being extorted for a political ransom (a “legal” settlement) while being robbed (federal grants terminated without cause)—THEN the extortionists demand an audit to make sure you can pay. Outrageous. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

DISHONORED & STOLEN HONOR Charlie Kirk & Medgar Evers were both assassinated. Kirk was a racist & WW2 veteran Evers sacrificed his life to end racism. The Pentagon tried to erase Ever’s legacy AND now wants you to join the army to honor Kirk ‘s. SHAME. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

DISHONORED & STOLEN HONOR Charlie Kirk & Medgar Evers were both assassinated. Kirk was a racist & WW2 veteran Evers sacrificed his life to end racism. The Pentagon tried to erase Ever’s legacy AND now wants you to join the army to honor Kirk ‘s. SHAME. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

ALLIES There is no skin color, bank balance, or neighborhood to protect you in a racist autocracy. You really think you & your group are safe from armed thugs radicalized online or autocrats in power? Standing alone is a dangerously naive response to a divide conquer strategy.

ALLIES There is no skin color, bank balance, or neighborhood to protect you in a racist autocracy. You really think you & your group are safe from armed thugs radicalized online or autocrats in power? Standing alone is a dangerously naive response to a divide conquer strategy.

A Trump-appointed federal judge said Thursday that a Justice Department lawyer made false claims in court to justify a “hasty operation” to deport dozens of Guatemalan children in the middle of the night over the Labor Day weekend.

We have an administration that claims to oppose #antisemitism —while stoking anti-Black #racism and fueling anti-immigrant hate, . Those acting like the Klan can’t protect us from those acting like Nazis. Face the facts: we are either safer TOGETHER or dangerously ALONE.

Describing aloud the dangers we face as a nation requires patriotic courage. The worst form of cowardice is falsely reassuring ourselves that America does not require our voices & our courage. Frederick Douglass bravely spoke unspoken truths aloud & loud. He is a role model in this moment.

Deleting a report doesn’t erase the truth. The greatest terrorism threat is on the far right. This hard fact doesn’t excuse violent extremism on the left, it simply demands DOJ prosecute for public safety not propagandize a political agenda.

Describing aloud the dangers we face as a nation requires patriotic courage. The worst form of cowardice is falsely reassuring ourselves that America does not require our voices & our courage. Frederick Douglass bravely spoke unspoken truths aloud & loud. He is a role model in this moment.

First, Trump calls it the Department of War. Now, he is bombing seemingly random boats in the Caribbean and picking a fight with Venezuela. These attacks are illegal, they’re reckless, and they could drag us into a war. They must stop.

A DOG or A BLACK MAN? Given a choice between an enslaved Black man or dead dog, #Trump White House apparently chooses dog. The picture of this brutalized Black man has been removed by the Park Service, but a pic & exhibit of this postal service pet remain in a Smithsonian museum.

A🧵 You can’t oppose ONLY hate that affects you & think you’re safe from others. Those who hate Jews assassinate Christians; those who bomb Black churches also bomb synagogues; & those who shoot immigrants also have Americans in their line of fire. #Groyper #CharlieKirkshot

A DOG or A BLACK MAN? Given a choice between an enslaved Black man or dead dog, #Trump White House apparently chooses dog. The picture of this brutalized Black man has been removed by the Park Service, but a pic & exhibit of this postal service pet remain in a Smithsonian museum.

Trump will posthumously award racist #CharlieKirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was also given to John Lewis by Obama. An unearned award and flags flown at half staff can’t erase Kirk’s hate. Grieving a death is not license to reinvent a life & legacy.

Here, moral arrogance & historical ignorance insult the legacies of 4 men & fail to invent a legacy for 1. BTW, for the Christians, “God is not mocked.”

A🧵 You can’t oppose ONLY hate that affects you & think you’re safe from others. Those who hate Jews assassinate Christians; those who bomb Black churches also bomb synagogues; & those who shoot immigrants also have Americans in their line of fire. #Groyper #CharlieKirkshot

It’s almost like there’s a pattern we should watch for more carefully.

Here, moral arrogance & historical ignorance insult the legacies of 4 men & fail to invent a legacy for 1. BTW, for the Christians, “God is not mocked.”

Trump wants to silence everyone on the left by saying any criticism is inciting political violence

NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.

Trump will posthumously award racist #CharlieKirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was also given to John Lewis by Obama. An unearned award and flags flown at half staff can’t erase Kirk’s hate. Grieving a death is not license to reinvent a life & legacy.

NEW @motherjones.com: Pardoned J6ers are using Kirk's killing to call for civil war Stewart Rhodes will rebuild Oath Keepers; Proud Boys call for "retribution"; & ex-insurrectionists are coming "out of retirement." Experts fear they could incite others to violence. W/ @kieraevebutler.bsky.social:

On #September11th , 2001, my commuter bus was late arriving at the Pentagon. I remember the hate that crashed planes & ended lives as well as the later hate directed against innocent Muslims, Sikhs, & other “Brown people.” Today, we face new old hates.

On #September11th , 2001, my commuter bus was late arriving at the Pentagon. I remember the hate that crashed planes & ended lives as well as the later hate directed against innocent Muslims, Sikhs, & other “Brown people.” Today, we face new old hates.

Conservatives should object to the word “conservative” applied to a man best described as racist. #CharlieKirk is not best known for the conservative views he held, but the people he hated.

You don’t have to white wash #CharlieKirk ‘s racism to believe no human being should be shot in cold blood. The man was vile and venomous and STILL a human bring.

Mourning #CharlieKirk as a racist invoking Martin Luther King is psychotic racism. “I’m racking my brain trying to think of another political figure that had a similar impact … who was assassinated, & the only person I can think of is Martin Luther King Jr.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Mourning #CharlieKirk as a racist invoking Martin Luther King is psychotic racism. “I’m racking my brain trying to think of another political figure that had a similar impact … who was assassinated, & the only person I can think of is Martin Luther King Jr.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Among all high-income Western countries, the United States has shown the worst performance in reducing the probability of dying from chronic diseases, a new study finds. https://cnn.it/4pfRf4I

🧵 #CharlieKirk & racism placed me on his “Prof Watchlist,” exposing many of us to threats & even violence. Despite that, our humanity DEMANDS we grieve the evil theft of EVERY human life by #violence. I pray for his family, especially his wife & children. #unconditionallove

🧵 #CharlieKirk & racism placed me on his “Prof Watchlist,” exposing many of us to threats & even violence. Despite that, our humanity DEMANDS we grieve the evil theft of EVERY human life by #violence. I pray for his family, especially his wife & children. #unconditionallove

The threat America faces is not a badly managed economy, but an economy suffering from autocracy.

A Supreme Court majority just declared IF Justice Sotomayor spoke Spanish in front of a Home Deport, masked ICE agents can #racialprofile & cuff her. If that seems like an exaggeration, read her dissent or just ask profiled “immigrant looking people.”

A Supreme Court majority just declared IF Justice Sotomayor spoke Spanish in front of a Home Deport, masked ICE agents can #racialprofile & cuff her. If that seems like an exaggeration, read her dissent or just ask profiled “immigrant looking people.”

BREAKING RACIST LOGIC The absence of Black people in 1 or even 100 protests does not represent the presence of a permission slip for a racist autocrat to occupy the nation’s capital. The White House refusing to hear dissent does not = Black consent. @AP #nationalguard

BREAKING RACIST LOGIC The absence of Black people in 1 or even 100 protests does not represent the presence of a permission slip for a racist autocrat to occupy the nation’s capital. The White House refusing to hear dissent does not = Black consent. @AP #nationalguard

A DECLARATION OF WAR By law, the president can only declare war or create a Dept. of War thru Congress EXCEPTION: when a lawless autocrat declares war de facto by social media—against cities, immigrants, and Black & Brown people to gain control over ALL Americans. #DepartmentOfWar #Chicago

A DECLARATION OF WAR By law, the president can only declare war or create a Dept. of War thru Congress EXCEPTION: when a lawless autocrat declares war de facto by social media—against cities, immigrants, and Black & Brown people to gain control over ALL Americans. #DepartmentOfWar #Chicago

Our Ancestors Were Messy is such an excellent podcast. Imagine were gossip columnists & historians to spill the tea on the friendship & feud of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes—WITH wit, wisdom, erudition, and humor. GREAT listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Our Ancestors Were Messy is such an excellent podcast. Imagine were gossip columnists & historians to spill the tea on the friendship & feud of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes—WITH wit, wisdom, erudition, and humor. GREAT listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Miscarriage of Justice ⬇️ Miscarriage of a Baby Heartbreaking.

Miscarriage of Justice ⬇️ Miscarriage of a Baby Heartbreaking.

NOT GIVING UP Had Harriet Tubman compared the 70 slaves she freed to the 4 million enslaved, she might have given up. Her hope and leadership were not based on the dire math of reality, but on a calculation of faith. Hope is not empirically demonstrated, it is morally chosen. #AddToBlackSky

BREAKING (and utterly unsurprising) A Trump legal appeal wrapped in toilet tissue paper thin reasoning & see thru evidence—behind which is a nakedly political agenda to villify #Harvard & weaponize higher education. Meanwhile sick people needing federally funded research $$$ are hurting. SMH @AP

KIDNAPPING IMMIGRANTS OR PROTECTING THE POWER GRID ? While masked ICE agents protect the U.S. from undocumented fruit pickers in the fields, America is defenseless against Chinese cyberattackers stealing data on the power grid, telecommunications, & from millions. … www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...