For @wired.com, I wrote about how misogyny and homophobia have been used by the right to wage a campaign to destroy Renee Good www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it

“And so we must be clear about the stakes: Our nation teeters at the brink of a particularly dangerous moment, not just for Black Americans but for democracy itself.” www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/m...

The last thing I wrote in my colorblindness piece argued “What we are witnessing, once again, is the alignment of white power against racial justice and redress. As history has shown, maintaining racial inequality requires constant repression and is therefore antithetical to democracy...”

A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins. DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?

During those decades, Conservatives think tanks thought through how they wanted to dismantle it. There's no concomitant apparatus among Democrats.

Abolishing the Dept of Ed was a multi-decade project of the Right and it took a fascist regime to finally start to do it. Dem elites and politicians have no such investment in dismantling ICE and we can see that in real time. There's also no movement of its voters threatening them on the matter.

Power is always discursive and its moves to undermine the use of language to tell the truth is central to its narrative strategy against the public. Here, Homan makes calling a murder a “murder” more dangerous than murder itself. Stokely taught us this decades ago about power and police.

Power is always discursive and its moves to undermine the use of language to tell the truth is central to its narrative strategy against the public. Here, Homan makes calling a murder a “murder” more dangerous than murder itself. Stokely taught us this decades ago about power and police.

They're threatening to kill more of us if we call them murderers. Only a murderer levels that kind of threat.

After Minneapolis, now the ICE shooting on Christmas Eve in Maryland is getting some scrutiny from local police: “…county police confirmed The Banner’s reporting that the second person injured in the encounter was already in ICE custody, in one of the agency’s vehicles, when he was hurt.”

The Minnesota Star Tribune identified the victim of the ICE shooting in Minnesota as Renee Nicole Good. Her father, Tim Ganger, told The Post that he and his wife were still processing the news. “She was a wonderful person,” he said.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Narrator voice: “Tim Walz is almost certainly playing.”

Take physical actions please. I love some of you jerks 🕶🖤

Kind of like private equity. Something you think is bad all of a sudden gets that much worse because the entity taking over doesn’t even care about the place or people, only the resources, profit, and their own self-interest.

End BOEING complicity in the never ending usa war machine. BOEING also kills whistleblowers in the 🇺🇸 🌎 #EndUSAterror #ArmsEmbargoForever #EndIOFterror #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

This should exist in every city in the country.

What a time to be a social studies teacher in the middle of a unit on colonialism & imperialism.

*endless screaming*

Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.

Anyway, Wag the Dog tried to warn us en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the...

Who needs CBS when Reuters can do state propaganda just as well?

Big congrats to the Nobel Committee for awarding the prize "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" just so she could immediately conspire with a foreign government to murder civilians on the high seas then invade and stage a coup.

I’m just waiting for the announcement we’re going to install him as the new Venezuelan president.

Maduro was a brutal repressive dictator who destroyed Venezuela. Trump did not have congressional or UN approval to engage in unilateral regime change. Trump's actions were illegal. All of those things can be true at the same time. Don't let them make this about Maduro.

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

White people favorite thing to do in American politics is pretend to be shocked 😭

Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist who captured New Yorkers’ attention and ardor, was officially sworn in.

Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol

free palestine ❤️

Something I didnt know existed!! I need this yesterday, tomorrow, and right now!

Eight billion dollars for destroying America is nothing.

This reminds me of what Quincy Jones said about Kanye West when people compared them as producers.

Crackling with truth and incisiveness. Thank you @hfdavis.bsky.social electronicintifada.net/content/univ...

Revolutionary optimism is the disciplined confidence that because trans lives are forced to invent ways of surviving capitalism, we also possess the skills needed to abolish it. Despair only serves existing power structures. Collective struggle for total intersectional liberation now. ⚧️

Collective failure to repudiate Trumpism is how we got here. Throwing trans folks under the bus is how we got here. Denying the fact that healthcare is a human right is how we got here. I don’t know what else to say. We are not getting through to enough people for some reason.

The same people who spent the last decade wagging their fingers at those of us who said our politics have been driven by race, who claimed actual victims of discrimination talking about that discrimination was identity politics, are now full on embracing the politics of aggrieved white racism. Wow.

Sincerely: Is the claim actually that white men are facing systemic discrimination from white men? What are we doing here? It’s frustrating that really “smart” people succumb again and again to these racial propaganda campaigns. Anti-1619, anti-CRT, anti-woke, now rampant anti-white racism hysteria.

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So systemic discrimination DOES exist! But white guys are the victims of it! The most intellectually, politically, and culturally lazy cohort in modern history - white guys of mediocre intellect, creativity, & personality who can only ape the theories, language, laws, & struggle of Black people.

Every time you play a Carl Thomas song, a sweater grows a turtleneck

What does it mean for the governed when their ‘elected’ officials consistently refuse the very legislative power they are ascribed? What does it mean American imperialism/fascism and the ever-eroding illusion of democracy itself?

Not to toot my own horn, but this story is perpetually relevant. theintercept.com/2025/02/22/t...

This entire weekend

Here's what we know about the mass shooting that left at least 15 people dead. And, authorities found director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, dead in their Los Angeles home. n.pr/4593urc