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And check out how many praised his fake biography podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
ALLOW ME TO RETORT by @elienyc.bsky.social describes how Reagan passed a gun control law in CA to control the gun use of Black Panthers. Then the NRA made up an entirely new interpretation of the 2nd amendment to foster the unfettered access of guns in the USA that Scalia latched onto.
I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵
This is one of the most powerful essays I have ever read. It's also very effective at highlighting how Hanif Abdurraqib's own observations and experiences with Islamophobia—including death threats—serve him as an important area of expertise, even though many white journalists would call it bias.
DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2
Why is the Daddy Party allowed to rant & rave & do impulsive, stupid shit & never, ever be held to account, while the Mommy Party is endlessly scolded & lectured & second-guessed by everyone, even when it is earnestly trying to do the right thing? Gosh. What a puzzler.
Looks like she’s wearing make up…
Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.
BREAKING: A federal court temporarily blocked the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from implementing President Trump’s illegal voting executive order. This decision provides protections for voters & the organizations helping them register to vote! www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
Thank you @legaldefensefund.bsky.social for your work!
BREAKING: A federal court blocked the enforcement of the Dept. of Education’s certification requirement, which threatens schools with a loss of funding. This decision is a step toward ensuring every student receives access to a quality education.
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
‘Target suffers eighth week of foot-traffic losses since caving on DEI Costco, which resisted demands to end DEI, extends its streak of foot-traffic gains to 13.’
Kept you on all night and still listening, THANK YOU! 👏🏽💕
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Could you please publish the list of 129 left-leaning shows?
Sometime very soon we’re going to have to have the conversation about how many so-called progressives also wanted “DEI” to die & what all that mainstream endorsement of the propaganda around what at their essence were integration efforts says about people who believe themselves to be the good guys.
BOMBSHELL report from Washington Post finds that DOGE cuts at the Social Security Administration are killing the agency. They’re making SSA dysfunctional so that they can privatize Social Security.
Elon Musk is tearing apart our government so the wealthiest can benefit. The millions of Americans relying on Social Security deserve answers as to why they are facing 4-hour wait times, whether their benefits are still active, and how Trump plans to fix it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump wants to give almost $5 trillion in tax handouts to billionaires and billionaire corporations — paid for on the backs of seniors, veterans, public workers, and little kids. We can’t let that happen.
Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.
ohanian>think that the biggest sham is that we have somehow identified these types of goals with not being meritocratic.Those of us who've been out here building multibillion-dollar companies with an eye towards having diversity, equity, and inclusion, we're hiring for greatness. That never stopped.
For fascists, the hypocrisy is the point. It’s a virtue that demonstrates their power. They enjoy people getting worked up about it. This doesn’t mean ignoring their unethical behavior, but focus on harm they are causing rather than rules they are breaking. And focus on dismantling their systems.
People respond to “call your Senator” with “but mine are both Republicans.” Precisely. The only way anything will change is with PRESSURE. Signalgate is a serious breach & display of lying & incompetence at the highest levels. Call them! 202-224-3121 www.armed-services.senate.gov/about/member...
DOGE has given federal courts conflicting information on what government data it has accessed and why. The public deserves to know what DOGE is doing. That's why we're suing DOGE to ensure the media and public have access to their records. www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper. Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.
Two free tips for anyone writing about Trump requiring people to do something 1) you can say purporting to require 2) no obligations have been imposed on people. The order tells agencies to take appropriate action to implement a policy; let's keep space between Trump's word & law as long as we can
In Trump's first term, media orgs would credulously repeat Trump's claims to have saved jobs. Now they are credulously amplifying executive orders based on misleading premises that claim powers that Trump does not hold. Stop amplifying misinformation and aiding his attack on democracy!
Ossoff: This is what happens when you have Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials.
You use the officials USGovt secure channels to hide communications from bad actors. You use Signal to hide communications from the USGovt.
This is unconscionable.
thread. read to the end, lol.
The thing about Trump’s team is that we learn how many morally bankrupt, marginally intelligent, men of utterly average substance have walked among us, seemingly successful, running money-making firms, CEOs and venture capitalists - even the richest man in the world. They have been unmasked.
Democrats @gregcasar.bsky.social of Texas, the new chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, gets messaging: keep it simple, factual, but also emotive. Pick a villain. Assign blame. Stand with the little guy.
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
Asian American Democrat-then Trump I, seeing videos of Black folks hunted down by cops, learning about reparations for African Americans, following Roxane Gay & Tressie McMillan Cottom on Twitter - I’m on the Left now. Thank God for AOC & Jasmine Crockett.
My conservative grandmother voted for Trump I and then moved into a senior living facility with mostly liberal neighbors. She was disgusted by Jan 6, can’t stand Trump now and attended a queer pride event recently that the facility sponsored a table at for residents. Proud of her.
The Times defense of higher education, while welcome, still engages in a lot of the tropes that Trump is using. I would love if there was some reflection on the role the Times has played, especially on its opinion page, which has been blasting higher ed for a decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...
You know what stories I would like to read and hear about? People who have been pushed even more to the left/progressive/ Dem socialist side after the last several years-- and after everything happening with the Dem establishment now.
You are 1000 percent right. They are greatly miscalculating the depth in which people will feel absolutely abandoned by them — and thus feel no reason to fight with them. No Dem I know gives a fuck about decorum or bipartisanship. Mitch McConnell would literally fucking never. MLK Jr., said it best:
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.
New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451
That’s your post ?! It’s missing some key concepts
In Oversight today, my colleagues stuck to their usual script: blaming immigrants for all crime & claiming Dem mayors are too soft. Well, I was curious to know if they’ve ever had an immigrant with a criminal record that they could recall. Tune in!
BREAKING: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office just confirmed Republicans who say their budget doesn't cut Medicaid are lying. Their budget *requires* the largest Medicaid cuts in American history - all while delivering a $4.5 TRILLION giveaway to billionaire donors.
🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up
I’ve gotta take a cue from your restraint, when outside. Last week, I got into it with an incel-type. He then threatened me with his Doberman.
If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.
HT @vermontgmg.bsky.social >>>Trump, the elected president who shares power in his month-old regime with South African oligarch Musk…
Actually it’s Il DOOjay, also the Italian way
What’s a lovely random thing you observed this week while you were out and about?
My puppy auditioning to be the animal in the first moving picture. I think a horse booked the part.
House Republicans just took the first step towards passing their plans to cut health care and hike the cost of groceries for millions of people. Why? To pay for tax giveaways for billionaires and billionaire corporations. Working people won't forget this. We need to fight back.
Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.
Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be *legislators* right now. We need them to be *politicians.* There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.
Despite everything he's tried, the vast majority of Americans, including six in ten Republicans, still really don't like Mark Zuckerberg www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.
PLEASE read this THREAD.
Excellent by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social "If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him."
It's difficult to address the original poster's criticism because the very *coding* of clothing can change over time. Flares were originally worn by sailors and cowboys, then Coco Chanel, and then hippies. The codes can change depending on who's wearing something.
In the last 30 years, skinny jeans have moved from "womenswear" to "androgynous" to "hip guy" to "passé." As I've said, it's ironic that some of the most critical voices in today's gender wars are wearing a cut that was once seen as a sign of declining masculinity in the West.
Back when he was the creative head of Dior, Hedi Slimane made waves by releasing skinny jeans for men, which he later said was an intentional celebration of androgyny, as that type of cut was only worn by women at the time.
"But Derek," you protest, "these are pretty niche. Surely normal guys were never wearing womenswear." Not true. We first have to again recognize that codes change over time. For instance, the slim fit trend today started with non-conforming men.
How to pronounce DOGE Il DOO-gay (Accent on DOO, like the Italian nickname, Il Duce)
It was one of those nights
Those millions of white men who lost out to a “DEI hire” in pursuing high-level jobs? It didn’t happen. #DEI www.wsj.com/business/dei...
Why are the Democrats so spineless? | Moira Donegan
Ding ding ding
This happened a week ago.
This tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the crash needs to be immortalized in stone. Or on a plaque in every ATC tower. Or on a disclaimer before every Mayday: Air Disaster episode. Or on an Amber Alert type system to every American. Or on a stamp. Or maybe currency. Something.
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Target is rolling back anti-segregation initiatives.
Remember: Before the election, Heritage Foundation staffers flooded federal agencies with records requests, looking for employees whose emails & messages contained terms like “climate change" or “DEI,” so they could be purged by a Trump 2.0 White House.
I took an unflinching look at my own blind spots and regrets in this piece. Do you have the courage to do the same? Stop dreaming and do the work. It begins with confronting your own errors. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
"If all these psychologically damaged, very powerful men are going to fetishize some throwback conception of manhood, maybe start with [this]: Be your own man. Don't debase yourself by bending the knee," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the MAGA version of masculinity.
and i am sure this begins when they’re young too. they are told that they deserve every opportunity and that if they do not get it it’s because it was taken from them by someone who was necessarily less qualified
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
When you have 250 years of only needing to compete with 30% of the population, you can get pretty comfortable skating through that system.
Hi everyone, does WSJ do gift links? If so, does anyone have one?
you have a bunch of grown men who think “being a man” is doing an andrew dice clay impression rather than trying to emulate, like, harrison ford in the fugitive or denzel in crimson tide
The Eaton Fire devastated #Altadena, a diverse community in Northeast LA full of artists, who were drawn by its affordability, ample space, and proximity to both nature and culture. @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/983707/the-u...
Thank you for Juliana Kim‘s stories on how the fire has affected Altadena residents l, which I read on your website, but couldn’t quickly find on this NPR feed
do not lead with the false accusation in your social media post (especially without saying its false). this privileges the lie and reinforces it even if you "dispel" it in the article you link to.
Amazing to see how suddenly Republicans and conservatives are keen on hiring more government employees (firefighters!), having higher government budgets, and investing more in infrastructure. Surprise!
low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.
Why is the media like this?
The media has focused on wealthy, White neighborhoods. But the fire in Altadena--a racially and economically diverse suburb--deserves more attention, because insurance may not cover their rebuilding costs, forcing families out and leading the neighborhood to gentrify. www.reuters.com/world/us/far...
There are families who will never be able to come back from this devastation, and many of them were in generational homes, passed down from people who bought homes in the 1970sand 80's in Altadena. All of the fires are a tragedy, but especially for those who don't have the resources to rebuild.
All, the Pasadena Humane Society is asking for donations - they're taking in animals right now, and are also preparing to evacuate if needed. Please consider helping:
🔥 I just reread this Bark Magazine piece we wrote in '19 as a way to remember the struggles big dog owners face after disaster. Trying to stay together is intensely difficult but desperately important. #PTSD Animal advocates have to remember to keep this need front and center. tinyurl.com/4nwm5mre
Fact-checking is the bedrock of free expression. It is not intended to change people’s political views. Instead, it creates the space for meaningful and fact based conversations so that people can make informed decisions for themselves. #factcheck #freeexpression #markzuckerberg
Meta’s decision to replace 3rd party fact-checkers with community notes is a step in the wrong direction and a gross mischaracterization of fact-checking work.
3 thoughts- 1-it’s refreshing to see proper framing on this. 2-mf got clowned so hard he deleted his account 3- of course he has a cybertruck
at this point i wish alito would just fess up and say yes, he’s colluding with trump because he does not believe a republican president ought to be held accountable for anything