Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
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Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
In a moment when the foundations of American democracy are being shaken – and its past reshaped to serve partisan ends – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, joins us for a conversation on the erosion of democracy and the tools for resistance. @nhannahjones.bsky.social
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
This hits right on time… My wife and I had the great privilege of visiting the African-American Museum in DC, and let me just tell you if you have not been…It is a masterpiece—go.
Again:Journalists are not stenographers. We are to get information, report and verify the facts, and then report the reality not the talking point. What Trump is doing in DC and threatening in cities is NOT a crime crack down because he says it is. Don’t regurgitate. Report the truth not propaganda.
Don’t miss @nhannahjones.bsky.social and Emerson Sykes on “Trump’s Erasure of American History,” the latest episode of “The Bully’s Pulpit.” Listen, subscribe, and leave a review wherever you get podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Thank you.
Six years ago @nhannahjones.bsky.social released "The 1619 Project," and the world hasn't been the same since. It marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to American shores. 6 years later, it's become a war over history. With the latest battle taken to the museums
In the finale of "The Bully's Pulpit," @cristianfarias.com sits down with @nhannahjones.bsky.social and @aclu.org’s Emerson Sykes to delve into the First Amendment, civil rights, and why defending free speech is essential to protecting our history. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Seizing the property of private organizations to punish dissent is totalitarianism. It is illegal, anti-Conservative, Soviet, and sickening. Yet people who drool ‘freedom’ whisper not a word to object. Lift not a finger.
Trump’s chilling effect on Big Law firms taking on pro bono work has “been a nightmare,” said the president of a small nonprofit that investigates civil rights violations. “People don’t want to stand up, and because of that, people are suffering.” By @mtredden.bsky.social
David Pecker, a longtime friend of Donald Trump and former publisher of The National Enquirer, helped bury damaging stories about the future president ahead of the 2016 election – and now a New York attorney who aided the effort is speaking out in regret.
In a one-hour meeting April 2024 with Will Lewis, “the then-new publisher of The Post. During our discussion, he asked me: ‘What should The Post do to appeal more to Fox News viewers?’” substack.com/home/post/p-...
During the Center for Journalism & Democracy’s digital security training session at #NABJ25, one of our former interns, Danilo Wrightsell, presented CJD founder @nhannahjones.bsky.social with flowers to thank her for sponsoring his trip to the conference. 🥹
The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.
SCOOP: The Prospect has discovered that FEMA probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs. It could signal problems with ICE recruitment. From @ddayen.bsky.social:
The historical cognate for what is happening in the United States right now is the period known as the Redemption. And the restoration of Confederate iconography, just like when they were originally installed, is to signal to the nation the return of white power.
The Trump administration is on a pro-Confederacy roll, with two monuments brought back in 24 hours. The "Confederate Memorial," its name since its construction in 1914, will be reinstalled in Arlington Cemetery. trib.al/b1L3866
Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.
I was one of the columnists who left the Post after owner Jeff Bezos demanded the Opinion section largely focus on “personal liberties and free markets." Yes, they’re under pressure. But maybe these leaders kinda like what Trump’s doing. — Perry Bacon, TNR's newest team member trib.al/Xj7T00b
Vast majority of US adults are stressed about grocery costs, finds AP-NORC poll
I mean, they should be.
Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned associate, has been moved to a lower-security prison, her attorney said. Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on sex-trafficking charges, had been serving her 20-year sentence at a low security prison.
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Read this paragraph, please. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
“Since January, President Donald Trump’s DOJ has dropped racial discrimination lawsuits, abandoned investigations of police misconduct and canceled oversight of troubled law enforcement agencies.” Now this. Excellent reporting from @coreygjohnson.bsky.social : www.propublica.org/article/trum...
NEW FROM @reuters.com: Top U.S. law firms have sharply scaled back their efforts to challenge the federal government in court, especially on behalf of pro bono clients, in the face of threats from President Trump. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Whew! Say all of that.
Another fallacy. It’s much easier to close big gaps than smaller ones. Are we to be shocked that the wealth gap closed by leaps and bounds between the time when Black people held no wealth because they were property and emancipation when they were finally able to keep the fruits of their labor?
Checks out.
So, that points to marriage not being the cause of the RACIAL wealth gap, which is what that entire essay is about.
In general, married people hold more wealth than unmarried women. Thst is true for Black people when you compare them to other Black people, but not married Black people when you compare them to unmarried white women. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
So, if education and marriage were the significant factors in closing the racial wealth gap, then the wealth gap should not exist or be narrower when comparing Black married people and white married people, Black college-educated people with white college-educated people. But it’s not.
But what I show in “What Is Owed,” unmarried white people hold more wealth than married Black people. College-educated Black people have less wealth and are more likely to be unemployed than white Americans with no college. And in fact, the wealth gap increases the more educated a Black person is.
The argument is about the cause of the wealth gap between Black and white people, not the wealth gap between married and unmarried Black people. If marriage rates are largely or significantly responsible for the racial wealth gap, we’d need to compared unmarried groups with married groups.
I so want to debate this essay, point by point. But let me just point to an easy error. In arguing the worn theory that Black wealth disparity’s due to unmarried mothers, why would the control group be married Black people, not white people of similar circumstance? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.
Powell: "Increased tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods. Near-term measures of inflation expectations have moved up on balance over the course of this year on news about tariffs."
The fact that literally zero outlets ever cover crime decline as a story is a huge reason. (And before you yell at me, we do!)
The capitulation and abandonment of civil rights continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...
Just read the Brown University agreement and this really jumped out. "The University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex."
NASA and SpaceX plan to launch astronauts to the International Space Station Thursday amid NASA’s workforce turmoil. Concerns about safety have risen as NASA lacks a permanent leader and 4,000 employees having left.
A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”
How is a majority white country where white people still run almost all of our institutions anti-white?
This is endorsement of open white supremacy by Trump’s former right hand man and the richest man in the world.
When democratic backsliding and corruption get really bad is usually in term 2. When first in power, would-be authoritarians often don’t know how things work, and worry that they’ll alienate too many people. But if they show their true colors then get electoral validation anyway, all bets are off.
“It really is something,” a former senior administration official tells Rolling Stone. “They are just bragging about doing now what we all were told to downplay or lie about in his first term. … Incredible.” More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Russell Vought claimed on CNN this weekend that NIH funding is corrupt. As @juliametraux.bsky.social reported this February, his family has directly benefited from the NIH.
When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
Ultimately, over the past dozen or so years, about half the concentration of wealth in the U.S. has benefited just 19 families. 19. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.
Wage growth among Americans has slowed considerably in the first half of 2025 as inflation has begun trending upward.
In one swift moment, a traffic stop turned into a violent arrest. Video footage of the incident show a group of officers detaining three men. Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the use of a stun gun “funny”.
Netanyahu: “Hamas is stealing the aid” Update: www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/p...
I enjoyed this slogging more than — or perhaps exactly as much as — I should. “Williams’s grand subject being himself, now we have a third memoir. Summer of Our Discontent takes a caustic look at BLM from the lofty vantage point of his Parisian garret.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
*pure profit
After arriving in Venezuela, some of the men that Donald Trump had deported to the El Salvador prison crossed themselves, cried and hugged one another.
Recently ICE agents appeared on a Little League field in Manhattan. Coach Youman Wilder told a group of kids who were being interrogated to get behind him and said to the officers, “You don’t have more rights than they do.”
Tulsi Gabbard is trying to gaslight you in the name of authoritarianism, points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
JUST IN: Former Jan. 6 prosecutor Michael Gordon (prosecuted Riley Williams, Ray Epps, Bigo Barnett, among others) and press aide Patty Hartman have sued Pam Bondi over their terminations from DOJ. Their lawyer: Abbe Lowell storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“Turns out its easy to sell out your principles for purse profit.” As part of the deal, Paramount/CBS agreed to end all DEI. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Things are going great when the deputy FBI director is concerned about the effects of the bureau's actions on his podcast audience www.wsj.com/politics/jus...
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, most remembered for playing Theo Huxtable on ‘The Cosby Show,’ passed away Sunday. But his legacy spans much more than one character. I wrote about how I’ll remember him best. www.theringer.com/2025/07/21/t...
“The less people are paid, the more anxious employers are to squeeze every bead of sweat out of their labour, monitoring each second with an indignity that no worker further up the chain would tolerate” Polly Toynbee, in the introduction to “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Congratulations, Nicole!
PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.
It's true. All of it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.
When you don’t have anything else to write you regurgitate a column you have been writing since 2019, and as a conservative columnist cite Trotskyites if it condemns centering slavery in the American story. Thanks for continuing to prove the impact of the 1619 Project. You still mad?
❗Usprung der USA: Ankunft des ersten Sklavenschiffes❗ Unser letzter Beitrag zur Aktionswoche Demokratische Revolutionen #hist4rev #hist4demaktionen von Nina Mackert @ninamackert.bsky.social über das 1619 Project in den USA #1619Project @nhannahjones.bsky.social 🧵1/4
A Texas official said “there wasn’t a lot of time” to alert camps of the flood risk. But AccuWeather’s chief meteorologist said warnings gave “plenty of time to evacuate people to higher ground.” “The question is, Why did that not happen?” he said. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
Civil rights groups alleged that ICE and Border Patrol agents are rounding people up based on their race, and denying them access to lawyers. A federal judge said there's evidence what they're doing is illegal.
📅 7/16; 9:30a ET 📍Online Join us for Katrina’s America, a day-long event exploring the legacy of Hurricane Katrina. 🗣️ Vann R. Newkirk II, @drtedj.bsky.social, @sherifink.bsky.social, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social, @nhannahjones.bsky.social, & more. #NewAmericaEvents go.newamerica.org/katrinasamer...
“We’re actually moving in silence right now, building our own institutions, building our own structures of self-care because I think the way that we survive this moment is to engage in self-protection.” @nhannahjones.bsky.social @essencemagazine.bsky.social @wbai.org www.essence.com/news/black-l...
I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network. A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
"The fund, overseen by the Texas Water Development Board, has identified $54 billion in flood control needs across Texas. But lawmakers so far have devoted just $1.4 billion to fix them."
Experts worry that if vaccination rates do not improve, deadly outbreaks will become normal. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
What a headline.
‘I’m going hot with a Taser’: Baltimore Police broke down door before shooting 70-year-old
HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/k... via @statnews.com
cnn editor: u got that story on ice? cnn reporter: sure did boss, real fuckin hypernormalized, just like u asked cnn editor: first of all, i love it
Liberia, the nation, was founded by Black Americans who left the United States after they were freed from slavery. The official language of the country is English.
Woke up with more to say about the historical significance of JD Vance's dismissal of the idea that America is "purely an idea." His political party was LITERALLY FOUNDED on this bedrock claim--that the Declaration of Independence's assertion of human equality is THE foundational American principle.
I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine
JD Vance: Some Americans Are More American Than Others talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...
Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
Impact. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
📅 7/16; 9:30a ET 📍Online Join us for Katrina’s America, a day-long event exploring the legacy of Hurricane Katrina. 🗣️ Vann R. Newkirk II, @drtedj.bsky.social, @sherifink.bsky.social, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social, @nhannahjones.bsky.social, & more. #NewAmericaEvents go.newamerica.org/katrinasamer...
Incredibly grim to learn that Jeff Bezos and his wife, in addition to hanging out with the Trump family, are huge fans of The Free Press, and see it as the future of media. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The entire reason we created the ACA and Medicaid expansion is many jobs don’t offer health insurance, and certainly those who work as contractors or consultants are not employees. They all understand this and are just saying crazy shit up there all the time. Ugly bill will hurt entrepreneurship.
