Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
Just sent out a free piece to expand on my article in @theatlantic.com yesterday. The signs of rot in US military and diplomatic capabilities are real and even more extensive than I could say in that article. Here are more-and a gift link to the original article. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
Everyone needs to know the extent of what the U.S did.
An unarmed Iranian ship invited to a joint Indian naval exercise paraded its sailors before the president alongside other participants, including the U.S.
At the last minute, the U.S. withdrew from the exercise and torpedoed the Iranian vessel
Historian Vanessa M. Holden visited #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book, 'Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGeQ...
#WomensHistoryMonth
#BlackWomensHistory
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
They’ve already seeded the next few generations.
NEW YouGov poll: Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States 50% support 39% oppose Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE Moderates +6 23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE
NEW YouGov poll:
Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States
50% support
39% oppose
Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE
Moderates +6
23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE
Episode 3 of The Caste Pod with Yashica Dutt! newbooksnetwork.com/coming-out-a...
Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."
complete insanity
The phrase “preemptive strike” is as insulting as when we were sold “humanitarian pauses” in the middle of a live-streamed genocide. The powerful looking you straight in the face and telling you your common sense simply doesn’t matter.
Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
Mass horror at the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti has DHS’s budget at stake.
And yet in the past week, agents left a blind refugee to die alone.
And lied about it.
They pretended to be police looking for a missing child, to detain a college kid.
And lied about it.
What does this tell you?
“Elite impunity is now an American national project…. This has been the priority for the wealthy and powerful, who have managed to convince a critical mass of Americans that they will be able to enjoy the same privileges. They won’t.”
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
"Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest faculty distinction — and remaining on leave until that time"
So I think it's fair to say that only a tiny, tiny percentage of the US population was tied up with Epstein. But weirdly maybe 70% of the people in the field of evolutionary psychology.
BOSTON!!! Looking forward to seeing you on April 27 at the Harvard Science Center! I will be in conversation with THE Evelynn Hammonds!!!
Can't make that? Don't want to cross the river? I'll be at Brookline Booksmith with THE David Kaiser the next day, April 28 :-)
“What Epstein’s efforts to collect big thinkers, a longstanding panic about a crisis of campus wokeness, and current efforts to shut down study of gender, race and sexuality share is that all are expressions of backlash…”
www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...
*looks directly into the camera Marxistly*
This is what a large proportion of the violence in internal conflicts looks like: a state relying on regular people for intelligence, regular people weaponizing the state within their own communities, and security forces not knowing/caring what’s motivating the sources whose information they act on.
Yale AAUP launches campaign to enshrine academic freedom protections in their faculty handbook.
“There is a commitment to academic freedom here, but it needs to be made more meaningful at a time when there’s so much real risk around it.”
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Lifting up the life of civil rights icon Jesse Jackson. Hard to lay out the range of his work and contributions and how much he inspired. They are leaving us one by one, exhorting us to pick up the mantle with courage & determination. Justice work is a lifelong commitment. Thank you Rev. Jackson.
Listen to the second episode of The Caste Pod with the amazing Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective, aka The Auntylectuals! newbooksnetwork.com/feminism-and...
I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk
