I wish more Americans could see the way the world sees us right now. We are in the bad place.
08.03.2026 02:29
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I wish more Americans could see the way the world sees us right now. We are in the bad place.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
“Actions by the Department of Education have real consequences for millions of students and families,” a lawyer representing ProPublica said. “The public deserves to understand how executive authority is being exercised.”
This is the energy democrats running for office need to have more of..
Take a listen
It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934
I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.
And cruella deville behind him.
Could you imagine the level of Unmitigated Caucacity you have to have in your spirit to tell Black Americans, "they either fall in line behind Talarico or fuck off"...
Yeah, y'all really don't know how foundational Black Americans have been to the stability of this funky country.
Even as...
“In October 2025, both her SSI and Medicare benefits were halted, and she was told her immigration status was under review. Although Rakestraw was born in the U.S. and has never once traveled or lived outside the country, federal officials still raised questions about her legal status.”🤬
A thought. 💡 How come it's campaigning in every other community, but it's pandering when it comes to actually earning the Black vote? 🤔
When will we be spared from having to see this man?
People like Maher are always down with bombing Black and Brown countries. Bonus if it's a non-christian country.
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth
They seem to have plenty of influence to me.
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- Meaningfully and respectfully engage with its base of Black and Jewish voters to reenergize the party at large.
Love this moral clarity.
Then she says "something needs to be changed in that department as far as the pattern of violence or abuse and impunity."
Like, hello, elections have consequences, leopard meet face, your own damn son was killed by the regime.
Sixty-one years ago today, on Bloody Sunday, Alabama law enforcement attacked peaceful civil and voting rights marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. They broke John Lewis’s skull. 🗃️ #EduSky nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
She still supports him.
"I don't blame President Trump for the death of my son, 'cause he wasn't the one who pulled the trigger," Reyes said.
This is how it was— it's a return.
Despite all they sacrificed, Fannie Lou Hammer's Freedom Party, the first integrated Dem delegation, was denied seats at the DNC.
When they were offered two seats, which they refused on principle, the entire all white Mississippi delegation walked out anyway.
Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
*Alysa Liu voice* that's what I'm fucking talking about
This is why "progressives" hate Black people.
It's impossible to win the presidential primary & primaries in certain states/CDs without strong support from Black voters.
They hide behind code words like neoliberal, BlueMAGA & "establishment," but like in 2020, they eventually show their true colors.
Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.
This needs to be on the front page of every paper and top of every newscast. Why is Congress so complacent about this?
My latest on Russia assisting Iran in targeting U.S. troops and interests.
And a reminder on how Russia did this before in Afghanistan, when they offered bounties to Taliban militants to kill Americans.
The enforcement of laws against homeless people is costly.
Albuquerque’s Bernalillo County spends ~$169/night to jail inmates — and more if they have significant medical needs.
By comparison, the city’s year-round emergency shelter costs $44/night.
I'm honored to be publishing this piece with Vanderbilt Psych Prof Sarah Brown-Schmidt in volume 112 of the Virginia Law Review. In this empirical evidence law and cognitive science article, we identify the risks posed by "hear-witnesses" who inaccurately recall and recount statements at trial.
In this week’s newsletter, I look forward to “Beto O’Rourke 2” while also explaining why SCOTUS ruled 9-0 to send an immigrant back to a hitman.
I also complain about the modernization of baseball because I’m old.
This is an exceptionally clear and thoughtful article, and I look forward to using it in my Women and the Law class later this month. ⤵️ review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...