Rotimi Adeoye

Thanks Matt! Appreciate it!

Some personal news. I'm joining @nytimes.com as a contributing opinion writer. I'm excited for this opportunity, and I'm looking forward to sharing my work with you all. More soon!

Lmaoooo

An important thing to remember in this political moment is that most people are not as angry as the characters on social media and blanket statements on turning down the temperature and telling people to chill the fuck out will probably be received well by independent voters

as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me

Exactly - Lincoln never conceded slavery was acceptable, but compromised on timing and implementation. He could have demanded immediate abolition in 1861 but issued the Emancipation Proclamation strategically in 1863 for rebellious states only to keep border states loyal.

As the thread points out, Lincoln never compromised on his core principle that slavery was morally wrong, but he made endless tactical compromises to actually end it. He delayed emancipation timing, and cut deals with border states. Moral clarity + political pragmatism = results.

This is a great example because the issue right now in left wing politics is that a sizeable portion of the left doesn’t want to make any concessions and argues that making concessions *is* compromising on principles - when really compromise is how you win.

the core of MAGA government is giving resentful mediocrities to power to act as tyrants and dominate others

He did this before in 2020

These are completely consistent tweets so I’m unsure of your point. I am frustrated that people on here, rather than observing reality and reacting to it, are demonstrably unable to process facts that are politically inconvenient.

What’s so interesting is that my family did genealogical research years ago and found that while most of the slave rebellions were unsuccessful, there were three that succeeded, and one of them is how my ancestor made it back to Nigeria.

One of my great great great grandfathers on my mother’s side was taken from Nigeria to Brazil as a slave. He fought in a one few successful slave rebellions. The freedmen and women stole ships and returned to Nigeria. My family stayed there until my mother immigrated to the U.S. years later.

The IDF just ended one of the most common talking points used to claim Hamas was stealing aid from Palestinians. Now that we know Israel was not telling the truth, will the people who spread that lie here take accountability and apologize?

Uhhhhhh

Lately I just keep thinking about how much comes down to wanting better for each other and acting accordingly.

I want to go back to a time when kids dying wasn’t treated as a moment to score political points. How did we lose that basic sense of shared humanity and how do we get it back?

abundance trotkyism is better than maga maoism by far imo

the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

I’m sick of the false equivalency. I’m sick of the political violenceone side wages while the other writes op-eds begging for calm. I’m sick of pretending murder and protest are the same. And I’m sick of a media too timid to name what’s in front of our eyes.

In the coming days Republicans will say: “What about BLM?” But destroying property during a protest is not like murdering politicians and spouses in cold blood. One is destruction of property, the other is taking a life. If you can’t see the difference, you’re choosing not to.

The goal now is not only to normalize political violence, to make it just another partisan issue. But this isn’t about left vs right. It’s about whether we let extremists with guns decide who lives or dies based on their political views. That should terrify every American.

And you’re going to see Republicans try to equate this with the BLM protests, as if serious property damage from five years ago is somehow the same as political assassinations, the cold-blooded murder of two public servants and their spouses. Don’t let them blur the lines.

And now we’re watching that message take root. Political violence isn’t just tolerated in the far right movement, it’s encouraged. When leaders laugh off assaults and promise pardons, they’re laying the groundwork for something far more dangerous.

This timeline is getting darker by the day. The January 6 pardons helped create this environment, signaling that if you commit violence against Democrats, you’ll be celebrated, not punished. Just look at how Trump joked about the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi.

If you were a far-right barbaric thug and saw Trump pardon people who beat cops, had child pornography, and considered pardoning those who tried to kidnap a democrat governor, you’d probably think you could do anything and get away with it. That’s the evil we’re living in.

Great article