I don’t know how we create a media that has something better to do than argue about who lies more effectively but I don’t think we’re getting rid of Trump types running things until that’s an actual goal that’s accomplished

Wait, CBS polling says over half the country favors mass deportation?

This genocide was preventable. Every step of the way the US could have stopped it. Instead Biden kept on sending more and more money and weapons to the state openly committing a genocide. It is that simple. That was a choice. He made that choice dozens of times in the past year.

as it happens the explanation of the trans-Atlantic slave trade - Coates' "lane", apparently - involves political and economic networks that extend across centuries and human population centers across the planet. that is: also dizzying complicated. the answer to "was that okay?" is a simple "no"

super crazy that the “states’ rights” approach to bodily autonomy just so happens to make black women extra vulnerable to the charge that their body is inherently criminal and must be controlled by the violent arm of the state.

between mass deportation and massive tariffs trump is running on a promise to, among other things, fly the american economy directly into the side of a mountain

I think there's a pervasive profound denialism about the reality, not just the horror of what's being inflicted on the people of Gaza but on what the people inflicting those horrors are going to do next.

a reasonable question is: if Future Historian's only archive is the new york times politics section, will s/he have any fucking idea what happened? no

I just get the feeling that some people want everyone to shut up about Gaza because it’s ruining the vibes and sorry that’s not going to be the case and it’s not because people are complaining, it’s because thousands and thousands of civilians are being killed with our weapons

Not coincidentally, “polarization” started when one party broke with the white elite consensus and supported – albeit reluctantly – the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. “Polarization” is the price U.S. society has had to pay for real progress towards multiracial pluralism. 6/