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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/06/2026

i think it is really great that the civil rights division is now dedicated to rooting out any attempt to do outreach to nonwhites in education www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

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CUNY’s Black Male Initiative Facing Federal Investigation

The Justice Department is investigating a program at City University of New York that offers support for men from underrepresented backgrounds for alleged racial discrimination.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/01/2026

next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Czechoslovakia cannot agree with Nazi Germany about the need for lebensraum.

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Mare @meh126.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I’ve been rooting for the bamboo

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

It's profoundly different to cover a U.S. president than state or local officials, and too, much harder to vent publicly if you're female. But if in my reporting days, if anyone from a police sergeant to the mayor of Baltimore told me, "Quiet, piggy," I'd immediately insist he go fuck himself.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/11/2025

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/11/2025

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

But affirmative action is the true enemy of meritocracy at elite schools…

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Or Trump is a lifelong liar and propagandist who doesn't care if he's caught because he knows he won't be punished. Trump is not the admin's main ideologue, but the idea that he's brainwashed instead of flagrantly lying is bizarrely generous. Flagrant lying showcases power. He's always done it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2025

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup. It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"F*ck that, that's not a strategy....If your strategy for stopping fascism is to hope that a few Republicans in Congress find a conscience or a spine, then get the hell out of here." Me on the useless Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. Full discussion: zeteo.com/p/the-suspec...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2025

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

It’s so embarrassing. Trump has made everything UFC with the worst WWE storylines. Thankfully the World Cup & Olympics are “woke” sports so it shouldn’t bleed too much into those—IF we still can host…

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

It’s really that simple. There’s no crime that cuts through the perpetual existential crisis that is the rage bait machine.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

A commenter on my essay on the age of alt-weeklies left this comment from "This Woman Votes," which states my premise so much more powerfully than I could--in the fight against fascism, the urgency of stories that linger--that I added it to the post. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-longfo...

The death of alt-weeklies didn’t just kill a publishing model; it gutted the last public square where curiosity had the right of way. The corporate dailies sanitized the world until it smelled like hotel disinfectant, and the internet finished the job by selling off the bones to Craigslist and Google. What we lost wasn’t just longform stories about drag queens, roller rinks, and shady bail bondsmen — we lost the habit of lingering, of sitting with the mess of reality until it revealed something worth knowing.

Now, every damn thing is a “take.” Condensed. Opinionized. Algorithm-flattened until all that’s left is rage bait and a comment section war over scraps. Fascism thrives in that emptiness because it offers certainty where there should be questions, discipline where there should be curiosity. Alt-weeklies were graffiti against the blank wall of capital’s sterilized “redevelopment” projects. They taught people to ask: Who benefits? Who gets erased? And what’s hiding in plain sight?

That isn’t nostalgia, it’s strategy. If you want to fight authoritarianism, you need more than slogans. You need the peculiar, meandering, hyper-specific stories about the oddball texture of life - the very stuff the right wants to scrub out with power-wash morality. The long form of lingering wasn’t a luxury. It was democracy in print.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

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America Tips Into Fascism

Today is different than before.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

An actual monster.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The Senate passed the OBBB so the House could fix it. The House passed the OBBB so Trump could fix it with executive orders. Trump doesn’t know what's in the bill, and possibly doesn't know what day it is. How is a country supposed to function like this?

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Trump’s Use Of The Term “Shylocks” Highlights Racially Incendiary Language And Compels Us To Ask: Why Won’t Zohran Mamdani Condemn Language Someone Mentioned To Him? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

holy shit a guy who was born in Uganda listed himself as African American on an old college application this is certainly bigger news than the concentration camp in Florida

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Rick @rabpr.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Justice Sonia Sotomayor reading dissent from bench: “The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

To have been a leader of young men, many who hail from disadvantaged situations…and harbor these feelings…my goodness. Can’t believe he was on a D1 recruiting trail.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Hakeem Jeffries is so skilled at being a disappointment. The worst opposition leader possible. I am so sick of rank careerism and incompetence.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Making white people afraid has more political efficacy in this country than almost anything, save for cash. Between those two fundamentals, there's no level of evil we can't achieve as Americans.

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

One of my journalistic heroes has died. We journalists should all vow to keep speaking truth to power in his memory. open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

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A Daily Reid: A good man has gone. Rest in peace, Bill Moyers

A seminal broadcaster and a human rights champion, Bill Moyers was the best of the mainstream media

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I think we could all use a big distraction—like an asteroid hurtling towards the planet

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Sometimes the bad thing is exactly as bad as the thing seems and trying to tell people "it's not that bad" isn't being *postive,* it's just normalizing the incredibly bad thing.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

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