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Tim Wise

@timjacobwise.bsky.social
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The only real account on here for Tim Wise (well, at least the one who's an anti-racism educator, author, critical race theorist, and Senior Fellow at the African American Policy Forum).

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The white left often assumes we can fight racism by appealing to white workers’ material interests and how these are harmed by racial division, but this ignores how whiteness functions. This naïveté is a constant Achilles heel for cross-racial movements timjacobwise.substack.com/p/racists-ar...
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Racists Aren’t Irrational (and That’s the Problem)
The white left misses how whiteness functions as a property interest. Until they understand how to challenge this, they will fail to build real working-class solidarity
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It happened again...another white activist pretending to be a person of color/marginalized identity. Whyyyyyyyy...just stop y'all. timjacobwise.substack.com/p/why-do-som...
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Why Do Some White Activists Feel the Need to Cos-Play as the Oppressed?
From Rachel Dolezal to Hannah Gann, some apparently think “Allyship is not enough” means they need to perform political black or brownface. The reasons are as sad as they are enraging
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the symbol of the Jewish Labor Bund: the universalist, socialist group my great-grandfather supported, the vision of which was always more liberatory than Zionism and which we need to recapture now as an alternative to this death cult timjacobwise.substack.com/p/breaking-f...
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Breaking Free from the Cult of Zionism
Perpetual victimhood narratives have given rise to this unhealthy, destructive, and frankly self-hating ideology. We need to commit to universalism again.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How to Prove White Privilege in 10 Seconds timjacobwise.substack.com/p/how-to-pro...
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How to Prove White Privilege in 10 Seconds
And once proven, how to recognize how dysfunctional it is, even for the one who has it
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Come with me, back in time, to witness the birth of something truly awful... The Day the GOP Went All-In on White Racial Fear timjacobwise.substack.com/p/the-day-th...
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The Day the GOP Went All-In on White Racial Fear
When Ice-T Became a Right-Wing Meme (and Why it Matters)
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Zionism as Psychological Projection Please give this a listen. I know this will be hard for some folks to hear. But it is said with love. We, as Jews, need to have some difficult conversations. They are overdue. They will not be easy. This is part of it timjacobwise.substack.com/p/zionism-as...
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Zionism as Psychological Projection
The sad substitution of Jewish nationalism for a genuine, liberatory Jewish identity
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Are Antifa She-Devils Really Scamming Unsuspecting ICE Agents? (Let's Hope So!) timjacobwise.substack.com/p/are-antifa... My latest audio commentary. Subscribe to listen and for more like this!
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Are Antifa She-Devils Really Scamming Unsuspecting ICE Agents?
The latest concern of Kash Patel’s FBI is...revealing
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"The attack came despite US intelligence assessments that Iran was unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the US mainland within the next decade." So why do it? "A weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia..." Ah. Not just weak, but cheap, too. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran
President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Putting aside legality or propriety or morality, MAGA folks bragging about the unqualified success of the attack on Iran tweet as if history is a 24 hr news cycle. As if nothing could possibly go wrong afterward. Iraq and Afghanistan would like a word. As would 1953 Iran
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
1/ I'm not here for anyone's hot takes about how Rev. Jackson was a "sellout" bc he worked within the admittedly limited framework of the Democratic Party, or whatever the fuck "more radical than thou" bullshit certain among the more vulgar leftists have to offer, and which, I've heard today...
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
It’s amazing how easy it is to NOT end up in the Epstein files. 1. Don’t be a rich, entitled asshole. 2. Don’t appreciate the company of rich, entitled assholes 3. That’s it. That will ensure you’re not wrapped up with the pedo ring of a rich, entitled asshole.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The Epstein Files show what happens when misogyny and patriarchy go unchallenged. Men abusing girls because power allows it. If you want to stop this abuse, smash those two things
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
MAGA insists people should fear Black folks, brown skinned immigrants, gay men, and trans folks… and yet, none of these are in the Epstein files. Just a lot of rich, straight, cis white dudes. So who are the real predators?
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
When Black folks disrupt white folks’ places of worship they do it peacefully. When white folks disrupt places of worship they murder people. Birmingham, Charleston, Pittsburgh, etc. Seems like a pretty important difference
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
So, apparently Google is too afraid to make their MLK Day Doodle about anything connected to KIng's actual life or work...instead they made it about marching bands...awesome
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Conservative media are promoting a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. The page includes the following statement from the organizer: "But this didn't happen in a vacuum—it's the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)"
GiveSendGo fundraising page for Jonathan Ross: "But this didn't happen in a vacuum—it's the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)"
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Renee Good's last words were "I'm not mad at you" to the guy who shot her. Yet MAGA calls her a "radical lunatic." Meanwhile, here is the person they hail as a martyr and patriot. This unhinged freak. youtu.be/twQ5BEFlNCQ?...
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Ashli Babbitt RANT
YouTube video by Tik Tok Must See
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My victim impact statement, delivered in the sentencing hearing for a Nazi terrorist who was just sentenced to 30 years for a number of crimes, including plotting to have me killed, among others. timjwise.medium.com/heres-what-i...
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Here’s What I Said to the Terrorist Who Solicited My Murder
Reflections on hate, redemption, and what it means to be human
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Progressives who mock Stephen Miller bc he "apparently doesn't know" Dean Martin & Sinatra were children of immigrants are embarrassing. He knows. He doesn't care. He's not anti-immigrant, y'all. He's a white supremacist. Italians are fine bc they're European. He hates black & brown people. Period.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The president is a fucking psychopath.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Oh wait so ya mean it wasn’t bc of DEI? Hmmm imagine that
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Imagine Pam Bondi’s DOJ just secured a 30 yr sentence against a Muslim or left wing terrorist. Do ya think they’d be shouting it from the rooftops? So why aren’t they doing that today after securing that sentence against a Neo-Nazi terrorist leader? You know why. We all do.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
What do you call a South Asian Cracker? A) Papadum B) Kash Patel C) Both #PapadummyPatel
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It’s unfair to analogize Trump supporters to supporters of Jim Jones. At least Jones’s followers knew when it was Kool-Aid time. Not advocating it. Just noting the substantial difference in commitment to one’s cause
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Irony: if Charlie Kirk had been speaking in Chicago, L.A., etc., they'd have swept the rooftops and had tighter security. But Utah? Nah...So, the myth of white innocence, which he believed in, got him killed. Fascinating. My latest piece explores this, below... timjwise.medium.com/the-myth-of-...
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The Myth of White Innocence Got Charlie Kirk Killed
If he’d been speaking in Chicago, Los Angeles, or anywhere with lots of people of color, they’d have checked the rooftops
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
And finally a piece in which I don't mention Kirk at all, but address one of those issues he was particularly obsessed with and hateful about...trans athletes medium.com/@timjwise/th...
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There’s a Revealing Flaw in the Attack on Trans Athletes
And what the transphobes don’t talk about gives the game away
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
And another one, offering a theory of the motive behind the killing of Charlie Kirk, which holds that it was only marginally political, and really based more on intense and almost entirely personal passions, disconnected from any larger political project. medium.com/@timjwise/th...
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There’s a Simpler Explanation Than Politics for the Killing of Charlie Kirk
Although everyone wants to blame the other side, the real reason may be more personal and frankly even more tragic than that
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Here's a piece responding to one of Kirk's many absurd positions: that testosterone is linked to voting behavior medium.com/age-of-aware...
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Charlie Kirk’s Views on Masculinity and Politics Were Amazingly Ignorant
And despite his death, those ideas live on, and deserve to be utterly repudiated
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Next is, I think, an important piece about the silos people are in, which keep millions of people from knowing what most of us on the left know about Kirk, and why humility about other people's knowledge base is important. medium.com/@timjwise/ma...
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Many Charlie Kirk Supporters Don’t Realize What He Actually Believed
The scary but true reality of media silos in America
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Next is my piece replying to the notion that Kirk was some kind of Socratic intellect whose penchant for debate was genuine, or that debate itself is a positive way to de-escalate political tension. It's not, but I offer an alternative... medium.com/@timjwise/ch...
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Charlie Kirk’s “Debate Me, Bro” Act Wasn’t Politics “the Right Way”
Debate isn’t the answer to political violence. But there might be another, better option.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Then, my piece responding to calls for "toning down the rhetoric" in the wake of Kirk's murder... medium.com/@timjwise/ca...
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Calls for “Toning Down the Rhetoric” are Incredibly One-Sided
The right wants the left to abide by rules of decorum that they reject daily
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Next, the first piece I wrote after Charlie Kirk's killing. More to follow, in which I respond to his awfulness directly. But the day it happened, I felt it necessary to say this for both moral and practical reasons. medium.com/@timjwise/no...
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No, Charlie Kirk’s Ideas Don’t Make It OK to Cheer His Murder
Murder is wrong. Period. And it’s not OK to advocate it, celebrate it, or shrug it off with FAFO memes
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Then here's my piece rebutting a common right-wing talking point, which they use to downplay the extent of racial inequity in earnings and employment... medium.com/@timjwise/ed...
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Education Doesn’t Close Racial Employment or Earnings Gaps
And no, it’s not because whites and Blacks get degrees in different subjects
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Been neglecting to post here lately. But I'm now going to post the essays I've written in the past month in the order I wrote them. Beginning w/this one on how the Labor Department has consistently minimized the extent of racial disparity in unemployment medium.com/@timjwise/he...
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Here’s How Government Data Minimizes Racial Inequality
The Labor Department cloaks the real extent of white advantage in America
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
ICYMI: we tackled healthcare grifters like RFK Jr and Florida's Dr. Ladapo with Dr. Peter Hotez, the Epstein cover-up with Rep. @robertgarcia.bsky.social and #magacancelculture with @karenattiah.bsky.social @lizzwinstead.bsky.social & @timjacobwise.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/ULh1UDg...
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MAGA Cancel Culture | The Joy Reid Show LIVE!
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
When will we learn that toppling other governments almost always makes things worse? Indeed, had we not overthrown the Iranian government in 1953 and installed a vicious dictator, we never would have ended up with the Mullahs we now insist we must topple. Pay attention.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Wow, look at this description of the mayhem in L.A. Man, sure am glad Trump sent in troops! (Oh wait, this isn't re: L.A...it's a description of the white boy riot to protest crackdowns on underage drinking at Washington State University in 1998. Never mind).
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"Well, we are all going to die." Damn, y'all, I've heard some cruel and bizarre statements from politicians in my lifetime, but Sen. Joni Ernst saying this directly to her constituents during a town hall regarding concerns over cuts to Medicaid is an all-timer. Jesus.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
So we've reached the Holocaust denial phase of Elon's racism. Seriously, time for this guy to be financially and reputationally destroyed beyond repair. He is officially the worst person on the planet www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Grok Pivots From 'White Genocide' to Being 'Skeptical' About the Holocaust
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot from xAI is no longer posting about the myth of 'white genocide' in South Africa but has dabbled in Holocaust denial.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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Perfect for studying. #nottowayplantationfire #nottowayplantation #asmr #burnbabyburn #fire
YouTube video by Livviesmalls
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
We need a one million percent tariff on Afrikaners. No need to import white racists. We've managed to make tens of millions here
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This is a good start, but River Road is long. May the spirits of the enslaved rise and burn all the concentration camps that, like Nottaway, downplay their evil. No more wedding receptions. Either confront the sickness of white supremacy or let it all burn. Here's hoping that karma is contagious
A picture of the Nottaway plantation house on fire this week
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The message from the fire at the Nottoway Slave Labor and Sex Trafficking Camp is simple enough: If some of y'all keep trying to erase Black history, the ancestors just might burn yours to the ground. Keep pushing.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Oh look, a white lady who sounds like what cornbread would sound like if it could talk, calls a grown (and older) Black man, "boy." Because of course she did 'There's a gun in there': Republican lawmaker insists cane carried by Democrat 'is a prop' www.rawstory.com/al-green-cane/
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'There's a gun in there': Republican lawmaker insists cane carried by Democrat 'is a prop'
Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) warned that Rep. Al Green (D-TX) could be concealing a gun in his cane after he shook it at President Donald Trump during an address to Congress earlier this year.The Rep...
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Four of my books were banned at the Naval Academy but Mein Kampf and the Bell Curve are still there. So just to review: racism is ok. Antiracism is not. This is the entire history of America.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, but even worse… Those who would erase the past are intending to repeat it. Hands off our history. Hands off our libraries. Hands off the NMAAHC.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The more Trump's economic policies hurt his voters, the more sadistic he'll become toward folk of color, LGBTQ folk, and anyone he views as insufficiently on his side, bc if he hurts those folks more, the psychological wage of whiteness/straightness will keep his cult together.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Kristi Noem can't protect her purse in a restaurant, but she's supposed to protect the Homeland from terrorism? Mmm-k, sure.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Pete Hegseth is the poster child for white male mediocrity. Inferior to his predecessor in every way, but still convinced that Austin was the unqualified one
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Here’s all you need to know about Trump and his movement: they consider accurate historical displays about enslavement and racism in America to be “divisive ideology” but the statues of traitors who made war on America to be patriotic. These people are sick. All of them
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