"Dr. Lafayette played a key role in many of the events that defined the civil rights movement. Soft-spoken and bespectacled, he was known for his meticulous organizing skills and his commitment to nonviolence."
this is one of the finest ways to be remembered
we should be this lucky
“For every dollar donated by billionaires and their immediate families to a candidate or committee associated with Democrats, five dollars went to Republicans.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
“Five presidential elections ago, before the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero — 0.3 percent, to be precise.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
Figure 1 presents two plots. Panel (a) displays the percentage of donors in each wealth rank that contributed to each of the six campaigns (i.e., Democratic and Republican nominees in 2012, 2016, and 2020).Footnote 17 Panel (b) displays the per capita dollars from each wealth bin, by campaign (including those who donate nothing). As Figure 1 shows, the association between wealth and contributions is approximately exponential. The wealthiest are much more likely to contribute, and the wealth gradient is even steeper in dollars because the top 0.1% contribute very large sums. This is one of the most robust findings in the campaign finance literature, but the figure demonstrates it with considerably more precision. By measuring wealth independently of contribution size, we avoid misattributing smaller contributions to non-wealthy donors and underestimating wealthy dollars. Most relevant to our analysis, Figure 1 compares the wealth gradients for Trump versus other candidates. In 2016, compared to other candidates, Trump’s wealth gradient is far flatter, because Trump elicited far fewer wealthy contributors and per capita dollars. For example, among the top 0.1%, Trump’s donors and per capita dollars represent about one third of Romney’s. While Trump did worse than all other candidates among nearly all wealth groups, that deficit was larger among the wealthy. In short, in 2016, wealthy donations to Trump are low compared to other presidential candidates. In 2020, Trump’s performance among the wealthy improved considerably over 2016 (Figure 1). Consider donation rates (Panel a). Among the wealthiest 0.1%, for example, Trump roughly doubled his rate, though he still significantly lagged Biden and Romney. He did even better in per capita dollars (Panel b) than in rates. Open access link to paper: http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
The wealthy dominate political contributions. Our study shows the top 0.1% donate 10–15× more frequently than the bottom 90%. The gradient isn’t subtle, it’s exponential. cup.org/4cfm0Az
“The Times analysis found 300 billionaires and their families donated more than $3 billion—19% of all contributions—in federal elections in 2024. The billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined.“ Gift:
A line chart titled “Donald Trump Approval.” The chart shows U.S. presidential approval ratings over time, weighted by poll quality and recency, with shaded bands indicating 95% confidence intervals. The x-axis runs from early 2025 to March 7, 2026, and the y-axis ranges from about 30% to 65%. A green line representing approval trends downward over the period, while a pink line representing disapproval trends upward. By March 7, 2026, the chart highlights Disapprove 57.8% and Approve 38.7%, a 19-point net disapproval.
counterpoint: not solid fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...
Art of the Deal: Inherit advantages, burn to ash.
Detailed reporting from Arkansas on opposition to Sanders’s mega-prison bsky.app/profile/tani...
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“OUT-OF-TOUCH DEMS…”
From 1965 but echoes in the present
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This is more than conservative, they’re celebrating Hitler.
This is more than conservative, this is trollish neonazi.
Recommended by a colleague: “Ramos shows how tribalism, traditionalism, and political trauma within the Latino community has been weaponized to radicalize and convert voters who, like many of their white counterparts, are fearful of losing their place in American society.”
Agree there's a long history of anti-Black racism in Latin America. But, if you read the article, it seems to take things one step further to a trollish embrace of neonazism.
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“The Association of German National Jews came out in support of Adolf Hitler. The goal of the Association was the total assimilation of Jews, self-eradication of Jewish identity, and expulsion of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associa...
“Jack van Tongeren is the former leader of the Australian Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist group. In the late 1980s it was revealed van Tongeren's father was of part-Indonesian ancestry. Nevertheless, Van Tongeren resumed anti-Asian activities…” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_va...
“Leo Felton is a white supremacist of African American descent who was convicted of bank robbery and plotting to build a bomb to attack Jews. Felton renounced white supremacy and neo-Nazism in 2008, embracing his mixed-race heritage” via @ebogjonson.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Fel...
“Some of white supremacy is literally about white domination over Black people, but some of it is also about deep anti-Semitism. Some of it in the past has been anti-Catholic and that also speaks to how the boundaries of whiteness have changed over time.” www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02...
Nick Fuentes, whose father is half-Mexican American, “is part of a small but increasingly visible number of far-right provocateurs with Hispanic backgrounds who spread racist, antisemitic messages.” www.axios.com/2022/03/10/r...
Screen grab from a news program with Chyron that says Gabriel Diaz, Suspended Cabbie, Channel 2. Image shows a brown-skinned man in a t-shirt outside talking to a reporter holding a mic.
“I’m a National Socialist – what you guys call a Nazi. I am. I’m a believer of it,” Diaz said. "Who says you have to be white to be a National Socialist? You don’t have to be white, it can be anybody.” www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alis...
Yes, racism in Latin America is centuries old. Latino neo-nazis in US less so.
**Alt text:** A black-and-white newspaper clipping from *The New York Times* with the headline **“State Klán Leader Hides Secret of Jewish Origin.”** The article, by McCandlish Phillips, reports that **Dan Burros**, a 28-year-old Queens resident and New York State leader in the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party, had concealed that he was born Jewish. The text describes his role in white supremacist organizations, notes that his parents were Jewish immigrants, and explains that he tried to keep this background secret while promoting antisemitic and racist views. The article recounts attempts by reporters to contact him and describes his hostile reaction when confronted with the information. A note at the bottom reads “The New York Times, Published: October 31, 1965.”
**Alt text:** A full-page black-and-white newspaper article from *The New York Times* with the headline **“Klan Leader Here, Hiding the Secret of His Jewish Origin, Preaches Anti-Semitism.”** The page contains several narrow columns of text describing the background and activities of **Daniel Burros**, a New York Ku Klux Klan leader and American Nazi Party member who concealed that he was born Jewish. Near the center of the page is a photograph showing Burros wearing a white Ku Klux Klan robe and pointed hood while standing before a burning cross. The article recounts his upbringing in a Jewish family in Queens, his involvement in extremist groups, and details of his public antisemitic activism despite his hidden ancestry. A footer at the bottom reads “The New York Times, Published: October 31, 1965.”
Of course many members of historically subordinated groups align with dominant group ideologies. Still, extreme cases are noteworthy.
See Dan Burros: former Grand Dragon of NY KKK, organizer for national Klan, former national secretary of American Nazi Party and Jewish. NYT, 10/31/1965.
There is, alas, a particular type of Hispanic guy who thinks the key to being accepted as an honorary white is performatively demonstrating how super cool he is with cartoonish racism.
On average, yes, I think it’s reasonable to assume people who have historically been targets of ideologies like Nazism and white supremacy to be less enthusiastic about those ideas.
And, yes, of course some people of all backgrounds do adopt these ideas, but sizable multiethnic pro-Nazis are recent
Perhaps unsurprising for Miami, but I still find it notable that the three students quoted with most sexist, bigoted and antisemitic texts are named Bejerano, Gonzalez, and Valdes.
As someone said recently, America is such a melting pot that these days even our white supremacists are multicultural.
Big picture, these results suggest that even among Republicans the politics of crime are changing
