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Prof. Anthea Butler

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Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker. Comedic truth teller. Will not take your ish.

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Cracking article, including on constitutional elements of Trump and Maga.

Contains wonderful line: “Regime change was the plan, but Trump finds it easier to change plans than regimes.”

11.03.2026 08:17 👍 184 🔁 54 💬 5 📌 0

😂

10.03.2026 22:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you REALLY want to understand this crazy, just understand that the man in the oval office is a prosperity gospel evangelist.. always ready to take your money and sell you fake miracles.

09.03.2026 19:47 👍 290 🔁 42 💬 5 📌 2

I see he is trying to do "The positive power of thinking" to make the war he started be over. Like Bush Tried that with Mission Accomplished and that didn't work so....

09.03.2026 19:46 👍 142 🔁 29 💬 5 📌 2

who would invest? we're tanking.

09.03.2026 17:38 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Umph.

09.03.2026 13:07 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Piers Morgan's Uncensored names Rashida Jones, who left MSNBC in 2025, as CEO, and raises capital; the YouTube-based media company was reportedly seeking ~$30M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

09.03.2026 13:05 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

Wounded Knee. Tulsa. My Lai. Abu Ghraib

And now, Minab

We need to talk about the horror when 180 little schoolgirls, boys and teachers were obliterated by U.S. Tomahawk missiles last week. And tell Congress: Not one more dime for these war crimes

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

09.03.2026 11:15 👍 2033 🔁 628 💬 39 📌 30
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The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime America has blood on its hands.

New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime

"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."

09.03.2026 11:47 👍 7837 🔁 2837 💬 326 📌 136
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Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.

Trump is in serious trouble. His war is deeply unpopular. He's now in the toilet on the economy, immigration, and national security. His public standing is getting close to being broken in an irreparable way, akin to Bush after Iraq and Katrina:
newrepublic.com/article/2074...

09.03.2026 11:31 👍 1994 🔁 623 💬 219 📌 89

Oh I know they do. But the guy in the trucker hat has a low approval rating too so....

09.03.2026 11:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gah I feel shallow but looking at Macron walking off the plane in Cyprus makes me feel sad I have to look at a shambolic old man in a trucker hat

09.03.2026 11:14 👍 100 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 1

you ever think how this is all because america elected a centre-left black president once, and the right never forgave the left for it

09.03.2026 00:35 👍 1317 🔁 196 💬 36 📌 18

Kind of weird when you can watch the global market collectively go "oh shit he is that crazy".

09.03.2026 08:16 👍 1774 🔁 317 💬 46 📌 20

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

08.03.2026 02:19 👍 25294 🔁 8102 💬 781 📌 329
Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

08.03.2026 03:46 👍 5759 🔁 2240 💬 164 📌 160

because that will hurt him, trust.

08.03.2026 00:27 👍 60 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Charles should not come to the US next month. Punish him.

08.03.2026 00:27 👍 94 🔁 18 💬 8 📌 0
It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience.
W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS
Atlanta, December, 1934

It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934

I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.

07.03.2026 21:42 👍 1123 🔁 326 💬 12 📌 18

the way I just busted out laughing now, but you're right

07.03.2026 00:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

06.03.2026 23:10 👍 8247 🔁 2105 💬 96 📌 38
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Obama has the crowd at Jesse Jackson's eulogy hanging on his every word

06.03.2026 19:54 👍 8852 🔁 1873 💬 314 📌 182

oh he's some right wing apologist no wonder

06.03.2026 22:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ChatGPT wrote this right because DAMN. Sorry,I've been busy today and just saw this effed up excuse for an oped about Evangelicals because whoever this person is has been asleep since 1975

06.03.2026 22:52 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

IDK who wrote this ill advised POS article but they shouldn't get paid for it because WHAT THE ABSOLUTE EFF IS THIS !!!! I mean, EVANGELICALS ARE EVERYWHERE IN TRUMP WORLD

06.03.2026 22:51 👍 176 🔁 32 💬 10 📌 2
“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.
The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.”

Excerpt From
“Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.”
Aaron M. Renn
The Washington Post
https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ
This material may be protected by copyright.

“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

06.03.2026 13:46 👍 5940 🔁 1010 💬 273 📌 432

As Rep. Jayapal says, our reporting has found that these aren’t isolated incidents. Last October, we tallied more than 170 cases of U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents.

Here’s that investigation she’s referring to:

04.03.2026 18:36 👍 2236 🔁 764 💬 18 📌 10
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Justice Department releases missing FBI interviews in Epstein files with woman who made claims against Trump The U.S. Justice Department released FBI records on Thursday that summarize interviews of an unidentified woman in ‌which she made accusations against President Donald Trump related to an alleged sexual encounter.

Justice Department releases missing FBI interviews in Epstein files with woman who made claims against Trump reut.rs/3ONThvj

06.03.2026 09:05 👍 154 🔁 74 💬 6 📌 9

Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue.

I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe.

They also didn’t pay cover 🖕

05.03.2026 04:43 👍 3067 🔁 1013 💬 152 📌 96

Godspeed, Bernard LaFayette

05.03.2026 22:52 👍 87 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 0