This was a different conversation on race, generational changes and colorblindness. I'm not too sure about that last part and that's what Coleman Hughes Coleman Hughes wanted to talk about in 'The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America'
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.Michael Steele speaks w Coleman Hughes about his book, 'The End of Race Politics.' The pair discuss the rejection of colorblindness by the left, the impact of race-based policies & how technology has influenced perceptions of race
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Enjoy this #QuickTake with Bakari Sellers on the untapped power of black men!

.Bakari Sellers speaks with Michael Steele about the untapped power of Black men #QuickTake pod.fo/e/23fc9f

Because, of course…

Crockett: When it comes to SNAP benefits, rural America uses more SNAP benefits than urban America. The majority of my Republican colleagues serve rural districts. When I say I’m fighting for a bill that includes making sure that people in this country don’t go hungry.. I’m not

Grievance politics won't win elections. Election denialism won't win elections. When established members of the Republican Party refuse to extinguish lies that spread like wildfire, it opens the door to even more extreme actors and pathologies and you still don't win.
My piece on

NEW: RFK Jr. is being quasi-normalized in the political media coverage of his campaign. The depth of his battiness is not being fully conveyed. I took a deep dive into one of his many conspiracy theories to show just how far he's removed from reality.
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1 - It's both interesting and frustrating that the Trump criminal trial is centered partly around the lies told by a key prosecution witness in a case where the guy being prosecuted IS ARGUABLY THE BIGGEST PATHOLOGICAL LIAR IN HUMAN HISTORY.

.GOP: Everybody's on bail!
'Both rappers were arrested in May 2023 along with 30 defendants in 140 counts indictment in New York that included charges of conspiracy, murder, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon, and nearly a dozen shootings.'

.rolandsmartin #QiuickTake on Trump making punks of his own base. The Michael Steele Podcast

History is prologue--a president speaks to this moment. Doris Kearns Goodwin on the importance of the 2024 election.

Just parking this here along with every other warning sign too many of y’all choose to ignore.

Stop with the bullsh!t. Nikki Haley you could have said this on the day you suspended your campaign. Continue to support you?! The people who voted for you will not be voting for Trump. That was the point. I wish I could say I am disappointed. I am not even surprised.

A comprehensive exposition of Trump and MAGA’s bullsh!t by BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️

This was a good time with my friend Denver Riggleman. And this was just the teaser! 😜

Ronald Reagan: “Rather than...talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems and make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit…earning here they pay taxes here.”

Covid was a hoax…the vaccines killed you…the 2020 election was stolen…the deep state is behind all four of these indictments…Biden isn’t really calling the shots, Obama still is…but Biden tried to have Trump assassinated…

“Russia, this is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe…they — they fight every cause for the world’s worst actors.”—Mitt Romney (2012)

Tuckems finally gets to go home.
What a pathetic mouthpiece for Putin.
newsweek.com/tucker-carlson…

So, this morning we awake to Trump's vision of America as a 'unified reich'. This messaging is not a 'mistake by a staffer'. This is part of the subtle but continuing normalization of Trump's intent--an American Dictatorship.