Ta-Nehisi Coates first learned of that Helen Andrews review when Ayman read it to him on MSNBC just now.

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In 1969, Fred Hampton warned us that identity politics based outside the fundamental struggle of class would lead to nothing but black capitalists and "negro imperialists." The same rule applies to all historically-marginalized identities. We are now seeing this come to fruition.

Brett Farve literally embezzled money from a Mississippi welfare fund. He is actual garbage.

When income and privilege are your (precarious and reversible) buffer, reaction becomes the way to rabidly defend them in an attempt to not end up like THOSE Blacks (or whatever other poor members of a marginalized group). Schadenfreude.

The problem with liberalism is that it rests on a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved. It will always fail, it will always collapse, and this explains everything about our current moment. Liberals try to hold two commitments at once: on the one hand, they are

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Liberals are praising J. Edgar Hoover. I told you not to trust them.

"The Jews are never accused of teaching hate when they remind the world of the crimes that were committed against them."

As of this moment, the entire federal government is in violation of the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment —not b/c the government has ended DEIA programs, but b/c the government is discriminating against employees and new hires based on the color of their skin. Latest in

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are false idols promising “freedom” & “prosperity” but it’s all a trojan horse for ushering in the age of technocratic billionaires controlling the population with AI. What makes it worse is Democrats will go along with it. We need an opposition party.

If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US. My latest in

At the risk of being naïve and getting egg on my face come June... I think Trump got shredded in the birthright citizenship case. And I think the Court only took the case TO shred him, and look reasonable by comparison. My latest in The Nation thenation.com/article/societ…