Talked to Ilhan Omar about the recent smears against immigrants: “The biggest problem with this kind of really psychotic rhetoric is that, unfortunately, there are sad and demented people in our country that then do believe these things and eventually attack,” she said.

DOJ charges two brothers in Jan. 6 assault on a New York Times photographer Ryan J. Reilly nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

My latest for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt: Multiple bomb threats led authorities in Springfield, OH to evacuate buildings. It’s unclear if the threats are connected with the baseless claims about Haitians abusing pets that WH Karine Jean-Pierre called “very hateful smear.”

“I didn’t think it would ever get past Springfield.” nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-…

Surprised this hasn’t gotten more attention. During the debate, when Trump claimed (falsely) that on Jan. 6 “nobody on the other side was killed,” the “other side” he was talking about was the police & Congress. He also called the rioters “we” before he caught himself. 1/4

Residents of Springfield, Ohio, were made the unwilling subjects of a racist moral panic campaign, drawn from the playbook that drove hysteria over CRT, antifascist activists, DEI, LGBTQ education, etc. With the GOP all aboard, the lies move at lightspeed msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

I'll be on tomorrows episode of 60 Minutes, where they discuss Trump's insistence on calling the tried and convicted insurrectionists "hostages" and "political prisoners." I have some thoughts on that.

Fascinating David Weigel story from 2022 on the potential downstream effects of reinstating certain prominent banned accounts semafor.com/article/11/29/…

I wonder what it's like to be wrong about everything, all of the time - even the most mundane, easily-checked facts.

“If we’re willing to see children terrorized because of a false rumor about Haitian immigrants, we should ask who abducted our conscience, not someone’s pet.” ~Russell Moore The Atlantic theatlantic.com/politics/archi…