A quick 🧵 about Thurgood Marshall, civil rights, and Trump’s recent argument that, “White people were very badly treated, where they did extremely well and they were not invited to go into a college or university.” (You can find more in chapter 8 of The State Must Provide)

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

Fantastic piece putting the Bari Weiss Experiment in perspective

For Christmas Eve, enjoy a supercut of my favorite tradition — Darlene Love on Letterman

I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.

I am enjoying this Arsenal…it’s been good to see the occasional shift from
methodical possession to sudden carries or quick combinations. Lot of stuff to enjoy

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

As a kid my brother and I were on opposite sides of the Cubs-Cards rivalry. I had Ozzie Smith as my baseball hero and my brother had Ryne Sandberg. I recognized how great Ryno was even as I rooted against him. RIP to one of the best ever.

Gary England, forecaster who kept watch over Tornado Alley, dies at 85

Excellent writeup by @anushamathur.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Oh good a lazy Partey moment to seal the game

I think the solution for this game is to get MLS and Saka the ball and let them cook.. would like some others to join in

RT if you want a S2 of The Acolyte and for the story to continue ✨ #RenewTheAcolyte

Yes please #RenewTheAcolyte

Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?

When right wingers tell us that they want to turn the US into a carbon copy of Orban’s Hungary — where press and academic freedoms are subordinated to an all-powerful one-party dominated state — believe them.