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Ida Bae Wells

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Jun 27

I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

www.nytimes.com

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12h

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15h

Can’t stop thinking about this and what it says about a person.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review.”

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

Chicago news media groups filed suit against ICE and Homeland Security, claiming excessive force against reporters and protesters of immigration arrests.

Chicago news media groups file suit against ICE and DHS, alleging excessive force against reporters

Chicago news media groups filed suit against ICE and Homeland Security, claiming excessive force against reporters and protesters of immigration arrests.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

The DC Circuit is set to consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by expelling the Associated Press from the White House press pool. @knightcolumbia.org's brief, just filed. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

But affirmative action is the true enemy of meritocracy at elite schools…

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

At Harvard, many students skip class and fail to do the reading, according to a report, but rampant grade inflation allows them to coast through anyway. Now, professors are trying to change a campus culture they say hurts achievement and stifles speech.

Harvard Has Identified Another Problem: Its Own Students

Many students don’t do the reading and don’t speak up in class, according to a report. Now, professors are trying to change a campus culture they say hurts achievement and stifles speech.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

Literally been asking myself this question.

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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Mark Russell @manruss.bsky.social · 4d

“How can Portland POSSIBLY stand against the might of the federal government?!”

“Let me introduce you to our frog.”

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

Truly.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta love the “unlike you” he could sit for a civil debate in an email where he calls me a cunt, bitch and a lying piece of shit. Almost as good as the professor who railed against me for writing a hit piece on Kirk but then admitted he hadn’t read it just listened to Megyn Kelly’s podcast.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

The irony of this was too grand to keep to myself.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure reading comprehension is not your strong suit, but I wrote she has posted across platform. Also, she’s posted about me more than twice.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

Megyn Kelly has now made multiple denigrating posts about me across X, YouTube, her podcast so I’m sharing this. Unlike her, I don't perform dislike and disdain in public,then become my real self when the cameras are off. That's the definition of the grift she accuses me of;I find it profoundly sad.

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

President Donald Trump's announcement that he is contemplating spending $20 billion to bail out the Argentine soybean industry stunned some of his supporters at home, but a historian says the payment may serve an ulterior purpose.

'Global corruption': Historian reveals why Trump may bail out one of his 'admirers'

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 2d

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 2d

This piece is just an essential, important and excellent intervention as Coates' Vanity Fair essay was. One NYT column isn't that important, but an accommodationist mindset has spread in center-left elite circles. And it should be rejected forcefully. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...

Where Is the Line?

On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

“Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show 🧊 using extreme force in Chicago

A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago

A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters

www.theguardian.com

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d

NEW from me:

Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.the-independent.com

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