I have a new essay @HammerandHope on the shenanigans in Florida over the state’s African American History curriculum. Yes, I read the entire 200+ page document and it’s not just one bad sentence. Thread follows.

RT @ProfJeffries: Yes sir! Keep doing your thing. NYC needs you and wants you. From one Kwame to another!👊🏾✊🏾.

RT @kenklippenstein: NYT feared being scooped on their Mamdani story by Chris Rufo .

RT @JayinKyiv: This was written today by the President of the United States, not a 5th grader. Incredible.

RT @equalityAlec: THREAD. Something must be said about the New York Times. We are in the midst of a full-blown fascist takeover, and the NY….

RT @JonathanCohn: "Anyhow, we can give Trump credit for an effective political stunt in putting forward these tax proposals, but it is a li….

RT @christinebinzel: 🧵Letter from academics to the German government:. As academics, researchers, and university teachers from a wide range….

RT @karlykingsley: 🧵 Here are some facts and math: . In April 2024, Lauren Boebert was hospitalized for a blood clot and had surgery for Ma….

Really dumb use of technology @wimbledon the electronic line failed to call an obvious ball out. Umpire saw it. But since he couldn’t verify that the machine failed he forced a replay of the point. Larger lesson: We are not supposed to believe or act on what we see because tech.

RT @whstancil: It’s funny because @cremieuxrecueil has built a reputation as some kind of public race science intellectual because he uses….

RT @soledadobrien: This last sentence is a joke and this is an absolute embarrassment for you and for the @nytimes. As the person in charge….

To appease Trump and retain grants, UC bars student governments from boycotting Israel via @sfchronicle.

RT @Dscot510: Yarvin, like Garry Tan, Peter Thiel, Davd Sacks and Elon Musk, is an anti-Black race scientist, which is a foundational “phil….

Just in case you missed it there are right-wing influencers who defend and rationalize slavery (for Black people) and identity as intellectual heirs of Carlyle.

RT @Mikel_Jollett: This is WILD. The reason Trump defunded the National Weather Service leading to the deaths of all those girls in the Te….

RT @PattyMurray: Let’s clear something up: the giant cuts to Medicaid in Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill will affect EVERYONE, not just people o….

RT @ettingermentum: Mamdani's base was the working and middle classes. I really wonder when people will be curious enough to actually look….

RT @TheTennisLetter: Ben Shelton after his win at Wimbledon . “My sister’s here. She’s been here for every match I’ve played. She’s been th….

RT @nikhil_palsingh: Right wing brain trust is just juvenile racism and Confederacy nostalgia.

RT @adamjohnsonCHI: This doesn’t answer the actual objection which is the NYT declined to publish the JD Vance dossier because it was alleg….

RT @lpolgreen: I’m biracial (US dad, Ethiopian mom US born) and moved to Kenya at 4, had lots of Kenyan Indian friends, families there gen….