@ijbailey
@ijbailey
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Husband. Black dad. Stutterer. Davidson College Professor of Practice. McClatchy News columnist. Harvard Nieman Fellow. Sweet tea drinker. CIDP survivor.
Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Joined December 2008
Let me tell you what grates on my last nerves: Being lectured to about conservatives and Trump fans by people who spend their downtime in Paris or are living in liberal bastions in California. A thread.
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RT @MAstronomers: NEWSšØ: James Webb confirms there's something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe ā and reveals unknownā¦.
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Matt has secrets, Iām convinced. Or heās so insecure about his own masculinity he feels the need to keep proving how masculine he supposedly is.
Dudes like this were already gay. Iāve been married for 14 years and have never been home decor shopping, or even had an opinion on the subject, except for the one time when I had a painting custom made depicting me meeting a group of space aliens. Itās now hanging above a.
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RT @Phil_Lewis_: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has ended key support for Black farmers and will no longer use the term āsocially disadā¦.
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Matt believes he's against Muslim extremists - while sounding exactly like Muslim extremists.
One of my least popular (but still correct) opinions is that adultery should be a criminal offense punishable by serious prison time for both parties involved.
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The DOJ asked the judge to give the ex-cop in the Breonna Taylor case one day in jail - not zero days, but one - because they despise Black people and want to send a message to cops that they can do what the hell ever they want to us, without consequence.
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"Corporate media" is proving time and again, you can't tell the truth if that truth is unflattering to certain people. It's a really bad time.
I wrote it because itās true.
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I wonder if major news outlets ever really think about this angle of the so-called "objectivity" question, which oftentimes is simply defined in anyway the majority says it must be defined.
Meanwhile, when I was applying to jobs at mainstream media outlets like the @nytimes (long before I knew better, forgive me) theyād routinely ask, explicitly, how Iād ensure that my biases as a Palestinian-American wouldnāt interfere with my ability to report objectively.
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Just a few days ago, @nytimes reported that Israelās prime minister prolonged the Gaza war against the advice of his top military officials to hold onto power and avoid prosecution over corruption charges. That evil, which has cost thousands of lives, has already faded away.
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RT @AfricanArchives: The Tignon laws of the 18th century were laws that banned black women from exposing their natural hair in public. Thā¦.
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I would ask Mamdani if he cared that so many Jews were horrified by his refusal to disavow that term, why it was so important for him not to, and what other group heās be willing to ignore in similar fashion.
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This is politically wise. But I donāt get why NY journalists havenāt been questioning his every critic if they really believe he wants to massacre Jews, or if theyāve seen any evidence of Mamdani discriminating against Jews in anyway.
New: @ZohranKMamdani is expected to clarify his position on the use of the phrase āglobalize the intifadaā via @politico.
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RT @DavidsonMBB: Commitment to the craft and commitment to Davidson. First Bay Area mini camp workout with @StephenCurry30 in the books! #Tā¦.
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Itās absolutely ok to be white. This obvious fact shouldnāt have to be said. But even good things can be weaponized for bad reasons, to get people to oppose other really good things. Trump has mastered that. Itās what his administration has done with that pretty benign image.
Since I received multiple good-faith critical DMs about this, it's clear I chose an ineffective way to make what I think is an important point. What do I mean by "you may be the dog" here?. Consider "It's okay to be white," which was coined and popularized by /pol/. What's the.
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They really donāt know the answer to this question, yāall. š.
Was it stupid & foolish when he campaigned on releasing the files? Are Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Alina Habba all foolish & stupid for peddling this for the past 6 months?. Why on earth is he doing this?.
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What does āthe preservation of cultural continuityā mean? And how is Trump trying to make that happen?.
I disagreed with Danās point here. To dismiss conservative support for Donald Trump as mere infatuation with personality is to engage in a vulgar form of reductionism. It is an insult not only to the intelligence of the conservative voter but to the seriousness with which they
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The lengths Trump supporters will go to deny the obvious never ceases to amaze.
@EndWokeness He wants Democrats to waste their energy on it so that he can be doing mass deportations and cuts with less interference. Thatās my guess. He knows heās not implicated in the files. Iām sure some of his donors are. President Trump knows what heās doing. Heās keeping us guessing.
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RT @MAstronomers: You are looking at the first ever image of another multi-planet solar system.
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A special kind of evil: ā5 months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need itā¦enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week.ā @TheAtlantic.
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Trump fans. How much more evidence do you need that the dude has never even liked you, that he was only using you for votes? Heās lashing out at you for asking for what he promised, coming on the heels of taking away health care and food stamp assistance from millions of you.
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