Humorous bingo card for what will happen to Waymos in Philadelphia.

Waymos, the self-driving cars, are coming to Philly. Here's your bingo card. #Philly #Philadelphia #Waymo

On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, which was signed by Johnson on Aug. 6, 1965, I look back and forward to our own time.

Teaching and Writing in a Time of DEI Backlash. Thursday, Aug. 7, at 10:15 a.m. at the AEJMC bsky.app/profile/aejm...

Why democracy needs careful journalists like Jake Tapper.

"If everyone has just a little bit of courage, then no one has to be a hero." --Rep. Sarah McBride, quoting her father on Pod Save America.

Sarah McBride's Challenge to Democrats | Crooked Media

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What are your favorite signs from the marches yesterday? #Handsoff

Headshots of four panelists: Margaret Sullivan, David Mindich, Matt Brown and Caitlin Petre, on a beige background.

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The Washington Post & LA Times sparked controversy by not endorsing Kamala Harris at the direction of their owners. What could this mean for journalism under Trump? Learn more at our roundtable with @sulliview.bsky.social, @davidtzmindich.bsky.social, Matt Brown & Caitlin Petre: bit.ly/4i5fi2a

Participating in my first protest of the new administration: a union-led protest in NYC yesterday against cuts to education and medical research. I wasn't a speaker... just a body in the crowd... but it felt like a good start.

Attempting to transfer incarcerated transgender women to men's prisons has got to be one of Cheeto Mussolini's shittiest and most dangerous moves ever.

Trump Bars Transgender Women From U.S. Prisons for Female Inmates (Gift Article) In an executive order, the president also moved to end gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison.

Note to my U. S. Rep:
I am outraged by Trump's EO that seeks to bar transgender women prisoners from serving in federal women's prisons. Moving these women to men's prisons subjects them to sexual assault and other violence by male prisoners. I urge your office to fight this cruel executive order.

For those of you still taking a break from the news, this is a good time to reengage. The Times reported today on plans to start deportation raids in Chicago. Those of us with some degree of privilege have the moral responsibly to keep our eyes open and protect the least powerful.

There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke

With Trump's insanity about Greenland, Panama, and Canada, it's a good time to watch what I consider to be the all-time funniest take on him: John Mulaney's "A Horse in the Hospital." www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZ...

Survival of the Friendliest, by Hare and Woods. It showcases how humans and other animals can thrive in partnership but also warns how “friendly” people can brutalize out groups when we perceive our in groups to be threatened. Timeless and timely.

What’s Wonderful about this Life — Writing About Our Generation       It’s A Wonderful Life premiered in December 1946 and nearly eight decades of Christmases later, we keep watching George Bailey peer over a bridge railing, his head filled with a ...

My latest article, printed Christmas morning, inspired by a movie that asks existential questions about how the world would look without us. writingaboutourgeneration.com/blog-2-2/wha...

I don't care how many friends I lose over this controversial opinion, but the time has come for a courageous stand, even if I stand alone. Here goes: I think polio is bad.

Trump Names Charles Kushner as Pick for Ambassador to France The announcement elevated Mr. Kushner, the father of President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and the recipient of a presidential pardon at the end of Mr. Trump’s first term.

"Mr. Kushner, 70, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 16 counts of tax evasion, a single count of retaliating against a federal witness and one of lying to the Federal Election Commission"
and so now he will be US ambassador to France
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My kids were assigned Zinn for AP American History when they attended Burlington High School. Great book...

I've really appreciated your strong voice there, and here.

#HowardZinn #Trump #Musk #ReverseRobinHood #Xenophobia #Fascism 10/x End

The solution is connecting the dots on the massive flow of wealth to the already wealthy. As the most famous line in All the President’s Men states, “follow the money,” as in the flow to the wealthy. We and the media we consume need to be laser focused on that. 9/x

And while we should be outraged by Gaetz, Kennedy, Gabbard, and Hegseth, we and the media we consume shouldn’t let that be the main story. 8/x

The solution involves helping folks understand that hating immigrants, transgender people and all the other “Others” is simply a ploy (although it will cause untold suffering). It needs to be part of the story, but it needs to be seen as a ploy in service of the massive transfer of wealth. 7/x

So, the roundups of immigrants will be a play to convince Trump supporters that the government is fighting for the mainly white MAGA supporters. This will only work if the workers cannot connect the dots. What is the solution? 6/x

But Trump won households making under $50k and is the hero of people who benefit from some of these programs. Won’t they rebel against their hero? Zinn tells us that working class whites, starting even before the U.S. was born, would fall into line if other groups were subjugated. 5/x

Musk’s plan to cut the federal budget by trillions of dollars would create a massive reverse-Robin-Hood scheme. They could cut food stamps, free and reduced school lunches, Pell grants, and other programs. They could raise the retirement age. They could add tariffs that would burden workers. 4/x

Their relatively small investment (Musk, worth $300 b, gave $100 m, less than 1/1000 of his wealth) will likely pay off. Handing Musk chunks of the space program, for example, would be a great ROI. And more broadly, tax cuts for the wealthy would benefit the rich. But how to pay for that? 3/x

At the top of a flow chart we see Trump and his family, who have long run a criminal operation (not my opinion: courts have detailed criminality in Trump’s charity and businesses). Trump needed billionaires to win the election, and Musk and others stepped up. Why did the billionaires step up? 2/x

As a historian who studies race and representation, I often dip into Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, which explains clearly and cogently how elites have long used bigotry and xenophobia to keep workers in check. Zinn can help us to understand Trump (A thread). 1/x