The White House website's bios of the "Founding Fathers" are a perfect example of the complete, willful erasure of slavery from their propagandistic version of American history. Read this for yourself if you don't believe me. www.whitehouse.gov/founding-fat...
This is so well done. 👌
Northeast corner
Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
GOP Rep Lauren Boebert is again claiming credit for spending projects in her district after voting against them. In 2024, she told me she'd vote no even if she was the deciding vote.
It’s weird how the “if you haven’t done anything wrong then you don’t have anything to worry about” crowd is trying to illegally shield what they’re doing from journalists who are acting 100% within their rights and the law.
At the 1948 Democratic National Convention, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey gave a historic speech that mapped out the future for a Democratic Party that rejected its Dixiecrat/segregationist elements and embraced the anti-fascist ideal of fundamental human equality. youtu.be/8nwIdIUVFm4?...
This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.
Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
New at The Watch:
I dug into archival witness accounts of the British siege of Boston prior to the American Revolution.
They are remarkably similar to what we're seeing in Minneapolis.
open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
Appreciated this interview with Caitlin Dickerson, and her shout out at the end to Mae Ngai's Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I hear Ukraine chose violence as well. Guess Minneapolis should have learned from them. 🤷♂️
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking.
I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/
Trump: "They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan. ... They stayed a little back, little off the front lines."
Deaths in Afghanistan per million of population:
US: 7.9
Denmark: 7.7
UK: 7.2
Estonia: 6.7
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"
"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
During the Bicentennial Celebration at Independence Hall on July 4, 1976, President Gerald Ford sat symbolically behind Marian Anderson as she read the text of the Declaration aloud. On this 250th anniversary, the President is ordering factual information about slavery to be removed from that site.
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
Her father faced bribery charges. She donated $2.5M to a pro-Trump Super PAC. Trump's Justice Department gave her father a lenient deal, overruling prosecutors. She gave another $1M. Now Trump has pardoned her dad. @kenvogel.bsky.social @susannecraignyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
It was simple, non-controversial extension on federal loans for a clean drinking water project. Then President Trump killed it to punish an entire state.
Colorado's Republicans and Democrats warned Congressional colleagues today that their community could be targeted next.
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
Fear makes us crave certainty, not truth. - Rev. Joseph Yoo
Perhaps…and this is just a thought…perhaps because the Constitution you swore to uphold literally and explicitly says you can’t…? Maybe…? 🤦♂️🤷♂️
I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
NEW: Colorado lawmakers finalize budget proposal. Here’s what they cut to close $1.2B gap — and what they didn’t.
A U.S. District Court judge in Massachusetts granted a temporary restraining order Monday halting the abrupt end of two federal grant programs totaling $600 million that support teacher training initiatives at higher education institutions and nonprofits across Colorado and the country.
