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As Beshear waits for "proof of life," McConnell would've invoked Kentucky's Constitution, threatened hearings and subpoenas, and made this such a raging daily political headache for Kentucky's GOP that somebody would've blinked. My latest for @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Andy Beshear Is What’s Wrong With the Democratic Party in the Trump EraThe Kentucky governor isn’t doing what Mitch McConnell would do—and that’s the problem.www.thenation.comChud the Builder is an American tradition. White people have been paying to watch the dehumanization of Black people since minstrel shows and Sunday picnic lynchings. We are not in unprecedented territory. We are returning to form. My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Chud the Builder and America’s Tradition of White Racial TerrorWe are not in unprecedented territory. We are returning to form.www.thenation.comTrump pardoned J6ers. Since then, 40 have been rearrested — for child sex abuse, rape, and killing people while drunk driving. Jan. 6 wasn’t just about democracy. It’s also about the real victims of Trump's pardoned J6 criminals. My latest for @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Devastating Double Standard for January 6 RiotersThe Trump administration wields the full strength of its punitive power against immigrants, political opponents, and marginalized groups—and pardons January 6 offenders.www.thenation.comThe SPLC indictment is Trump letting the white supremacists he calls his base know he's got their backs. The administration is trying to erase America's racist history with one hand—and writing its racist future with the other. My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The DOJ’s Bogus Allegations Against the SPLC Are a Dog Whistle to White NationalistsThe case against the anti-hate organization will reassure racists that an organization that successfully tracks, exposes, and bankrupts them is now in the government’s crosshairs.www.thenation.comCharlie Kirk is treated as a symbol of America itself. But there's nothing more American than the story of Trey Reed — a young Blk man, found hanging from a tree, his death hastily ruled "case closed" by officials. My latest at The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Suicide or Lynching? Mississippi Officials Insist Trey Reed’s Death Is Nothing Suspicious.His family says he left for college happy and healthy. Soon after, he was found hanging from a fruit tree on campus. Yet local officials are refusing calls to investigate further.www.thenation.comThe USDA stole 16 million acres of blk land through racist loan denials & admits this in reports dating to 1965. The debt can never be fully repaid, but at least there was something after all these years. Now Trump killing even that. I wrote abt back in 2021: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
How Thousands of Black Farmers Were Forced Off Their LandBlack people own just 2 percent of farmland in the United States. A decades-long history of loan denials at the USDA is a major reason why.www.thenation.comPhil LewisThe U.S. Department of Agriculture has ended key support for Black farmers and will no longer use the term “socially disadvantaged,” saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination