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🧵 This guy @xueqinjiang’s classes from last year, predicting a US/Israel-Iran conflict, are doing the rounds, but I’ve been watching some of his other videos and I’m consistently surprised. This is a high school class, at a prestigious high school in Beijing, many of whose

Journalists are having other access issues that are too far in the weeds for X. We hope Contreras and Pro Tem McGuire are serious about a future conversation about press access. Thank you for listening.

For all new to NYC Mayor Eric Adams & being appalled by him, his corruption, & general weirdness, this thread is for you. I’ve been following his behavior since his run for office in 2021. Here’s some truth on the worst mayor in NYC History. Receipts in no particular order:

At the DNC officers election right now “… people have been threatened about their vote. They’ve been intimidated by their vote. That folks have been having donors call and say that we’re going to pull funding because of their vote. Folks in this party, there will be no

How could Black Americans sit back and allow Spike Lee and Democratic Party ruin Chrisette Michele’s career — simply because she took a paid gig from President Donald Trump??? So y’all love the Democratic Party more than y’all love Black people??? Chrisette Michele “A Couple of

10 Great books on Economic Inequality 1) Inequality - Tony Atkinson Absolutely THE book on inequality and what can be done about it. Atkinson was a giant in the profession and this book reflects this, the length-insights ratio of this book is amazing.

Body camera videos are now routinely used in almost every prosecutor office in the U.S. as evidence to get mostly poor people to quickly plead guilty to things like drug possession and trespassing. They are almost never used against police officers.

Seeing all the “nouveau” blacks argue that that fair-skinned Louisiana Creole woman would be white-passing makes me chuckle, because many of ya’ll (including some ADOS folks whose families migrated up North) clearly have interacted with mostly Ellis-island-whites and other

1. @Publix is the largest political donor in Florida Between 2016 and 2022, Publix has doled out $10.6 million to Florida politicians Last year, Publix donated $3.2 million It's paying off Big time. 🧵

Attorney Mark Geragos, who represents Kaepernick, described the deal in a phone interview with ABC News on Monday as "cold-blooded." "This deal between Jay-Z and the NFL crosses the intellectual picket line," Geragos said, adding that neither the NFL nor Jay-Z reached out to

1/9 I wasn't gonna do this, but my name is involved. And I need y'all to put some respect on my name. This weekend @politico published our roundtable discussion about marriage. I don't like how people are framing the discussion. politico.com/news/magazine/…

1. Earlier this month, a mysterious woman appeared before a school board in Texas and claimed that, when she was 11, she READ A SCHOLASTIC BOOK THAT SPARKED A DEBILITATING PORN ADDICTION. We investigated. And it's ABSOLUTELY WILD what is happening. 🧵

Essentially the same. But Trump's omits the area saying HBCUs "are proven ladders of intergenerational advancement for men and women of all ethnic, racial, and economic backgrounds, especially African Americans." Nowhere does Trump explicitly mention African Americans. 8/

“The white man hates you not because of your color but because you will not do anything for yourself. It is not a matter of color, but of condition…You create your own destiny. The white man has no better chance than you have. If the white man gathers up the world and puts you

You can bet there’s more. thehill.com/opinion/judici…

THREAD: This is harrowing. Saudi Arabia wanted the names of 6000 anonymous Arab Spring dissidents from Twitter. At first, MBS tried to get their names using EDRs - requests under emergency circumstances. When that proved cumbersome, KSA basically bought Twitter. 1/

So recent story on Black turnout in 2022 has been getting a lot of traction, but unfortunately it shows the complication of talking about math. It’s kinda playing with math in a way to drive 1 small part of a story about AA turnout in a negative way. A short thread to unpack this

From Russiagate to online censorship to increased powers vested in the security state to battle "domestic extremism": it's amazing how the US Govt & DNC has succeeded in inducing *parts* of the left to cheer the exact weapons to be used against them if they get too threatening:

I’ve never thought about it any other way. I know @SandyDarity hasn’t, either. It’s a deliberate strategy and it’s been quite successful for the whites who have actively and passively supported it.

#BREAKING: US Supreme Court blocks NY from enforcing COVID restrictions on churches. The court apparently divided 5-4, with Roberts, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissenting.

KCPD Claimed Missing Black Women Reports In KC Were “Completely Unfounded.” Less Than A Month Later, A Black Woman Escapes After Being Kidnapped From KC & Tortured in a Basement For A Month. Police are now actively investigating for additional victims. kansascitydefender.com/justice/black-…

1. Earlier this month, a mysterious woman appeared before a school board in Texas and claimed that, when she was 11, she READ A SCHOLASTIC BOOK THAT SPARKED A DEBILITATING PORN ADDICTION. We investigated. And it's ABSOLUTELY WILD what is happening. 🧵