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@ijbailey

@ijbailey

Husband. Black dad. Stutterer. Davidson College Professor of Practice. Harvard Nieman Fellow. CIDP survivor. Epileptic. S.C. native. Free expression dude.

Myrtle Beach, S.C. Katılım Aralık 2008
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@ijbailey@ijbailey·
I’m one of the Black professors on Kirk’s watchlist of professors he smeared and wanted to have fired. How is that doing things exactly the right way? Grieve his death, yes. But don’t whitewash his life.
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc

Ezra got this one exactly right, and a lot of you are betraying a total inability to tell the difference between "this person went about the process of advocating for his beliefs in the right way" and "his beliefs are correct."

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That’s why it was so dangerous to elect him once, and especially for a second term in office when there’s no reelection to moderate his primal instincts.
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As soon as their interests no longer align with his primary goal - self aggrandizement - he drops them like a hot potato. He even does that to the most loyal people in his orbit. 5/
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@ijbailey@ijbailey·
I identified the Trump Doctrine long ago: Trump will do whatever makes himself look, feel or sound good - including starting a war. He will avoid things that makes himself look bad, and when he can’t do that, he will lie and say things aren’t bad. There’s no mystery. 1/
Jonathan Lemire@JonLemire

“But most allied leaders have stopped trying to find the hidden logic behind Trump’s actions, and they understand that any contribution they make will count for nothing. A few days or weeks later, Trump will not even remember that it happened” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

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It doesn’t take a lot of time to read a well-resourced evidenced-based story that took 5 years to write, publish and report.
The Old Knickerbocker@Dexpectations12

@jaweedkaleem You know what would be cool? If ostensibly serious people like academics pretend to be, took a little time to evaluate the evidence and then make a considered judgment instead of just doing things because of a scandal nobody had ever heard of last week.

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Mike Levin
Mike Levin@MikeLevin·
Let me get this straight. The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality. Everything was above board. Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded.  So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.”  He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it. This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness. Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come. None of this is America First. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…
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Conor Friedersdorf
Conor Friedersdorf@conor64·
Perhaps a Norquist-style pledge is the way forward on war power: “I swear to vote for the prompt impeachment and removal of any president who attacks another country without a declaration of war, unless Congress judges that he or she preempted an imminent attack on America.”
Conor Friedersdorf@conor64

Tulsi Gabbard's flip-flop on Iran carries a lesson for war-weary voters: it's long past time to stop investing your hopes in presidents and their appointees and start focusing on electing legislators who will impeach presidents who go to war unlawfully theatlantic.com/newsletters/20…

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Assal Rad@AssalRad·
Fixed it for you @Reuters.
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Linda Mamoun
Linda Mamoun@mamoun_linda·
This is the first NYT headline acknowledging Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians — something human rights groups have documented for decades.
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Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter@brianstelter·
"The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history," one of the world's top democracy researchers says in a new report. cnn.com/2026/03/18/med…
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I agree with this. But why shouldn’t this standard apply to the current president, as well as those who raped, murdered and enslaved people at scale?
Greg Abbott@GregAbbott_TX

The state of Texas will not observe the Cesar Chavez Day holiday. I am directing all Texas state agency heads to comply. In the upcoming legislative session, I will work with Texas lawmakers to remove Cesar Chavez Day from state law altogether. Reports of the horrific and widely acknowledged sexual assault allegations against Cesar Chavez rightfully dismantle the myth of this progressive hero and undermine the narrative that elevated Chavez as a figure worthy of official state celebration.

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@lpolgreen Damn. Just…damn. All of this hurts to even read, let alone having to experience and survive.
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Lydia Polgreen
Lydia Polgreen@lpolgreen·
I recently learned Jessica Mitford was raped by a black man during the civil rights movement (random dark alley assault) and she never reported it because it would have been a death sentence to her assailant. What women in movements suffer…
Jemele Hill@jemelehill

Dolores Huerta chose to hide and suppress her own pain for the sake of the movement. She had to sit there as her (alleged) rapist was being glorified as a freedom fighter. I cannot imagine.

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Do we realize how insane it is for the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military in the world to act like this?!
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid

🚨🚨🚨Trump on Truth Social: Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen. Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility. NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar - In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before. I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so

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Hoops@Hoopss·
Everytime I get mad at my sports team for losing, I remind myself of what Giannis said. Arguably my favorite response to a reporter ever.
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