Prof. Anthea Butler
@antheabutler.bsky.social
Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker. Comedic truth teller. Will not take your ish.
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Wilson opened a DC outpost of his church in July; I was there for the first service, which Hegseth attended. He and his followers see Trump II as a generational opportunity to spread christian nationalism aggressively
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Fire, Brimstone, and Hegseth: Idaho Christian Nationalists Establish a DC Beachhead
WASHINGTON DC—This past Sunday, Pastor Jared Longshore looked out at his congregants,...
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February 18, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Wilson opened a DC outpost of his church in July; I was there for the first service, which Hegseth attended. He and his followers see Trump II as a generational opportunity to spread christian nationalism aggressively
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Doug Wilson, who once told me that he is trying to "get back to America in 1892," spoke at the Pentagon yesterday.
A few stories from the archive, including our scoop last year on when he first met Pete Hegseth
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A few stories from the archive, including our scoop last year on when he first met Pete Hegseth
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An Outspoken Christian Nationalist Pastor Expands His Sway In Trump’s DC
Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson can be provocative. He once wrote that “slavery...
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February 18, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Doug Wilson, who once told me that he is trying to "get back to America in 1892," spoke at the Pentagon yesterday.
A few stories from the archive, including our scoop last year on when he first met Pete Hegseth
talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/an...
A few stories from the archive, including our scoop last year on when he first met Pete Hegseth
talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/an...
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Despite the caricature his critics created, Jesse Jackson’s “political vision was always inclusive, always multiracial, and always opposed to bigotry and prejudice of all kinds,” Adam Serwer argues.
Do Not Be Cynical About Jesse Jackson
He was never the caricature his critics wanted him to be.
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February 18, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Despite the caricature his critics created, Jesse Jackson’s “political vision was always inclusive, always multiracial, and always opposed to bigotry and prejudice of all kinds,” Adam Serwer argues.
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DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas.
Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.
This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.
This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.
February 18, 2026 at 12:18 AM
DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas.
Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.
This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.
This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
A good man who stepped up
SCOOP: I have the first interview with the 36-year-old South Jersey man whose tearful protest against an ICE raid at a school bus stop has been watched more than 3 million times
How a non-political Eagles fan Everyman became the face of ICE resistance
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
How a non-political Eagles fan Everyman became the face of ICE resistance
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
South Jersey guy becomes the face of ICE resistance | Will Bunch Newsletter
Last Friday, Joseph Zobel, “an average Joe who grew up in Haddon Heights” saw a video that shocked him. First interview with the ICE protester whose viral video reaction has been seen 3 million times.
www.inquirer.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:33 PM
A good man who stepped up
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Found it buried in the article:
This is not NJ this is not the United States. 2/13/2026 @CooperRiverIndivisble #lindenwold #jersey #usa
TikTok video by June Osborne
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February 17, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Found it buried in the article:
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Breaking:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge says government can't take Kilmar Abrego Garcia into immigration custody because it lacks viable deportation plan.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge says government can't take Kilmar Abrego Garcia into immigration custody because it lacks viable deportation plan.
February 17, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Breaking:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge says government can't take Kilmar Abrego Garcia into immigration custody because it lacks viable deportation plan.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge says government can't take Kilmar Abrego Garcia into immigration custody because it lacks viable deportation plan.
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How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
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February 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
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RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson
There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL
There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL
The question is moot Reverend Jesse Jackson Saturday night live
Dailymotion video by Jesse Jackson Jr.
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February 17, 2026 at 12:47 PM
RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson
There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL
There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL
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From the archives, our episode of Making Jesse Jackson: “Our time has come,” Jackson declared during his famous ‘David and Goliath’ speech while he was running for president in 1984. “Red, yellow, black and white, we’re all precious in God’s sight! Our time has come.”
Making Jesse Jackson
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February 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM
From the archives, our episode of Making Jesse Jackson: “Our time has come,” Jackson declared during his famous ‘David and Goliath’ speech while he was running for president in 1984. “Red, yellow, black and white, we’re all precious in God’s sight! Our time has come.”
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Jesse Jackson also used his organizing skills to build Black political power w/his Presidential campaigns:
registering Black voters making them the base of the Dem Party
training the next gen of Black politicos (eg, Donna Brazile)
Rest easy now sir
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
registering Black voters making them the base of the Dem Party
training the next gen of Black politicos (eg, Donna Brazile)
Rest easy now sir
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84
A trailblazing figure in the civil rights movement and Democratic politics, Jackson championed the rights of Black, poor and working-class people with his ‘rainbow coalition’
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February 17, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Jesse Jackson also used his organizing skills to build Black political power w/his Presidential campaigns:
registering Black voters making them the base of the Dem Party
training the next gen of Black politicos (eg, Donna Brazile)
Rest easy now sir
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
registering Black voters making them the base of the Dem Party
training the next gen of Black politicos (eg, Donna Brazile)
Rest easy now sir
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Recent CBS News news:
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
February 17, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Recent CBS News news:
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
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I know y'all wish Black folks would stop talking about racism. Here's what you can do. Stop shoving your racism in our faces constantly so we don't have to deal with it!
February 17, 2026 at 1:43 PM
I know y'all wish Black folks would stop talking about racism. Here's what you can do. Stop shoving your racism in our faces constantly so we don't have to deal with it!
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and i wrote this a decade ago about jackson as the model response to trump-style politics www.slate.com/articles/new...
Demoralized Democrats Have a Road Map for Success in Trump’s America. It Was Written by Jesse Jackson.
Jesse Jackson first ran for president during the national farm bust of the early 1980s. Debt for farmers had exploded from $85 billion in 1976 to $216 ...
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February 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
and i wrote this a decade ago about jackson as the model response to trump-style politics www.slate.com/articles/new...
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thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019:
"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
![Jesse Jackson: Well, first of all, we had been freed without being made equal. There’s historical continuity between blacks being amassed in prison after 246 years of legal slavery. When there was a contest about it [in Dred Scott v. Sandford], the Supreme Court ruled that blacks had no rights. [After emancipation and the Civil War] those who had been slave masters became segregation masters. They took our freedom away from us; they began to lock up blacks by the thousands to do prison labor, farm labor—the whole range. They just put us back in slavery.
We finally, in 1954, broke the backbone—legally—of that system [with the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision], but we were never—there was never repair for damage done. Two hundred and forty-six years of slavery, then legal Jim Crow and [nearly] 5,000 lynchings without a conviction. And even today, discrimination by extension of that system has not completely ended.
So we had been fighting for repair. We fought against the barbarism for our freedom; now we’re fighting for our equality. We are the foundation of American society—not the bottom, the foundation. When the Declaration of Independence came, we had been enslaved for 157 years. We made cotton king. We are due a different kind of recognition.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vkwol5raj4hnslvsqvmpiqw/bafkreic4dao7rhh7274jfmz3jjnb6s3ak5c2ag75h4jha7mgli3r3fqbey@jpeg)
February 17, 2026 at 12:54 PM
thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019:
"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Linda Davis, a K-8 teacher in Savannah, Georgia, was killed in a car crash by a man fleeing ICE
Local authorities said they were unaware of any ICE operations in the area. "We have a no chase policy," a county chairman said
www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...
Local authorities said they were unaware of any ICE operations in the area. "We have a no chase policy," a county chairman said
www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...
February 17, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Linda Davis, a K-8 teacher in Savannah, Georgia, was killed in a car crash by a man fleeing ICE
Local authorities said they were unaware of any ICE operations in the area. "We have a no chase policy," a county chairman said
www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...
Local authorities said they were unaware of any ICE operations in the area. "We have a no chase policy," a county chairman said
www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...
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It’s no accident that the censored interview is with Talarico, whose brand of politically progressive Christianity offers an alternative to the wealth-driven Christian Nationalism that put Trump back into office
Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.
Colbert Says CBS Pulled Guest Over FCC Scrutiny; Posts Interview to YouTube Instead
Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.
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February 17, 2026 at 11:43 AM
It’s no accident that the censored interview is with Talarico, whose brand of politically progressive Christianity offers an alternative to the wealth-driven Christian Nationalism that put Trump back into office
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Jesse Jackson's was the first presidential campaign I had ever covered. One day stands out in my memory more than any other (giftlink): wapo.st/4aTlHMK
Analysis | Breaking barriers, Jesse Jackson exposed racism and rifts in politics
The obstacles he faced — including those from his own party’s establishment — were overt and subtle.
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February 17, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Jesse Jackson's was the first presidential campaign I had ever covered. One day stands out in my memory more than any other (giftlink): wapo.st/4aTlHMK
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This shit has me choked up man
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
February 17, 2026 at 11:44 AM
This shit has me choked up man
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BREAKING: Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84
“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement Tuesday.
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February 17, 2026 at 9:36 AM
BREAKING: Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84.
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read that first paragraph if nothing else:
Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.
Happy Presidents Day.
Happy Presidents Day.
February 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM
read that first paragraph if nothing else:
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Terrific piece by @rexhuppke.bsky.social on Elon Musk, White Nationalist
Wow, Elon Musk sure does like White people | Opinion
Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a guy whose social media platform most companies still use, is a BIG fan of White people. Problematically so.
www.usatoday.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Terrific piece by @rexhuppke.bsky.social on Elon Musk, White Nationalist
Thank you Ancestors
NEW: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the slavery exhibits removed from the President's House in Philadelphia.
Federal judge orders Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House
www.inquirer.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Thank you Ancestors
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was just thinking about his performance in The Apostle the other day. Magnificent.
February 16, 2026 at 6:37 PM
was just thinking about his performance in The Apostle the other day. Magnificent.