Ta-Nehisi Coates wields words like sledgehammers.

IMHO the coup botched not because it was not well thought out. Yoon lacks political allies. His only ally is the military, supporting his rhetoric of freedom/liberalism targeted at so-called pro-North Korea anti-state forces. He has no political allies within the ruling party.

TIL about the Wide Awakes 😯 www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new...

This hit my weak point for massive damage

And BLM

Feel like one could get pretty far in explaining the Trump restoration as a mass-psychological attempt to retcon the pandemic away and undo MeToo

francesca albanese

It's almost as if it's a playbook youtu.be/P55t6eryY3g?...

“I’m trying to raise your wages and this weirdo wants to talk about a 13 year old trying to play soccer with her friends!?”
Force Republicans to defend their absurd attack on this obviously vulnerable minority. That’s not weakness, that’s strength.

No one is demanding that Dems run on a Trans Rights First platform. We are asking the party to push back against the wave of straightforwardly bigoted legislation passing in dozens of states — something numerous Democratic governors have managed to do and communicate very effectively for years.

I don’t always get it right—I often don’t—but I’m for a politics of solidarity, not of altruism. A physical politics, in which ideas follow bodies, not the other way around. A Which-Side-Are-On politics that’s also always open to those ready to cross over.

I love the sentiment of “a community built on caring for each other,” but I confess to my ear the preposition—“for…” has a cliquish edge, even as I don’t believe it’s intended. “Built on care,” vs fascism’s license not to, seems like more than enough.

World-wide right is waging counter-revolution against a "revolution" that never occurred. They have built the flimsiest of straw men: claiming the world's most oppressed groups have somehow usurped power.

The defeat of Sherrod Brown does not get fed into the “voters rejected Dem elites” takes