White America, if you don't stand up for these journalists as you did for Jimmy Kimmel, then you'll be in the muck of authoritarianism forever because you refuse to learn the central lesson: what you do unto the least of these, you also do unto me (i.e., the whole body politic).

I feel like we might have been in adjacent chairs this morning. Just came from there and now googling a waterpik.

I’m from Texas so maybe one could say that. I just think you haven’t had a corn tortilla as it is meant to be experienced!

I am about to eat a homemade barbacoa taco on a corn tortilla right now!

This is very Scandal coded…

and will not vote for GOP candidates in the midterms. The main challenge is to get those people to still vote, which I think the Dems could do if they get in the field and work. Also, I have a strong suspicion that the MAGA coalition is shrinking, so the GOP's floor is bottoming out as well.

Very last post, another thing to keep in mind (and this is crucial) is that Trump only won because he picked up some traditionally Dem voters (i.e., Latinos), independents swung his way, and some Dem constituencies decided not to vote. Most of those groups are horrified by his immigration policy...

To put an even sharper point on this, WE are the thing that stops authoritarianism from consolidating! The Trump administration's tactics only work if we get scared enough to stop protesting, stop voting, and disengage entirely. They can only win the game if we forfeit.

engaging in politics. This is disproven by the historical record, particularly in countries with a (recent) democratic past. The only reason the Trump administration believes this to be true is because so many elite institutions capitulated the moment pressure was applied.

Hi, authoritarianism scholar here! To answer your question, no, these are terrible choices to make if one wanted to consolidate an authoritarian regime. In fact, I'd go so far as to say these choices are based on the flawed logic that enough repression will cause people to give up and stop... (1/n)

and we have the genesis of new revolutionaries (Sammie and Willa) who can carry the movement forward. It is the same movie, same message, different genre, different tone.

In both movies, characters who appear to be aligned with the movement end up betraying the movement and causing all of the other members of the coalition to suffer. Finally, in both stories, we have loyal radicals (Regina Hall's character is often forgotten relative to Teyana Taylor's/Wunmi Mosaku's

Both movements try to answer the fundamental question: What happens to a movement when a coalition of (Black) people attempts transgressive change (revolution for OBAA, radical joy for Sinners)? In both, whiteness emerges as the threat because it tries to co-opt/own the mov't for its own purposes.

Stack = Bob: Very self-oriented; about the movement only when it suits his aims; a little hapless

Annie = Deandra: The prototypical BW, knows what's up; faithful to the movement

Smoke = Sergio: Stable revolutionary; foil to Stack/Bob; most efficacious

Sammie= Willa: ingenue; new revolutionary

In fact -- and this will be highly controversial -- OBAA and Sinners advance the same fundamental commentary! They have the same character types!

Remmick = Col. Lockjaw: Obsessed with Blackness despite aims to destroy Black radicalism (joy)

Mary = Perfidia: Proximal to whiteness; betrays the mov't

It happens very rarely, but this thread is where the good pastor and I diverge in opinion. If analyzed as an allegory for how transgressive movements thrive and decline, OBAA offers a really insightful commentary that represents how activists and counterrevolutionaries act in real life. (1/n)

It is also worth noting, because people seem to get confused, that this arrest occurred UNDER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION! Law enforcement officials were already getting sex criminals off the streets (regardless of immigration status) before Trump/ICE unleashed their reign of terror.

I’d bet dollars to donuts that several members of the administration “randomly put tebs of thousands into natural gas stocks prior to this weather event.

The fact that Olivia Nuzzi was enamored with a man whose bodily excretions probablysmell like boiled gym socks means that she, and she alone, is capable of surviving a zombie apocalypse.

Biggest disappointment in adulting: when you forget to take out the meat/soup to thaw and you have no one to blame but yourself.

Praying that this coffee at Qamaria is good and that the shop isn’t too busy. I’d like a gentle day of working on my script/novel, please and thank you.

Question for anyone who follows me/knows: What are the top five hotels to stay at in Savannah?

Easy come, easily seized by a future Congress under a newly passed "Ill Gotten Gains" law.

I could plan you a vacation tonight that would be a great time if you're into food, a little history, and maybe Dawson's Creek.

I just got moved past the ASAC committee for tenure, so maybe, no, I won't be having day-old salmon leftovers for dinner tonight.

Federal agents shoot, injure 2 in East Portland - The Portland Tribune This story is developing and will be updated. A man and woman were reportedly shot in East Portland on Thursday by federal agents, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Around […]

Portland Tribune reporting that two more people were shot, this time by CBP agents, in East Portland (portlandtribune.com/2026/01/08/t...). Shut it all down NOW. How many more lives need to be lost under this administration's terrible deportation regime?

Gentle correction. It's the Somali community in Minnesota that is being attacked.

Also, if you don't get it already -- @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com -- this is the story. This is front-page news, and her photo and the photos of her mourning family and children should be on every newspaper cover. The Trump administration has blood on its hands, and it's your duty to say so.

I pray this is the moment that catalyzes the downfall of this regime. To kill a person in cold blood is unconscionable. The fact that she is a mother and that her children will have to live with her absence, after losing their father just two years ago, is even worse.

People (but women especially) if you live alone buy a drill! Drills are an essential part of any home toolkit — also get rid of that homeowners first toolkit and get some real tools — and are useful for so many things. I’m trying to fix my sisters bed and without a drill it’s impossible!