Marlon Weems

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

Why Won’t Democratic Leadership Listen to Its Base? How the media—and Democratic leaders—wage war against progressives

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WTAF is wrong with these people

No shit. Folks are so tired of that crap

Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes for the first time, as climate warms The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, which said the mosquitoes likely arrived by freight.

Everything is just fine www.npr.org/2025/10/22/n...

the collective meltdown of every worst person in the world after zohran becomes mayor is going to be so fucking delicious

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“There are only three good kings in America: Gayle, Stephen, and Burger.” #NoKings

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OXNARD, CA: Trump’s ICE goons ram into a citizen’s car, arrest him… and claim he rammed into them.

Whaddya know — Video shows they lied.

More: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Wow. 🤯

Why Hegseth is so worried about the press leaks www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The University of Arkansas's hidden history of helping Nazis In the early 1930s, a German lawyer named Heinrich Krieger enrolled in the University of Arkansas as an exchange student to study American race law. When he returned to Nazi Germany, his studies direc...

Excellent point. Because we’ve been shielded from knowing our own history, a huge swath of the country has no idea that the Hitler perfected Nazism by studying Jim Crow—in America.

www.facingsouth.org/2021/04/univ...

Just taking a moment to reiterate that I think when we talk about what's happening now as similar to Nazi Germany et al it misses that we have our own history right here that it is actually much more similar too. Especially when you look at the SC. They're not Nazis they're neo confederates

Rapper Vic Mensa: This is an “extension of the Civil War late stage confederacy.” (Gift link to his NYT piece) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Will the Most Votes Be Enough to Win? The acquisition of Dominion Voting Systems raises question about the midterm elections

ICYMI: Last week, Dominion Voting Systems, the same company Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit against it for nearly $800 million, was bought by a former Republican election official. In my latest, I break down what is known so far: open.substack.com/pub/thejourn...

JFC. 🫤

This is beautiful.

I keep telling folks, he ain’t the one.

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

This is awful. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

Will the Most Votes Be Enough to Win? The acquisition of Dominion Voting Systems raises question about the midterm elections

ICYMI: Last week, Dominion Voting Systems, the same company Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit against it for nearly $800 million, was bought by a former Republican election official. In my latest, I break down what is known so far: open.substack.com/pub/thejourn...

“Wanna Purposely Start A Depression? Do What Trump's Doing” Top analyst Marlon Weems has a scary message about where Trump economic chaos, billionaire greed & political cowardice lead—unless we act & pull back from the brink

www.blueamp.co/p/wanna-purp... The Evidence Trump Is "Trying To Start A Depression"

"These guys aren’t idiots. They know exactly what they’re doing. They’re creating crisis so they can profit off the cleanup"(w @therealjourneyman.bsky.social!)

Just don’t buy anything #boycotttarget

No.

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a black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie with the word vevo on the bottom right Alt: a black and white photo of a Jay-Z in a suit and tie with the word vevo on the bottom right

An “Allow me to introduce myself” thread for folks who don’t know me: I’m from Arkansas & old enough to remember segregated schools, which ain’t that old. I was one of the first 3 or 4 Black ppl in the investment biz. 10 years later I started the state’s first Black-owned investment firm.

An odd take on the jobs climate from Axios this morning. The first line—“No hiring. No firing”—ignores the fact that companies have announced the highest number of job cuts YTD since the pandemic. Up over 50% from last year. So somebody is being fired. thejourneyman.substack.com/p/the-stock-...

In my piece I from a few days ago, I break down how Argentina thanked the geniuses in the Trump administration for this $20 billion bailout by cutting U.S. farmers out of selling soybeans to China open.substack.com/pub/thejourn...

That she’s from Venezuela is the chef’s kiss 🤌🏾