Erik Olsen

This is of a piece with privileging white South African refugees.

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com Great analysis and critique tonight of what Republicans are claiming (or ignoring) about SNAP and health care. Keep holding their feet to the fire!

Oh, and you’re simply wrong about shoplifting and crime not being factors in business closings. I don’t know about Kroger’s in Lake City but there’s plenty of evidence about this, both in general and in relation to specific stores like City People’s.

I know it’s about choice but it evokes a kind of liberation from children in this context. Never mind that this is the kind of thing that undermines leftist electoral progress. As a parent, it actually makes me question your school board endorsements. Correct me if I’m misreading this.

I always look at your endorsements for guidance (though I never completely agree). Sometimes your language gives me pause. This time it was the choice of “childfree” rather than just saying “don’t have children.” I get it, but it sounds too much like a political stance. Is it?

Screenshot of Media Matters article headline that reads: “CBS Evening News fails to cover Trump's pardon of cryptocurrency executive with ties to Trump business venture. CBS' counterparts NBC, ABC, and PBS all covered the story on their Thursday evening news shows”

CBS’ evening news program failed to cover Trump's pardon of Binance founder last night — while its counterparts all did.

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@msnbc.com @stephruhle.bsky.social @jenpsaki.msnbc.com @chrislhayes.bsky.social Would someone correct MAGA misinformation re. the shutdown? What the Repubs passed wasn’t a clean cr. A clean cr keeps the gov’t funded at existing levels w/out incorporating new policies and program cuts into the cr.

You’re right. You made me and a lot of small-d democrats unhappy. How can you say Democrats should defend constitutional democracy but not oppose egregious partisan gerrymandering, especially when it departs from the norm of doing redistricting in census years? Yes, Dems do it too but less so.

@ahylton26.bsky.social Great show tonight filling in on The Briefing. The sections on ICE, deportations, and the nuances of Latino views were especially good. Thanks.

2025 MIT class president banned from graduation ceremony after pro-Palestinian speech | CNN The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before.

The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before: cnn.it/43GWlge

A philosopher has hitherto only interpreted a diaper in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Missed having your show to watch tonight with the new round of tariff craziness! :)

If you are suggesting that Alexander Hamilton didn’t support tariffs, you’re completely wrong. But it is probably true that he would think Trump’s approach to tariffs is irrational and crazy. Even so, I don’t want the left to fight Trump with neoliberalism (something Hamilton would have opposed!).

@maddow.msnbc.com All due respect, your anger over the use of “populism” was misplaced. There’s a lot of research that shows that there is right-wing, red-pill form of populism that is linked to authoritarian movements, even if it is “plutocratic populism.”