Nat Graham

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.

If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

Leaders: Patriot Front's hate has 'no place' in Iowa after white supremacists' march Leaders from across the political spectrum condemned Patriot Front, after the white supremacist group marched Saturday in Des Moines' East Village.

Let's juxtapose that my Iowa hometown canceled an African American Read-In because administrators believed it ran afoul of Trump's anti-diversity e.o. and the state's "divisive concepts" law. A few days later white supremacists freely marched in the capitol. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2...

Elon Musk & @elonmusk Follow The REAL reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements (social security, medical, etc) fraud investigations is that they are using your taxpayer money as handouts to attract and retain ILLEGAL immigrants. Their future voters. That's what it's all about. Truth. 10:48 AM • 2/17/25 • 7.7M Views

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

The literal wealthiest man in the world donating hundreds of millions of dollars to a presidential campaign and getting rewarded with a government post where he can award his companies with contracts is the most cartoonish possible rendering of what people warned about after Citizens United.

Trump says: "he who saves his country does not violate any law" and is cheered on by Elon Musk, who posts 14 American flags

Attributed to Napoleon, who ended democracy in French, this quote was also used by Anders Breivik, the far-right anti-immigrant terrorist who murdered 77 people

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI' | Mehdi Hasan Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism

“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.”

My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts.

Sorry, but it has to be said:

Why is the K.C. team still called the Chiefs? I’ve got an idea for a new football franchise: the Brooklyn Jews. Our mascot will be a rabbi, clad in a black hat and a long coat. Whenever the team scores a touchdown, he’ll bow his he…

My guy Jonathan Zimmerman in the NY Daily News.

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Stop calling it polarisation. The world may be divided, but it’s not a “shame” when it’s a reflection of values.

When some think lying is okay and others don’t, that’s not just a divide; it’s a moral line. Certain truths should be universal. Let’s start there.

The kind of racism Trump & his ilk espouse is old-fashioned, even as it’s dressed up in modern DEI discourse.

They get close to saying it outright but haven’t yet—but make no mistake, they sincerely believe white people are biologically & intellectually superior to nonwhite people.

“it’s probably a black person’s fault this bad thing happened” as a reflexive explanation is just a racist statement, there’s not a level of substantiation that makes it not racist bsky.app/profile/pgou...

The thing about “patriotic education” is that if you have to lie about America to love it then you probably don’t really love it. Ultimately their objection to the flawed universalism expressed in the declaration is the idea that the flaws were bad or that the universalism should be realized.

This has become a popular metaphor on the Right and it captures their political project so precisely:

The unruly kids, that’s everyone who dares to deviate from white Christian patriarchal rule; the only way to deal with them is via coercion and violence – the Leader must punish them.

Thank you Chaz Howard and the Office of Social Equity and Community at Penn for having @esglaude.bsky.social speak last night. Powerful stuff.

Dr. Eddie Glaude spitting fire.

Proud of our guy Augie Gerhart, who was asked to speak to at the MLK Interfaith Commemorative at Penn today. Brother Augustus was very thoughtful.

“It’s the antithesis of all these book banning states that you see,” he said. “I’m incredibly proud to have signed it, but also acknowledge that America — and this is yet another good example — is becoming a patchwork quilt country. It really matters where you live.”

“Race is not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities because of genetic differences. Race is a political category that has staggering biological consequences because of the impact of social inequality on people’s health.”

— Dorothy E. Roberts, Fatal Intervention (pp 11)

there is a 24/7 right-wing propaganda apparatus that operates across multiple mediums and it designed to do exactly this: smother any kind of local, material concern with cultural war signifiers and cultivate a “political affiliation as team sport” ethos

The shooting was the 323rd at elementary or secondary schools this year.

No other country tolerates this, but here we are.

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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens MADISON, WI—In the hours following a violent rampage in Wisconsin in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured six others, citizens living in the only country where this kind o...

The 39th time we've had to post this, and this time about The Onion's original hometown.

“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.”

- Police Chief in Madison, WI

White men make up 30 percent of America

White men make up 100 of GOP leadership

How Detroit Pistons assistant coach Jerome Allen became 'the light' at Mumford High Detroit Pistons assistant Jerome Allen's journey highlights his commitment to basketball and serving youth, demonstrating his character and influence.

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Chart compiling statistics on the number of Americans killed annually various causes. Includes source notes.

Americans killed annually by
All Islamic jihadist terrorists 9
Armed toddlers 21
Lightning 31
Lawnmowers 69
Busses 264
Falling out of bed 737
Being shot by another American 11,737

2017 estimates. The Royal Statistical Society gave this compilation its International Statistic of the Year award.

Walmart rolls back DEI commitments amid conservative backlash Conservative activist Robby Starbuck claims victory for the shift even as the retailer says certain policy changes were underway before his online campaign.

The mainstream media routinely spreads the talking points of racist and sexist propagandists. These WaPo reporters wrote Walmart “will no longer consider race and gender when choosing suppliers, a practice it leaned into after the 2020 murder of George Floyd.”
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The title page of the 1859 first edition of “The Origin of Species.”

A poster in the style of Shepard Fairey’s iconic 2008 Obama campaign poster, showing a three-quarter profile drawing of Charles Darwin in shades of red, white, and blue, below which are the words, “Very gradual CHANGE we can believe in.”

One hundred and sixty-five years ago today, Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was published. Remarkably, about 38 percent of American adults today reject evolution entirely, insisting that humans and all other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.

The share of Republicans who say that they’re worse off financially than they were a year ago is already down 15-points since the election.

pundits keep telling me that trump’s wins aren’t related to racism and yet when he wins there sure seems to be people who see it as license to be extremely racist