I think Twitter is a good news aggregator and useful for journalists and writers and thoughtful people to communicate ideas. There’s also a lot of laughs here and great content (hello, #blacktwitter!) It’s also a hellscape of trolling and foolishness. Musk Twitter will be worse.
Especially on the disinformation front, given his affinity for Putin and vow to reinstate Trump. I don’t plan to delete my account but I certainly will be on here a lot less and focus on other social media outlets. (You can find me on Tiktok at @msnbcjoy & IG at @JoyAnnReid.)
And most importantly I’ll be on @thereidout on @msnbc weeknights at 7pm ET! Probably good for my time management and mental health to do less tweeting anyway. 🤣 And I’ll still browse Twitter from time to time to check for important stories I may be missing and to post show info.
So still @ me if there’s a story you think I need to see. Might take a bit longer but I or @thereidout social media editor will see it. And there will still be great content on here from @_Jahan of @thereidout blog 🙌🏿 Ok then! Much love, my lovelies! ✌🏿❤️

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Oct 26
Last night in Fort Worth after a long time posing for selfies and chatting with people (Fort Worth folks are truly some of the nicest people ever! Even had a lovely convo with a tatted, right wing union guy) a woman walked up to me as my producers and I were getting in our SUV…
She was very Texas: pretty, tall and blonde. Security was literally about to put us in our ride when she walked up and very politely asked if it was too late to take a selfie. I said let’s selfie! Then what she said next stopped me, my executive producer Tina and my AP Kam, cold.
She thanked us for coming to Fort Worth and added: “I feel like I live in Gilead.” Her voice was shaking and I thought she might cry. “I have daughters…” she said and her voice trailed off. I assured her it would be ok; that this awfulness can be fixed. But I was leaving Gilead.
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Oct 25
Literally. They want to sunset Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid every five years. This will cause an economic and poverty disaster. And @GOPLeader Kevin threatens to crash the debt ceiling and tank the economy to do it, slash rich folks taxes AGAIN and cut off Ukraine. FFS.
Don’t take my word for it. Here’s @SenRickScott who heads the Republican senate election campaign arm, defending it:
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Oct 20
Watching a screener of the movie “Till” in preparation for the show tomorrow. And I’m shaken all over again by the absolute state of terrorism that Black folks lived in, in the American South up to not very long along ago. Some things in U.S. history just shock the conscience.
Emmett Till was a year younger than the late, great John Lewis. He would be 81 today. My godmother just turned 89.
And yes, obviously, racism thrived outside the South too, and exists today. But the states that waged war on the United States to try to form a permanent slave republic operated a uniquely savage racial caste system that permitted and even encouraged extravagant racial violence.
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Oct 15
Herschel is a summary of white Christian* nationalists’ stereotypes about Black men. He got violent w/ white women, he’s dishonest, promiscuous, a deadbeat dad, intellectually deficient by his own admission (so no smarty pants like Obama), an athletic showman, and he’s COMPLIANT.
And the neo-Confederates boosting him: Rick Scott, Newt Gingrich, Tom “slavery was a necessary evil” Cotton, Addison Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, Lindsay “you can be Black and succeed as long as you’re “conservative” Graham and yes, Brian Kemp, don’t care that everyone knows it.
They’re laughing at him too. Just behind his back and not on Twitter. And they’re high fiving each other at how they will direct him in his compliancy in Washington, or simply discard him based on the same scandals they are currently ignoring, if he ever steps out of line.
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Oct 13
Two key things firmly established already in today’s Jan 6 hearing: Trump and his gang intended well before the 2020 election to claim he won, even if he lost. And after the election, he knew and communicated to his White House aides that he lost. It’s the premeditation, y’all…
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Oct 5
It becomes a lot easier to understand what’s happening in America today when you accept that nothing on the right has ever been about morality or Christianity or “family values.” It’s all and always was only about power: which groups will dominate and which will submit. The end.
It is not. Nope. Just power. Sometimes they helpfully admit it.
Sometimes they helpfully admit it. None of their so-called “values” are real.
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