A reminder that it’s been over two weeks since 67 bomb threats—some traced back to Russia—interrupted fair elections in the US. Since then, barely any politicians have condemned this & many journalists have lazily focused on election conspiracy theories in an effort to conflate… …the two & avoid having to do the hard work of investigating an unprecedented foreign & domestic assault on our democratic system

This is bc it’s always easier to focus on the sensational than to admit the reality—that these bomb threats targeted our democracy by targeting POC

the funniest part of this cover is that when @newyorker actually had an employee who pointed out the lack of diversity & representation on its own staff—with no Black editor for articles hired in ~15 yrs—instead of thanking her they put her on a retaliatory PIP & fired her…

https://twitter.com/newyorker/status/1830632533333332344

what’s equally funny about this cover is @newyorker has spent recent yrs *boosting* its bylines by POC &JOC by shifting many of them into a kind of “digital ghetto,”where online pieces pay ~$350 vs ~$6500 for print

so running a cover about underpaid nannies of color is…a choice

a few thoughts on the state of the VP stakes so far…

so i’ve studied political history for yrs & was one of <10% of Americans to correctly predict Trump would win in 2016

i believe the Dems VP pick is pivotal in this election & here’s why🧵 first,no one should be under any illusions. this is still, in my assessment, a toss up race. why?

yes,the enthusiasm is currently all on the Dem side, poll numbers showing big increases

but we’re still in a ‘honeymoon stage,’ w/the Dems yet to face an onslaught of attack ads..

so many ppl are saying that Trump’s decision to attend @nabj is about using an #NABJ24 appearance to try to sway some Black voters/influencers w/out offering any substantial policy changes

i disagree. i believe Trump’s decision to participate is specifically about white voters🧵

https://twitter.com/nabj/status/1818106670699921754

i believe the photo ops, press & publicity generated by Trump from this NABJ appearance will be used in Trump ads & other campaign propaganda & paraphernalia to try to ‘racially soften’ his image so as to target & peel off a very specific kind of white voter/demographic…

dear reader, the audible gasp i gave when reading the emails a certain nepo baby journalist sent to a respected Stanford professor

these go beyond a sense of entitlement…this is something uglier. this level of disrespect toward a distinguished Black professor is just appalling





i tend to believe that kids are off limits

but when i got to baker’s line “suggests a sense of superiority i find remarkable” (4th)…holy jesus

so dear white people (particularly yt ppl of privilege), pls take the time to read these and then….do the exact opposite

After several weeks of dealing w/this circus, I have something I’d like to say about the @NewYorker, the legacy media world & the tactics of white hegemony. And I have a very clear message for the @NewYorker, in case they’ve misunderstood me in any way: I do not care what you say about me; I do not care how many anonymously sourced attack pieces are sent my way; I do not care what the powerful literati in this town think of me.