If you're a "progressive" academic willing to write an op-ed about how "academia" (meaning, of course, just those parts of the humanities that explicitly touch on race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary-sounding ways) is too woke, you will be able to get your work placed @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The conventional political wisdom about crime is wrong. Getting “tough” no longer appeals to voters in 2026 the way it might have in 1994.
Today’s voters want solutions that work to prevent crime and break its cycle, Vera President Insha Rahman told @perrybaconjr.bsky.social.
I think @perrybaconjr.bsky.social hits something important on the head, here: We need to treat the people who've wrecked places like CBS and WaPo like the hacks that they are and not the supergeniuses that they're not. Be a Scott Pelley, not a doomer!
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Today's must-read op-ed advances a strategic orientation for Black politics I find powerful:
1️⃣ Inside-outside strategy
2️⃣ Policy platform over person
3️⃣ Fight for multi-party system
4️⃣ Redefine Black politics more in relation to labor + class
🙏 @perrybaconjr.bsky.social @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
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The Atlantic is king of this strategy, publishing a couple of no-talent reactionaries who pretend they are left or even Marxist.
Excellent piece.
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"This era demands a new framework for Black politics—fresh strategies, tactics, leaders, and goals. And we should be clear-eyed: even before Callais, the existing models of Black politics were growing stale." newrepublic.com/article/2106...
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The easiest way to end up in the NYT Opinion section is to be someone they perceive as “progressive” arguing that progressives actually have to capitulate to the right on x issue
The easiest way to end up in the NYT Opinion section is to be someone they perceive as “progressive” arguing that progressives actually have to capitulate to the right on x issue
After Callais, the old civil rights politics is moot. And more recent strategies have limited reach. Here’s how we can build something more transformative.
So @nytopinion.nytimes.com ?
Why the hell was Zaid Jilani, who has ZERO professional expertise or experience on abortion, given space to write about it in the New York Times?
It's not just wrong, it's insulting.
We've won doing everything he says not to do.
We don't polls. We have actual votes.
So @nytopinion.nytimes.com ?
Why the hell was Zaid Jilani, who has ZERO professional expertise or experience on abortion, given space to write about it in the New York Times?
It's not just wrong, it's insulting.
We've won doing everything he says not to do.
We don't polls. We have actual votes.
