Anthea Butler

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MSNBC Columnist, Penn Prof. Rabid football fan, news and comms junkie, traveler and gin drinker.

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Also from 2022, and from @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social, in @tnr.bsky.social: The New Right’s Grim, Increasingly Popular Fantasies of an International Nationalism newrepublic.com/article/1644...

The New Right’s Grim, Increasingly Popular Fantasies of an International Nationalismnewrepublic.com A conservative vanguard is looking to Hungary and Poland for inspiration.

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Vance was Heritage's pick so don't forget about Project 2025, which proceeds apace

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A man who fakes his wealth paired with a man who fakes his poverty. Sounds about white.

Yo Tim Scott you up?

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I wrote something about the toxicity of political violence and conspiracy theories. www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Like Trump in 2024, President Andrew Jackson faced an attempt on his lifewww.tennessean.com Opinion: The assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump is not unprecedented. Andrew Jackson was nearly murdered in the 1830s.

We've reached the moment that I can't talk to some of my friends because everyone is a conspiracy theorist now. Sigh. Everything is exhausting.

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Read this. This is MAGA. This is Trump. Be informed, and also know it’s not inevitable that these despicable racists succeed.

my second piece on NatCon is up today. At the conference, Republican senators mixed with openly racist speakers. It doesn’t bode well for the future of multiracial democracy nymag.com/intelligence...

The Authoritarian Plotnymag.com At the National Conservatism Conference, Republican senators mix with racists ranting about “post-white America.”

Thank goodness I found that block list

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If you want to block all the people who harassed Jamelle Bouie off the site at once, this list is handy. Hit subscribe, then block.

Weird Bouie reply guys

List by @hockeybear.bsky.social

What the name says. Some accounts on the list are truly horrible all the time and some just made a muteworthy skeet one time. This list is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Jamelle Bouie or anyone other than myself.

I am coming late to the Jamelle Bouie dust-up on here and I have to say folks... You're wasting your energy on the wrong people. There's a five alarm fire going on in this country... And this is what you choose to do? Smdh

A must read in this election cycle.

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Countrywww.propublica.org The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it ma...

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So…I’m currently writing a book about Black mediamakers and US democracy. I have interviewed many inc. current+former employees of you know where. I’ve done years of research. I just want to say: you have no f-ing idea from the outside the fight these folks are fighting to try to save you chill out

I think it's really hard for people to understand that even though we're the voters, we're not the ones who are going to make this decision about Biden. We can weigh in but, this one is not going to come from us unfortunately.

My latest- is it time to take President Biden's keys?

Is it time to take President Biden's keys?profantheabutler.substack.com If you have an elderly parent, you know this conversation. Except Biden has the keys to America-for now.

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"The answer has to do with the disproportionate influence of more extreme voters—as well as the growing ascendancy of religious conservatives as Republican Party power brokers."

Check out my new op-ed in the New Republic, which explains why such unpopular abortion bans keep being passed in red states--and what they may mean for this fall's election. newrepublic.com/article/1836...

Why Abortion Bans Keep Getting Passed, Even Though They’re Unpopularnewrepublic.com Polls show voters don’t like restrictive abortion laws. But they also show a growing political divide on the issue.

By @sarahposner.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ‘Some folks need killing’: North Carolina Lt. Gov takes Christian nationalism to dangerous lowwww.msnbc.com Mark Robinson’s newly explicit calls for killing perceived enemies show how seamlessly Christian nationalists can glide into promoting real violence.

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NYT: New evidence shows the Trump campaign was raping everyone in sight, and illegally concealing the settlement payments. For the good of the country, Biden must drop out

Seems bad

Former Trump Staffer Reveals New Texts Alleging More Secret Payoffs and Settlementswww.mediaite.com A former staffer on Trump's 2016 campaign revealed texts claiming that the former president's 2020 campaign "settled multiple" sexual harassment lawsuits.

I wrote something today about Biden and his visit to a black church in Philadelphia and the managed interview he gave to local Black radio station WURD

Biden, the Black Church and the 2024 electionopen.substack.com Yes, Biden's fitness is important, but he has to figure NOW out how to appeal to the Democratic party most loyal, but dwindling constituency.

In case anyone is interested, you can livestream Biden's visit to Mt Airy COGIC at this link.Don't @ me being angry, this is work for me! www.facebook.com/MtAiryChurch...

Mt Airy Church Of God In Christ is live now. | By Mt Airy Church Of...www.facebook.com Mt Airy Church Of God In Christ is live now.

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I want to explain how Project 2025 is essential to the Trump campaign and the only way to understand it. But first, let's do something the press refuses to do in 2024: Take Trump's threats seriously. Think about the core message of his first post-1/6 rally, delivered deliberately in Waco, Texas.

The war on the Deep State became Project 2025www.youtube.com Find out more: https://project2024.info/

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what if we have a little moratorium on publishing the opinions of adult converts to Catholicism in the American news media, just for a year or two

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You don't say... Who will be the disproportionate targets AGAIN, Black people esp Black men who make up 40% of the houseless? boltsmag.org/grants-pass-...

“Designed to be Cruel”: How Grants Pass Will Ramp Up the Policing of Homelessnessboltsmag.org The Supreme Court blessed bans on sleeping outdoors. In a <i>Bolts</i> roundtable, three experts explain that this may encourage aggressive policing over long-term housing solutions.

African Americans will tell you that this country has never been fully a democracy, and white people are about to find out how the little democracy left is about to go up in a puff of smoke should Trump get back in the White House.

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The institutions of US democracy are hanging by a thread, and the Supreme Court just frayed it. I cannot emphasize this enough: the 2024 election is effectively an up-or-down vote on Constitutional democracy. All else is secondary, because democracy and rule of law are how we address other issues.

The Institutions of American Democracy are Hanging by a Threadwww.arcdigital.media Trump has brought the United States further down the path of democratic backsliding than many realize. The election is the only barrier left.

I know no one "on here" thinks this but if you think that the man who said ""I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" won't use his power if he becomes president to kill a rival or even an annoyance.. just wait.

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"A republic, if you can keep it." Plot twist: we can't.

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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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“This is an ongoing project by Christian nationalists to turn this country to a theocratic state,” says Anthea Butler. Their goal, she says, is to “ make everyone else live under their kind of moral codes which they don't live under themselves.” #Velshi www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

The effort to 'turn this country into a theocratic state' is being mainstreamed by the GOPwww.msnbc.com Christian Nationalism is based on the myth that America was founded as a Christian nation. It puts Christianity at the center of American life, and aims to install believers into all areas of public l...