Sherrilyn Ifill

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

This piece by @michelledbernard is very long, but also very, very good. All the way to the end. michelledbernard.substack.com/p/gayle-king...

He once told me that without the filibuster there is no democracy.

I can’t take this. Procedure? What’s that?

Y’all keep giving them more toys. With all of this surveillance technology provided to police depts over the past 8 years, has the crime “solve rate” for law enforcement increased measurably?

It’s a little late for this mendacity. A whole book was published in 2020 with eyewitness & documented evidence of Trump luridly and openly cheating at golf. It’s not a question.

Stand firm Ms. Henderson.

Without question. And yet here we are…

Perfect. Perfect.

It’s taken me some time to get into this but this appears to be a real cause for alarm. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...

Steinem’s final essay published today in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/culture/life...