Aran Shetterly

Author of Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul. Also, The Americano. Writer, Mexicophile, Runner, Mainer.

[Aran Shetterly @aranshetterly]

@BenVolin I agree. Offensive game plan has been strange. But doesn't McDaniel's offenses often take time to hit their stride? I'd be interested in the data. But I also wondering if Maye doesn't have a lingering injury.

[Lissa Warren @lissa_warren]

Watch @DrStaceyPatton on @davidcnswanson's Talk World Radio discussing her book STRUNG UP (due from @BeaconPressBks on 10/6), which "puts black children at the center of America's history of lynching." https://t.co/BKDTeBO9Wx

[Aran Shetterly @aranshetterly]

@MikeReiss I think his shoulder isn't right. No zip, not the same accuracy. And his deflection of @MikeReiss's question in the post game was not convincing. Sounds like he's injured, but thinks he can play through it. They should figure out what it will take to get him back to 100%.

[Aran Shetterly @aranshetterly]

Is Drake Maye injured? By is throws don't look right.

[Aran Shetterly @aranshetterly]

@BenVolin I think his arm or shoulder is injured. His throws just don't have accuracy or zip in them.

[Ian McDowell @IanKeithMcDowel]

My article covers the late Carolyn Allen’s work to change narrative about #GreensboroMassacre, which later mayors Yvonne Johnson & @VaughanNancy supported, but Jim Melvin, Keith Holliday & Robbie Perkins did not.

@TheSuperAmanda @aranshetterly @GSObeloved

[Aran Shetterly @aranshetterly]

@Patriots Canceling @macklemore = Big mistake! With your power and influence, Robert Kraft, you could make a difference by standing up for what it right and against the murders of innocents. Instead, you have shut down free speech and increased the threat of antisemitism.

[The Nation @thenation]

We owe Macklemore a debt, writes @EdgeofSports. He could have chosen silence. Instead, he stood firm to the principle that there is nothing antisemitic about criticizing Israel, and there is nothing antisemitic about opposing genocide.
https://t.co/kcDNEUMJH3

[Aran Shetterly @aranshetterly]

@farman4x 4

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Susan Collins has accomplished a lot in the 21st century.

Stupid foreign wars: 3
Republican Supreme Court justices: 4
Tax cuts for billionaires: 4
Illegal stock trades: 24
Increase in her personal net worth: almost $10 million

Town halls: zero.

[Aran Shetterly @aranshetterly]

At a @HarvardAlumni panel on June 5, 2026, to discuss @Harvard's role in the #AmericanRevolution, @GenBert2026 refused to say the word "slavery". "We [colonial America] had free labor," said the Major General who's running for the Senate in Virginia. When offered a chance to clarify, he continued to refer to enslaved people as "free labor," refusing to comment on the institution of slavery. Jarring language from a son of immigrants who served in the military with people of all backgrounds. @SenatorWarner @SenTimKaine

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Electability is the buzzword at Democratic conventions across our nation.

I understand why some Democrats are tempted to play it safe. Many see Republican victories in 2026 and 2028 as an existential threat and think the answer is to nominate the safest possible candidates.

But America is not facing an ordinary moment. We have levels of wealth concentration not seen since the first Gilded Age. Millions of young people cannot afford a home, childcare, healthcare, or college. Voting rights and women’s rights are being rolled back. Black and Latino communities, rural America, and factory towns have been excluded from the wealth generation of the modern economy.

The answer to a crisis of this scale is not caution. It is a bold vision equal to the moment.

We cannot simply be against Trumpism and go back to a status quo that tore this nation apart. We need a new economic patriotism that creates good jobs in every ZIP code, rebuilds American industry, delivers Medicare for All, provides childcare $10 day, makes public college tuition-free, creates 1,000 new trade schools and technical institutes, guarantees homeownership for every American who works hard by age 35, and ensures that the gains from AI and technological progress are shared by working and middle-class Americans.

We need to end foreign wars, reject gun boat militarism abroad, and stop providing aid to governments that violate human rights.

And yes, I believe America is strongest when it celebrates being a nation of immigrants. The future of this country is not one group against another or running away from our diversity. It is Americans of every race, faith, and background united around the simple idea that everyone who works hard deserves economic security, dignity, and a chance to succeed. That was Frederick Douglass’s prophecy of a Composite Nation in 1869.

If Democrats want to defeat Trumpism, we cannot simply run safe, focus-group-crafted politicians who try to substitute demographic or biographical connection for a real policy vision. We cannot recycle candidates who will never be seen as leaders for true change.

We have to offer something fresh, something bigger than fear and insults. We have to offer a vision of shared prosperity. We have to give people a reason to believe that the future can be better than the past.

That is the path that Franklin Roosevelt, a leader who governed from a wheelchair after polio, showed us. It is the path John Kennedy showed us as the first Catholic president. It is the path Barack Obama showed us as a trailblazing African American president. It is the path Bernie Sanders showed us as a Jewish, democratic socialist who transformed our politics.

The great reformers in American history did not win by playing it safe. They were by no means conventional candidates. They won by meeting the challenges of their time with courage equal to the moment.

We are at our best as Democrats when we are not afraid. We are at our best when we are bold.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

I’ve been waiting my entire life for a politician other than Bernie Sanders to just say this.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

I am supporting @grahamformaine today because of his passion for opposing war.

An honest conversation about the human toll and his journey.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

They may have the money, but we have the people.

Thank you @BernieSanders. Polls close at 8:00PM. Please vote today.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Rubio now full Orwellian: the total blockade that we have put on your country after decades of an embargo has nothing to do with the scarcity in your lives or the fact that we are intentionally starving your children.

[Aran Shetterly @aranshetterly]

@GregGrandin I wish they would.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

None of this is complicated.

We can have decent healthcare for every American, a decent education for every child.

In the richest country on Earth, the only thing that stands in our way is the billionaire class.

[Aran Shetterly @aranshetterly]

@cwiktrippack @brhodes Lol. I don't mean the Republicans! Jaysus. It would be so healthy for Americans to stop thinking that two party politics are the only politics when both are ossified.