DJ Simmons

| Past: @theobserver, @885wfdd, @onlineathens via @report4america, @hearstcmg

[Big Boi @BigBoi]

Aquemini 28 ! …. 9-29-98… you’re Smellcome 🛸

[Anjali 👊🔥🇺🇸🇨🇦 @AnjaliVBhatt]

it has truly never been clearer that news cycles are driven by way too online journalists who see three tiktoks in a trenchcoat and decide its a society-wide issue

[Jamie Lovegrove @jslovegrove]

As always: Most voters aren’t on Twitter, don’t go to political events, and aren’t activists or ideologues.

If the only people you talk to about elections are the loudest voices from any of those categories, you risk misreading the electorate.

['Nata Edwards @NataTheScribe]

Calling The Wire 5 seasons of Copaganda just highlights how little critical thinking exists on social media.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: An arbitrator ordered The Washington Post to rehire Karen Attiah, a columnist who was fired over her social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. https://t.co/mE1CZui2y8

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Google’s idea here is that news organizations will spend billions of dollars reporting out the news, publish it, then Google will steal it, and repackage it into chat bot responses. Obviously news organizations cannot sustainably cooperate with that model long term even if they wanted to.

[pxt @paulxt]

Ka would have turned 54 today https://t.co/l1M6dgMfYY

[Yoh @Yoh31]

You had to be there.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Several senior U.S. officials told David Kirkpatrick that virtually everyone involved in Gaza policy thought that Israel was killing more Palestinians than was necessary to achieve any legitimate objective. Nevertheless, the Biden Administration gradually came to believe that it could not persuade Israel to alter its approach in Gaza. https://t.co/PXubmOGiRh

[Sam Stein @samstein]

The woman shot by the ICE agent had a child who is 6. The father died in 2023, leaving the child without either of his or her birth parents

https://t.co/kpXEM8R0Zk

[Ivie Ani @ivieani]

Investing in physical media as much as I can next year

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

BREAKING: Epstein files include FBI tips about Trump and others involved in Epstein crimes; Trump calls allegations false. (Gift) Story will be updated throughout the day. https://t.co/EUjNQ4kZgl

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

The progress is always symbolic; the backlash is always material

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

When I did a 1990 interview with Byron De La Beckwith, who killed Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers in 1963, most Americans bristled at Beckwith’s beliefs. Now, 35 years later, the assassin is dead, but some of the views he promulgated are reemerging in new forms.
https://t.co/aYl8gLFkXV

[Ministress of Enjoyments @LaCienegaBlvdss]

The people paying attention know.

[stephen fowler @stphnfwlr]

NEW: The so-called Department of Government Efficiency effort has failed to deliver on its outsized promises to cut costs and increase efficiency, NPR's latest analysis of federal data finds.

https://t.co/dirB6Q6joD

[Craig @DebatingHipHop_]

Alfredo 2 is my current album of the year🏆

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S. https://t.co/hym8D2KY0z

[Justin Tinsley @JustinTinsley]

Don't get fired tweeting things that were never supposed to leave the group chat.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.