Stephen Colbert was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. A fitting honor for a champion of our democracy.
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🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.
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There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.
And honestly, it explains a lot.
We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.
We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.
That is not a small thing.
People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.
Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.
We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.
We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.
We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.
We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.
And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.
That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.
A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.
We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.
That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.
But we exist.
We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.
And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.
Three people were killed at a mosque in San Diego yesterday. The victims only wanted to pray or protect those praying.
This is not an isolated incident. This is what happens when politicians spend years using faith communities as political targets. Words online and in campaign commercials don't stay words.
Within the past month alone: a man threatened to "kill all the Muslims and Jews" at Houston's Ismaili Center. A synagogue in Austin was vandalized. Different targets but the same motive: hate.
When leaders normalize bigotry, no faith community is safe.
To my Muslim and Jewish communities in Texas and across this country: I see you. I am with you. And I will not stop fighting for you.
To every person of faith and conscience, remember that silence is a choice. Now is the time to choose differently.
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These were some of the hateful images of America’s past.
Right now, some of y’all are creating the next set of images and actions that future generations will study in history books.
Years from now, children will look back and ask how elected officials could knowingly divide communities, diminish Black voices, and turn their backs on basic fairness and humanity.
And your names, your votes, and your actions may live in infamy right alongside them.
Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.
WARNING: This may be the least flattering photo of Trump ever taken.
Fuckface would absolutely HATE seeing this spread across timelines.
So whatever you do… DO NOT RETWEET! Don’t share it.
Let’s all be mature adults and make sure that doesn’t happen.
Dear @WhiteHouse and @RapidResponse47: Please retweet the below statement from trump that he doesn’t “think about Americans’ financial situation.”
He said “That’s a perfect statement. I’d make it again.”
So help him make it again.
“James was absent when it mattered most”
Ted Cruz literally fled the state during a historic freeze. You literally withheld disaster relief from our own TX neighbors until you forced Trump’s TX redistricting through without us Texans even getting to vote on it.
In 250 years, Louisiana has sent 171 white men to Congress.
During Reconstruction, Black people were elected and denied their seats. Only one Black man — Charles Nash — served in the 1800s.
Then from 1877 to 1990, Louisiana sent zero Black people to Congress. Zero. For 113 years.
In 1990, Black Louisiana finally got a member of Congress again. Since then, white voters have elected 25 members. Black voters have had 4.
All 4 were in the same room fighting to keep the two seats Black Louisiana fought for.
Don’t tell us this isn’t about denying Black people representation. It always has been.
@repcleofields_ and @reptroycarter were joined by former Congressman Cedric Richmond and William Jefferson to let the record be clear that Black voters are due fair maps.
This image should put things into perspective for you.
Today at the state Capitol, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee will vote on which congressional map Louisiana will have.
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While we focus on the “big” stuff, Abbott is just quietly padding his buddies pockets with our tax dollars.
I have a (relatively) small platform. I wish there were a way to reach voters about what is ACTUALLY happening with our state resources.
If we cut out the backroom grift, we could have stronger public services AND lower taxes. The depths of the corruption won’t be fully known until we get rid of the man behind it all.
Fire Abbott. Elect @GinaHinojosaTX