@ijbailey

Husband. Black dad. Stutterer. Davidson College Professor of Practice. Harvard Nieman Fellow. CIDP survivor. Epileptic. S.C. native. Free expression dude.

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

I’m one of the Black professors on Kirk’s watchlist of professors he smeared and wanted to have fired. How is that doing things exactly the right way? Grieve his death, yes. But don’t whitewash his life.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

Ezra got this one exactly right, and a lot of you are betraying a total inability to tell the difference between "this person went about the process of advocating for his beliefs in the right way" and "his beliefs are correct."

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

It’s official.

[𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐀 🧸 @lenni1127]

joe budden breaks down why dave chappelle’s "Charlie Kirk" joke hits differently

Joe Budden: “When you're punching at Charlie Kirk in this context, you're punching at the power structure, you're punching at MAGA, you're punching at white supremacy.”

Marc Lamont Hill: “I don't like to mock death, although I don't have a problem criticizing people after they die.”

Marc Lamont Hill: “It feels like he was holding the mirror up to motherfuckers. Like, yo, it wasn't a problem when that joke was made on the Kevin Hart Roast.”

Marc Lamont Hill: “Here's this mirror. How you feel now?”

Joe Budden: “And that's the genius of comedy. Exactly. It's particularly his comedy.”

The conversation raises a bigger question about comedy, double standards and whether people are willing to accept the same jokes when the tables are

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

"...or nearly 97 percent, said starting hormone therapy was the right decision, and roughly 3 percent said they regretted taking the medication."

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

I'm old enough to remember being opposed to same-sex marriage was part of a bipartisan winning political strategy because it was supposedly going to be the end of society and marriage itself. It was a threat to our way of life! And think about the children! Echoes. Echoes.

[Michelle Boorstein @mboorstein]

NEW: The overwhelming majority of people who transitioned as teens don't regret it as adults.

That's according to a new study, the largest yet to examine satisfaction and regret in people who transitioned before they reached adulthood.

https://t.co/ok6eywdvGg

[Michelle Boorstein @mboorstein]

NEW: The overwhelming majority of people who transitioned as teens don't regret it as adults.

That's according to a new study, the largest yet to examine satisfaction and regret in people who transitioned before they reached adulthood.

https://t.co/ok6eywdvGg

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

NEW: The @nytimes confirms that ICE deliberately electronically "disappeared" tens of thousands of people in detention and ordered contractors to refuse to reveal where they're held to family or lawyers.

30% of all immigrants detained in ICE jails now have their location hidden.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

A USF professor and nurse from Nigeria has been in ICE custody for 2 months. She no longer appears in the database but might be in Louisiana. She had a protection from removal order/no record. This is inhumane we must get these people out of detention.

https://t.co/RFyALkvtaE

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

This. All of this.

[Amy @amyliztweets]

Merge the applications for all federal benefit programs in one central portal that informs you all programs you are eligible for and creates one application process.

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

And please God let us not miss another lesson from this race. We don't have to accept people with Nazi-affiliated tattoos on their chest to win as a progressive or someone from the blue collar working class. Let's never make that mistake again. OK?

[Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen]

For all the focus on diversity and inclusion, no group is less represented in elected office than the blue collar working class. Jackson's win is a huge step forward. https://t.co/Xyn4BfRGwq

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

I certainly hope the GOP believes this. Because it means they'll double down on a losing strategy. Sen. Graham went out of her way to paint Andrews as an extreme liberal who wanted to force your kids to undergo transition surgery during recess. It didn't work.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

This is a failure of the consultant class.

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

Obamacare subsidies need to be reinstated ASAP. Force Trump and other Republicans to go on the record opposing it. At the same time, Dems should be pushing for something more ambitious. 4/

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

I was covering healthcare when Obamacare was being proposed and passed. They didn't begin with the conservative version, but a much more aggressive "left" version, then went from there. It made perfect sense. You ask for the most, what you really want, then grapple from there. 1/

[EyeOnStalk @EyeOnStalk]

@ijbailey He has to be strategic about it. Obama BARELY got Obamacare passed, with more Senators, a less ambitious plan with bipartisan support, and a 5-4 SCOTUS. If El Sayed (or anyone) wants M4A, it's going to be after becoming a Ted Kennedy-like Senator and getting deals made.

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

Blue Dog Democrats voted against Obamacare, trying to save their seats. They lost them anyway and had nothing to show for it. Moderates shouldn’t make that mistake again. 3/

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

These dudes are snowflaking hard but don’t want to admit it so they’re coming up with all sorts of bizarre arguments so people won’t notice. Seems Chappelle’s joke smoked them out, forced them to reveal their true nature.

[Timcast News @TimcastNews]

As conservatives face accusations of free speech hypocrisy over Dave Chappelle’s Charlie Kirk remarks, the @Timcast panel pushes back.

“Can we just talk quickly about whether or not there is actually hypocrisy here? Because there’s not.” -@TJ_Harker

Tim draws a distinction between criticizing abhorrent speech and the cancel culture of years past, when people were banned, censored, or fired over seemingly nothing.

@miketermaat_ @elaadeliahu @PhilThatRemains @carterbanks

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

@BruceMurphyMKE You’re right. I will be teaching this story when I get back from sabbatical. I’m bookmarking it now.

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

It seems unfair to ask what these editors were thinking- because there’s no evidence they were thinking at all. That’s how horrifically bad the journalism is here. Now we’re learning one of the reporters initially on the story once had a sexual relationship with the subject?!

[Bruce Murphy @BruceMurphyMKE]

What in the world were the Journal Sentinel editors thinking?
https://t.co/rj0aj96Qyr

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

@tify330 Facts.

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

Yes! Keep pushing Wildcats.

[The Belk Report @BelkReport]

IT'S HAPPENED!!! For the first time under Matt McKillop, the @DavidsonMBB are a Top 100 Team. Here's to hoping this a turned corner.

[Dave Wasserman @Redistrict]

Hindsight is 20/20: NC Republicans could have easily drawn a 9R-5D or even a 10R-4D map that would have withstood a blue tsunami (by drawing one more safe Dem seat in the Triad). Instead, by trying for a 11R-3D map, they're on track to end up in a 11D-3R hole.