Writer | Contributing columnist @WashingtonPost | Senior Fellow @NewAmerica | Navy vet | ΩΨΦ | HBCU-educated
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Florida’s Black candidates offer two visions of representation, @DrTedJ writes. wapo.st/4yoLNQr
An Arkansas campaign ad has managed to outrage right-wing pundits with a single casting choice: a White man as a welfare queen.
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"When Republican presidents take a beating in the midterms, Cabinet changes can come the next day," @DrTedJ writes.
"This year, signs point to another potential blue wave, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems the prime candidate for a pink slip." wapo.st/4iX99bS
Theodore R. Johnson retweeted
"Trump has made a name for himself by overpromising and underdelivering, embellishing plans and offering excuses rather than results," @DrTedJ writes. wapo.st/4rfeHjO
Theodore R. Johnson retweeted
I discussed Hegseth’s chaotic tenure with my fellow @PostOpinions columnist (and Navy vet) @DrTedJ. We both agree Hegseth needs to go for the armed forces to recover. wapo.st/3SNGwDl
Theodore R. Johnson retweeted
With the regular churn and chaos of the Trump administration, it’s easy to overlook the drama unfolding over at the Pentagon.
The latest from @dmarusic, @MaxBoot and @DrTedJ: wapo.st/4gPW8Ot
Theodore R. Johnson retweeted
“The primary election outcomes in Michigan and Florida this month tell a story of two parties expanding their tents,” @DrTedJ writes.
Black politicians are in the spotlight in these two states: wapo.st/3SWh6mX
Theodore R. Johnson retweeted
"When missions expand while food, showers and sleep dwindle ... time seems to stop, making life in the middle of the ocean turn from hard to intolerable," @DrTedJ writes. wapo.st/4qhFwDw
Theodore R. Johnson retweeted
New America experts in the news:
🇺🇸 New America's @DrTedJ discusses what's next for America on NPR's 1A bit.ly/4pJcI6O
🗣️ @PolReformNA's Oscar Pocasangre suggests ways to reform America's gerontocracy for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ab.co/4pDuo3w
For democratic socialists, the road to the nomination doesn’t necessarily run through Black America, a luxury that establishment candidates do not enjoy.
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Theodore R. Johnson retweeted
“The annual transition from the suburbs to the southwest corner of Georgia felt like changing worlds,” @DrTedJ writes.
“It was an ’80s version of touching grass.” wapo.st/3TkMSKc
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“Civil rights organizations warn that almost half of the South’s state-level Black-majority districts could be eliminated by Republican redistricting,” @DrTedJ writes. wapo.st/4fjBENy
The end product is an unspoken compromise between warring parties, one that reduces Black representativeness in the South to a fraction that the Constitution’s framers would readily recognize: three-fifths.
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Theodore R. Johnson retweeted
I spoke with the family of the woman seen in the Reuters photo. She’s a 33-year-old mother and a D.C. native.
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The photo went viral instantly, evoking civil-rights era imagery on the day the US turned 250. Above ground, there were celebrations of exceptionalism; beneath the surface, though, there was evidence of a country regressing — or that hasn’t changed as much
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"The choice before the country at 250 is whether the future of the United States is a project to perfect a previous vision," @DrTedJ writes, "or to construct a new one." wapo.st/4vBLGAk
Many of the Declaration's grievances remain concerns — government overreach, taxation w/o representation, institutions turned against the public. The test at 250 is whether its future will be a project to restore a previous vision or to construct a new one
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Theodore R. Johnson retweeted
"Ten years ago, in the final weeks of his first presidential campaign, Donald Trump often led rallygoers in a chant: 'Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!' This week, it might finally happen."
The latest from @drtedj: wapo.st/3QISo8z
Theodore R. Johnson retweeted
Juneteenth signifies both the end of slavery and the rebirth of a nation, @DrTedJ writes.
“But the vast majority of Americans don’t celebrate — there’s no national custom yet.” wapo.st/4voxQ4s
