Updates, letters, and notes from the movement.
I’m 69 years old. Most guys my age are retiring. Fuck that. I’m running for mayor. I started a political movement. I’m starting businesses. I’m doing stand-up comedy. At 69, I looked at my life and said: “What does this need?” More cowbell. Apparently my retirement plan is just— more shit to do. My friends […]
There are political disagreements where reasonable people can look at the same facts and reach very different conclusions. Abortion is obviously one of them. But before we argue about what the law should be, we ought to be able to agree on what is actually happening. Back in 2019, Donald Trump made an extraordinary statement […]
Today at the White House, President Trump is rolling out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping. And I mean the red carpet. Hundreds of American military personnel. Military bands. American flags. Chinese flags. A B-2 stealth bomber flying overhead. Tonight, a state dinner so exclusive that Trump says he’s telling some of his […]
Something extraordinary happened at the United Nations today. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stood at the same lectern President Trump had occupied a day earlier and delivered a very different version of the war between the United States and Iran. Trump had warned that without an agreement, Iran could face annihilation. Pezeshkian’s answer was essentially: You […]
I’ve been talking a lot about what Greensboro can become. We’ve talked about housing. Transportation. Mental health. Downtown development. Jobs. Neighborhoods. Public spaces. Those things matter enormously. But there’s another part of building a great city that we don’t talk about nearly enough. Culture. Music. Art. Poetry. Theater. Dance. Festivals. The things that make a […]
There are certain sentences that sound perfectly reasonable until you stop and think about what they actually mean. And here’s one of them: “Access to the White House is a privilege — not a right.” That’s the argument the Trump administration is making in federal court after President Trump barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico […]