Charles M. Blow

@CharlesMBlow519k followers

Creator of @BlowTheStack Substack, @Harvard fellow. @MSNBC political analyst. Lecturer. Author of #TheDevilYouKnow & #FireShutUpInMyBones, Ex-@NYTimes columnist

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1Jul 12, '17America, where black ppl can commit a traffic offense and lose their life, but the first fam can commit treason and not even lose their job.7.1×0111k46k2
2Jan 24, '18Allow me to reiterate: There is NO WAY Obama could have 1) had an affair with a porn star 2) while Michelle was pregnant! 3) paid her $130k to keep it on the low 4) and STILL have 6.6×0122k33k4
3Aug 5, '17For me this remains the most profound picture ever taken of Obama. The little boy needed to know if Obama's hair was actually like his own.5.3×0104k24k4
4Sep 26, '17I'm just going to leave this right here…5.2×073k39k5
5Jun 11, '20Anti-racism is so hip right now. Yay! But, don’t let it be a fad; make it forever.5.0×0109k19k113
6May 28, '20It is estimated that the Boston Tea Party, the riot that gave birth to this country, resulted in $1.7 million dollars (in today’s dollars) in property damage (tea). I’m just going 4.7×093k22k792
7Aug 8, '17Say what you want about Obama, but I never once worried about a damned nuclear war...4.1×074k22k0
8Jun 20, '18Melania felt it was too traumatic to move her son to DC in the middle of the school year so she spent millions of taxpayer dollars to stay in NY w him for MONTHS! Now she’s sipping4.0×071k22k93
9Jul 3, '19Let this sink in: There are tanks in the nation’s capital and concentration camps at its border. The drift to toward the unimaginable is unmistakable.3.9×062k20k214
10Sep 6, '18Chick-fil-A is anti-gay: You don’t burn chicken sandwiches Papa John’s founder says n-word: You don’t burn pizzas H&M puts black boy in ‘monkey’ shirt - you don’t burn sweatshi3.8×066k21k180
11Jun 9, '20Also, I’m sick of explaining racism. You invented it. You should know it better than me.3.7×080k13k319
12May 31, '20“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" - African proverb3.6×071k16k1.1k
13Aug 7, '19You turned this massacre into a campaign ad? Are you kidding me?!!!3.6×064k16k407
14Jan 26, '17I must keep saying this: How the HELL are we going to spend $20 bil to build the #WallOfHate but can't find $55 mil to fix pipes in Flint?!!3.6×045k28k0
15Sep 5, '17Donald Trump is saying in every way possible that power in America is white, straight and male and all else are targets. #DACA3.6×053k25k0
16Jun 8, '20Can we all just admit this: The transformational changes that covid, the economic crisis, police brutality and racial turbulence will force are precisely some of the things Bernie 3.5×071k13k400
17Jul 18, '19For the record “send” is a massive leap forward from voluntarily “leave.” For the president to bask in the chant while his race rally calls for the removal of a sitting congresswom3.4×062k17k392
18Oct 13, '20Here in Georgia EVERYBODY is voting. It’s the only thing people talk about. Have you voted? Where are you voting? Want to go with me to vote? It’s such a thrilling feeling to be in3.3×075k9.7k64
19Jul 11, '20Once more: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CANCEL CULTURE. There is free speech. You can say and do as you pls, and others can choose never to deal this you, your company or your product3.2×062k13k659
20Oct 11, '20My brother’s funeral is today at noon. Lord, give me strength…3.0×074k1.9k42
21Jul 5, '19So, are we just going to move on from the fact that the president has been accused of raping someone?2.9×056k12k67
22Dec 21, '19My oldest son is a first year medical student at Cornell. Yesterday on his flight to Dallas a passenger had a medical emergency, diabetic shock. That asked if there was a doctor on2.9×076k3.9k105
23Jun 8, '20The Montgomery bus boycott lasted 382 days, through a long, hot Alabama summer, and DID NOT END until the Supreme Court declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws that segregated bus2.8×053k14k168
24Aug 17, '19The petition to rename the stretch of 5th Ave in NY in front of Trump Tower #ObamaAve has gone viral and almost reached its goal. If the street is renamed the new address for Trump2.6×052k9.9k247
25Aug 4, '19I don’t want to hear any talk abt this man being insane. He posted his manifesto just 20 mins bf walking into the store, but he had driven 9hrs. He probably did it in the parking l2.6×054k11k115
26Jul 19, '19So, in the Trump’s worldview, it is your patriotic duty to trash the country when the black guy is in charge but your patriotic duty to love it when the white guy is in charge. I s2.6×054k10k139
27Aug 28, '18Meet 9 y.o. #JamelMyles. This summer he came out to his mom as gay. Then, he went back to school, 4th grd. The bullying came quickly. His mom said, “My son told my oldest daughter 2.6×031k16k173
28Sep 28, '18I hope @BetoORourke wins just so that I NEVER have to listen to @tedcruz’s sanctimonious sermonizing ever again. That’s my prayer, and amen.2.4×051k8.4k16
29Apr 24, '22During the summer of protests after the murder of George Floyd, millions of ppl - including incredible numbers of white kids - marched in defense of black lives. This shook the whi2.4×049k9.2k1.1k
30Sep 8, '18I like what obama is doing. There is only so much time in a news day. No one has had the weight to challenge Trump dominance of the news cycle. Obama has that weight. Just by speak2.4×051k9.1k50
31Oct 5, '20Shopping for my brother’s casket this morning with my mom and his sons was one of the most surreal things I’ve ever done. Still can’t believe this has happened. RIP…2.4×053k3k113
32May 28, '20White America, don’t you EVER talk to me about riots. I know too much history. In that history, your rioting, slaughtering and massacring is epic.2.4×049k8.7k263
33Oct 12, '17Just so you can see them side-by-side, here is Trump on Texas vs PR. Wonder what the difference is. Hmmm…2.3×028k19k0
34May 30, '20Son called today to say he was going to a protest in NY to provide bottled water and take first aid kits. Proud of that kid. But, when he told me that he had written my telephone n2.3×051k7.6k112
35Oct 30, '17Think about this: we taxpayers are actually paying Sarah Sanders' salary to lie to us.2.2×036k13k0
36May 31, '17"And just before you serve it, you hit it with a dash of #Covfefe"2.1×032k14k2
37Jan 15, '17Apologies you owe: Obama (birtherism) Central Park 5 Mexicans Muslims The Khans My disabled colleague Women (pxxxy grabber) Humanity2.1×030k15k0
38Sep 17, '18Stop infantalizing white men and pathologizing black ones. Kavanaugh, accused of attempted rape, was 17: Trump defending his “very special” guy. All of the Central Park Five, accus2.1×036k12k65
39Jul 6, '20Donald Trump is a racist. That’s it. That’s the whole tweet. Just can’t say it enough.2.1×046k6.8k33
40Jul 14, '19Donald Trump is a racist. Full stop. If you are part of this administration, defend him in congress, or voted for him and continue to support him, you are part of that racism. I do2.0×038k8.6k82
41Sep 6, '18Whatever eventually happens with Trump, America will ALWAYS be the country that elected him! We will always be the country where 40% continued to support him after knowing he was a1.9×035k8.7k61
42May 29, '20. @Kaepernick7 tried peaceful protest. Your husband demonized him and called him a son of a bitch.1.9×039k7.8k103
43Oct 22, '19Lynching?! Sir, don’t you DARE invoke the darkness of America’s viciousness toward black people to defend your corruption. How dare you?!…1.9×040k6.7k62
44Mar 24, '19The dreadful takeaways: 1. A hostile foreign power can hack our election and barely get reprimanded. 2. A POTUS can obstruct justice in plain sight, and it will be hard to prosecut1.8×033k9.2k102
45Jul 28In the first excerpt from my interview for @TheRoot with @nycmayor, I ask how his African origins informed his worldview. (His was born in Uganda, moved to South Africa when he was1.8×134k2.2k429286
46Nov 23, '18I still can’t get over this: #JamalKhashoggi was a columnist for the @washingtonpost !!! That could’ve been me or any number of other columnists. Would Trump just let a rich foreig1.8×033k8.3k35
47Jul 7, '20I’m not afraid to say this forthrightly: Trump’s horrible mishandling of the pandemic response has cost the lives of TEN OF THOUSANDS American who didn’t need to die. He did it. He1.7×032k7.7k92
48Jan 8, '20How did we go from a nuclear deal with Iran under Obama - a deal that was *working* - to THIS?!!!1.7×033k5.6k56
49Aug 3, '19If young black or Muslim men were walking into schools and malls and movie theaters and randomly slaughtering Americans — including children! — with anything near this frequency Co1.6×030k7.7k55
50Apr 16, '18How the HELL is Sean Hannity simultaneously claiming that Michael Cohen was not his attorney BUT that he assumed their conversations were covered by attorney/client privilege?!!!1.6×030k6.9k21
51Jun 17, '20You take down a few racist monuments and change the picture on a bottle of syrup, and you think we’re done. Nope!1.6×035k5.4k43
52Aug 7, '19The greatest trick white supremacy ever pulled was convincing the world it didn’t exist.1.6×031k6.6k67
53Sep 5, '181. Woodward book paints Trump as dangerous, dumb & unfit. 2. Anon Op-Ed by admin official says there is resistance in the WH trying to protect country from Trump. 3. Trump is a1.6×029k7.9k37
54Aug 22, '20If this isn’t a Marie Antionette moment I don’t know what is. Who cares about a redesigned rose garden when we’re in the middle of a pandemic, 175k+ people are dead and millions ar1.6×029k6.8k122
55Jun 10, '20White people calling black people racist for demanding white people acknowledge and address racism will forever be the most hilarious thing in the world to me.1.6×034k5.3k120
56May 3, '20Black people could NEVER1.6×029k5.5k244
57Feb 28, '19I’ve changed my mind on impeachment. I used to agree that an impeachment in the House, knowing that the Senate wouldn’t vote to remove, was folly. Now, I think it must be done ANYW1.6×032k5.7k49
59Jul 8, '17Why the hell is Ivanka Trump sitting in for daddy at G20 meetings?! What are her qualifications? Who voted for her?1.5×023k9.2k0
60Jul 7, '17How can you set up a joint election hacking commission with the country that hacked our damned election?!!! I feel like I'm going insane...1.5×024k9.1k0
61Apr 2, '20I will say this: the moderate argument against Bernie Sanders — that people are not interested in massive, structural change but incremental change — has fallen away. Covid-19 has 1.5×031k5.7k159
62Jun 2, '20Can you imagine if Obama had even *mused* about using the US military against US citizens on US soil.1.5×034k4.5k63
63Feb 15, '18How this is going to go: America: Outrage, sadness NRA: Complete silence NRA supporter in DC: Thoughts and prayers WH: Statement of grief, praise 1st responders Media: Lamentations1.4×022k9.5k3
64Feb 4, '18Everything about you is a fraud. Your fake earnestness, your pseudo policy chops, your smart-for-a-country-boy act, your hostility for the poor masquerading as patriotic. EVERYTHIN1.4×024k8k5
65Sep 23, '20“The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.” — 1.4×023k9.3k156
66Aug 14, '18Y’all do realize that if there is a tape of Trump using the N-word his approval rating among his base is just going to UP, right?!1.4×027k5.3k19
67Jan 15, '18If you are more offended by racist people being called racist than by the racism itself then there is an EXTREMELY high probability that you too are a racist!1.4×027k7k1
68Mar 26, '18Can I just say, once again, that if that Stormy Daniels interview had been about Obama it would have been OVER, and EVERY black man would have been deemed so DEPRAVED that no other1.4×026k6.4k23
69Aug 21, '18Again, how are we going to move forward with a SCOTUS nominee chosen by a president implicated in a conspiracy to commit a felony?1.4×024k7.1k17
70Feb 15, '20Rich ppl last night implored me to “lay off” Bloomberg. Did he lay off those blk and brn men & boys? NO! Ppl asked, begged, sued him to lay off, & instead he intensified hi1.3×029k4.5k80
71Jun 13, '19Trump on Don Jr.: This is a good young man. Don Jr is a 41-year-old man with five children. Stop allowing this man to infantilize these GROWN people! Stop infantilizing white men w1.3×028k5.3k52
72Sep 10, '20One day today’s Republican Party will deeply regret having blindly followed Trump.1.3×027k3.2k30
73Nov 12, '17Let me say this again: If Obama had done just 1% of what Trump has done, Obama would have BEEN gone by now!!!1.3×023k6.6k0
74Sep 28, '18So here’s the lesson teenage boys: You can drink beer like water, write all sorts damning horribleness in your yearbook and have multiple girls accuse you of sexual assault. But as1.3×024k5.8k33
75Jul 16, '18Ok, that’s treason! Seriously. I’m not joking. I’m calling this treason. Point. Blank. Period. TREASON.1.3×025k5.6k18
76Nov 24, '17If u support Trump, we don't have anything to talk abt & we can't be friends. This isn't abt parties or ideology; This is abt right & wrong1.3×021k5.3k1
77Jul 19, '19Americans killed in 2018 by right-wing extremists: 50 Americans killed in 2018 by Antifa: 0 Priorities sir…1.3×024k6.2k88
78Aug 22, '18Friends have been trying to sell me on @BetoORourke for months. I just didn’t know much about him. Okay, now I’m SOLD! #TakeAKnee #ImWithKap1.2×023k5.8k74
79Feb 3, '19If you still ignore, support or defend Trump’s racism at this point, you too are a racist. I don’t care if you are a cheerful grandma who bakes cookies for the children’s Sunday sc1.2×024k5.2k33
80Mar 8, '19Making my last college tuition payments for my twins this week. I’m done! This will be the biggest raise I’ve ever gotten after paying tuition for three kids (from pre-school to no1.2×031k1.4k20
81Feb 26, '20I must say that I’m very surprised @ewarren isn’t performing better, and that’s even before these debate performances. I’m really trying to not let it come down to sexism, but at a1.2×027k2.9k68
82Jun 3, '18I strongly believe that we are heading towards some sort of crisis with Trump and this Russia investigation. Either he will be brought down by the system or he will bring the whole1.2×023k5.5k24
83Aug 24, '18So, a woman can’t wear a bodysuit to compete in a sport; she must wear a mini-skirt? I’m I the only one smelling the patriarchy on this?1.2×022k5.8k20
84Jan 29, '18Let me throw down the gauntlet NOW: If anyone comes on my tv tomorrow night after the SOTU saying whatever speech Trump READS somehow makes his sound good/presidential/unifying, I’1.2×022k5.2k0
85Nov 4, '20We are surrounded by racists.1.2×026k2.6k74
86Oct 8, '18I am no great fan of Plato, but he got this right: “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” #vote1.2×021k6.4k74
87Sep 27, '18I think that what I’m witnessing are the protestations of patriarchy and privilege. It whines and it rages when it is threatened with being denied that to which it is owed, as birt1.2×020k6.5k47
88Dec 8, '19She’s a birther who wore an “I don’t really care, do you” jacket to visit children her husband was separating from their parents and locking in cages. That’s all I need to know abo1.2×024k4.3k57
89Sep 1, '19DUDE! There has been a mass shooting. A cat 5 hurricane is threatening the country. What are you doing?!1.1×025k3.6k29
90Jun 17, '20I’m a little ticked off that Bolton put all this info in a book to make money after refusing to testify at the impeachment hearings where this info could possibly have made a diffe1.1×024k3.2k33
91Jun 5, '20This is absolutely disgusting…1.1×021k3.7k156
92Dec 8, '18There is a high likelihood that the president of the United States is a criminal and attained the position with the help of his criminality. Let that sink in…1.1×021k4.5k26
93Sep 28, '20I’m still trying to figure out how the IRS let Trump get away with so many wild deductions.1.1×022k3.1k33
94Oct 23, '18I don’t think Trump is some great liar. He’s pathological and prolific, but not great. There is no craft or sophistication to his lying. It’s clumsy and stupid. The problem is that1.1×020k5k34
95Jun 10, '18I think what I hate most about the Trump presidency* is the feeling that hatred, venality and incuriousity are being rewarded.1.1×021k4.2k17
96Mar 30, '22BIG NEWS: I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined the @msnbc family as a political analyst!1.0×024k1.2k38
97Aug 20, '19It’s official: We’ll have a doctor in the house. My son just completed his White Coat Ceremony at @weillcornell Medical School where he’ll begin his studies this fall. #PagingDrBlo1.0×025k8529
98Sep 26, '20Understand this: If Trump thought he was going to win he wouldn’t be preemptively calling the election a sham. You have him terrified.1.0×021k3.6k28
99Jan 21, '22I’m am still absolutely stunned that we (black people) now simply have to watch as these states forge ahead with massive voter suppression efforts aimed at us because American *cho0.9×020k2.8k85
100Oct 9, '20Voters, please, do me a favor: give me a future in which I never have to think or write about Donald Trump ever again. I need that. The fact that this vile man has had to be on my 0.9×020k2.8k36
101May 27, '20I’m tired of black people being killed in the streets. I’m tired in my damned bones. Don’t talk to me. Just let me sit in this. Words are insuffiecient. Language fails.0.9×021k2.2k47

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