You know who is going to be the first person to personally check on Mitch McConnell to make sure he’s okay and get the help he needs, if he needs it?
Joe Biden.
Mike Pence cites the college experiences of his 3 children to make a case that there is no longer a need for affirmative action. I'm glad Pence's kids didn't experience racial discrimination.
Amazing how Tucker Carlson has so quickly and so completely vanished from the public conversation.
Rupert Murdoch just made him an Unperson. That’s real power
"He's fired up about a lot of issues ... leaning into his deal-making status" -- Kristen Welker's commentary here is classic pundit "both sides" whitewashing of Trump's depravity
Kristen Welker will interview Trump for her "Meet the Press" launch on NBC. If the national news media won't fight fascism (and they clearly won't), I wish they'd avoid politics altogether instead of handing a megaphone to the fascists.
Well done Sen Tuberville of Alabama: just a testament to the amazing skills of his office to pick a huge fight to undermine our national security right as this decision was coming to a head. Just amazing political strategy.
I guess a girl “over 14” (which means she’s 15) is old enough to be a mother but not old enough to read a book about two male penguins raising a chick.
Rep. Lauren Boebert - who says Christian values make her opposed to sex education and abortion, yet she approves of unprotected sex between minors - refuses to say how old her 17-year-old son's impregnated partner is, but that she’s “over the age of 14.”
Amazing how it’s unfailingly pro-Russia all the time. One would think every so often there’d be some anti—to-neutral Russia stuff mixed in here just to on Tucker’s show. But no.
Is there really a market on tv for this pro-Putin stuff on a nightly basis?
Why the tv networks don't pay attention to a transparently ginned-up story about a social media platform (that most Americans don't actually use) is beyond me
If we want to honor our Civil War heroes, why not rename a major US Army base after General US Grant?
He won the war and then became President, after all.
"Not only did we show you a plan, we're the ONLY ones to *pass* a plan — so I think it's up to [Biden] now." -
@SpeakerMcCarthy
Biden needs to stop obstructing and do his job!
It’s Monday. There are people alive today who won’t be by next Monday because they’ll be victims in yet another massacre somewhere in America — because some psychopath had easy access to firearms.
“No middle ground,” Tommy Tuberville told me, saying he would continue holding up DOD nominees (more than 250 and counting) until the Pentagon scraps its abortion policy and the Senate holds a vote on it. (Such a vote would fail to get 60 votes.)
Are “Xeets” pronounced like “Ex-eet” like “I am going to xeet this social media platform” (in a French accent)
Or
Pronounced like the Chinese pinyin “Shh” like “Xi Jinping” or “this social media platform has gone to ‘xeet’”
I bet Twitter’s senior engineers are really getting it from the C-suite right now for very very publicly humiliating the CEO
hahahaha who am I kidding there are no senior engineers at that firm anymore b/c they all got fired
Does Justice Thomas actually pay for anything himself? His whole career seems to be other people footing the bill for his major expenses.
And anyways: Who pays for his boss’s wedding reception?
This part of the big NYT story on Justice Thomas today bears more explanation. Williams was not just a close friend, he was Thomas’s confidential assistant at the EEOC during this period. His media career starts with the Thomas confirmation fight.
Former Soldier Indicted for Attempting to Pass National Defense Information to People’s Republic of China
Defendant Arrested Upon Arrival in San Francisco on Flight from Hong Kong
Wow. $400million cut from fighting global pandemics. This is equivalent of ~6 hours of the DOD’s daily budget. Real trimming of the fat there, Mister Speaker
He went from being an alt-right superstar to being MTG’s unpaid Hill intern to getting fired from doing advance work because of things Kanye said on his own.
Milo Yiannopoulos has been fired from the Ye / Kanye entourage after a series of disastrous media appearances that saw the candidate praising Hitler. Milo says in an email that there was a “mutual conclusion that I should step away.”
This is some seriously authoritarian efforts against a newspaper that *did not publish* the story.
The police chief, the judge, and the restauranteur should face real consequences
Good lord. Look at what these cops in Kansas allegedly did to the 98-year-old mother of the newspaper's publisher.
This account is from the newspaper's own website,
This month, a Trump-appointed judge sentenced a decorated Air Force lieutenant colonel to 3 years in prison for willfully retaining classified docs at his home and officer quarters. Not accused of spying, cooperated with investigators, expressed remorse.
???? We have an expensive security clearance process for a reason. They sent investigators to my house, my neighbors, my place of work, went thru my financials, and a lot more.
They can do a basic social media search.
Former DHS official: It would be “very hard” to vet every government official for extremist views. We don’t have the resources to do that kind of social media or dark web search.
@johnmillercnn
and
@juliettekayyem
join The Lead.
The Democrats soft-on-crime policies emptied our jails, eliminated cash bail, and essentially given criminals a get-out-of-jail-free card. As your Congressman, I will ensure that criminals are sent to prison to do their time.
@atrupar
The sign literally says “toddler thermal sets”, not “thermal sets for only boys”.
And anyways, don’t the violent RW bugaloo bois dress in loud faux-Hawaiian shirts?
@JasonKirell
I mean, we had picnickers from Washington DC attend the First Battle of Bull Run to watch thousands of other Americans try to kill each other, so…
This is what Christofascism looks like: Audience cheers after "Moms for Liberty" co-founder Tiffany Justice noted that a member had quoted Hitler in a newsletter. "I stand with that mom," she bragged to applause.
From this must-read
@OliviaLittle
report:
Just in: CNN's town hall with Donald Trump averaged 3.1 million total viewers. The event outrated Fox and MSNBC, as expected, but these are not 2015/16 level numbers for Trump — not even close.
The USINDOPACOM commander, the USMC Commandant and hundreds of other promotions—men & women who uphold our military defense against China—is being held up by Senate GOP.
Communist China is spying on the U.S. from our skies, our phones, and our farmland.
Joe Biden has failed as Commander in Chief.
Senate Republicans are committed to restoring strength and national security.
SCOOP: Jill Stein, the former Green Party candidate for president, is now helping to run Cornel West's third-party bid with the goal of getting him on the ballot as the Green party candidate in 2024.
Ron DeSantis suggests he’d pardon Trump if he gets elected president:
“I don't think it would be good for the country to have an almost 80-year-old former president go to prison.”
Hamas and Iran simply do not care about the lives of Gazans. In fact, they’re probably expecting massive retaliation, while they live comfortably in Dubai and Tehran.
It's also a story of armed older people with poor impulse control, fed a daily diet of cable news & online paranoia and who feel lethal force is the only option against the "other"
@oneunderscore__
Didn’t she see Back to the Future II? If she can time travel, why doesn’t she go hard into sports gambling, where she can make some big bucks fast with her knowledge?
Ron Johnson unspools an impossible to follow Hunter Biden conspiracy theory on Meet the Press, prompting Chuck Todd to ask him, "Do you have a crime that you think Hunter Biden committed?" (Johnson suggests something involved prostitution)
If only he had really paid attention to his online “unauthorized disclosure” briefing! Now everyone should stop what they’re doing and retake it, because this time, it’s personal.
The burger/fries combo at the most expensive restaurant in Newark Airport is $27.
So most of that $78 must be multiple glasses of whatever he’s drinking
A high school senior was moved to tears when he received a $50,000 scholarship. He plans to study engineering at Stanford University.
@jdbalart
has the details on the emotional moment the teen shared with his family and more heartwarming stories.
There’s a fact that I didn’t know here: the Wagner guys had a SAM capability, denying US warplanes. Then the US made a call and it was mysteriously turned off (by RU? Wagner? Why would they do that?) and then US warplanes shredded all the RU & SY tanks/artillery
Trump spox Sean Spicer: “[Cornel] West only needs 30,000 votes” to tip Wisconsin to Republicans, he said at the Republican debate in Milwaukee last week
When we think of the greatest movies, they aren’t about women going to college and having careers. No, they’re about a running a bar in N Africa w an illegal gambling operation and lots of fun singalongs. God put this yearning in our hearts, because He created us for this.
When we think of the greatest movies, they aren’t about women going to college and having careers. No, they’re about a woman and man falling in love with each other (Pride and Prejudice, Sound of Music…) and marrying then maybe even having babies. This is what our hearts yearn
NEW — House Republican leadership sources tell me they do not believe they can pass the rule to consider the Defense appropriations bill.
Big defeat as the legislation was supposed to come up this week.
Chairman
@JamesComer
details how the Biden family cashed in on their influence:
"Bank records show the Biden family, their associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals and their companies."
ICYMI: A new
@CBSNewsPoll
found half the country believes former President Trump tried to remain in office after the 2020 election through “illegal and unconstitutional means.” But 29% say he tried to stay in office through legal means.
@SalvantoCBS
has more.
@ahardtospell
It's nice to live in a city where many people actually care about the world and our society, and devote their professional lives to making it better through research, policy & advocacy
“In the weeks after the election, he acknowledged that his supporters, a campaign worker, and the spouse of his campaign treasurer, were among those who actively shared the disinformation.”
He knew.
An elaborate, anonymous campaign to discredit a California
@momsdemand
volunteer running for school board resulted in the election of a right-wing extremist who admitted AFTER the election that his campaign staff was involved in spreading disinformation.