Previously a Circuit Judge in Birmingham, AL for 20 years, now working in mediations and arbitrations. Proud husband of
@joycewhitevance
& father of 4.
What just happened with the Navy is part of a pattern.
@realDonaldTrump
has undermined the intelligence community, the foreign service, and our alliances. So it was only a matter of time before he took on the military.
You cannot “cancel” student loans any more than you can cancel a car payment or credit card debt. That money has to come from somewhere.
Proponents of this literally wanted student loan debt transferred to other people. It’s obnoxious.
So Thomas and Alito are grifters, and this guy just lies to further his ideology. SCOTUS has lost America's respect and deserves only our condemnation.
Sandra the orangutang started washing her hands because she saw all the zookeepers doing it repeatedly during the COVID-19 crisis.
Wash your hands.
Be more like Sandra.🌎❤️🧼🌎
New: a whistleblower at HHS is seeking federal protection after complaining more than a dozen workers who received first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China lacked proper training & protective gear.
“We are hopeful..Congress..will investigate.” -whistleblower’s lawyer to CNN
While many will focus on Trump, the big issue to me is how our rigged tax system lets fat cats like Trump (and Amazon) get away with paying so little while average folks have to pay up.
"It’s also a reminder that for all Trump’s omnipresence on Twitter and cable TV, Pelosi remains the dominant figure on Capitol Hill when it comes time to actually getting something accomplished."
via
@politico
Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance explained on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber” how to tell Donald Trump may be about to throw the former mayor of New York City “under the bus.” via
@HuffPostPol
Trump really learned that lesson: Trump is discussing firing Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the intelligence community, w/advisors. Why? Trump is upset he let the whistleblower complaint get to Congress-in other words, that he followed the law.
Perhaps Alabama's new senator should remember the adage "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt."
via
@politicalwire
If HIPAA is a concern, why is Conley disclosing any personal health information? HIPAA doesn't allow a doctor to cherry pick only what he wants to reveal.
Alabama recognizes as state holidays Confederate Memorial day and Jefferson Davis’s birthday. Also, it designates MLK day as also Robert E. Lee’s birthday. What obscenities!
"A senior American official confirmed that Kurdish intelligence officials in both Syria and Iraq helped locate the target of the raid despite the tensions over the Turkish operation."
"… we will work vigorously to preserve—and, indeed, grow—the diversity of our community while fully respecting the law as announced today."
President Eisgruber's full statement on today's SCOTUS affirmative action ruling:
Absolutely disgusting and insane. The
@nypost
obtained video from a recent RFK Jr. event where he suggested COVID is a Chinese bioweapon “ethnically targeted” to “attack Caucasians and Black people” and to spare “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people. He then falsely claimed the
Two years after Republicans passed a sweeping tax cut, a new analysis finds more than 60% of the tax savings went to Americans in the top 20% of incomes — and the cuts "have not come anywhere close to paying for themselves."
Any bailout for airlines should be conditioned on their agreeing to impose minimums for passenger "seat pitch" and seat width in coach for all aircraft hereafter purchased. Won't happen, though . . .
Wilson says his latest numbers show the Alabama Department of Public Health has tested fewer than 50 people for
#COVID19
since it began testing one week ago.
Jeff Sessions wrote an editorial last week for Fox News in which he compared the impeachment inquiry to show trials in the old Soviet Union and charged that the effort is “a desperate attempt to weaken a president.”
#alpolitics
Pimary takeaway: "President Donald Trump’s strategy to use import tariffs to protect and boost U.S. manufacturers backfired and led to job losses and higher prices, according to a Federal Reserve study released this week."
Advice to Democrats: We had our day obsessing & taking on Barr, Obstruction of Justice, Russia, etc. Now get back to talking about Healthcare, Economic Opportunity through tax fairness, education, skills training, min wage & issues like global warming. These issues win elections
EXCLUSIVE: A government official has been pushing climate-change denial language into scientific reports at the Interior Department, including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a good thing.
I'm kind of puzzled why more Democrats aren't saying that the Texas disaster proves the need for massive infrastructure spending to improve grid resilience and that Biden is laying the groundwork for that right now.
Sen. Chuck Schumer: "The Russians want us to lose faith in democracy and feel that elections aren't on the level no matter what party's in charge. And Mitch McConnell is aiding and abetting it by refusing to do anything."
.
@NPR
revealed this week that former senator/Alabama AG Luther Strange has been being paid “behind the scenes” by members of the Sackler family — owners of opioid seller Purdue Pharma — while working to convince GOP AGs to accept a Purdue bankruptcy plan.
#RonaldReagan
, one of the greatest leaders in modern times, was born
#OnThisDay
1911.
This is what he said in 1967 about the importance of freedom and our sacrosanct duty to defend it.
As relevant then as it is today!
Moody’s Analytics has run 12 different models combining economic and political data.
@realDonaldTrump
win re-election in all of them. Mostly by a lot. Me and
@POLITICO_Steve
A CNN Exclusive: Former President Donald Trump talks to
@KaitlanCollins
and GOP primary voters in a live town hall. A CNN Republican Presidential Town Hall airs Wednesday at 8p.m. ET
NEW: Spencer writes in a resignation letter, "I cannot in good conscience obey an order that I believe violates the sacred oath I took in the presence of my family, my flag and my faith to support and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Alito's unethical grift is matched only by his arrogance. BTW, he's wrong. The congress has the power of the purse, controlling funds allocated to the federal judiciary. It can also alter the size of the Supreme Court, which it has done in the past.
Justice Alito tells the
@WSJ
that Congress has no business policing SCOTUS. "I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it... No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period."
Mika and I have been overwhelmed by the reaction
@PeteButtigieg
got after being on the show. The only other time in twelve years that we heard from as many people about a guest was after
@BarackObama
appeared on Morning Joe.
"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
C'mon on, what's the deal ,
@FedEx
? you say you've delivered a package to my doorstep, but you haven't. I'm not alone -- over a dozen folks in my neighborhood have voiced the same complaint. Especially frustrating since we're relying so much on deliveries now.
Murkowski votes to acquit Trump, giving McConnell a big win. Days later comes the announcement that Chao (McConnell’s wife) has awarded Alaska a big grant. 😒
This slide from
@DavidShor
hits the nail on the head of why direct messaging against Trump (
@ProjectLincoln
ads, etc.) is ineffective in swing states.
Dem messages that actually move votes: talking about education & majoritarian economic policies.
In 2019 actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelensky ran as the peace candidate winning the Ukrainian presidency with 70% of the vote. As Benjamin Abelow observes in his brilliant book, “How the West Brought War to Ukraine,” Zelensky almost certainly could have avoided the 2022 war with
Let’s be clear: RFK Jr is not a Democrat. His group gives $ to the GOP. He’s an anti science, anti vax, pro conspiracy whack job running to get more eyes on his discredited theories. His supporters? Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, & fringe Reddit boards. The guy’s a liar & a kook.
.
@maddow
nailed it last night.
“If Trump is going to keep lying like he has been every day on stuff this important, we should, all of us, stop broadcasting it. Honestly, it's going to cost lives.” WATCH.
FedEx's tax bill went from $1.5 billion to $0 in a single year. What changed? The Trump administration’s tax cut — for which the company had lobbied hard.
NEW: The Justice Dept.’s White House liaison has been banned from the building after she demanded DOJ staffers give her sensitive investigative information, including on election fraud matters, so she could relay it to the White House (w/
@ZekeJMiller
)
Donald Trump left our country unprepared and unprotected for the worst public health and economic crisis in our lifetime — and now we're paying the price.
You reap what you sow: Alabama chose not to expand Medicaid -- simply to thumb its nose at Pres. Obama -- and we now suffer the totally predictable consequences.
NBC News confirms: Senate Democrats are crafting a proposal to overcome Tommy Tuberville's blockade of military promotions.
Democrats are preparing to send a resolution to the Rules Committee that would allow most of the 300-plus promotions to be considered on the floor en bloc.
1100 member Federal judges' association calls emergency meeting, saying it’s unheard of for DOJ’s top leaders to overrule line prosecutors, following established policies, to give preferential treatment to a friend of the president, as AG Barr did.
The election results are out of control. It’s like the whistle has blown, the game is over, and the players have gone home, but the referees are suddenly adding touchdowns to the other team’s side of the scoreboard.