When Olivia Rodrigo sang “I'm so tired that I might quit my job, start a new life and they'd all be so disappointed
cuz who am I, if not exploited” she ushered in a shift in consciousness for the modern American worker that led to the current wave of labor strikes. In this essay
if she picks Shapiro i will be bummed, if she picks Kelly i will be somewhat satisfied, if she picks Walz i will run through a wall like the Kool Aid man
if she picks Shapiro i will be bummed, if she picks Kelly i will be somewhat satisfied, if she picks Walz i will run through a wall like the Kool Aid man
yes, it's going to suck when as a gay woman i lose all my rights under a second trump presidency, but let's not lose focus on what's most important here: joe biden will have gotten to run for president for a fourth time
NEW:
@CookPolitical
is shifting six Electoral College ratings towards Republicans.
AZ: Toss Up to Lean R
GA: Toss Up to Lean R
MN: Likely D to Lean D
#NE02
: Likely D to Lean D
NH: Likely D to Lean D
NV: Toss Up to Lean R
Full analysis by
@amyewalter
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this actually gets at the heart of the problem because no, what people would rather talk about is actually fucking abortion! but because this man refuses to step aside, now THIS is the conversation we’re having.
idk as someone who has only ever been to public schools my whole life i think it would be nice to have more public school representation and less private school elitism in DC and politics in general, just a thought!
@yashar
Walz graduated "Chadron State College" & "Minn State U, Mankato", has no law degree, never passed the bar, and was a substitute teacher before politics. Shapiro attended U of Rochester, earned his law degree from Georgetown, passed the bar and went straight into government.
my 67 year old father is a socially liberal fiscally conservative registered Independent, 2020 Kamala primary voter, living in Marie Gluesenkemp Perez’s district, who was going to refuse to vote for Biden over Gaza.…he may come out of this news cycle the biggest winner of us all
🚨BREAKING NEWS -- SPENDING DEAL DONE -- Congressional negotiators have come to an agreement. on DHS funding, the final piece of the FY2024 spending package
Aides are working on leg text now, hoping to release in the coming days.
77-13, the Senate gives final approval to a short-term extension of government funding — the fourth temporary extension since the fiscal year began in October. New deadlines: March 8 and March 22.
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20k for pell grantees is truly monumental for people who ACTUALLY struggled to pay for college and if u as a leftist are tweeting about it being an “insult” you are absolutely telling on yourself xoxo
have shifted from feeling like I’m drowning in grief and constantly sick to my stomach to just utter blinding rage at everyone involved in the US, from the Biden administration to the vast majority of Congress. legitimately do not remember ever being this angry at my own govt
what if instead of “how do we convince Arab and Muslim voters that they should vote for Joe Biden” the question was “how do we craft a foreign policy that isn’t complicit in killing thousands of civilians.” no politician is owed anyone’s vote. you have to earn it!
I cried during the protest in front of the Supreme Court on Monday and a picture of it has been in WaPo and a ton of other outlets and at first i was really embarrassed and upset, bc I am not a pretty crier, but it’s also a very visceral and real representation of how i feel rn
Currently watching a
@HouseForeign
hearing that’s supposed to be on the 2001 AUMF and watching lawmakers on both sides hijack it with lines of questioning about Ukraine rather than actually discuss a 2-decade old law that’s been used to justify military operations in 22 countries
I’m not sure people have really internalized how big a deal it is that a majority of the House Democrats rejected a giant package of military aid to Israel bc it didn’t include aid for Palestinians and Ukraine. This is a major win for progressive foreign policy
BREAKING: The House rejected a bill to send $17.6 billion to Israel.
250-180. Rs and Ds took this one down on suspension.
Embarrassing day for Speaker Mike Johnson's House.
~personal news~ tweet: starting Monday I will be a Government Affairs Associate at J Street! Today is the last day of my fellowship at FCNL and I’m so grateful for the past year and everyone FCNL has brought into my life, and couldn’t be more excited to join the team at J Street.
“dune 2” this “dune 2” that, bro your wife is dune 2 much of the unpaid care work, go sweep the kitchen and schedule your kid’s immunization appointments
J Street’s champion is pushing a dangerous anti-Israel amendment that politicizes Israel’s security.
Instead of standing with Biden who calls conditioning aid “outrageous,” J Street embraces Israel's most hostile critics.
@jstreetdotorg
is many things, but it's not pro-Israel.
My uncle is a Vietnam vet who is dying of cancer he developed as a result of exposure to Agent Orange and I promise you he does not think he was sent there to “defend our freedoms.” It’s an insult to the ppl who suffer the consequences of our mistaken wars to misconstrue history
This National Vietnam War Veterans Day, I’m reflecting on the service and sacrifice of the brave men and women from the Commonwealth who defended our freedoms in Vietnam.
Our end of the bargain is caring for them here at home—a sacred promise we've got to keep delivering on.
there’s a crowd of maybe 100 people sitting in front of the court, a lot of us young women, most people just sitting by themselves and staring at it. A distant alarm in the parking garage has been going off since i got here
codepink is not a serious group and progressives who are still working with them at this point are only hurting themselves. it’s way past time for them to be kicked out of any of progressive foreign policy coalitions
The war in Ukraine must END!
Today, I met brave
@codepink
activists who protested for peace in Bernie Sanders’ office. He had 11 of them arrested!
Peace & free speech shouldn’t be a partisan issue.
We don’t agree on most things, but we do agree Congress should STOP fueling the
i would love a substantive, issue-driven campaign! Hopefully specifically focused on domestic issues rather than running on your record of expanding NATO????? but we can’t have that because he can’t effectively campaign!
how the world looks when there’s a new Maggie Rogers album, the spinach in my veggie garden is flourishing, it’s gonna be 80 degrees this week, and i get to go to Capitol Hill Books for wine and cheese tonight
My new piece is out in
@RStatecraft
outlining a potentially-overlooked reason that Biden needs to reseal the Iran nuclear deal: because the last thing Gen Z wants after a 20-year war, financial collapse, and a pandemic is a war with Iran.
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#wmata
endlessly repeating statements that you’re “deeply troubled” followed by exactly zero consequences for the underlying actions is exactly what got us into this situation!!! We give them a 4 billion $ blank check every year. Get better material!!!! Try literally anything else!!!
State Dept: "The United States is deeply troubled by the Israeli government’s reported decision to advance planning for over 4K settlement units in West Bank. We're also concerned by changes to Israel’s system of settlement admin that expedite settlement planning & approvals"
airpods have been dead all weekend bc i left my charging case at the office and it’s becoming abundantly clear to me that apparently i get GRAPHICALLY cat called every day and just….do not hear it because i literally always have them in
one month on from October 7 and I’m incredibly frustrated at people on the left who continue to downplay or deny the scope and scale of the attack or argue that it was somehow justified. “killing civilians is bad no matter where they live” is basic shit!
Jessica Chastain gave an amazing acceptance speech about LGBT rights and overcoming the epidemic of suicide and about how Christianity is fundamentally centered on social justice and solidarity despite efforts to pervert it and I don’t want it to get lost in all the hot takes!!!
super glad you’re all so interested in what’s up with Kate Middleton but if you get bored of that and want to become super invested in caring about the health and well-being of another pretty brunette Katherine,,,I’ll be here
lmao coming to DC for the March for Life is the most pathetic thing i can think of…like ur gonna spend hundreds of dollars on plane tickets and hotel rooms to stand out in the cold for hours to show how much you hate women? literally get a hobby! absolute clown behavior
there’s no justification for supporting this war. it’s killing thousands of Palestinian civilians, purposefully starving millions, actively killing the Israeli hostages, and not destroying Hamas, and IMO the U.S. should not be giving any offensive military aid to Israel for it.
now that we’re in an election year “i was still in college when Joe Biden was inaugurated” is a nice little fact to drop whenever you wanna make everyone around you in DC feel really old
anyone not actively calling for Menendez to resign is basically saying they’re fine with the chairman of SFRC leveraging US security assistance for personal gain and there’s a lot of MoC who are starting to look incredibly stupid because they don’t want to piss off a colleague
@kenklippenstein
Why buy oil in exchange for Iran not getting a nuke when you can buy more expensive oil in exchange for having your journalists chopped up and famine in Yemen
how the world looks when there’s a new Maggie Rogers album, the spinach in my veggie garden is flourishing, it’s gonna be 80 degrees this week, and i get to go to Capitol Hill Books for wine and cheese tonight
putting out a statement on the 100th day of the war that doesn’t even say the word Palestinian much less 24,000 deaths, the majority of whom have been civilians, really undercuts the idea that the Biden administration cares even a little about Palestinian lives
Mar-a-lago has begun enriching uranium up to 60%, significantly decreasing its nuclear breakout time. Negotiations will reconvene in Vienna this weekend on a deal to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief
wild how the Biden administration is like “we have impressed upon the Israeli government the importance of operating within the framework of international law” and the Israeli govt is literally just tweeting out that they do not care about intl law
this Senate reply-all debacle got me thinking about how I never replied to all your texts. Outlook may be down but you really changed my outlook on life. you don’t have to respond to this, tell your mom i miss her