Staff Writer at The New Yorker, author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families'
imagine having a passport that allows you to move freely between, live in and work in 28 countries, including many of the worlds most affluent, with excellent free health care and social services wherever you go & voting to tear that passport up and be stranded on an island.
Swalwell introduces important fact: Trump spent $50 million promoting the lie that election was stolen — and his ad buys built up to, then ended on Jan. 5… the ads were rallying the mob.
78,000 pounds of specialty infant formula has arrived in Indianapolis on a military plane. It's the first of several flights carrying formula from Europe expected this weekend to help relieve the deepening U.S. shortage.
long before sex assault accusations surfaced, Kavanaugh was manifestly unfit for SCOTUS: what other nominee made his name as a sleazy partisan operative, hid most of his record, lied repeatedly under oath to Congress & came saddled with such a mess of dodgy unexplained finances?
what the hell
@nytimes
! - Biden pulls off an extremely impressive diplomatic mission & instead of explaining what all he did you troll his age & fitness with a crack he made to reporters who were themselves bleary trying to keep up with his energy & focus… this is just gross
extra credit now that the question is answered in the most predictable way possible — he wasn’t allowed, his campaign goons shoved their way in and are now calling the cemetery official trying to enforce federal law by stopping them mentally ill
Obama believed Hillary would win so he didn’t go nuclear for Merrick Garland.
RBG believed she could outrun fate so she didn’t resign early in Obama’s second term.
Nobody knows what’s going to happen—you have to use the power you have when you have it or you may lose it forever.
heavy whiff of end times when neither buying a porn actress's silence to win one election then trying to overthrow the republic after losing another, nor declaring that a worm ate your brain, counts as an obstacle to vying for the presidency of the united states
so Alito’s story is that a neighbor called his wife a treasonous confederate and cursed at her, and she responded by hoisting a treasonous confederate flag — and he thinks this is supposed to reassure us?
I spoke directly with Justice
#Alito
about the flag story in the NYT. In addition to what's in the story, he told me a neighbor on their street had a "F--- Trump" sign that was within 50 feet of where children await the school bus in Jan 21. Mrs. Alito brought this up with the
It’s nuts that it has taken three and a half years for Alito’s insurrectionist Jolly Roger to be reported — especially since the article makes it clear that the neighbors who photographed it consider him a blight not just on their cul de sac but on the republic.
“McGahn, according to people familiar with the conversation, told the president that... a wide-ranging inquiry like some Democrats were demanding—and Mr. Trump was suggesting—would be potentially disastrous for Judge Kavanaugh’s chances of confirmation.”
NYT headline about violent coup to topple multi party electoral order of US republic apes talking point of party that orchestrated and covers up for sedition by casting attempt at national reckoning & accountability as a political horse race stunt
Roberts is a wrecking ball — dismantling campaign finance, voting rights , environmental & all other manner of regulatory protections, transforming the presidency into a monarchic power above the law — all while indulging the flagrant corruption & partisanship of his SCOTUS.
There is no reason to believed that they assumed this - that’s just what the excuse they’re giving us now, and the only thing we know for sure about them at this point is that they make stuff up with impunity every time they speak.
What is the idea—what’s the aim—of cutting off all food, water and electricity to Gaza? With no way out for anyone in Gaza, how does such collective punishment target and hurt Hamas more, or even as much as, the more vulnerable general noncombatant population?
Harris’s reported VP short list—Kelly, Shapiro, Walz—is strong, especially Kelly & Walz, who’re both her same age. Shapiro, 9 yrs younger, seems maybe less seasoned. But Walz has something Dems have long lacked, except for Tester—real, deep non-coastal rural/ag red
If Biden were to drop out, and if, as the latest hints and nudges from heavyweights suggest, the pressure is on to do so when he’s done with the NATO summit this weekend, hard to imagine better timing than on the eve of the GOP convention to drown it out and scramble its script.
The incredibly precise intel & targeting involved in Israel’s pinpoint air strike on the Iranian generals in Damascus is a stark reminder, as if any was needed, that everything it’s done in Gaza is equally deliberate and not some inevitable collateral damage of fighting Hamas.
Disgraceful of
@npr
to give Ralph Reed an open mic to spin Herschel Walker’s loathsome lying campaign as a redemption story and Rev Warnock as anti-Christian.
Not long ago, during the reign of Trump, it was hard to find much reporting that took E Jean Carroll’s case against him entirely seriously or considered it as having consequential merit. She proved a much more brave & righteous champion of truth & justice than a lot of our press
When Trump took office 34 governors were Republicans, 16 were Democrats, 1 was Independent. Dems have since flipped Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Wisconsin—& now Kentucky. Come January, there will be 26 GOP governors & 24 Democrats.
Ridiculous & distorting to both-sides the prosecution of a private citizen, who’s never sought nor held public office, for an offense of no political content or consequence by placing it on hallucinated balance beam with Trump’s 34 felony convictions for fraud to swing election.
"We met almost no children who came across unaccompanied. The United States is taking children away from their family unit and reclassifying them as unaccompanied children. But they were not unaccompanied children.”
pretty cool how RFK Jr’s worm ate his brain just in time for him to claim it made him unfit to pay much alimony but somehow not to make him unfit to run for president — someone could make a fortune marketing such divorce-compatible brain eating worms
Wow - so Missouri divorce law says fetus is not a person and so custody cannot be discussed til birth, therefore women are not free, and Missouri forced birth law says fetus is a person, therefore women are not free…
NEW: FBI has not responded to requests from Christine Blasey Ford to do an interview. “We have not heard from the FBI, despite repeated efforts to speak with them,” her lawyer, Debra S. Katz, told me, when asked.
on guns, david brooks proposes a bridge to nowhere — with lots of safe spaces along the way for gun owners to feel unthreatened while the people who don’t like being shot dead apologize for antagonizing them by advocating for life-saving policies
If you want to stop school shootings, it’s not enough just to vent and march. It’s necessary to let people from Red America lead the way, and to show respect to gun owners at all points
Black man is shot dead in his garage by white sheriff’s deputy. Jury awards his family $1 for funeral expenses & $1 for harm done each of his three children. But since sheriff’s deputy is deemed only 1% responsible jury award is then reduced to four cents.
WKCR reports Columbia President email announces NYPD will remain on campus til May 17 — until after graduation — first thing tonight that seems to choke up some of the on-air student reporters
to speak of whole categories of people as coming from shitholes & other categories as desirables - that’s the language of apartheid and race war and annihilation… the verbal violence invites physical violence — & in this one realm, at least, he knows exactly what he’s doing
Nonpartisan group of 6,000+ Mormon women calls on Judiciary Committee—naming "the four members who share our faith,” Hatch, Lee, Flake & Crapo—"to immediately suspend the confirmation proceedings” for thorough independent investigation of K, to "prevent harm to SCOTUS legitimacy"
Congressman Deutch says it straight to Rubio — you think there are too many loopholes in the assault weapons ban - close them. Rubio responds you would literally have to ban every semi-automatic rifle and the crowd cheers wildly in favor.
David Remnick note to
@Newyorker
staff: "I don’t want well-meaning readers and staff members to think that I’ve ignored their concerns. I’ve thought this through and talked to colleagues––and I’ve re-considered. I’ve changed my mind. There is a better way to do this."
this is the irreducible poison at the core of Trump’s politics, the deadly essence of the birtherism that launched him & the voter disenfranchisement by which he hopes to hang on: his bedrock conviction that a non-white person is shithole person and cannot be a legit American
that the sitting president of the united states supported assassinating his vice president in the course of his deadly coup attempt at the nation’s capitol should probably be the biggest political story concerning the fate of the republic since appomattox — but here we are
so that's a preliminary list of what the White House most fears for Kavanaugh: Swetnick, documentary corroboration of Basey Ford’s post-assault encounter with Judge at supermarket, Kav’s lies under oath about his drinking, and likely emergence of new corroborating witnesses
WKCR, Columbia U’s station, reports such a surge in listeners tuning in on line to their terrific live coverage that they had to go off air for a sec to switch to lower sound quality to accomodate the demand on the stream. If you can switch to FM signal, they recommend it: 89.9
really not surprising that a guy who sees a road-killed bear and keeps it in his car all day so he can have the meat for later wound up with a worm in his brain
a mayor who goes missing and shrugs when his city is catastrophically swamped is what you get when nearly 80% of NYC voters went missing and shrugged instead of voting
the issue is not cash or check: the issue is a presidential candidate’s conspiracy to use hush money bribery to silence a woman by silencing the press that had bought the rights to her story
Hard to saw how USPS boss, Louis DeJoy, is not criminally liable under 18 U.S. Code § 1703, which makesdelay or destruction of mail by a USPS officer punishable by fine and/or imprisonment up to five years. What ever happened to law and order?
grotesque to see this two thumbs up review of Mar-a-Lago featured in
@nytimes
touting Trump as a fun Maitre D with no mention that he is the leader of a cop killing coup attempt and figurehead of white supremacist seditionists etc
Have I missed any clear reporting on who the thousands of Americans still in Afghanistan are and why they didn’t leave when the embassy urged them to months ago? I assume there are many different profiles and circumstances, but have seen nothing much about them.
“The fact that a sitting Member of Congress is toying with the idea of a civil war 8 days before January 6 should alarm everyone. We expelled 14 Members in 1861 for supporting the confederacy.”
Tell the House to
#ExpelGreene
here:
that Joel Greenberg kept screenshots of his supposed-to-disappear signal messages with Roger Stone about buying a Trump pardon for his sex crimes with Matt Gaetz suggests he was already thinking of cutting a cooperation deal with investigators/prosecutors - or already had
Times says McGahn, working with McConnell/Senate GOP, is indeed setting FBI limits: only 4 people are approved for FBI interviews: Judge, Keyser, PJ Smyth & Ramirez. FBI to ask Judge about Swetnick allegations, but not Swetnick. Question of Kav downplaying drinking are off limits
oh come on — how about A Defiant Biden or An Undaunted Biden —
as the article grudgingly notes right after its belittling lede: "But even Mr. Biden’s critics acknowledge that he has gone further than any of his predecessors in relieving the debt burden for millions of borrowers"
“Theology, mysticism, and political and moral philosophy” is a pretty fancy way to say: a descent into a weird fascist-adjacent misogynist ideological bro-scape
Is it normal for a sex crimes prosecutor, widely described as an expert on interviewing sex crimes victims, to avoid asking anything about the actual sex crime?
This guy - with his deadly voting record on guns (Mr. “No I will not apologize to victims of gun violence”) — is now slapping his branding logo on videos of these survivor kids and posturing as if he’s not exactly the kind of gun-opportunistic politician they’re fighting against.
The Parkland students went through an unbelievably traumatic experience. But because they are prepared not just to mourn, but to stand up and fight back, I think it's possible we are going to see real change.
How bad is the scene we’re in? Well, best case scenario is the GOP fails steal a legit election and only manages to trash the institutions we depend on as a democracy & a republic, & the idea of legitimacy, and poison the well for Biden, while hundreds of thousands more die.
"Two sources familiar with the investigation said the FBI will also not be able to examine why Kavanaugh’s account of his drinking at Yale University differs from those of some former classmates, who have said he was known as a heavy drinker."