Schumer says he will turn down McConnnell's request for Democrats to protect the filibuster as part of the 50-50 Senate: "Leader McConnell's proposal is unacceptable, and it won't be accepted"
A fundamental concern is how America found itself withdrawing from Afghanistan "without much warning or consultation with allies or the people most directly involved in 20 years of sacrifice,” argues Henry Kissinger in The Economist
A Chicago bus. A woman shrieked. People looked, saw her, mouth open, staring at phone. Most people checked their phones… a chorus, one by one, of pleased exclamations
NEW: President Biden is considering fmr. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for a high-profile ambassadorship, potentially to China, three people with knowledge of the discussions tell
@NBCNews
.
A truly bizarre trend is having an impact on the economy: Wealthy people and corporations have so much money they literally don't know what to do with it.
“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
–legendary broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, who helped take down Joseph McCarthy
Tomorrow, Trump will tell Americans to fear immigrants. The networks shouldn’t assist him.
#BoycottTrumpsAddress
Meanwhile in Russia: a host urged the citizens to exercise "internal censorship": not to read hostile media reporting and abstain from complaining, lest their comments end up being used by foreign networks like CNN. He also seems to be striking at the comments made by head of RT.
The real Davos conspiracy is hiding in plain sight: it’s pretty much the kind of pro-business agenda you’d expect from a bunch of Fortune 500 CEOs, heads of state and central bankers meeting at a ski resort in the Swiss Alps.
The 5 most ghoulish moments:
He was a sadistic, vengeful man long before he descended the elevator and talked about criminals and rapists coming from Mexico. Of course, as the vise tightens, he will incite more violence. How crazy is all this? I offer this thread. 1/20
This jacket, the misspelled tweets (covfefe) and similar tactics are purposefully concocted to redirect our attention (esp. the media’s) from harmful stories to Trump. She wore it to dominate the news cycle and squeeze out stories of kids in cages being kept from their parents.
A logorrheic monologue practiced for forty years ain’t “knowledge,” it’s not even an introductory lecture by an adjunct professor at a remote community college
Margarita Simonyan recalled Tucker Carlson's persistent requests over the years to arrange an interview with Putin. Simonyan said she cried watching it, and uneducated Americans who don't read were "stunned" by the depths of Putin's historical knowledge.
A big deal: The coal miners' union just ratcheted up pressure on Manchin to support BBB. This is a seminal moment: The divergence in interests between workers and mine owners who oppose BBB has been exposed. Manchin must choose one or the other. My latest:
With the news that Twitter had a database to keep track of all the right-wing requests to take down posts, I’m going to once again point out that my tweets highlighting coordinated right-wing disinfo campaigns were flagged as sensitive content and de-boosted/suppressed.
Vladimir Putin says it would be the ‘right’ thing for Donald Trump to attend a commemorative event in Moscow to mark the 75th anniversary of victory in World War Two
In Greece there are McDonald’s peopled with only a few middle-aged Bulgarian guest workers sipping coffee, staring into eternity, lashed with cement dust head to toe like in a Roy Andersson film
The freakout you are witnessing from the left is very instructive. When Roe was handed down 49 years ago, pro-lifers didn’t riot, didn’t call for SCOTUS to be burned down, didn’t threaten the lives of justices, didn’t try to stack the Court. 1/ 🧵
evening! what a fucking nightmare! jimmy kimmel fucking sucks, right? nice win for RRR, tho. the memorium segment was mostly outweighed by travolta's moving tribute. wish these people were there, especially this guy: Albert Pyun, a wonderful filmmaker - FARINA'D!
🚨NEWS: Nikki Haley served on Boeing's board - on its committee overseeing risk management - as the company faced post-crash allegations of fraud & a coverup.
Documents show she helped kill a shareholder initiative designed to force more transparency.
Sean Baker
@Lilfilm
debuts 35mm print of THE FLORIDA PROJECT Monday night in Chicago at the
@musicboxtheatre
with Chicago Film Society. How’d the print come to be? Baker tells how.
"The media was talking about him wandering around the White House in his bathrobe, which “I don’t have because I’ve never worn a bathrobe. And would never wear one, because I’m not that kind of guy.”