"the Supreme Court will shoot this down" is true and fine, but "nearly 40 percent of state attorneys general signed on to this" perhaps raises some more existential questions
every senator's comments on biden are like the thing someone in the mob says when they want to do a crime but they're not sure if the feds are listening in
Sen. Tim Kaine to
@JoeKhalilTV
: "I have complete confidence that Joe Biden will do the patriotic thing for the country. And he's going to make that decision. He's never disappointed me.“
the thing about not turning your places of worship into, basically, airports, is that having open doors is a community value and giving that up means giving up something really profound
Walz retired at retirement age, but more specifically...he retired to run for Congress on a platform of ending the war, ran ads about the devastation the war had caused, and then voted to bring everyone home within 90 days. (That was, of course, unsuccessful.)
Ok. JD served honorably, but he wasn’t kicking down doors. He was in public affairs. Which again, is fine and honorable.
Tim, after he was eligible for retirement, retired. People do that.
If it was a real problem he would have been “stop lossed” and prevented from
going from "stop the recount" to "stop the count" in twenty years I think does pretty neatly encapsulate both the starting point and endpoint of the modern GOP
it'd be weird if, for instance, Meet the Press commemorated the anniversary of the JFK assassination by interviewing someone who thinks JFK is still alive, but that's basically what they do with climate science
"Smith responded to a group dinner invitation whose host said his home would be “judenfrei,” a German word used by the Nazis ... to describe territory that had been “cleansed” of Jews"
Smith replied: “They don’t call it Freitag for nothing.”
snl team shaking their heads, apologizing to no one in particular, sitting down to write weekend update bit where colin and michael interview the rfk worm (bowen yang)
I have been watching people making phone calls my entire life. My hearing is, and has been, great. Never have I been watching a person making a call, which was not on speakerphone, and been able to hear or understand a conversation. I’ve even tried, but to no avail. Try it live!
"he was a teenager" is not a good defense, full stop, but I'd also note that the president who nominated Kavanaugh famously called for the death penalty for teens accused of rape
On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified.
And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle.
Police in Ohio found a bus near protests filled with bats, rocks & other weapons. But I guess still “no evidence” of an organized effort to inject violence & anarchy into the protests right?
happy 161st anniversary to the most aaron sorkin moment in american history, a Bowdoin College rhetoric professor leading a bayonet charge to save the union
"the Texas attorney general has been under indictment for securities fraud for five years" is one of those things that sounds too absurd to be true but it is actually real
the main difference between how it started and how it's going right now is that a lot more people just seem pro-Covid. The virus is building a real populist coalition.
George P. Bush is really the rare candidate to affirmatively run on being the only member of his family to profess loyalty to the man who shit-talked his mom.
Insulin's fucking expensive! "In reality, insulin still retails for roughly $300 a vial. Most patients with diabetes need two to three vials per month...."
Who do you think will end up on the right side of history: those cheering on the concentration of tens of thousands of desperate migrants in camps with communicable diseases and contemptuous neglect, or those shouting loudly that this is terrible?
the attempt by Republican officials to stoke conspiracy about an election in which we have no indication of improper behavior is vastly more disturbing than a delayed announcement
BREAKING: Gov. Abbott issues proclamation CLOSING (as of Oct. 2) satellite offices where voters can drop off completed mail-in ballots.
Counties can only have 1 dropoff point, he says.
Travis has 4, including 3 downtown.
Harris has 12.
Apologizing for "the divide" is not really an apology. Unless I'm missing anything I'm still not sure anyone has cleared the baseline of *acknowledgment of wrongdoing*
Right-wing activist Laura Loomer, last seen chaining herself to Twitter HQ, has jumped the fence at Nancy Pelosi's Napa home and set up a tent protesting immigration. Now she's chanting "Nancy, Nancy!"
I think Trump buying and literally hollowing out the Old Post Office building was one of those symbols that would've been cut by an editor as heavyhanded
driving is amazing because people are constantly asked to place a value on the lives of themselves and others and they regularly come back with like "two or three seconds of my commute"
was the right note from Biden but I would've added a line in there like "I did the inflation. My vice president, Kamala Harris, tried to stop me. She warned me to think about the consequences for hardworking American families and seniors. I should have listened."
I'm honestly fine with Trump skipping these ceremonies, though, because he's neither thoughtful nor solemn and the occasion of remembrance is worthy of more than he can offer.
mcconnell going around the country gleefully predicting to donors that RBG's death would be his "October Surprise" is really the perfect encapsulation of mcconnell and everything he represents
Anyone who says the president told members of Congress to go back to where they came from is lying.
He told them to “Then come back and show us how it is done.”
wow who would have that thought the Trump presidency would result in stiffing tons of people out of the money they were owed for their work, wish we'd had some warning
After last year it's understandable if you never wanted to read or hear about Georgia's sixth district again, but the new Democratic nominee, Lucy McBath, is a heck of a story:
does anyone actually sincerely believe that this 53-year-old man who still regularly drinks multiple beers, never once, in his teens or early 20s, got even a little bit fuzzy?
Bernie's current riff on health insurance as "you're paying for the guy on the other end of the phone to tell you you're not covered even when you paid for it" gets some good traction in this room
We heard a ton about this during the Democratic primary, because it matters to people. And lying about it—unlike some of the more abstract fights—is challenging people's lived experience. They're either dirt cheap (free!) or they're not.
According to sources who saw Kushner's plan: Jordan would give land to the Palestinian territories, and "in return, Jordan would get land from Saudi Arabia, and that country would get back two Red Sea islands it gave Egypt to administer in 1950."
what if it's in my bagel. what if they put it in white claw. what if they feed the fentanyl to turkeys and everyone eats fentanyl turkey at thanksgiving.
the Kurds story manages to unite three of the building blocks of Trumpism—deference to authoritarianism; selling-out a vulnerable ethnic minority; and stiffing people who did work for him.
people in these positions of power are so used to not being questioned that they just offer up these enormous indictments of their own management and leadership on a platter
A "mass exodus" of L.A. County deputies could be on the way due to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, according to L.A. Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
He claims he could lose up to 44% of his workforce, causing an "imminent threat to public safety."
it's great to be Tish James these days because you can get the national media on edge for what eventually turns out to be like "a guy from Brooklyn was trafficking endangered snails. we got him."
every election night tweet is just: "Biff is at 45 percent in Barnswallow. Blop got 47 percent in 2015. I project he needs to be at 54 percent there." "UPDATE: Boink struggling so far in Bluffington though. Could be a long night."
"He toiled for two straight days, forcing himself to stay awake by telling himself: 'In one hour I can make 30 blank documents. If I sleep for an hour 30 people will die.'"
the idea of this blowing back on RCV is wild to me. People voted to have ranked-choiced voting, they didn't vote to have the worst politicians' failsons run elections in NYC. Pretty clear which one you should get rid of.
hell yeah I'm a "gotcha journalist," by which I mean I say "okay, gotcha" like 40 times during every interview and am extremely self-conscious about it