GOP is going to get in outbidding competitions for who can be most punitive toward women. In some states, Proud Boys and such are now competitors for anti-abortion rights activists. I bet even they didn't see that coming. Lock her up!
It’s only been a week, and Republican legislatures are already promising to enact the worst-case scenarios that a month ago were dismissed as catastrophizing.
The Democratic party's moderate wing is disproportionately non-white. The party is going to lose their votes if it isn't realistic about their beliefs.
Hi
@markbinelli
, you wrote this lede for a Rolling Stone profile you did of Lindsey Lohan when she had just turned 18.
Just wondering what your thoughts on it are now? Especially the part about your “reporting.”
@justinbaragona
@froomkin
I'm sorry. I do not buy this for one minute. This is going exactly how I would expect given how they set it up. Reporter out of Daily Caller who has never done event like this, audience of supporters. They have to pretend to be surprised.
Idaho is close to passing a law that would make providing trans teens with gender affirming care punishable by LIFE in prison!
This is life-saving care that is standard across the world. It is care that every national and pediatric organization supports.
This needs to stop!
The GOP has 3 problems as a political party:
1. Their policies aren’t popular
2. policies that are popular w/ one part of party aren’t popular w/ the rest of party
3. Their base won’t allow them to recruit new voters
So they don’t do policy & they don’t do voting
I think about how tea partiers wrecked our town governance 10 years ago. We have security at town meetings and we’ve been through 3 or 4 town managers.
We were informed today that our kids will carry 3 sided plexiglass barriers with hinges and handles to school every day to set on their desks. Then home to wash them in afternoon. And, yes, we're super privileged. Suburban Lifestyle Dream.
I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood...
What I'm really looking forward to is when Hunter Biden is put in charge of party platform, peace in ME, COVID response, opioid epidemic, and diplomacy with Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and China.
Does that sound crazy? It does, doesn't it.
What is he even doing at this point.
If there isn’t a large number of people who were rushed into transition and now regret it, why has he spent years whipping up a panic about it?
@LemieuxLGM
When did we decide that men not getting everything they want is a punishment? No one is throwing him in jail. But he's literally the best the party can do? Just like Kavanaugh's life would be RUINED if he wasn't confirmed. He'd go back to DC court. BFD.
Could
@nytimes
and
@washingtonpost
clarify the ethics of reporters who are working for them withholding information that is in the public interest so they can publish it later in a book?
I’m not allowed to sell textbooks I am sent because I would be profiting from my job.
Cynthia Hughes, who runs a support group for J6ers, spoke at tonight's Trump rally. She told the story of her nephew Tim Cusanelli, a convicted Capitol rioter — and Nazi sympathizer, who said "Hitler should've finished the job." This is their poster child for J6 "injustice." /1
Yes, people who oppose racism are the real racists. This is a completely new claim Andrew is making for the first time and not a tired conservative cliche.
@dcwoodruff
He's probably on vacation and he has a set column where he just plugs in a new name: Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin... meets cancel culture.
It's funny how Kayleigh, who is clearly made-up for TV, is a representative of a natural immutable femininity while Jen who showed up sans TV makeup is somehow not a natural woman. Does "nature" mean "fake eyelashes made of mink" to conservatives?
A word on this debate over whether conservative women are “hotter.” The answer is definitely yes, but not for the reason you think. It’s because conservative women VALUE our femininity and our immutable differences. We aren’t TRYING to be men. God made us WOMEN. Go us and go men!
@Acyn
People keep mentioning NRA. That's chump change compared to what Marco has gotten from various millionaire and billionaire benefactors.
Basically, Marco's advice is get a sugar daddy.
@AmyClukey
After I had baby 2 I had foot injury and wore like orthopedic shoes and still wore some maternity dress. Whoa boy, did I hear about that on evals.
I'm embarrassed for Mounk here who really needs to read a book...there is a wealth of scholarship on the right (esp. anti-abortion) moving to speech restrictions to challenge abortion access. This started decades ago.
@Sifill_LDF
Wow. That's the picture from cover of Mothers of Massive Resistance where one of the women McRae writes about says her mother taught her to "Love God and our white skin." I wonder what prayers they're so excited to bring back.
@erinrpineda
That feels like the point...to make women supplicate in front of boards or individuals with ill-defined and arbitrary power. [Like underage girls in judicial bypass often.] Just like pre-Roe!
@DanWuori
I couldn't believe how well it was going...none of the problems people told me to expect. Then at about month 3 the toddler looked at me and said: "I'm ready for him to go back to his house now."
@Timodc
If only there was some other stuff he could do to deal with pandemic besides put on a mask. If had a job where he had an entire federal government at his command.
@JakeMGrumbach
I sometimes think “if this were a party that wanted to be out of power for a generation wouldn’t they be doing exactly what they’re doing?”
@miamivice2006
@RoshwaldAviel
Every once in a while I forget I am going to put on a mask when I get where I am going and I leave my glasses on instead of contacts...it's horrible.
@LemieuxLGM
I, a man who has never won office, have advice for a woman who has. Why won’t she get back to me? She must not know I’m trying to reach her.
@DanWuori
We got to choose between a slightly funky coop with a play based curriculum and a university one where staff rotated frequently because they were students. We chose funky play based one with gardens and goats and have no regrets.
@LemieuxLGM
House GOP spent last 2 years doing nothing but investigation Biden, blowing up naked pics of Hunter, and now they have literally nothing to show for two years. Just great work. No notes.
Republicans are hinting at an extreme last-chance way for Trump to cling to power.
In this long-shot scenario, Trump could try to block key secretaries of state from certifying results, allowing state legislatures to appoint pro-Trump electors.
The saddest thing is that in any other country, this would be a monumental mistake on the part of the opposition. You don't drop a decision like this when your opponents actually hold office lmao
I was telling colleague that nothing academia does would surprise me...
When husband's first institution found out he had interviewed some where else they claimed he had invalidated contract.
Wanted to shift him course-to-course, rescind our insurance, 1/2
Me: How much is the F-35 Joint Program **which “lost” $85 million in spare parts that apparently just vanished** estimated to cost the fed govt?
DoD: I don’t have in front of me but we can get that for you.
Me: $1.7 trillion, enough to completely eradicate student loan debt.