@RebekahWriter
I am deeply disappointed to see how ugly Meghan McCain has been toward a man who was a good friend to her father for decades, and who extended to her nothing but empathy and kindness when she lost her father, while the leader of her own party has been so disrespectful toward him.
@KellyScaletta
If Trump wants to raise money, he should have an event where, for $250, people can read their own tweets to him for 5 minutes, and he’s not allowed to argue. It would be the most gratifying $250 I’d ever spend, and he’d make millions.
@TheAlbion7
@kurteichenwald
Increasing productivity over the past 50 yrs only improved the lives of capitalists. For the rest, it eroded the demand for labor, resulting in stagnating wages & mounting debt. The genius part was capitalists convincing labor that immigrants & minorities were the problem.
@Laurieluvsmolly
@ReportsDaNews
Wasn't the Capitol officially closed to tourist visits as part of Covid precautions? If so, and if these tours happened, wouldn't that make them a violation of House rules, subject to at least a fine? And wouldn't there be a record of who brought who into the Capital complex?
@NaughtyAgatha45
@MichaelSteele
Bear in mind, this was a state case. The Federal justice system is still uncertain, and very much under strain. A Supreme Court controlled by a conservative supermajority still sits atop it, unanswerable to any oversight, and contemptuously dismissive of its own obvious bias.
@lbennie1234
@AmoneyResists
They are also wrong on tactics. By driving their “RINOs” out, they shrink their base while nominating candidates less likely to win in a general election. They are pruning their tree while sitting on the branch they’re cutting.
@NASJones333
@keltrott
@washingtonpost
That they did. When ALL of a candidate's siblings appear in TV ads warning voters he's not fit for office, someone really should have listened.
@NativeNuYorkerr
@notcapnamerica
I’m sorry, but how the HELL does the wife not march outside, take him by the hand to the car, and flip off her parents with both hands as he drives them somewhere they’ll BOTH be welcome? That’s what I’d expect my daughter to do to me if I pulled that kind of shit.
@lizmnv
@Socialist_frogz
@simonical
@Patraverse
@msmegalodon
Omigod, Polar Express is my go-to example when I want to explain the Uncanny Valley to someone unfamiliar with the term. I understand why that movie had to be made, in terms of technological evolution, but it doesn’t need to be re-run every year. It’s not watchable.
@Jane4UsGirls
@TheRickWilson
The conviction is unprecedented because the crime is unprecedented. We’ve never had a POTUS get caught cheating like this before. The closest comparison was Nixon, and at least he felt enough shame to resign and admit guilt by accepting a pardon. Trump got himself in this mess.
@OurShallowState
I’ve been around a lot of old people in the last several years. Some of them died in their 70s; others lived into their 90s. But regardless of their age, they were perfectly alert, until they weren’t—at which point they unraveled FAST. Trump has begun that process. Biden hasn’t.
@chikyruiz321
@donwinslow
In this particular case, we press charges. Between this video and the Uber terms of service--which they agreed to when they booked the ride--these girls should be easy to convict.
@JustinAHorwitz
The pattern is always for Republican administrations to harvest the healthy economy left by Dems, hand out tax cuts to the rich, and leave the country in a recession for the next Dem president to fix, so they can do it again. And again.
@KellyScaletta
Sadly, as a recently-retired teacher, I can assure you that a modern administration would not have supported a teacher who handled the situation that way. Justice is not their priority anymore; calming irate and often unreasonable parents is the top priority these days.
@maryangelaperna
@tribelaw
@JeffSonnenfeld
@hmkyale
Am I missing something?
@tribelaw
is suggesting Biden’s objectively poor debate performance may have been due to a temporary effect of cold medication, rather than any sort of permanent impairment. How is that undermining his candidacy, or denigrating his ability to do the job?
@Moose_1981
@BeschlossDC
The framers never anticipated that members of Congress would be more loyal to their party than to their branch, nor to their nation. But George Washington did warn us about the threat to democracy that political parties would pose.
@ElieNYC
Video game superiority is not a long-term basis for parental authority. The student WILL utterly surpass the master sometime between ages 9 and 11. Pop Tart supper was inevitable, if not tonight, then very soon.
@BetoMedia
@GregAbbott_TX
Another great Beto moment, of course, but did you look at that crowd? A Democrat talking about gun safety filled a room with enthusiastic working class white voters, many of them men over fifty. We CAN save this country, if we fight hard with the right message and messenger.
@therecount
They love free markets, so long as those markets favor capitalists and employers. The minute the market tilts in favor of labor, it’s a Marxist plot.
@IreneAdlerCal
@SteveSchmidtSES
True enough. The left-right debate is a side issue now. Now it's the Democratic Party vs. the Autocratic Party. The Democrats need to make a big enough tent to hold
@AOC
and
@SteveSchmidtSES
at the same time, or the Constitution is dead.
@OurShallowState
Boasting about your close personal relationship with our nation’s chief antagonist, who has a history of oppressing his political opposition, invading his peaceful neighbors, and tossing journalists out of windows isn’t quite the flex Trump thinks it is.
@PatrickLovell1
Biden was obviously physically unwell the night of the debate. If you read the transcript, the content of his remarks—no matter how poorly delivered—showed character, competence and compassion. He should have called in sick, but one bad night does not define a man or a career.
@OurShallowState
They’re almost right. Indicting and convicting adds to the INTENSITY of his popularity with people already devoted to him, but there’s very little to suggest it EXPANDS his popularity to include new supporters. Weekend polls suggest the opposite, in fact.
@ChrisCJackson
@igorbobic
@ArthurDelaneyHP
I know people in AZ who worked HARD to get her elected. I expect they'll be working just as hard to replace her in her first primary as an incumbent. She's certainly been a consistent disappointment since January.
@RealMartyT7
The PURPOSE of Congress is to be a forum where people with opposing viewpoints come together to work out compromises so the country functions without civil wars every generation. A man who refuses to even talk to the other party has no place in government, let alone leadership.
@CapehartJ
Firefighter Hansen's testimony is bad for Chauvin, but it's worse for Thao and the other officers. She's credibly testifying that they were actively assisting in and protecting Chauvin's murder-in-progress of Floyd. 1/
@garykoepnick
@bigsby57
@RpsAgainstTrump
Actually, you’re both right. Christie was right there with Trump, from 2016 until Trump’s Covid almost killed him. At which point, Christie had a sudden epiphany, and decided to start telling the truth about him. Christie’s no hero, but he’s right about Trump now.
@TheRealThelmaJ1
Damn right. Next week, Joe Biden will be over his cold, but Trump will still be a pathological liar, an adjudicated rapist, and a convicted felon awaiting sentencing. One tough night doesn’t stop a champion.
@FPWellman
Just another example of the old political adage, “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”
She believes ending the life of an animal not because it was dangerous, not because it was suffering, but simply because it was inconvenient, makes her tough. No, it makes her selfish & lazy.
@notcapnamerica
Not to defend Swift TOO energetically, but when read in the larger context of the entire song, that passage doesn’t mean what it seems to mean in isolation. The protagonist is deliberately picking an awful point in history, to show her friends how false *their* nostalgia is.
@KevinAncil
@JoJoFromJerz
He may have been told to turn himself in quietly tomorrow morning, or be arrested and hauled in tomorrow afternoon in front of the nation’s assembled media. At least I hope so.
@Button29074808
@Laurieluvsmolly
@ReportsDaNews
So either there's records of these tours and the people on them, or serious violations of security rules by certain Congressfolk and their staffs. Good to know.
@OldLnghornBroad
@AllMattNYT
They have this moron dead to rights. No hurry to pick him up. Lots of more pressing police work to be done tonight. Bigo can be arrested tomorrow morning.
@DaveKelley6
@kgorchinskaya
@ablnk
@MSNBC
It's difficult to compare anyone with Hitler while events are unfolding. But historical comparisons between Hitler's Germany and Putin's Russia are apt and necessary. If we learn nothing else from WW2, we must realize that appeasement of tyrants only makes them more dangerous.
@CapehartJ
Also, defense's "hypothetical" about how Hansen's performance while fighting a fire might be affected by a hostile crowd telling her she's doing her job wrong is obvious BS. For the situation to be analogous, she'd have to be fighting the fire by spraying gasoline on it. 2/2
@Dee452597
@StephenMoore
This is the standard conservative plan. Cut taxes on the wealthy when they are in control, then whine about the social safety net and the deficit THEY EXPANDED when they are out. Since WWII, deficits always decrease under Dem presidents, and up under Repubs.
@lesleyabravanel
@capeannsky
This shows how little value conservatives place on trained educators, who think they have a right to an opinion about education methods and content, and how they value expertise in general. If I watch a couple of surgeries, will DeSantis let perform appendectomies?
@AndyMorales8
@mhdksafa
There’s just no putting this toothpaste back in the tube. They can try to do better in the future, but nothing will ever undo the harm that woman caused this little girl.
@pompeyrod
@kirienjw
@WatchChad
Technically, yes. But forensic analysts have determined that it was heavily tampered with, multiple times by multiple people, AFTER it left Hunter’s possession, including the apparent addition of emails involving Burisma addresses compromised in a Russian hack of that company.
@GregAF19
@tribelaw
They're not pro-life, they're anti-abortion. If they were pro-life, they wouldn't be conspiring to take health care away from 100 million Americans. And if they cared about kids, they wouldn't have ripped breast-feeding babies from their mothers at the border.
@unsequitur
@herosnvrdie69
@kenklippenstein
That's going to turn out to be real organizers and genuinely dangerous ones--the ones competent enough to hide their faces and not post grinning, giggling confessions on Facebook.
@ResisterChic
@shedalight1122
Yes, AND they know many social conservatives will vote for candidates who claim to oppose abortion, even tho doing so is against their economic best interests. Same with guns, immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, etc. The right is an alliance of convenience among single-issue voters.
@silbecl
@gtconway3d
Anyone contemplating a filibuster should have to decide his objection is SO strong that it merits halting all Senate business until he's been heard out. Manchin is right that the filibuster must have a high cost if it's to be retained. But the silent filibuster has to go. Now.
@EffinLeftMama
@AngelAbove799
@MarkoSilberhand
I’m not a gun guy, but it looks to me that if she fired that gun with that loosy-goosy grip, the recoil will smash the backside of the gun into the toddler’s face.
@QQ88168791
@BellaQuinn18
@PaulM72840713
@alongcameTrisha
I definitely think there should be a class-action suit on behalf of the survivors if people who died of Covid after heeding Fox's deliberately and knowingly false propaganda regarding the safety and efficacy of the vaccines.
@MsViaCaring
@ElieNYC
Not if he wants to get re-elected in a deep red state Trump won by 40 pts. Everyone needs to stop wasting energy hoping Manchin will change, and work on getting enough Dems elected elsewhere that we don't have to care about him anymore.
@CosmosMom1
@JoanieVee1
You would have been just as confused by the firehose of lies Trump was streaming, as would I. The purpose of a Gish gallop is to make it impossible for an honest person to respond adequately in real time.
@DrGJackBrown
@sara_carrion_
Ultimately, they are all just flavors of fear, the ultimate lizard-brain emotion, which is why they are all so hard to overcome.
@neeratanden
I disagree. Media shoukd wait to declare a winner until the Biden's margin in PA exceeds the remaining uncounted votes. Any sooner gives Trump room to allege conspiracy between media, Dems, and deep-state election officials. This will happen within hours.
@RadioFreeTom
If I were Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czech, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, or even eastern Germany, I'd want Putin stopped NOW. History shows appeasement just whets the aggressor's appetite for conquest.
@ApothecaryJeri
@TX_UltraRunner
@ECMcLaughlin
Agree re Manchin. Sinema, otoh, was elected by the concerted efforts of a rising tide of progressive voters in the cities in AZ. She can be replaced by them in the next Dem primary by someone who can still win a general in AZ. Besides, AZ is way past due for a Latinx Senator.
@RedState66
@JoJoFromJerz
It is possible to pass some meaningful gun safety legislation without violating the 2A. You guys are either lying or repeating lies you’ve been told when you keep insisting that any regulation at all is unconstitutional.
@chamemerasha
@RudyGiuliani
Posting made-up stuff on a website and then linking to it your own tweet doesn't count as citing a reference. How come Guiliani and Co won't ever show these numbers to a judge? Maybe because they're made up?
@davidhogg111
He had an accomplice—Jill Stein. Without her name on the ballot, Clinton would have won the election, and chosen Justices other than Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. A vote for ANY third party candidate will help Trump appoint 40yo conservatives to replace Alito & Thomas.
@jzellis
Posted this at the end, but I want to share it here up front, too, so more people will see it: a list of items that food banks REALLY need that they don’t get, and a few they get too much of that aren’t very useful. Credit to
@justfara
, who posted it originally.
@keithedwards
I retweet this every time I come across it. Sure, it’s an anecdote, but it’s consistent with a dozen other credible anecdotes I’ve heard or read about Trump Org business practices.
Trump is so bad at business, he swindles his vendors, and STILL goes bankrupt.
@bradleyrsimpson
I was with you till the last tweet, but I don’t think it’s fair or accurate that the US has blocked a two-state solution. For example, the Clinton admin worked with negotiators from Israel & Palestine in 2000, and had a deal all but worked out, but Arafat personally killed it. 1/
@donwinslow
@MSNBC
@11thHour
I am very sad to hear this. Brian will be missed. I will especially miss the rapport he shares with Nicole Wallace when they co-host special coverage. Good luck in your next chapter, Brian.
@DearAuntCrabby
The "free public education" taxpayers provide isn't a handout; it's an amazingly cost-efficient investment in our future. Without it, far fewer children would grow up to be productive, law-abiding, tax-paying citizens.
@YNB
Just a for-instance: if either of one’s grandfathers went to college or bought a home through VA benefits after WWII, you benefited from white privileged before you were even born.
@maxneiman
@BeschlossDC
When acquittal votes will matter is November 2022. Trump himself, and loyalty to Trump in the face of overwhelming factual evidence, are going to look very different a year and a half from now.
@pompeyrod
@kirienjw
@WatchChad
Apparently, they did find a laptop that had probably once belonged to Hunter, and apparently it did have some personally embarrassing stuff on it. But rather than get it immediately into the hands of law enforcement, someone, or several someone’s, decided to juice it up. A lot.
@feefer2
@AP_Cadore
@KellyScaletta
@TinaMcGugan
This seems to be the plan—they know they can’t rule in his favor on the immunity appeal, but they can drag it out until their ruling becomes irrelevant.
The cavalry isn’t coming. The only way to save democracy is for us to vote for it in overwhelming numbers.
@mmpadellan
@Bombsniffer481
I’ve been thinking that for days now—that Trump will stomp off the stage early, complaining about the moderators and the rules. Having his mic cut off mid-ramble is really going to trigger him.
@JRubinBlogger
ALL of the potential replacement candidates need to be out in public enthusiastically supporting not only Biden, but also Harris. People like Newsom, Whitmer, and Pritzker need to be unifying around Harris in the event that Joe actually withdraws. We need unity, not chaos. /1
@jameshohmann
@RonaldKlain
How completely different to have a basically decent human being to lead us out of this darkness.
What Biden and Harris did this evening was beautiful and necessary, but also so simple and so obvious. How did we survive a president who couldn't manage to even fake compassion?
@FPWellman
@Ross__Hendricks
And apparently, this self-proclaimed numbers genius believes that we are somehow celebrating the 80th anniversary of an event that took place just 60 years ago.
@tamarranicole
That’s a doctor with a personal agenda. If he had explained to you why an epidural would have been ineffective or even harmful in your particular case, that would be different, but that response was about his personal—not medical—viewpoint. Definitely follow up with the hospital.
@Butters09016449
@tribelaw
No, they are exhibits A, B, C and D for why presidents shouldn’t commit crimes, and voters shouldn’t elect criminals. New York tried to warn you about this career grifter and serial racist, but you guys wouldn’t listen. You liked him because he’s mean to brown people.
@Dolimac
The real, and cynical, answer is that developers of AI engines need as many people as possible to feed them as large and diverse a pool of prompts as possible, to train the system without having to pay for labor. The “contestants” are basically working as AI trainers for free.
@OurShallowState
Honestly, Cohen strikes me as someone who just wants to serve something larger than himself. Unfortunately, for the first half of his life, he lived in service to a rich man who was a liar and a bully. Now he’s serving democracy. He mirrors the qualities of whomever he serves.
@AGHuff
@benshapiro
Opposing Russia in Ukraine PREVENTS Workd War III, it doesn’t cause it. Russia has no intention of stopping if it succeeds in Ukraine, and NATO member nations that are former Soviet Republics are certainly on his list.
@RuleHistorians
@KarenAttiah
RBG was pretty freakin' progressive for her day. Times change.
That said, Sotomayor absolutely rocks, no question about it.
@thechrisbarron
Best plan is to figure it’s nothing—which it probably is—and go to bed. If it turns out to be something important, you’ll have a pleasant surprise waiting for you in the morning.