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But ultimately history will judge him as the guy who refused to convict Trump after Jan 6th in the Senate and allow him to run for president again.

They hate "DEI" because more diversity reveals mediocrity.

House GOP budget proposal is lower taxes for Elon Musk, less food for poor kids.

The U.S. Left's cynicism and laughter at all of these things occurring in the U.S. government, which will impact everyone else around the globe, are not helpful. None of this is funny. The suffering people are already experiencing and what is to follow is insurmountable. Solutions or just stop.

Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

“I told you so” does not help. “Are you ready to do something about it?” does.

Beyonce! Just when I thought 2025 would be the worst year ever.

This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.

Book rec of the day: Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall. "White feminists often fail to see how race, class, sexual orientation and disability intersect with gender....How can feminists stand in solidarity as a movement when there is a distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others?"

Lest you assume that by “bipartisanship” he means Republicans should cross the aisle to check Trump, we saw what he means with the significant Democratic support for the disastrous Laken Riley bill. He means surrender. And so he should step aside for a new leader.

Proof that no one should’ve been nice to Trump. He’s shitting on Biden right in front of him

This sucks so bad

The media has focused on wealthy, White neighborhoods. But the fire in Altadena--a racially and economically diverse suburb--deserves more attention, because insurance may not cover their rebuilding costs, forcing families out and leading the neighborhood to gentrify. www.reuters.com/world/us/far...

We can instantly become the houseless, migrants, refugees, or whatever displaced people we're told to hate and scapegoat if worsening conditions say so.

The "Pizzagate" gunman who shot up a DC pizza restaurant in 2016 because he believed a fake story that there was a child abuse sex ring inside has been shot and killed by police

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.

There’s an entire history of Black radicalism and anti authoritarianism beginning in southern states. You do not get the abolition of slavery, the civil rights movement, and other movements in between without Black southerners who imagine themselves beyond the confines of the American dream

Democratic congresswoman Crockett says "we stuck in our old ways of doing things, which is you get there by seniority: if you've been there longer, you get the post." "I don't think we fully sit there and say, who may be best equipped for this moment?"

Nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester allege that cost-saving measures are causing pervasive lapses in care, including two patients dying after failing to receive potentially life-saving dialysis.

Beyoncé brings out Tiera Kennedy, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer and Reyna Roberts

Why are football minutes so long?!?! #beyonce please

I can’t believe Beyonce has me watching football on vacation. This is very definition of emotional labor.

Honestly, more proof Johnson has little to no control over his caucus.

“The fruitless search for nonexistent common ground normalizes Trump. Democrats should not propound the dubious assertion that Trump can operate rationally and in good faith. Mouthing this platitude makes Democrats look weak, foolish and unprepared to stand up to an authoritarian agenda.”

If the Depp-Heard fiasco didn't, the Blake Lively smear campaign should drive home an important media literacy lesson that I'm afraid many are missing: when it seems like everybody is suddenly talking about something, consider the possibility that the viral moment was engineered.

I thought this was why they hated democrats

Yes, it’s the economy, Rogan, whatever — but it’s also racism and sexism. Don’t forget that

I am my most anti-populist when it comes to the issue of politician compensation. it's not a good soundbite but members of congress should be paid like $1m annually and honestly I'd be fine with them not having to pay income tax on it, in exchange for total bans on most private investments.

This would be so funny if it wasn’t real life 🥲

Here he is momentarily blanking on the president's name

I get super irritated with "assumed familiarity".

New York Rep. Pat Ryan, who easily held his Hudson Valley swing seat last month, spoke for AOC in the Dem conference meeting yesterday. Asked him what he said and he just sent me the speech - sharing in case it's interesting

Pelosi’s penchant for backroom sabotage was easy to cheer when she was pushing fellow octogenarian and likely loser Joe Biden out ...; it’s harder to justify when an eminently qualified rising star—who... is widely known to be a cornerstone of the party’s future. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The mass institutional capitulation we’re seeing wouldn’t seem like such an easy way out if Dems weren’t desperately trying to carry on without changing or confronting anything—its own form of defeatism. Boxing AOC out of a Trump accountability role is part of that story.

BREAKING: Gerry Connolly defeats AOC to become ranking member of the House Oversight Committee by a vote of 131-84.

Florida Rep. Anna Eskamani, a pro-labor progressive in the Florida House who's term-limited from seeking re-election, says she's planning to next turn her focus to the city she grew up in to run for Orlando mayor in 2027. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/eskaman...

I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it

Maybe Biden should repay Pelosi a favor of her letting her know it’s time to go. But honestly, can’t be mad at her m, she’s always looked out for what she wanted. Just wish the rest of the caucus stopped being afraid of her. Like, why are you there?

I am once again asking writers to engage with how the campaign actually operated, and not just the right-wing fantasy of the election cycle. Kamala Harris and the Dems focused on bread and butter issues: health care, the economy, worker rights. Every anti-immigrant or anti-LGBTQ ad was by the GOP.

Trying to frame Trump's victory, built on white Christian nationalism, as the end of identity politics is profoundly ignorant

Maybe we can all walk around in shirts that say fuck Trump. But seriously, to all the people asking if Democrats were being hyperbolic about the threat of this presidency, are you paying attention?

She should retire

Trump, Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg are a constant reminder that money can’t stop you from being the lamest people on earth.

Love to see Dems with a backbone! (The judge is Black, no surprise).

Disney settling shows to me that corporate media will not save us from this status quo that they benefit from. We have do be relentlessly strategic and focused on building media alternatives

Now would be a good time for the Lincoln Project to start using all their money to defeat these crazy republicans in red districts. I do believe if they’d been more focused on fixing their party instead of getting Dems to rage donate we’d be better off.