You know what would really make Americans feel safer? Universal healthcare. You know how many other rich countries provide that? All of them.

this is just gutter racism

Lovely to see that the regime is hard-selling fascism on Black Friday.

Stephen Miller is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His great-grandparents inhabited the Pale of Settlement (western Russia where Jews were allowed to live) and escaped Russian pogroms and the Holocaust. All the same racist, xenophobic, ignorant things he is saying were said about his own family.

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From purple N.C., a headline that checks all the “Duh”boxes: Democrats plan a new investment in winning rural voters, who’ve fled the party - NPR

You can’t go to your doctor and you have to scrimp on groceries, MAGA. Verifiable daily. Simpler than “pedophilia” and “oligarchy.”

Yes, NC Republicans should be worried about this. And pretty much everything else the administration is doing.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

🚨 👇🏽One low key brilliant savage underappreciated move was @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social turning Trump into an FDR fan and making him appreciate the New Deal and how government helping people is good actually

It is actually very useful for Dems that Mamdani *cannot* be part of "Dems in 2028" fray. Unlike Obama, he was for-real born in East Africa. Therefore the skills he shows, and example he sets, in the special circumstance of NYC, can be un-threatening examples and lessons for other Dems elsewhere.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.

We still don’t have healthcare sorted, and the massive Epstein coverup continues. I don’t care about the goofy grin or the kind words in the Oval Office.

I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽‍♀️

The United States boldly broke with the ancient military custom of swearing loyalty to a single leader. Instead, our officers swear allegiance to something far greater: the enduring principles of the Constitution. Article VI commands it, and it binds every officer to a cause larger than themselves.

The choice for NC’s next U.S. senator gets clearer every day.

Every story on Page One in Charlotte is about ICE/immigration: @charlotteobserver.com

Good 🧵 on NC’s prompt and effective response to the bad guys

Surprising exactly no one in NC

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

During the quaint ancient scandal called Watergate, there came a time when the downhill slide of a president became unstoppable. Circumstances are different now. But political physics is the same.

Attendees at last night’s White House dinner honoring MBS were all doing business with him and Saudi Arabia. Under Trump, the only normative rule is to gain as much power and money as possible. Power and wealth are honored, even if the honoree has greenlit a brutal murder.

OMG. He’s said so much insane 💩 today…but it’s OK if you imagine a child saying “quiet, piggy” 🐷 after each sentence.

⬇️ “His corrupt bargain has had an exorbitant cost… “As the justices keep rushing to Trump’s aid, Democrats grow more open to reform if they return to power — and thus Roberts lashes himself more tightly to Trump’s mast.”

The executive branch is weakened beyond repair and the pathetic legislative branch has finally found its bottom. Looking at you, Justice Roberts.

How dumb are these people? Truly. This coming on the heels of the magistrate judge in Comey’s case skewering Halligan & the FBI for illegal and improper handling of the investigation and indictment.

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

The great unraveling 🍿🍿

I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.

Mike Johnson says he will continue working to cover up the Epstein files 👇

I am outraged by the continued and expanding deployment of U.S. Border Patrol and ICE agents in North Carolina. This is not law enforcement—it is state-sanctioned intimidation of our communities, and it cannot be tolerated. Read my full statement.

The plan is to take money from health insurance companies so you can pay insurance companies much more to go back to denying your care. We always wanted to release the Epstein files we’ve moved heaven and earth to suppress. These people try to sell the Brooklyn Bridge to Americans every damn day.

LOL. Why does he need to sign a bill to release the files when he can just RELEASE THE FILES?

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Bless his heart.

@ncgovernor.bsky.social @roycoopernc.bsky.social Lots of Tar Heels looking for some Pritzkeresque feistiness from the gov and future senator about ICE in Charlotte

Pay attention to how big news organizations are describing Epstein’s death. It’s now much more like “he was found dead…it was ruled a suicide…” not “he killed himself.”

Is this losing? Feels like losing

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

Old-fashioned take, I guess, but it’s continually exhausting that once-admired “institutions” are so desperate to protect slimy creeps.

True

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Massie: "I would remind my Republican colleagues who are decided how to vote, Donald Trump can protect you in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement, but by 2030, he's not gonna be the president and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release those files."

From an official government account: "Womp womp." It is not just that we are ruled by morons, but our tax dollars are paying the salaries of morons who possess the emotional capacity of a Doberman in heat. x.com/DHSgov/statu...

Hey Pam Bondi. This is John Mitchell. Gird your loins because you actually work for the people and not the president and you will eventually find out what that means.

I’m a retired journalist who used to require students to join Twitter back in the day, and this is the best thing I’ve read all month. Were I still teaching, it would be required reading, too.

Not great!