🚨Tonight on
@TheReidOut
,
@Joyannreid
announced her new book will be published Feb. 6.
"Medgar and Myrlie" traces the extraordinary lives of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers.
Learn more at .
What you’re witnessing tonight in the United States Senate is the weaponization of pure, unmitigated greed. Lobbyists are writing the bill in pen at the last minute. And Republicans are no longer even pretending to care about anyone but the super rich. What a shameful night.
Just to reiterate... just to get my head around it ... Minneapolis police had no problem immediately arresting a black reporter for covering what they’re doing, but they cannot and will not arrest the officers who participated in the killing of George Floyd. Do I have that right?
Why would anybody become a teacher if your $30,000 job includes paying for your kids’ school supplies AND training to be a paramilitary fighter expected to face down homicidal maniacs spraying the school with assault rifles? What kind of armed camp country do these people want?
Amy Coney Barrett on originalism: "That means that I interpret the Constitution as a law... I understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it. That meaning doesn't change over time and it's not up to me to update it or infuse my policy views into it."
Remarkable info coming out of this presser: Gov. Tim Walls, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and now MN attorney general Keith Ellison ALL alleging outside forces, domestic and possibly foreign, have post-Tuesday infiltrated the state, and are
Trump: When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people. You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down please.
Are y'all listening to
@maddow
show right now??? What Gov. Larry Hogan said today is STUNNING. He was prepared to send the Maryland National Guard to help stop the Trump MAGA Insurrection and couldn't get the necessary clearance from the Department of Defense... WTAF...?
My daughter made a great point last night: the thing that burns a narcissist most is not insult, it’s disappearance. It’s people forgetting all about them and all traces of them vanishing off the front page.
The emotion on Joe Biden’s face as Kamala Harris talks about his late son, Beau, is the reason so many people relate to him. His empathy; the way he never can fully let go of his own pain of loss and shares that so openly, is best quality.
It's just unbelievably shocking that the United States of America, home to some of the top hospitals, doctors and health systems in the world -- a rich, modern country -- literally doesn't have enough tests, to even get to step one in controlling this coronavirus outbreak.
Here’s how wrecked Trump’s credibility is at this point: I’ve got a cellphone full of texts from people who aren’t sure whether to believe Trump actually has covid. “He lies so much,” one friend just texted. “Is he just doing this to get out of the debates?” others are texting.
Betsy DeVos will personally pocket more than $2 million from the tax bill while denying relief to defrauded students. Everything about this administration is insidious.
Three living presidents: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have assembled, along with the Speaker of the House, to honor the Great Man, John Lewis, at his funeral. The current president is not in attendance, which honestly is a relief.
Let's just be clear: Donald Trump is not going to Kenosha to calm the city or to comfort the family of Jacob Blake, or the families of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, the two young men shot to death by one of Trump's supporters. He's going to Kenosha to whip up more violence.
My God... Trump ends his press conference by saying no offer was made to the U.S. to have the WHO-certified test, says any such news of that is fake, and then adds that the WHO test -- the GOLD STANDARD TEST FOR COVID19 is a "bad test." This is straight-up gaslighting propaganda.
Welp… that 5-minute montage the Jan 6 committee just played leads me to the conclusion that America did have a president on January 6th. Her name was Nancy Pelosi.
Wow, the Senate Intelligence Committee just came out in favor of all U.S. voting machines having an auditable paper trail. And they made clear that the U.S. must make clear that the attack on our election in 2016 was a hostile act. This is shockingly productive.
This must also be said. This is what happens when one group of Americans are taught generationally to believe they are the sole, true owners of a country their ancestors seized from the indigenous and reaped via the blood and toil of others they never viewed as fully human.
What do you call it when a political party has lost the ability to gain popular support through elections, and begins relying on voter suppression, dirty tricks, an armed, far right fandom itching to use intimidation and ignoring mass death to try and rule anyway? Anyone?
BTW you all realize that check Treasury is sending you with Trump's name scribbled on it is your money, right? It's your tax dollars that congress appropriated. Trump is basically the guy who "lends" you back your own lawnmower he borrowed and has had at his house for months...
So ... Trump supporters ... not only did Donald Trump know from the beginning -- since January -- that the coronavirus was not just deadly but also airborne, he lied to you (non-believers don't listen to him. YOU do. And he endangered your lives deliberately. And there are tapes.
It’s not possible to fully articulate how completely irresponsible Donald Trump has been, both as president and personally, when it comes to the coronavirus. He has risked his own life, his staff and Secret Services’ lives, his fans’ lives, his family’s and frankly the Bidens.’
Mitch McConnell put on a good act today, but make no mistake. He is the most ruthless character in American politics. If he really wanted to stop Hawley, Cruz and their gang of six Jim Crow insurrectionists, he would strip them of any committee assignments or push to expel them.
Only in America. Biden is above 50 percent in the popular vote, making him the clear choice of the majority of Americans for president. And yet the result is still up in the air. We simply have to end the slavery-era relic called the Electoral College.
Mitch McConnell is up for re-election this year and Republicans are defending 23 seats in total. Voters should remember how they act in this moment of crisis.
If I was in Georgia, Florida, Texas or any other state with a right wing ideological governor, I wouldn't listen to anything they said. I personally would stay inside and continue doing what Dr. Fauci says to do: social distancing and wearing a mask if in public. That's my take.
And 18 years later, the Nixon administration sued your father and your company for housing discrimination for having applications from black would-be tenants in your Queens apartments labeled “c” for colored.
Not five seconds into
#TheReidOut
with
@JoyAnnReid
, my three-year-old daughter - who's in the room - points at the screen and shouts out, "MOMMY, SHE HAS CURLY HAIR JUST LIKE ME!"
Representation is no joke, people.
Gotta say it again: it says a LOT that the current president is not part of something as momentous as
#GraduateTogether
and that the organizers turned to the former president because the current one has literally zero resonance with the popular culture of this diverse generation.
So to review: the federal government raided a chicken processing plant and orphaned children, not to sanction the GOP-donor company owners who have been accused of abusing poorly paid workers who they wanted to employ because they're cheap labor, but to arrest the workers.
Wow ... how do Kentuckians keep re-electing someone who drips with so much contempt for them, for their lives and health, and for the elections process? I truly don't get it, Kentucky. Is this your king??
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but President Biden is good and grown, has worked his entire adult life and finally made some real money a few years ago on a book deal. I think it’s ok for him to wear a Rolex because actually who cares...
A GOP source with eyes on SC tells me despite his in-your-face flip flop on voting in a SCOTUS justice 40-something days before an election, Lindsey Graham is privately rattled about that tie he’s in with
@harrisonjaime
. He’s never really faced a viable, well-funded challenger.
One last thing: note that Donald Trump used no hardball tactics to try and get Mexico to pay for “the wall” as he promised. Not even during NAFTA renegotiations. He was told no and backed down. Yet he is inflicting unbearable pain on his own citizens to get Americans to pay. Why?
All of the people who are surprised about Mitt Romney ... y'all remember this is the guy who put his dog on top of the car for a road trip, and said 47 percent of y'all are freeloading off the rich, right? Stop being surprised.
Except "they" did built it. "They" built the wealth of the agricultural South & West. "t=They" literally built the White House and "they" built the railroads and "they" built this uniquely American culture that includes Hollywood, jazz, rock & roll and hip-hop. America IS "they."
Every one of those pages protects your food from being filled with rat droppings, spoiled meat out of your deli, lead out of your paint, your child’s medicine from being defective & corporations from polluting the air you breathe or dumping medical waste in the water you wade in.
In 1960, there were approximately 20,000 pages in the Code of Federal Regulations. Today there are over 185,000 pages, as seen in the Roosevelt Room.
Today, we CUT THE RED TAPE! It is time to SET FREE OUR DREAMS and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Every so often it's good to be reminded that that the good guy CAN win. What Doug Jones did in prosecuting those Klansmen was heroic. He is by far the better man-the better human being. And damned if he didn't win in Alabama. Amazing. Black and New South/Millennial voters did it.
With
@KellyannePolls
now also testing positive for covid-19, along with 2 Senators and a university president, that superspreader event that turned our White House into a petrie dish to celebrate stealing RGB's seat is looking like one of the worst coronavirus vehicles this year.
Alabama voters may send a serial child molester to the United States Senate simply because he claims to be a Christian and is not a Democrat. What a shameful, shameful time.
This is amazing. The Black woman Vice President swears in three new Democratic Senators: one Black, one Jewish, one Latino. This is New America. Hallelujah.
Students are registering to vote in droves— and by doing so, are about to transform our state and our nation. They have the power. They will be heard. They will get weapons of war banned once and for all.
#StudentsStandUp
#NeverAgain
We have lived to see the day an American president blames school children for their own murders, and neighbors for not disarming a killer. Sir, your bosses at the NRA made it impossible for law enforcement to touch the killer’s guns even when he showed them off online.
So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior. Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. Must always report such instances to authorities, again and again!
The FBI is part of the executive branch which you run, so presumably you know that its counterintelligence and domestic crime divisions are completely separate. And yet you would use massacre victims — dead children and teachers — to try and further obstruct the justice system.
Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign - there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!
What's different about Parkland is that unlike Sandy Hook, where parents had to speak for the victims or Mother Emanuel, where the few survivors were hounded to simply forgive the killer, these kids WERE the victims and they can speak for themselves. And their voices are BOOMING.
Stop expecting justice from this system. Vote in better political leaders and change the system. As it stands now, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not held even close to equally by every American. The only way to change that is to change who governs us.
Lord, we have lost so much this year. John Lewis was a blow. Chadwick Boseman was a gut punch. Nearly 200,000 souls have gone into the ether. Losing Ruth Bader Ginsburg just fills the whole atmosphere with despair. Let’s fight it though and honor these great souls by our actions.
Good for
@Yamiche
for pushing back on Trump's "take no responsibility" statement by pointing out that Trump disbanded the NSC office that dealt with pandemics. Trump denies he disbanded the office at all. Calls it a "nasty" question and ignores her attempts to restate her Q.
No matter what the president says, please protect yourselves and save your own lives and your loved ones. Do not take advice from him. Listen to real experts like Dr Fauci. Keep on social distancing until actual experts say it's safe. God bless. Stay safe. That's the tweet.
Just to be accurate Donald Trump was narrowly made president by the Electoral College, not the American people. By nearly 3 million votes the majority of Americans tried to elect Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Clinton: 65,844,954 (48.2%)
Trump: 62,979,879 (46.1%)
#ImpeachmentDay
I think it's fair to say that the notion (which I've even heard from some Democrats) that Elizabeth Warren is "too angry" for national politics is a dead letter. After Kavanaugh's teary screaming, a resolute woman should never be called "angry" again.
What you’re watching right now, if you’re watching, is monarchism, not democracy. The White House — Our White House — has been turned into a prop, a set, and the palace of the Trump family. Their courtiers, all 1000 of them, are assembled before them, pressed together, no masks.
Not at all surprised by Doug Jones' decision to convict Trump. He was a heroic civil rights lawyer. He actually cares about justice. He believed Christine Blasey Ford and voted "no" on Kavanaugh. Nobody is perfect but Jones will be treated well by history.