Rachel #Maddow , "People owe it to the country to make what they're doing right now hard. If it is easy, they'll do it more. That's where we are right now. That's the clarity of purpose we all have and how to try to save the country from further autocratic slide."

Our Administration has powered a small business boom – one that’s leaving no community behind.

A rapist for AG. A spy for DNI. A zealot for Defense. An antivaxer for Health. A criminal for president. This is what Orwellian means.

Republican Congressman Gonzales: I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties.

Putting aside the ethical and moral considerations, Matt Gaetz doesn’t even possess the basic legal skills and experience to be the AG.

Tens of millions of people who never knew Lina Khan's name are going to miss her.

Pennsylvania Department of State announces that unofficial results in the U.S. Senate race have triggered an automatic recount as required by law

So - just to underline - the proposed director of national intelligence for the US, Tulsi Gabbard, is so pro-Putin that she has been described as a Russian agent on Russian TV.

The Senate should not confirm RFK Jr., an anti-vaxxer, as Secretary of HHS. Pass it on.

The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.

Senator John Thune, soon to be Senate Majority Leader. talks about how they're gonna reimplement the tax credits for billionaires and slash regulations that keep people safe, to once again line the pockets of billionaires. Shameful people.

As of now, NATO is effectively over. Why would any of our allies share intelligence with us when the head of National Intelligence is effectively in bed with Putin.

Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki, 2023).

More true today than ever.

So much of this is an attack on expertise, on the idea that there are actual experts who know more than a reality tv host. Because once you succeed in denigrating experts, you have no one to question you who has any, well, expertise.

The Mirror (1975 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky) (Cinematography by Georgi Rerberg)

RFK Jr saying he never knew anybody who was autistic as a kid is particularly galling considering his aunt Eunice founded a day camp for kids with autism in 1962 and founded the Special Olympics in 1968 Just a completely dishonest POS

Look at this graph and explain to me why you think I should read this as a measure of consumer confidence rather than partisanship.

🎥 'Pierrot le fou' (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965).

Elizabeth Warren on Tulsi Gabbard: "Do you really want her to have all the secrets of the United States and our defense intelligence agencies when she has so clearly has been in Putin's pocket? That just has to be a hard no."