Biden is consistently polling on average under 20 percent with voters ages 18-29 and I don’t know if anyone truly understands what that might mean for the future of the Democratic Party
my best friend’s grandfather died this weekend, and they just got news that he was positive for coronavirus. her dad is also positive, and she’s caring for him while her mom cares for her grandmother separately so it doesn’t spread to her. why are we holding elections today
A somber Speaker Pelosi starts off her presser with reaction to Roe decision.
“There’s no point in saying good morning because it certainly is not one.”
She says Republicans are planning a “nationwide abortion ban” if they get control of Congress
New: Cops in Washington raised >$70k for their K9's medical bills after he was shot in January. They made him a TikTok star, and were promoting merch with his image to fundraise for the K9 unit last month. Not mentioned? The cops were the ones who shot him
News: Senate staffers are now signing on to the draft letter from congressional staff on safety during the Capitol attack & asking the Senate to convict Trump. New draft text here: “We are staff who work for the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House...”
A major theme in network coverage rn is blaming young voters for not turning out to expand Sanders’ coalition. Missing from that analysis is the point that young voters seeing the establishment coalesce around Biden is another reason they think voting doesn’t matter
“So what are those [school] police officers actually doing all day every day? Since they’re not preventing school shootings? They’re harassing kids, searching kids, waging a war on drugs, engaged in criminalizing disciplinary problems,”
@avitale
told me
“In an interview with The Atlantic today, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), a leading progressive, criticized Pelosi, saying ‘The fact that the speaker’s talking about refundable tax credits … Who has time to wait to do their taxes and see what they get a year from now?’”
NEW from me: the Progressive Caucus is laying down its list of asks for the upcoming stimulus:
- $2K cash payments + add'tl $1K for families w/ children
- Expanded sick leave
- No bailout $ for buybacks & exec compensation
- Pause on foreclosure/eviction
No major cities significantly decreased their police budgets. It’s frustrating how often this is uncritically repeated. We’re talking about $840 million in cuts across the entire country. The budget of the San Francisco police department alone is $700 million. Baltimore = $536m
Philadelphia police shot Walter Wallace ten times in front of his mother after she tried to deescalate the situation. He was 27 years old. Having a mental heath crisis should not be a death sentence
While we’re on Pete and child welfare, South Bend has one of the highest child lead poisoning rates in the country – in 2016 it was six times that of Flint
“People say ‘Oh my god, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.’ Yes, that’s true ... because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods ... because that’s where all the crime is.”
NEW: Activists in Georgia posted flyers naming one of the cops in Tortuguita’s killing. They were arrested, placed in solitary confinement and now face a felony and 20 years in prison. W/
@natashalennard
In an interview yesterday with Jewish Insider, Thanedar denounced Rashida Tlaib and said he was leaving DSA. One problem: Metro Detroit DSA voted to expel him last month after he escorted Modi to the Capitol
there can be out of towners, white supremacists, and rightfully angry locals of all color at these demonstrations at the same time. do people not get that
“You take an aggressive approach to Black Lives Matrer protests. But not to right wing extremists threatening to lynch a governor, if it’s for the president’s benefit. Did I get it right, Mr. Barr?” -
@RepJayapal
Tomorrow is the 35 year anniversary of the MOVE bombing, when the city of Philadelphia obliterated a block of houses in West Philly. My Nana lived 5 blocks away at the time. Growing up in the area I was shocked to learn how few people knew about the bombing, even as we got older
New: the 1st & biggest donor to the Bakari Sellers-backed PAC planning to spend $1 million to oust Rep. Rashida Tlaib is a hedge fund manager who has given >$1 million to GOP committees & candidates this year, including Herschel Walker, & $125k to DMFI PAC
234-188-4: House votes to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the only Palestinian American in Congress, "for promoting false narratives regarding the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for destruction of the State of Israel." She's the 26th House member to be censured.
'WE SHOULD NOT DEFUND': In new letter to
@SpeakerPelosi
obtained by
@NBCNews
, nearly 20 House Democrats — many vulnerable — call for a vote on legislation to boost police funding
Why are people surprised that party establishment folks want to deflate the momentum behind movements? If the pressure wasn’t working they wouldn’t be trying to dispel people of the notion that it was
Fetterman has now withdrawn his support for an LBGT community center in Philadelphia and requested that funding for its expansion be removed from a HUD appropriations bill
The “hostility against Israel” in this case was calling for a ceasefire and refusing to support a measure that didn’t acknowledge thousands of Palestinians killed. Tlaib is the only Palestinian American in Congress
BREAKING: Democratic Majority For Israel goes up with 6-figure ad buy in Detroit against Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) over her hostility against Israel.
Ad is titled: “History and Humanity”
Boudin's recall may spell trouble for progressive prosecutors across the country who are increasingly facing scrutiny from voters amid rising crime rates. w/
@NickBastone
What
@AIPAC
doesn’t tell you is they raise money from big Republican donors & spend it in Democratic primaries against Democrats. It’s a cynical, undemocratic strategy. And since they clearly don’t care about dead, kids, it’s all about backing a conservative Netanyahu position.
This is outrageous and yet not at all surprising. The yellow is the “actual rise” in violent crime in NYC. The purple is coverage of it. This doesn’t even count the $50 million GOP spent on ads lying to people about crime to influence their vote.
In Illinois yesterday, Precinct 33 never received any voting supplies. Not a single person in this precinct was able to cast their vote at this polling place.
Poll workers ended up redirecting voters to alternate locations, one of which had a 2-hour+ wait
NEW: The only Palestinian-American person in Congress mourned the deaths of Israelis and Palestinians and called to end violence. Dems attacked her, leadership said nothing. "What they said should not have been remotely controversial,” said
@bethavemiller
MURKOWSKI now: “I believe that Brett Kavanaugh is a good man... this has truly been the most difficult...decision I’ve ever had to make...we’re also at a place where we need to be thinking about the...credibility of our institutions”
Every single House Democrat voted last night to pass the domestic terrorism prevention act, which would authorize DHS, DOJ & FBI to "take steps to prevent domestic terrorism" ...
While Israel drops white phosphorus on Gaza, flattens entire villages and tells 1 million people to evacuate in <24 hours, Amy Schumer is posting information on her instagram claiming that Israel wants to “minimize civilian casualties.” Still, people are turning to her for facts
“You keep bringing up ‘defund.’ You keep whining and saying that that’s the reason you lost. Maybe you lost because we haven’t passed anything since the CARES package,” one Democratic aide said.
.
@IlhanMN
: I can’t speak out against islamophobia without also speaking out against anti-semitism, referenced synagogue shooting in San Diego. Standing alongside Angela Davis and
@RepPressley
at rally for “Black Women in Defense of Ilhan Omar”
It took these people 6 months to come around to what the “lefty radicals” have been warning against since October. how many people would still be alive if they’d come around sooner?
Richard Haass and Senator Chris Coons now support conditioning aid to Israel. These are moderate, centrist, establishment figures, not lefty radicals, who are finally recognizing that the war in Gaza is a moral and strategic disaster.
very normal to use your million+ followers to bully a younger journalist for sharing their mental health struggles in a tweet that has literally nothing to do with you
Taylor Lorenz is a star reporter with the most influential newspaper in the US, arguably the west. Her work regularly appears on its front page.
Her attempt to claim this level of victimhood is revolting: she should try to find out what real persecution of journalists entails.
NEW: After signing a letter asking Canadian newsrooms to do better coverage of Israeli attacks on Gaza, reporters were reprimanded by management, and at least one person was told they couldn't cover the region
In less than a year, the
@aipacpac
emerged as the largest pro-Israel PAC in the country – with more than 6,000 members contributing over $17 million through AIPAC for 365 Democratic and Republican candidates – affirming that being pro-Israel is both good policy and good politics.
In 1 month, Cuomo canceled 6 special elections, enacted some of the U.S.'s harshest ballot access laws & gave himself unilateral budget cutting powers. A spox distanced him frm the cancelled presidential primary & put onus on state board, which he appoints
Democrat In Name Only Amy McGrath has a new tone-deaf ad invoking George Floyd, makes no mention of who murdered him, then decides to focus on the military being deployed in response to protests because she served in the military.
a great scoop from ProPublica: Tali Weinstein paid virtually no federal income taxes four times in six years. That's probably helping her to buy the Manhattan DA race!
New from
@IlhanMN
on the back and forth over Haaland: “We need to see Native American representation in the cabinet. She is in a safe Democratic seat. Any conversation about blocking her for the Democratic majority has no basis and shouldn’t be taken seriously.”
An email to CBC staff: “Hey gang, Just a reminder – if you’re doing any reporting on the conflict in the Middle East, please be sure to read our Middle East glossary in the language guide. In particular, I’m seeing Palestine in some of our communication”
NEW: Last Halloween, two men fired more than 30 shots into a car of Latino teenagers they thought had taken a Trump sign from a nearby used car lot. One boy was in the ICU for 10 days with a bullet in his back. Eight months later, neither man is in custody
AIPAC’s only incumbent targets so far for 2024 are progressive members of the Congressional Black Caucus. I asked CBC to respond to AIPAC’s efforts to recruit primary challengers to Reps. Ilhan Omar, Jamaal Bowman & Summer Lee. CBC did not comment
Voters rejected giving Austin police more funding 68% to 31%. Ohio voters approved 59-41 a measure to have an independent body investigate police misconduct. The Minneapolis ballot measure to create a department of public safety failed — but *43.8 %* of voters supported it
Just before Laphonza Butler joined the Senate, she quietly shrunk EMILY’s List’s leadership & research, laid off grassroots candidate training staff and shifted the group’s priorities to invest millions to reelect her ally and confidant, VP Kamala Harris
Mayor Pete's Douglass Plan aims to give 25 percent of federal contracting dollars to minority and women-owned businesses. In South Bend, fewer than 3 percent of contracts have gone to minority and women-run firms in recent years
NEW: Democrats are trying out a new midterm strategy — blame the GOP for voting to defund the police. And the message is coming directly from Speaker Pelosi’s office
NEW: After signing a letter asking Canadian newsrooms to do better coverage of Israeli attacks on Gaza, reporters were reprimanded by management, and at least one person was told they couldn't cover the region
this piece doesn't actually name any of these prosecutors, because if it did, you'd be able to look at their prosecution rates and answer this question for yourself
“The Democratic Left is associated with a wave of progressive public prosecutors who seem quite hesitant about keeping criminals off the street, even as a spike in violent crimes like murders and carjacking sweeps the nation”
I'm not going to tweet the video of Ahmaud Arbery's lynching. But the Georgia police know exactly who shot him, and there have been no arrests. Retired Glynn Gounty police office and former investigator Gregory McMichael and his son Travis chased Arbery down. Travis killed him.