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For
@harpers
, I went to the frontlines of the only active military theater in California’s water wars—Michoacan, Mexico—where an increasingly violent showdown is happening over the 100-mile stretch that grows half of the world’s avocados.
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Biden admin officials admitting that the pressure on them to call for a ceasefire is becoming undeniable. All the calling, emailing, and protesting is working.
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Missouri legalized weed, Nebraska passed $15 minimum wage, collective bargaining won in Illinois, all the pro-choice ballot initiatives are winning. Democratic policies continue to be extremely popular.
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Legitimately explosive news: Whole Foods management (Amazon) is tracking its employees with heatmapping to suss out clusters of unionization activity.
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I'm sorry but libs have got to find some response at least minimally less grotesque than chanting "four more years" over calls to stop the indiscriminate slaughter of children in Gaza.
.
@POTUS
repeatedly disrupted by hecklers during his campaign event in Manassas, VA. Unclear what was yelled, as it was drowned by chants of "four more years" and "let's go Joe."
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Florida Democrats ran a former police chief and a former Republican in their two biggest statewide races. Both got absolutely trounced. How much longer are we gonna have to endure these calls to tack right?
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Car dealers are superrich, one of the top 5 jobs in the .1 percent of American earners. They are militantly organized and extremely conservative, donating to GOP at a 6 to 1 clip with one of the fiercest lobbying shops on earth. So I went to their annual blowout party weekend…
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I went to the Queens Italian restaurant where George Santos has somehow spent almost $50k in campaign funds since 2020, often in installments of exactly $199.99, one cent below what you have send the FEC receipts for. I tried to recreate his favorite meal.
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Reality slowly seeping in that the Biden administration has greenlit something horrible and their names will be attached to it for all of history.
President Biden and his top advisers are warning Israel with growing force that it will become increasingly difficult for it to pursue its military goals in Gaza as global outcry intensifies about the scale of humanitarian suffering there.
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NEW: Sources say AIPAC is gearing up to spend over *$100 MILLION* as part of a campaign to knock the Squad out of congress in 2024. Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, and Rashida Tlaib are all marked for high dollar challenges.
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At the 1:25 mark, the sneering response from Miller is the real clincher: "I'm glad you have factual certainty." The contemptuous, sarcastic affect of the Biden State Department, as it rejects basic, plain-as-day facts in covering for Israel's ethnic cleansing I'll never forget.
Watch reporter Matt Lee push StateSpox Miller on the destruction of a university in Gaza yesterday by Israel.
Lee: “You have nothing to say?”
Miller: “It is something we are raising to Israel…I don’t know what was under that building”
Lee: “It doesn’t matter what was under…”
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literally anything about AOC will do numbers, but this piece is a real cautionary tale of the risks of assigning a politics piece to someone who only reads politics at a 10th grade level. rife with factual errors and misunderstandings about how politics actually works. big 😬.
How the most promising leftist of her generation lost her political identity.
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NEW: Speaking of grooming,
@ryanlcooper
and I dug into how Rep John Rose (R-TN) met his wife, and found evidence that they likely met while she was a 17-year-old high school senior at the state FFA contest. Rose was the 42-year-old vice chairman of TN FFA.
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The whole story is here, featuring cameos from
@NikkiHaley
,
@greggutfeld
,
@nelly_mo
,
@smashmouth
,
@BradPaisley
,
@DeionSanders
, and more.
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If Cuellar pulls this out national Democrats can be proud that their exceptional efforts and first action in the wake of this shooting in Uvalde that has killed at least 19 children will be to send a politician from the region with an A-rating from the NRA back to Congress.
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Oh shit no way did Israel lie about the hospital bombing?! I can’t believe it because I’m 17 minutes old and I’m a Democratic member of Congress.
Preliminary analysis by FA,
@alhaq_org
&
@earshot_ngo
into the
#AlAhli
hospital blast in Gaza casts significant doubt on IOF claims that the source of the deadly explosion was a Palestinian-fired rocket travelling west to east.
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Biden has now lost even the nat-sec caucus of Democrats on Israel, that is wild.
I'm calling on the Biden Administration to use all of our nation's leverage to shift the Israeli military's strategy in defending itself against Hamas. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unacceptable and not in line with American interests.
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Dealers have also made more money in the last two years than ever; they’re at the height of their powers and yet: EVs threaten to ruin the party. Direct sales, lower cost of maintenance, all bad for the bottom line of a group w infinite political power that prob shouldn’t exist.
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Dealers, the ultimate do-nothing middlemen, have also found themselves in the middle of the EV revolution. The choice to make electric vehicles the centerpiece of the Biden climate strategy means that these hyperpartisan conservatives are supposed to deliver decarbonization.
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Romania is home to 60% of Europe’s remaining old growth forest. Ikea is the country’s largest landowner. Logging opponents keep getting attacked and killed. For
@newrepublic
my report from the front lines of the battle to save Europe’s most important trees.
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The full story, in Politico today, is actually 1000x more cynical. Pelosi's daughter is pushing Feinstein's body around the Capitol and keeping her in the job, because the Pelosis believe that Feinstein refusing to resign will make it easier for Adam Schiff to win it in 2024. !!!
Daily reminder that Nancy Pelosi endorsed Dianne Feinstein for reelection in 2024 *three months ago*.
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Between the endless open bars and the free money giveaways and the private rap shows and lavish parties, there’s a desperate counterrevolution brewing. 2/3 dealers aren’t selling EVs and half of them have pledged not to. Anecdotally, they were not shy about telling me this.
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Epic week for Henry Cuellar, who began by introducing a nationwide Prop 22 bill will Elise Stefanik and ended it by voting against the assault weapons ban. Congratulations to Pelosi, Hoyer, and Clyburn for going to incredible lengths to save him in his primary challenge.
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New: Police budgets are at an all-time high and climbing. But clearance rates—the rate at which cops make an arrest related to a crime—are at historic, all-time lows. Cops nationwide have stopped “solving” crimes. Only 50% of murders even lead to an arrest.
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This guy is a hero who showed us how the superrich steal from the American public. Naturally, the judge gave him a max sentence, claiming it was "a moral imperative" to punish him as harshly as possible.
NOW: Charles Littlejohn, the former IRS contractor who leaked Donald Trump's tax returns and those of thousands of wealthy Americans, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and will have to pay a $5,000 fine.
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These cycles are so tiresome and predictable. A protest is branded as antisemitic by a bunch of cynical opportunists; spineless Democrats fall all over themselves to condemn the protestors without looking into any facts; the real story is wildly different; no one apologizes.
Two workers at Goldie -- the Philly Israeli-American owned restaurant where the White House, Gov. Shapiro and others criticized a brief Sunday protest as antisemitic -- say they were fired for wearing Palestinian flag pin
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Haven’t seen a single Warren person even raise an eyebrow about Persist PAC and I’m wondering how many other signature policy convictions she could drop without a peep from supporters.
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Democrats, controlling the House, raised the debt ceiling limit in exchange for nothing under Trump in 2019. Now, despite controlling the WH and the Senate, and having had 2 years to prepare, they're claiming to be in an impossibly weak position, with no choice but to cede cuts.
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Great profile—deftly points to Yglesias's branding of aggressively conventional wisdom as unconventional, a trick that works bc his willingness to carry water for the rich/powerful is often so brazen it's hard to believe someone would say it so straight.
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Lots of mainstream Dems turning against the Israeli invasion in the past couple hours alone. No question the protests and congressional calls are working.
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Wow. LaSalle goes down in the judiciary committee with only two Democrats in support. Now all eyes turn to Hochul, who has threatened to sue the Senate Dem caucus over this result, and has already retained a lawyer to do so.
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Santos’s loyalty is nowhere near the craziest thing about it. They lost their liquor license in 20 after hosting a covid-spreading drunken maskless conga line. The owner crashed his plane into the East River, killing a passenger. His brother got booked for human trafficking.
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Pretty stunning result. If you think this will stop with Michigan you are either the president or paid to flatter him.
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Hakeem Jeffries rallying for an anti-choice Court of Appeals pick at an event where one of the speakers encouraged Republican senators to support LaSalle (to overcome Democratic opposition), a *crazy* start to his “Democratic unity” tenure.
"Judge Hector Lasalle is highly qualified to be the chief judge of the state of New York. Period. Full stop,"
@RepJeffries
says, adding LaSalle should be given the same rights as every other chief judge nominee to get a vote in the Senate.
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The
@SFPD
is currently solving 8 percent of crimes citywide. Boudin’s office had to rent a U-Haul to pick up a man busted for a high profile string of burglaries because the cops *refused* to do it. That should be the national scandal.
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This ginned up controversy, a deceitful misinterpretation of a protest chant that has been standard for at least a decade, all in service of slandering the only Palestinian-American in congress (a fellow Democrat!) is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen Democrats do.
.
@RepRashida
is wrong. “From the river to the sea” is a call for eliminating the state of Israel that rejects a two-state solution & puts Jews in danger.
We must reject extremism, no matter which side of the aisle it comes from.
America’s support for Israel remains unwavering.
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We can't talk about Democrats' collapse in New York without talking about Andrew Cuomo, who sabotaged his own party by packing the NY courts with rightwingers, signed onto a pro-GOP gerrymander in 2012, and blessed a redistricting process designed to fail.
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Heat check! Feinstein misses her first vote after returning to DC, keeping her incredible streak of missed votes alive.
LOGGED NEW SENATE VOTE (117)
L. Felice Gorordo, of Florida, to be United States Alter...
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Congratulations to
@LondonBreed
who now bears full responsibility for the impossible task of cleaning up a manufactured crisis she cynically played into and helped create.
BREAKING: San Francisco removes Chesa Boudin in historic recall.
See live election results, including vote breakdown by district:
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Joe Biden invited Kyrsten Sinema and the two lobbyists who killed off the entirety of his common sense tax reform as special guests of the White House for today’s infrastructure bill signing. That’s how serious he is about his own agenda, that’s the risk you run by crossing him.
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Daily reminder that Nancy Pelosi endorsed Dianne Feinstein for reelection in 2024 *three months ago*.
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"I don't give a fuck about
@AIPAC
...I’m poking the bear," says
@RepMarkPocan
. "It’s time to call them out for what they are—a front group for conservative policy here in the U.S.—instead of being afraid of them."
The WI rep goes after the Israel lobby!
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Warren built her brand on anti-corruption. Hickenlooper in the last three weeks has been caught in two of the worst corruption scandals in recent Colorado history, both potential career enders.
John
@Hickenlooper
has taken on the NRA, invested in wind and solar renewable energy to confront the climate crisis, and fought tooth and nail to protect the right to choose in Colorado. I’m proud to join him in the fight to defeat Cory Gardner and take back the Senate.
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The siege will be funded by Republican megadonors, and Democratic leadership has said nothing to dissuade it. Meanwhile, they created a blacklist of vendors when progressives launched primary campaigns against incumbents in 2019. The party's entire left flank could get wiped out.
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the amount of death and suffering if this continues for weeks is indescribable. but i don't think they can even stave it off for weeks at this point. if you're unsure of whether you should pick up the phone, the difference between days and weeks is thousands of lives.
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Summer Lee winning in PA-12, which was redistricted to be redder, is a signature win for progressives. But Chris Deluzio winning in PA-17 might be even more important; a progressive win in a swing district (Conor Lamb's old seat). Progressives with a huge showing in PA.
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I dug into why things are so jammed at the ports, which we’ve been told by our best/brightest is the result of giving immoderate American consumers stimulus checks. Imagine my surprise when I found a report from 2015 warning of exactly today’s breakdown.
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The DCCC and House Majority PAC abandoned this race, allowing McLeod-Skinner to get outspent by millions in the final weeks. Kurt Schrader, the outgoing Blue Dog in the seat (and Biden endorsee), refused to endorse McLeod-Skinner, the Dem candidate. A pure establishment own goal.
I’ve seen enough: Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R) defeats Jamie McLeod-Skinner (D) in
#OR05
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Widely loathed Eric Adams, ex Republican, who doesn't believe in a separation of church and state, who eked out his mayoral victory thanks to a ginned up crime panic that hurt his own party, and who constantly attacks other Democrats and journalists, will be advising Biden.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams is part of a new national advisory board being built by President Biden’s team who “will travel and speak on Biden’s behalf during his expected reelection campaign,” the WaPo reports:
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House Dem
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@Acosta
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@BernieSanders
&
@AOC
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NEW: Jim Clyburn is currently making a huge push for Michelle Childs as Biden's Supreme Court pick. As a lawyer, Childs repeatedly defended employers accused of racial and gender discrimination by Black women, and was a partner at an anti-union law firm.
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Very important to note that this already roundly disproven propaganda is being broadcast on Morning Joe, which is Joe Biden’s favorite program. They’re speaking to the president here.
Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard shows the chains used to secure Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
"This is not what students bring to school. This is what professionals bring to campuses and universities."
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CNN says turn out is up 20 percent from 2016. Vindication for the Sanders approach. When broken down by age, it's likely that youth turnout will prove to be much higher than that.
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NEW: Hunger is surging in the US. 31 million people fell off the “hunger cliff” in March.
Grocery execs are delighted. "Good for our model as those benefits decline…it puts more pressure on those consumers, and they come to us to stretch their dollar.”
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NEW: After taking a $200k donation from AIPAC's Republican-funded super PAC, pro-choice Dem group EMILY's List is spending $1m alongside AIPAC's $4.5m to knock out a Dem candidate with a 100% Planned Parenthood rating in a top Republican target district.
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New: Kirsten Gillibrand, the most outspoken Senate feminist, has spent the last days of Roe attending crypto-sponsored events and selling a light-touch regulatory bill the industry loves. A prominent crypto lobbyist just hosted a fundraiser on her behalf.
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Pelosi and her daughter are trying to keep Barbara Lee from being appointed as Feinstein's replacement because it hurts Adam Schiff's election chances. So we continue on with a senator who doesn't even remember she was out 3 months. I mean, holy shit.
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Surreal to watch the House Democratic leadership and the president bend over backwards to save Kurt Schrader and Henry Cuellar after they sunk the party's legislation and have given every indication that they'd do it again. Have some pride. That would *never* happen in the GOP.
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jesus christ dude—even Pelosi didn't stoop to this wheedling, insincere donor services as the highest ranking Democratic in the House. just embarrassing for the whole caucus to be saying this stuff that sounds like a Donald Trump line.
📹Jeffries on why he’s taken this many trips to Israel: “Understand something. I’m from Brooklyn where we consider Jerusalem to be the 6th borough [of NYC]. So I’m just starting to catch up.”
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It's easy to forget now, but the NRA used to be a rich bipartisan org that Democrats desperately wanted to endorse them. Then, it became a GOP operation, and now no Democrat would go anywhere near it. AIPAC seems to be following the same trajectory—unless it succeeds in 2024.
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It's a nice bit, but it's impossible to take Fetterman seriously going after Bob Menendez for corrupt behavior on behalf of a foreign government while simultaneously doing ventriloquism for AIPAC.
It’s truly disturbing that Members of Congress rushed to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza.
Who would take the word of a group that just massacred innocent Israeli civilians over our key ally?
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Crazy that Biden tacking hard to the right on immigration, arctic drilling, and crime coincides with an immediate cratering of his approval rating.
“The president notched an approval rating of 38% in the new poll, after 45% said they approved in February and 41% in January. His ratings hit their lowest point of his presidency last July, at 36%”
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I hope
@aoc
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@SenGianaris
, and the small handful of Democratic politicians who had enough courage to stick their necks out and oppose this bullshit in 2018 take a nice, long victory lap today.
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New: Nothing says "crypto" like getting ripped off, and you can add House Democrats to the list of the hoodwinked. After pledging $1B to campaign season, Sam Bankman-Fried’s super PAC has gone dark just weeks before election day, leaving Dems high and dry.
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If Columbia can't pay its grad students more than $29k while simultaneously making $3 billion a year on its endowment and continuing to pay no taxes it's probably worth considering that our elite private universities are a colossal misallocation of money.
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Like at this point they should either run a bunch of far-left candidates or joke candidates.
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Susan Rice went apoplectic on her staffers after she found out that there were empty seats on the Title 42 deportation planes, even after being made aware that those deported asylum seekers were getting kidnapped and murdered. 🤯
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The GOP is making a huge push for nonwhite voters, setting up community centers nationwide and courting minorities with an extremely offline, secretive, and media unfriendly campaign, offering free dinners, movie nights, easter egg hunts, more.
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Congratulations as well to the
@SFPD
who effectively blackmailed the city into this result by refusing to do their jobs.
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You would never know this was a hearing for a Democratic nominee if you were watching this NY Senate Judiciary hearing on LaSalle without context. The nominee is a Conservative Party donor, Republican senators are lobbing him hilarious softballs, and praising his character.
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One funny thing about the Democratic Party is that they have this young, nationally beloved, exceptional political talent and most Democrats are inclined to find common cause with Republicans in insulting her in the media and suppressing her rise within the party’s ranks.
Greg Casar's internal polling had AOC as the most popular Dem polled among primary voters in his district
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NEW: in 2009, just before Obama named her to the federal bench, Supreme Court hopeful Michelle Childs sentenced a man to 12 years in prison for 8 ounces worth of weed sales. I found the court documents noting the irregularities of the harsh sentence.
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@SFPD
Mass incarceration is a scourge. Police forces nationwide have basically been on strike since the public deigned to criticize them after George Floyd's murder. Boudin's opponents have no actual solutions to homelessness or addiction other than dialing up the cruelty. For shame.
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New: The Biden Education Dept is hauling a bankrupt cancer patient to court days before she begins a series of surgeries that might leave her permanently disabled to contest her claim that she cannot pay her $96k in student loan debt.
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Great example of centrist Dems using their newfound electoral advantage to make the party worse here. Fletcher is one of the party’s most egregiously bought off oil industry hacks, in a deep blue district. Forget all that, bc Fletcher has a widely shared pro-choice commitment.
Lizzie Fletcher is most well known for being one of the most pro-choice and pro-women lawmakers in the House.
@keithellison
I’m questioning why you’d make it a point to go after a sitting incumbent like this post Dobbs. Especially a Congresswoman in TX. Seriously disappointing
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Biden has even lost the Center for American Progress; wild to see the Democratic world turning on him.
People keep telling me that the situation in Gaza is “complicated”. There’s nothing complicated about being able to say killing innocent people is wrong and needs to stop. We said it when it was Hamas. We can say it now that it’s Israel. This is wrong. This needs to stop.
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The list is lengthy, but this is another Adams saga that is legitimately scandalous. He's ready to decimate the libraries, transit, and schools and all to funnel more money to his friends.
Eric Adams and the PBA have negotiated a new NYPD contract that will cost the city $5.5 billion.
Pay raises are across the board and retroactive to 2017.
For example, cops who are 5 years in will now earn $130,000, a $40,000 increase. That's not including overtime.
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I actually don't think you can understand this era of Democratic failure without understanding the corruption of Jim Clyburn.
NEW: A story about Jim Clyburn, one of the most powerful Dems in the country
-He secretly worked with the S.C. GOP on redistricting
-He protected himself
-The cost? Making a swing district safer for the GOP
From
@marilynt2004
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If the Biden people took the Trump threat as seriously as they want the American people to take it, they would say simply that they can't afford to stake out such a radically unpopular position on Israel, given the stakes of that election.
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The challenge, I guess, is finding Democratic politicians who will actually fight for those things.
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I'm pretty surprised there hasn't been more shame and consequence for the obviously corrupt crypto boosters in politics and journalism.
@HeerJeet
is doing god's work trying to force some accountability from Yglesias, but there are a lot of Voxworlders who are skating right now.
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Maybe Biden and Schumer will pull it together, but if this is indeed how it goes, which is the WH is telegraphing, it is a perfect encapsulation of the fundamental unseriousness of the party and its lack of ability to grasp the nature of its enemy and urgency of its position.
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In March, Ritchie Torres was one of the bipartisan Gang of 8 that tried to subvert the SEC's investigation into FTX. In April, "leaders at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz hosted the 'Ritchie Torres Ethereum Fundraiser' at the swanky nightclub Zero Bond in NYC."
NEW this morning — Rep.
@RitchieTorres
(D-NY) calls on the Government Accountability Office (
@USGAO
) to investigate the SEC’s “failure to protect the investing public from the egregious mismanagement and malfeasance of
@FTX_Official
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Another slam dunk for Democrats should they choose to take it...put that thing up for a vote immediately and let Republicans sink it!
Susan Collins tells
@JNicholsonInDC
that same-sex marriage bill may be doomed now bc of what Dems did on the inflation reduction bill
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New: Biden's age problem is not his age—it's his abysmal standing with young voters. His unconditional support for Israel is making it worse—under 40s strongly disapprove of his Israel policy, and his hawkishness is driving the election-threatening wedge.
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An absolutely horrific development. If the WH does cede spending cuts, after Republicans routinely raised the debt ceiling under Trump, after Democrats had a trifecta for two years and could've raised it any time, the case for Joe Biden's reelection becomes extremely diminished.
Basically as I see it the WH abandoned the posture of “no spending concessions in exchange for raising the debt limit” amid massive pressure even from ostensible allies to negotiate
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Either way that’s a 3x increase in spending just on Democratic primaries in a cycle with far fewer open seats. Last year they spent $30m on 18 races. Meanwhile small dollar fundraising is way down. It’s an extinction level threat for the left in Congress.
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“Astonishing”: How New York Democrats, after millions of dollars in legal fees, flipping the state’s high court, and a bruising yearlong campaign, managed to blow the most important redistricting battle in the country and possibly cost Dems the House—AGAIN.
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Biden actually has a full time job and still found time to hit the picket line. Obama has plenty of free time on his hands, where is he??
.
@POTUS
knows the importance of unions. That’s why he joined the UAW picket line yesterday.
Right now, unions across the country continue to stand up and advocate for the rights of working Americans — and they deserve our support. This week’s WGA deal is an example of what’s…
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Bernie Sanders with the one sentence assessment of the War in Iraq: "All of that suffering, all of that death, all of that huge expenditure, for what?"
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In so many ways the mayor is bleeding this city dry to enrich his friends.
NYPD overtime pay for extra officers in the subway went from $4 million in 2022 to $155 million this year, according to city records obtained by Gothamist
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Mondaire Jones caving to Sean Patrick Maloney's pressure and ceding NY-17 to him cost progressives two seats in congress. If not for that one move we'd be talking about a dominant night for New York progressives.
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crimes here include doing outreach to mainstream libs, being a visible public figure, using the current administration to accomplish things. inside game is bad, outside game is also bad. if AOC was serious she would be handing out the daily worker on capitol hill all day.
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Obviously Fox News is a great place to go to spout falsehoods, but somehow seems like Democrats going on there to gin up threats against their own Jewish voters is a little shortsighted!
Democratic congressman Brad Sherman is on Fox News right now helping push a narrative about last night's protest outside the DNC that reporters on the scene have said is not true
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This is a much watch just for the pure human embodiment of 😳, as this conservative Dem backbencher meets the slightest scrutiny for parroting the Republican line on migration.
Republicans have no solutions for immigration.
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Oh shit—Henry Cuellar just told an American University class that he met with Hakeem Jeffries and urged him not to defend incumbent progressives against the $100 million assault. Cuellar benefitted greatly from incumbent protection services of Dem leadership two straight cycles.
🚨👀 Cuellar, referencing AIPAC spending $100 million in Dem primaries, says he met yesterday with Jeffries and DNC leadership encouraging to not defend progressive incumbents and pushback against AIPAC attacks
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NEW: There's more to the NYT Ed Board's shock endorsement of Dan Goldman in NY-10. The Goldmans have extensive ties to the Sulzberger family, who own the paper, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger emphatically did not recuse himself from the endorsement process.
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New: Biden's shock rightwing lurches on Arctic drilling/the DC criminal code—and the bank bailout—have revolved around one man: chief of staff Jeff Zients. He's incommunicado with progressives, pushing Obama-era policies w Obama-era contempt for the left.
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Pretty fun watching Isaacson and Michael Lewis’s reputations being undone in real time by their credulous embraces of our era’s two great conmen.
To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a…
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