Oh man. Rep. Ted Lieu now playing a tape of Candace Owens, who is sitting right there, saying it would have been fine if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great.
Just a reminder of all the lies Brett Kavanaugh told, under oath, in his Senate confirmation hearing.
These were just the ones we could track at the time.
Sean Spicer is now a TV reporter.
AG Jeff Sessions' former spokeswoman will be CNN's political editor overseeing 2020 coverage.
Actual journalists are being laid off everywhere.
I... don't have a clever punchline for this one.
Just an incredible milestone for the United States Senate: more Republicans have tested positive for COVID-19 than have accepted Joe Biden as the president-elect.
Little exclusive: Sen. Manchin is about to introduce a bill to prevent any federal funding for the 2026 World Cup -- which is being hosted by the U.S. -- until U.S. Soccer agrees to provide equal pay to the U.S. women’s and men’s national teams.
I see a total of four Republicans in Congress -- Mia Love, Carlos Curbelo, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Erik Paulsen -- have condemned Trump calling Haiti and Africa "shitholes."
Zero GOPers in leadership. Zero.
Notre Dame is an iconic symbol of faith to people all over the world – and it is heartbreaking to see a house of God in flames. Our thoughts and prayers are with the firefighters on the scene and all the people of Paris.
Chuck Todd: Think Biden's State of the Union address will resonate with Ukrainians?
NBC correspondent in Lviv, Ukraine: So its 6am here and people may be a little preoccupied because Russians are invading their country and trying to take it over.
😂
A thing that happened today that won't get much attention: Senate Republicans confirmed *another* lifetime federal judge who earned a rare and embarrassing "not qualified" rating by the American Bar Association.
Here is Glenn Beck's media outlet openly apparently trying to bully a government employee, for no real reason, who is one of the friendliest, most helpful people I've worked with over the last few years.
8M views.
Why. Why do this. Just to be mean to someone?
NEW: House Republicans just rolled out their official "Commitment to America” plan for 2023 with an inspirational video chock full of scenes presented as exceptional imagery of America -- but that are actually stock footage from Russia and Ukraine.
Wow-- more details on the White House meeting, via a senior Democratic aide:
Pelosi directly to Trump: Russia has always wanted a "foothold in the Middle East" and now it has one.
"All roads with you lead to Putin."
Pool report: Trump was asked about losing in court today.
"I've had a great track record. ... within a couple of months, we'll have 182 federal judges."
Is he saying that the more federal judges he confirms... the more the courts will just rule for him? 😬
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued a statement today denying responsibility for letting loose the six zebras that have been on the run in the D.C. suburbs.
Facebook: I will eat your ad revenue + destroy your business model
Newsrooms: Wait, no don't
Facebook: Nom nom nom
Newsrooms: Stop we're laying off people to survive
Facebook: Nom nom
Newsrooms: Helllp
Facebook: OK now we want to provide our users w/local news but can't find it
Facebook says its effort to establish a service that provides users with local news is being hindered by the lack of outlets where the company's technicians can find original reporting.
Chuck Woolery -- who accused the CDC, doctors and Democrats of lying about the seriousness of COVID-19 to hurt Trump (and got a Trump RT over it) -- has changed his mind and deleted his Twitter account after his son tests positive
Trump's Mar-A-Lago winter vacation pushes his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million.
That amount is equivalent to 296 years of the $400,000 presidential salary that his supporters often boast he's not taking. via
@svdate
I see that the pieces of chicken that were on my plate have gone missing and my cat is sitting 15 feet away, licking his chops.
While this does not conclude that my cat ate my dinner, it also does not exonerate him.
When I asked the National Congress of American Indians' prez for comment on Santorum, I did not expect so much fire. Wow.
Full statement below.
"Make your choice. Do you stand with White Supremacists justifying Native American genocide, or do you stand with Native Americans?"
JUST IN: Deb Haaland wins the Dem primary in New Mexico's 1st congressional district, meaning... we're on the verge of getting our first-ever Native American woman in Congress.
As Jim Jordan complains about this contempt hearing, it reminds me, whatever happened with all this? Remember how former Ohio State wrestlers accused him of turning a blind eye to sexual abuse?
Someone sent me this image of the latest copy of NRA's magazine, featuring a story with the words "Target Practice" next to a photo of Nancy Pelosi with Gabby Giffords. Maybe don't do this
@NRA
.
Jenny Craig tells HuffPost they're dropping Laura Ingraham's show.
That puts it at TEN advertisers that have dropped Ingraham since she mocked Parkland student
@davidhogg111
two days ago.
A thing not getting much attention is that Biden just put another public defender into a lifetime seat on a powerful U.S. appeals court. That makes 4.
Huge shift from the corporate attorneys + prosecutors typically picked for these powerful jobs.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) just formally testified to the Republican-led House Rules Committee that the real threat to democracy is House Republicans.
😂
NEW: House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife has taken down the website for her business, Onward Christian Counseling Services, a day after HuffPost reported on documents on the site comparing being gay to bestiality and incest.
NEW:
Newly unearthed video of N.C. GOP gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson in 2020: "I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote."
Trump Mall event delayed - unclear for how long. CNN has not yet gotten details of the length of the delay, but there is severe weather in the Washington area and low cloud cover.
Christine Blasey Ford has had to move 4 times since she came forward, pay for a private security detail, she has yet to return to her job as a professor at Palo Alto University, and she keeps receiving death threats. 🇺🇸
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is at the Federalist Society's annual convention dinner — several hundred tuxedoed and ball gown-ed conservative lawyers erupted into cheers and a standing ovation when his name was announced
Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she now supports adding at least 4 seats to the Supreme Court and will co-sponsor the Judiciary Act, a bill that would do just that.
Hi
@seanspicer
. I see you're on my flight to Kansas City. That means we're on the same plane for 3 hours with no escape. Wanna do an interview? Lemme know.
--Jen in Row 11
Asked Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for his take on the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are children.
In the span of 3 mins, he said he was “all for it,” didn’t agree with it, supports IVF and just needs to read the bill. (There is no bill.)
NEW: In an incredibly unusual move, the Air Force is making a point to let its hundreds of thousands of personnel know that it will provide families with medical + legal help if they are being hurt by new state laws attacking gay and transgender children.
Sarah Sanders on SCOTUS' ruling that a cake baker could turn away a couple wanting a cake for their same-sex wedding: "We are pleased with the Supreme Court’s decision."
Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for
@POTUS
and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so
Robert DeNiro notices mid-speech, on stage, that someone cut some of his prepared remarks off the teleprompter that ripped Trump for his lies and John Wayne for being terrible to Native Americans, so he pulled out his phone and angrily read them himself.
Crooked Media says its Get Mitch Or Die Trying Fund, which has been raising money to flip the Senate and replace Mitch McConnell as majority leader, has raised $600K in the last 2 hours.
Tucker Carlson's show is bleeding advertisers after he said the U.S. doesn't have a white supremacy problem and that it's a "hoax" being pushed by the media.
Dell just pulled out today via
@ohheyjenna
Schumer just announced that the new Secretary of the Senate will be Ann Berry, a former longtime aide to Sen. Leahy and now the first African American to hold the job since... 1789.
That's when the position was created.
"We are politicizing the courts and that is wrong," says Ben Sasse, who is helping to ram through a Supreme Court nominee 3 weeks before a presidential election in an effort to make sure Trump lands a Supreme Court justice who could play a role in securing his reelection.
Over in the Senate, Patty Murray today became the first female president pro tem in history.
I asked how it feels to be third in line to the presidency.
"Well, today I’m second, because Kevin McCarthy’s not speaker." 😂
JUST IN: The Senate just confirmed Nicole Berner, a longtime SEIU lawyer and former Planned Parenthood litigator, to a lifetime federal judgeship on a U.S. appeals court.
We're at the point where teachers in America, who signed up for a job to teach kids things like math and history, are being led into rooms and shot execution style with pellet guts as preparation for an actual school shooting. 🇺🇸
Rep. Clyburn, chair of the House S/C on coronavirus crisis, just released 6 weeks of WH Coronavirus Task Force reports obtained by the committee showing the WH was aware of an alarming rise in COVID cases as Trump publicly downplayed it and held crowded events.
We’ve now raised $2 MILLION in relief for Texans & are adding more orgs.🙏🏽
I’ll be flying to Texas today ✈️ to visit with Houston rep Sylvia Garcia (
@LaCongresista
) to distribute supplies and help amplify needs & solutions.
Let’s see how far we can go:
Wild to watch Mitch McConnell absolutely throwing Kevin McCarthy under the bus as we hurtle toward a (stupid and unnecessary) government shutdown.
Everyone (Schumer, McConnell and now Biden) is increasingly isolating McCarthy as the one to blame for what's coming.
JUST IN: Nancy Pelosi announces the House will take up legislation to codify Roe v. Wade -- enshrining abortion rights into federal law -- as soon as the House returns from recess.
"In the same area that Gabby Petito disappeared, 710 indigenous people— mostly girls—disappeared between the years of 2011 and 2020 but their stories didn’t lead news cycles." via
@MollyJongFast
👀
"The next 6 to 12 weeks are going to be the darkest of the entire pandemic. Vaccines will not become available in any meaningful way until early to third quarter of next year." -- Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research, on Meet the Press
The thing about this tweet is that we pay the White House press secretary $183,000 a year to tweet photos of herself with a turkey but not hold a single press conference.
Whoa--the American Bar Assn just delivered a letter to Grassley/Feinstein urging them to hold off on a confirmation vote for Kavanaugh until the FBI can look into Dr. Ford's claims.
NEW: The anti-racism children's book that Ted Cruz was railing against yesterday during Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing is currently a
#1
bestseller on Amazon
GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn goes after one of Biden's Black judicial nominees for having "a rap sheet" of citations, which was actually just three speeding tickets from 10+ years ago.
One was for going 5 miles over the speed limit.
NEW: Today, Trump privately pressured Senate Republicans to “kill” a bipartisan deal to secure the U.S. border because he doesn’t want Biden to chalk up a win ahead of the 2024 presidential election, per a source familiar with negotiations.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.):
"There is no other recourse. We must abolish the filibuster in order to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, and we must expand the Supreme Court in order to reclaim the stolen seats, and restore balance and the faith of the American people."
At one point Schumer said, "Is your plan to rely on the Syrians and the Turks?"
Trump: "Our plan is to keep the American people safe"
Pelosi: "That's not a plan. That's a goal."
Dolly Parton has so many hilarious quotes, but this is still my fave: "I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."
#GRAMMYs
A group of people has been walking from Minneapolis to DC since late Sept and they arrived today. Now they're gathered outside the Lincoln Memorial.
They are doing this to try to bring justice to Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier, who's been in prison for 47 years.
Another notable judicial nominee from Biden today: Sunshine Suzanne Sykes of Navajo Nation.
Biden has nominated Sykes, a CA Superior Court judge, to a lifetime seat on a U.S. district court in CA. If confirmed, she'd be the first Native American federal judge in CA.
Morning! ☕️
In the dead of night, the Texas Senate passed a bill that will effectively ban public school teachers from talking about racism, white supremacy or current events.
It already passed the House. On its way to be signed into law now.
The thing about Elise Stefanik celebrating that HHS just gave $639,843 to a community health care center in her district is that it was just yesterday that Elise Stefanik voted against funding HHS for the rest of the year.
Buried in the 4,155-page omnibus spending bill is a single line item that’s likely to go unnoticed by almost everyone – except the freshman congresswoman who spent the last year and a half fighting for it.
"I literally woke up… and bawled my eyes out."
Lisa Murkowski's biggest reason to oppose Brett Kavanaugh may not be abortion rights or ACA.
Advocates for Alaska Natives have been flooding her office all week urging her to vote no. She owes her reelection to them.
Ted Cruz to reporters: Biden's judges are "extreme!"
Me: Lots of Trump's judges were unqualified.
Cruz: "Ackchyually, the caliber of judges that Trump nominated was exceptional."
Me: Ten were rated "not qualified" to be judges by ABA. Zero of Biden's.
Cruz: ABA is partisan.