Let me get this straight…
Hunter Biden got $50K a month from a Ukrainian energy company, despite having ZERO experience in energy.
His justification?
That he was also on the board of Amtrak – more obvious nepotism.
If that’s not the swamp, I don’t know what is!
All the biggest Trump scandals are concentrated into this week. His administration is torturing children. He's credibly accused of rape. He's joking with Putin about murdering journalists. And our political system has lost the capacity to respond.
Time was the president of the United States baselessly accusing a prominent journalist of murder would be a major news story instead of just Tuesday. The degree of national degradation we've experienced in three and a half years is unfathomable.
When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida. Did he get away with murder? Some people think so. Why did he leave Congress so quietly and quickly? Isn’t it obvious? What’s happening now? A total nut job!
God knows I’ve had my criticisms of Biden but this is how a president should sound right now, and listening to it drives home what a monstrous parody of one we have.
There are moments in our history so grim, so heart-rending, that they're forever fixed in each of our hearts as shared grief. Today is one of those moments. 100,000 lives have now been lost to this virus.
To those hurting, I'm so sorry for your loss. The nation grieves with you.
I'm seeing lots of folks on the left and the right who seem absolutely sure that Epstein is going to give up their political enemies. Hot tip: he's just as likely to give up your allies.
Unidentified stormtroopers. Unmarked cars. Kidnapping protesters and causing severe injuries in response to graffiti.
These are not the actions of a democratic republic.
@DHSgov
’s actions in Portland undermine its mission.
Trump & his stormtroopers must be stopped.
Watching this coup attempt, it seems clear that if a Democrat won like Trump did in 2016 — losing the popular vote while eking out an electoral college victory with help from a hostile foreign power — Republicans would launch a full-scale revolt.
Truly gobsmacked by establishment types handwringing about ordinary citizens expressing their opinion of a fascist criminal president on one of the rare occasions when he faces them
I appeal to honest and fair minded Democrats to realize that “equal treatment under law” is necessary for domestic tranquillity.We are all Americans.The differing treatment by media and law enforcement for Trumps vs. Bidens and Clintons is a real problem for all of us to solve.
What if I told you...
-> He lost the popular vote
-> He's being impeached
-> A congressman named Kevin McCarthy was caught on tape saying he's paid by Putin, "swear to God."
What if I told you...
⇒ He won the election.
⇒ He spoke for millions who didn’t have a voice.
⇒ Despite their obstruction, he is still getting things done for the American people.
I hope people watching understand that Volker, who says "The allegations against Vice President Biden are self-serving and not credible," is the Republicans' witness.
"This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas," wrote the killer, echoing Trump. He wants immigrants to "return to their home countries," echoing Trump. He says the "fake news" media shouldn't blame Trump. He doesn't get to decide.
I hope everyone understands what it means for every immigrant, every Jew, and everyone with roots in countries outside of Western Europe if Republicans get away with smearing a purple heart winner because his family are Soviet emigres.
Forget the smear campaign against Lt.Col. Vindman. Read his testimony about Trump’s shadow foreign policy with Ukraine. It’s specific, powerful, damning, and firsthand.
We need a word for the chutzpah of gentile supporters of a fascist president bent on ethnic cleansing giving the rest of us sanctimonious lectures on anti-Semitism.
For Gods sake everyone Kamala Harris is not trying to make your kids go to school until 6 pm! She wants to fund aftercare programs of the kind that already exist in public schools with affluent PTAs.
If what Parnas is saying is true, and, while working for the president’s lawyer, he offered to help end Firtash’s extradition in exchange for Firtash’s help undermining Mueller, that should be a giant scandal in its own right
The lawyer for Tara Reade, the former Senate aide who has accused Joseph R. Biden Jr. of sexual assault, said Friday that he was no longer representing her, just two weeks after taking her on as a client.
Facebook banned Project Lincoln's anti-Trump ad for saying, "Donald Trump bailed out Wall Street but not Main Street," because technically Main Street got *some* money.
NEW: Trump told his Mar-a-Lago buddies to expect ‘big’ Iran action days before the Soleimani hit.
In other words, randos at Trump's club knew more about the strike before members of Congress.
via
@thedailybeast
Bernie is not my candidate but it seems obvious to me that he was right to take the Joe Rogan endorsement. One premise of his campaign is that he can win some number of alienated men with reactionary social views to the left, and this is proof of concept.
SCOOP: Some advisers close to Biden are frustrated over a Glamour magazine interview in which incoming White House deputy chief of staff Jen O'Malley Dillon referred to Republicans on Capitol Hill as "f*ckers."
Oh look here's Fiona Hill, a high-ranking NSC official in charge of Russia in the Trump administration, saying Putin targeted Trump back when he was a businessman
A lot of people have been asking why Americans aren't taking to the streets. Tuesday is your chance. There will be impeachment protests all over the country.
Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!
According to this HHS document, Washington DC was given all of 108 doses of Regeneron's monoclonal antibody cocktail. Somehow Rudy Giuliani qualified for one of them.
NATO is the most important and most successful alliance in human history. Unity against aggression is the best way to ensure international peace and security.
I keep seeing headlines about Stephen Calk's indictment that call him Manafort's banker but don't mention that he was on Trump's Council of Economic Advisors, which seems important...
@marcorubio
Journalists are concentrated in cities that are being ravaged by a plague that could have been better contained with a competent president. They're lonely and scared and reporting while homeschooling their kids. No one feels glee or delight. Some of us feel white hot rage.
With your pathetic Trump sycophancy you sold out both your own country and the people who fought and died helping us, and it's how you'll be remembered forever.
Imagine thinking the Obama administration engaged in a criminal conspiracy to frame Trump but forgot to leak anything about it when it might have made a difference
What if, just what if, the Obama administration, including the leadership of the Justice Department and FBI unlawfully coordinated with the DNC and the Clinton campaign to "go after" an opposing presidential campaign? No problemo?
Donald Trump rejected an allegation by journalist E. Jean Carroll that he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
He said he never met her and accused her of making up the allegations to sell books
Brian Kilmeade makes the right's main argument against impeachment: "This country is ready to explode. You saw what happened. You see the anger that the 74 million people feel." So "good leadership would bring down the temperature a little, look to turn the page, be inclusive..."
We just hit the $975,000 mark.
We are so close to hitting our goal. Will you help us with the final lift?
Rush a contribution⬇️
#NY21
#TedraCobbForCongress
I've read about climate grief, the despair felt by climate scientists watching helplessly as something precious and irreplaceable is destroyed. Lately I think I'm experiencing democracy grief.
One frustrating thing about the Sanders movement is its conviction that the democratic establishment fears that Sanders will win, not that he will lose
A guy in an affluent Florida retirement community shouting "white power" from a golf cart is the perfect distillation of Trumpism. (Also this should be really big deal and no one should let Republicans get away with pretending they haven't seen it.)
"'I have all this data about ICU capacity. I’m doing my own projections, and I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators,' Kushner said, according to a person present."
Trump's encouragement of extrajudicial killing comes after a whistleblower described DHS demands to "modify intelligence" to paint antifa as a domestic terrorist threat. This is a systematic effort to put a group of Americans outside of the most basic legal protections.
Trump on a purported antifa sympathizer who allegedly killed someone in Portland being killed by federal forces: "This guy was a violent criminal, and the US Marshals killed him. And I'll tell you something -- that's the way it has to be. There has to be retribution."
Republicans insult and degrade the majority of Americans without 1/100 the handwringing over "deplorables." It's because our counter-majoritarian institutions protect them, and the media has internalized toxic ideas about the greater authenticity of the so-called heartland.
George Soros is a truly great man and American Jewish organizations should do more to fight those who've turned his name into a synecdoche for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
Exclusive: George Soros Foundation, Open Society, will invest $220 million in racial justice, including $150 million in five year grants to black led political and grassroots groups. A massive boost for the movement, which is here to stay
Don’t worry
@RudyGiuliani
! I’m sure things are going to work out totally different for you than for Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Mike Flynn and Rick Gates!
Will the Senate hear evidence? Will there be cross-examination of witnesses? The House did not bother. Arguments of impeachment managers are not evidence.
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NEW: Elizabeth Neumann, former Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention at DHS in the Trump Administration.
“I do not think we can afford four more years of President Trump. We are less safe today because of his leadership.”
This is a lie. Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor *wasn't* investigating the company. And the Obama administration specifically criticized Shokin for not going after the company's owner, Zlochevsky. Read this 2015 speech from the US ambassador to Ukraine.
Some facts:
-Hunter Biden was making $50k a month for a company in an industry in which he had no experience
-A Ukrainian prosecutor was investigating the company
-VP Biden held up $1B in aid until the prosecutor was fired
But the mainstream press won't dig into those facts.
NEW: A former neighbor of Joe Biden's accuser Tara Reade has come forward, on the record, to corroborate her sexual assault account, saying Reade discussed the allegations in detail in the mid-1990s.
I really feel like Marjorie Taylor Greene's extreme anti-Semitism gets lost in the discussion of her broader seditious nuttiness. If Ilhan Omar ever said anything like this -- which she wouldn't -- every Democrat would have to answer for it.
Marjorie Taylor Greene promoted a conspiracy theory that a space laser beam -- possibly fired by "Rothschild Inc" -- was used to intentionally start the deadly 2018 Camp Fire in California. via
@ehananoki
Day Seven: we have found a way to secure vaccine supply adequate to provide a dose for EVERY adult by summer.
BUT that still leaves getting them all vaccinated -- building the infrastructure, ending the hesitancy -- as challenges.
If someone had told me yesterday morning that Biden would win enough states not to need PA, but that he'd likely win that too, I'd have felt good. Instead it feels gutting b/c of the Senate, and because it's unfolding in a way that makes us stare into the abyss.
This is a WILD exchange. The last two questions at the end made me gasp.
@AOC
: "So you would say that white supremacist tied publications meet a rigorous standard for fact checking?" Watch how Mark Zuckerberg responds.
Massive amounts of medical supplies, even hospitals and medical centers, are being delivered directly to states and hospitals by the Federal Government. Some have insatiable appetites & are never satisfied (politics?). Remember, we are a backup for them. The complainers should...
I've written in the NYT that my husband consults for Warren, which is why I don't write more about my love for her. One reason we both believe in her is because the CFBP was there when our bank screwed us.
#PresidentWarren
I've written a lot about why I'm nervous about Biden as a nominee, but suspect he'd end up being a more progressive president than Obama was. Biden has always positioned himself in the exact center of the party, and the party has moved dramatically to the left.
Please watch this excellent closing statement by
@chrislhayes
To stand up this way against his bosses at NBC News is remarkable
I should note what makes this even more remarkable is Andy Lack (NBC News Chairman) isn't a big fan of Chris/his show
Chris is stepping out here
Remember when Mark Meadows got indignant over charges of racial insensitivity, and pointed to his friendship with Elijah Cummings? That means he's definitely going to speak out about Trump's racist tirade, right?
If Matt Gaetz was a Democrat he'd have to resign immediately, but the Republican who pulled a gun on his wife and pressured his mistress to have an abortion is still there so maybe he can gut it out
MORE BREAKING: Now a veteran federal prosecutor in DC assigned to Stone case an not from Mueller team, Jonathan Kravis, has resigned his post. Developing.....
New Zealand:
Winston Peters — deputy PM of New Zealand addresses an American COVID-19 denier at a press conference.
“Sit down. Sorry sunshine, wrong place.”