Cory Booker: "I am not paying for these breadsticks."
Waiter: "Sir, this is Olive Garden. Breadsticks are complimentary."
Cory Booker: "I said, I am not paying for these breadsticks."
Everyone pushing a "Kamala Harris will destroy Mike Pence in the debate" hot take apparently didn't see Tulsi Gabbard leave her in broken pieces on the floor.
You canceled folks for saying there are only two sexes or for saying the N-word while singing rap songs when they were fourteen. Now you want people to defend your right to applaud Hamas and gloat over dead Jews? Fuck - and I can't say this emphatically enough - right off.
Martha’s Vineyard is such a welcoming sanctuary that it shipped the fifty migrants to a detention facility at a military base on the mainland less than twenty-four hours after they arrived. Boy, they sure showed Ron DeSantis.
Joe Biden: "My Supreme Court pick will be based on race and sex."
Commentators: "Joe Biden's Supreme Court pick will be based on race and sex."
Progressives: "How dare anyone point out that Joe Biden's Supreme Court pick will be based on race and sex!"
Without providing evidence, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin questioned the election's legitimacy.
And he isn't the first politician to do so.
Elections specialists worry that unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud erode confidence in democracy.
The Trump administration has finalized a regulation that overturns Obama-era protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care. The policy shift defines gender as a person's biological sex.
Calling Chris Cuomo "one of America’s most respected journalists" is easily the stupidest thing Max Boot has said in the last twenty-four hours, which is really damn incredible when you think about it.
If Trump had actually proposed drastic measures in February, you'd have been the first one barking like a seal that the corrupt dictator was trying to distract attention from Congress holding him to account for his crimes. And everyone knows it, you dishonest scoundrel.
As evidence he wasn't behind the curve on the coronavirus, Trump likes to cite his end of January China ban. But this is damning, not exculpatory. For if Trump realized there was a real problem at the end of January, WHY DID HE DO ALMOST NOTHING FOR THE WHOLE MONTH OF FEBRUARY?
Greta Thunberg watched quietly as the U.S. President Donald Trump stole the show at the United Nations General Assembly, while the highly anticipated Climate Summit was taking place.
You'd never know from reading this Slate story that the reason Trump was able to claim the giant tax refund in question is because of a change to the tax code signed into law by - wait for it - one Barack Obama.
Remember Bandy Lee, the deranged nutjob who thought she could arrest Donald Trump and have him involuntarily committed to undergo a psychiatric evaluation? Yale fired her for being an unprofessional crank. She sued, and her suit was just tossed. LOL.
McConnell preferring to remain minority leader than be majority leader of a caucus with Blake Masters in it goes a long way towards confirming Trump and others' criticism of him as ineffective and out of touch. Terrible look for him.
News: GOP super PAC SLF canceling $8m in ad buys in Arizona Senate race, about half its reservations. Will raise questions about GOP view of Blake Masters.
Group also cutting two weeks of ads for Murkowski; they think she’s in good shape.
The ruling yesterday that the Biden administration has to restore Trump's Remain in Mexico policy has not gotten a lot of notice. I know there's a lot going on, but it seems to me it should be a bigger deal.
"How would Republicans have reacted if Obama had done something like this?"
Blue-check Zoomer journos who apparently were still in diapers when DACA happened.
"Georgia lawmakers passed a measure that requires voters to present a photo ID when voting by mail."
The law does no such thing. It requires you to put your driver's license or state voting card number on the absentee ballot. So much disinformation, and it's from the media.
"NBC News talked to more than two dozen voters in both Washoe and Clark counties — the two most populous in Nevada — and found that the Jan. 6 committee hearings that captivated Washington not only failed to persuade these voters but pushed them in the opposite direction." 😬
They will never give up this lie no matter how often it's pointed out to them it's a lie. And you will never in a million years see CNN or any other journalistic outlet append a "without evidence" qualifier when they make this claim. That's only for Trump and Republicans.
Brian Kemp is sitting in Stacey Abrams’s chair because of voter suppression—and now under his watch, yet another election has been marred by dysfunction and disenfranchisement. We have to break our country's vicious cycle of voter suppression once and for all.
Int. Washington Post News room
Editor 1: They got Baghdadi.
Editor 2: That's big. But we can't give Trump too much credit.
Editor 3: How do we do that?
Ed 2: I know. Let's call Baghdadi a religious scholar.
Ed 1: "Trump kills religious scholar." I like it.
Ed 3: <calls layout>
If Trump does declare that he's running in 2024, the US would have something it hasn't had in a long time, if ever: an identifiable, legitimate leader of the opposition. It would be almost parliamentary. I can't recall that happening in my lifetime. It'd be fairly unprecedented.
LOL at this gaslighting prick. New York literally didn't allow no-excuse absentee voting or early voting of any kind until last year, while Georgia has had them for fifteen years. And it only has has half the early voting days as Georgia. It's all lies from the Dem-media complex.
Racist voter suppression laws are now hurting Georgia's voters AND its economy.
Georgia Republicans should be ashamed.
We would welcome
@MLB
to come to come play the All-Star Game in New York where we are working to make it easier, not harder, to vote.
Rob and I worked in the first Bush White House. We’ve been friendly acquaintances since. Tonight he announced his support for J.D. Vance. I sent a modest contribution to Tim Ryan.
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood…”
By suspending Dave Weigel for a joke while letting the locker room cancers Taylor Lorenz and Felicia Sonmez discredit its editorial practices and standards and publicly attack colleagues, respectively, with impunity, the Washington Post is sending an unmistakable message.
If the media will treat Tim Scott this way, it will treat any Republican this way. Republicans who understand this will have a future in the party. Republicans who don't, won't.
Republicans lived with the Warren Court without pushing court-packing. Yet at the first sign a similarly conservative Supreme Court is taking shape, Democrats broke the glass.
If the politics were reversed, I have no doubt that court-packing would be a major topic on the right to counter an increasingly far-left Supreme Court. It's a flaw with Article III, I think; Given the SCT's (modern) role, the Const should settle the Court's size, but it doesn't.
The US Supreme Court banned abortion on the basis that ‘the Constitution doesn’t mention abortion’.
Well, no shit. The Constitution doesn’t mention women at all. It was written by and for wealthy white men who didn’t officially care to ask if anyone else might want some freedom.
First, it was "but Hillary." Then it was "but Obama." Now, nearly at the end of his first term, it's "
#BidenRiots
"
Serious question: At what point is Trump responsible for what happens under his presidency?
Top Republicans are calling for a public uprising to protest Biden's broad vaccine mandates, eight months after Jan. 6.
It has been decades since America has witnessed such blatant and sustained calls for mass civil disobedience against the government.
"It is your right as an American to read what you will, to write what you think, and to publish what you believe."
@TheAtlantic
joins more than 200 publications standing in support of a free press:
VP Harris: "This is about the American people's right to vote, unfettered. It is about their access to the right to vote in a meaningful way ... the president and I are very clear, we support S.1, we support the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and the fight is not over."
Joe Biden delivering his voting rights speech the day after the national championship game in the state whose biggest university won it, then having it completely buried a day later by the worst inflation report in forty years, is a perfect encapsulation of his presidency.
The two chyrons CNN led off the 1 p.m. hour with exemplify the pathologies and dysfunction that have allowed Donald Trump to force the media to wear the "fake news" label like a scarlet letter from the moment he descended the escalator three years ago.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the heroic service members, United States citizens, and our Afghan allies who are facing a terrorist attack today in Kabul.
"DeSantis will not pretend that biological men can become women, he will not pretend that the United States is a racist enterprise, and he will not allow these fabrications to be taught to our kids."
Not a bad platform, as
@BlueBoxDave
says.
One billionaire decamped New Jersey for the balmier climes of Florida a few years ago and the state had to revise its budget forecast downward because of the anticipated shortfall of revenue from the loss of his state tax payments. H/t
@UtahManDC
.
BREAKING: my months-long
@VanityFair
investigation on
#COVID19
origins is live. Interviews w/ over 40 people, review of hundreds of pgs. of U.S. gov't docs. incl. internal memos, meeting minutes, email correspondence, found.... /1
"Vox's fundamental problem isn't that many of its writers are astonishingly ignorant. It's that they are aggressively dishonest." No need for restraint,
@BecketAdams
. Tell us what you really think.
"Trump frequently did things we never heard about until a year and a half after he left office," is, you'll have to forgive me, just a bit too convenient for me to take at face value.
Yes, it's very effective to be the leader of a country made up of islands that is the least accessible developed nation on Earth and has more sheep than people.
A reminder that Republicans didn’t need to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. They could have nominated someone else, or waited until after the midterms and, if they lost the Senate, pushed through a nominee during the lame duck.
They chose to confirm him. Celebrated confirming him.
"Since Obama brought it up, it’s worth noting that the only person in modern American politics to have repeatedly praised Wallace and other segregationists is Joe Biden."
A palpable hit by
@davidharsanyi
.
Journos if 9/11 were today: "I'm standing here in Central Park and it's a beautiful, sunny day. Politicians say that the whole city was attacked, but if you go to most parts of New York you'd never know it."
Portland, this is NOT us. When you destroy our city, you are destroying our community. When you act in violence against each other, you are hurting all of us. How does this honor the legacy of George Floyd? Protest, speak truth, but don’t tear your city apart in the process.
"You succeeded in publishing a misleading, clickbait headline about one of your political opponents, but at the expense of deterring individuals infected with COVID from seeking life-saving treatment, which will cost lives. Was it worth it?" -Gov. Ron DeSantis
Dear
@ChristinaPushaw
: When you become White House press secretary, your first action on January 20, 2025 should be to shut down the White House press office and expel the entire press corps from the White House grounds.
Exclusive: In the last call between President Joe Biden and his Afghanistan counterpart before the Taliban seized control, neither Biden nor Ashraf Ghani appeared aware of or prepared for the immediate danger of the entire country falling to insurgents
A 9-0 Supreme Court ruling is the equivalent of finding a unicorn and a Yeti at the same time under a rainbow with a pot of gold and they’re both speaking 3 languages