Amanda Lydon

Epstein Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg: The Trump Protection Machine and the Epidemic of Violence Against Women On July 2, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against music mogul Sean Combs for his decades of horrific sexual abuse of women with the help of his extensive staff and deep poc...

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

I’ve seen a lot of people removed from #txlege hearings, but I have never seen anyone tackled like Isaiah Martin was or held more than overnight. it’s worth mentioning that everyone else I’ve seen removed from a *hearing room* has been white.

Isaiah Martin hails from Houston and is running for congress. He worked alongside Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and learned leadership includes action. He was arrested for exercising his First Amendment right. His brother provided an update on him and posted it on threads.
#StandWithIsaiah

Imagine being part of a floundering political establishment at historic lows in favorability, seeing this guy's absolutely infectuous energy, and deciding to try to stop it through an array of embarrassing media appearances and editorial blunders.

Words & Phrases We Can Do Without DHS is a human rights monstrosity

No decent American could fail to be horrified and deeply ashamed that our government, under the auspices of the Orwellian name, “Department of Homeland Security,” is complicit in these human rights atrocities.
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This is from The Guardian. Forget Cancun or anything else the man is known for and nail Ted Cruz to this for the rest of his life. He did this LAST WEEK.

📌Just heard a spot on NPR detailing this disgusting Republican, fascist, reward-the-billionaires, kill-the-people, kill-the-environment bill, and they cut to Chuck Schumer.
He sounded like your 98-year-old grandfather who's upset about his burned toast.
We really gotta get rid of this guy ...

It's clear the American people don't want Trump's big ugly bill to pass.

-17 million will lose healthcare
-Largest cuts to food assistance
-$1 trillion in billionaire tax cuts

History will remember those who chose to stand with working people and who chose to serve the powerful.

If one woman accuses a man they’ll say she’s lying, because she’s only one person. If more than a dozen women accuse a man they’ll say they’re all lying, it must be a coordinated campaign

it's WILD that the NYT framing of this is "ice imposes new rules" rather than "ice illegally refuses congressional oversight"

Many disabled folks rely on powered devices to keep them alive. The extreme heat of summer often causes power outages, which kills disabled people.

This is a downstream devastation of climate change - and why climate justice is so important.

It’s the marginalized who will suffer the most.

The use of photos of Adriana Smith heavily pregnant that have featured in almost all media about this is so gravely misleading that it's a story in itself. These pictures are from her first pregnancy. She died before she was far enough along to do a glowing smiling maternity shoot for baby Chance.

Washington Post screenshot Trump officials reverse guidance exempting farms, hotels from immigration raids ICE agents have been told to continue conducting enforcement operations at agricultural businesses despite concerns about negative effects on the food industry.

A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you.

Who’s actually in charge?

This is exactly why I press Democrats to push back.

The media might do this kind of fact-checking on its own, but when a prominent Democrat makes the case for them, it's much more likely they'll run a piece like this.

Well done, @amyklobuchar.com and @sltrib.com

Sen. Mike Lee surely knows by now that the Minnesota assassin is a Trump supporter and religious Christian.

It's not like Lee falsely blamed the shootings on "Marxists" based on evidence or logic. He, and fascists more generally, are anti-truth, pushing blatant lies if it helps fight their enemies.

This is why Senator Padilla was there! The attack on him is very important, and deserves all the attention it has received. But this is a crucial part of the context! A member of the executive branch was describing plans to take over his state!

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.

The library of Congress is so so so fundamental, founded in 1800, it’s the only library of its kind, it belongs to every American, it has every copyrighted book, it is non-partisan. It is for research, anyone can use it. It is our library and we cannot let them trash it.

So, that new give Putin all he wants "peace" plan Rubio floated this week? It appears to be illegal under a 2022 American law Rubio himself helped pass.

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Whoever taught white dudes that skepticism in the face of evidence makes them smart needs to be destroyed.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Quite a thing how stunning it is to see a US Senator really doing all they can about our constitutional crisis

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference.

The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

If the government’s position is that being trafficked to El Salvador by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller amounts to a final and irreversible deprivation of all rights, then it seems to me every federal court has a duty to permanently enjoin the practice as soon as it possibly can.

We have to stop using the conservative framing of DEI as a bad thing. A meritocracy is naturally diverse, because talent is randomly apportioned across the population. There’s no telling who could be great based on attributes as meaningless as ethnicity or gender.

🔥 @ninajankowicz.com: "Mr Taibbi said when he was first searching through the so-called Twitter files he didn't know what he was looking at. Well, he still doesn't. Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."

Rep. Self had unintelligible questions meant to build up to a quote comparing me to Goebbels based on lies about the Disinformation Governance Board.

It didn't go very well for him.

Today he's ignoring the truth I told him directly.

One of us was extremely clear in this clip, it wasn't him.

So, Al Green got censured for making noise while resisting. What's happening to Keith Self who was quoting Goebbels as if he were Thomas Paine?

They're not even trying to hide it anymore.

Republican House Rep. Keith Self quotes Joseph Goebbels, the chief propagandist for the Nazi party, in a hearing.

Vile.