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“I never thought he’d help criminal rapists,” sobbed woman who voted for unrepentant rapist criminal.

The words and actions of America’s leaders show they believe that having dark skin or having a vagina is a reason a person shouldn’t be allowed to pilot a plane, while having a drinking or drug problem is not.
That’s their priority, and they’re fine with the flying public suffering the consequences.

We didn't think there'd be so many:

Union members for union busters
Women for making women second class
Nationalists for kissing up to foreign adversaries
Consumers for higher prices
Free marketers for protectionism
Immigrants for mass deportation
Free speech advocates for govt crackdowns on speech

Hey Jim- You were the best that @cnn.com had to offer & will be deeply missed! I look forward to the next chapter in your career & I'm not just saying that because of the killer Yoda impression you did when I was on your show.

I often don’t agree with some of the left-wing stuff being pushed in certain schools. But “patriotic education” sounds like what Xi Jinping is imposing on Hong Kong.

Adding a couple of the EO described together, it appears it will be a firing offense to not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America", at least in work settings and products

Tragedy in New Orleans, as a vehicle through crowd killed at least 10 on Bourbon Street.

Vehicle rammings are sometimes terrorism (2 at Berlin Christmas markets, 1 in NYC, etc.) and sometimes not (Waukesha, WI 2021 was panic fleeing cops).

Need to know more. Nothing lost by waiting for more info.

Starting TODAY, a key provision of the Inflation Reduction Act goes into effect: Limiting annual out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs to $2,000 for Medicare beneficiaries.

19 million people are expected to save an average of $400 each.

Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office after one term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.

RIP Jimmy Carter: underrated President, our best ex-President, and a person of extraordinary integrity. wapo.st/3VYcU4C

A true public servant, a humanitarian, and a good man. Rest in peace, Jimmy. He’s reunited with Rosalynn now.

I join Americans across the country in mourning the loss of President Jimmy Carter. As president, he worked to protect the environment, expand clean energy, champion human rights, and advance peace. After leaving office, he spent decades helping the less fortunate. May his memory be a blessing.

A statesman. A humanitarian. A great American. And most importantly, a truly great person.

RIP Jimmy Carter.

May your memory be a blessing.

The oldest living survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor dies at 105 | CNN Warren “Red” Upton, the 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor, died on Christmas Day, according to Sons and Daug...

Warren “Red” Upton, a 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the oldest living survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, died on Christmas Day, according to Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors, a veteran’s organization.

Selling young men who feel like they’re not masculine enough on the idea that they’ll be basically samurai or cowboys or whatever if they put their money in a speculative financial asset that’ll surely make them rich and tough and desirable sounds like such a classic scam holy cow.

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”

The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.

I'm sure Assad will be fine. After all, over 95% of Syrians voted for him barely 6 months ago....

Potentially hot take: Joe Biden has been a good President. My main complaint is that he should’ve been far more aggressive in arming Ukraine. Domestically, Biden has been more productive than any President in my lifetime.

one of the scams you're going to see a lot in the new administration is people forcing government departments to buy their shitty books. there's an entire conservative publishing infrastructure that's already like 50 percent sham and it's an old trick in corrupt admins.

This sort of democratic backsliding, where Republicans seek to overturn the effect of an election by reallocating powers away from positions they have lost, has become almost routine now. But it should remain shocking.

The purpose of propaganda is not to make you believe something. It is to make you believe nothing. Then you will do nothing.

I think Ben would be a good choice for DNC chair.

Recall what happened with the FBI when Nixon politicized it by appointing Patrick Gray director. The rank and file leaked, leaked and leaked up to the assistant director (aka Mark Felt/Deep Throat) level. They destroyed Nixon. Trump is inviting big trouble with Kash Patel.

YouTube video by Ben Wikler Unite. Fight. Win.

If we’re going to take on Trump, Republican extremists, and move our country forward, the Democratic Party needs to be stronger. I'm running for Chair of the Democratic National Committee to unite the party, fight everywhere, and win. Join me. 🧵

For a year or two, illegal border crossings are down, crime is down, inflation is down, and the economy is strong. But public perception thought otherwise.

We’re already seeing that flip, since people who were lying that it was much worse than it was will now lie about when and why it improved.

The Hammer of the Oligarchy What did you expect, America?

Sunday newsletter: The fear is the point.

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I refuse to go along with the claim that saying voters made choices and bear responsibility for them is the condescending stance, while saying voters don't want what they voluntarily choose is treating them with respect.

The headline should be “In unprecedented move Trump says he will fire the FBI director and replace him with a political loyalist.”

Instead NYT pretends that this is just another “appointment,” like HHS or Ag.

One of the hallmarks of this era is the frequent appointment of people who could not get hired in any capacity to work *for* federal agencies to run them.

A shame Tulsi Gabbard not already in post as she would be able to tell us if Assad regime about to collapse.

She also wrote: “I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”