Julie Shell

Joe Biden — even at his most inarticulate, and even with his voice weakened by age — has more gut commitment to and understanding of what America at its best means to the world, and who our real friends are and must always be, than every member of the Trump administration combined.

Opinion | My First Thought When I Heard Joe Biden’s News

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Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

Trump poses as the Pope in full holy garments and gets a pass.

Obama puts on a tan suit and they lose their frigging minds.

See how that works?

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Sure, Trump trashed a booming economy. But on the bright side, at least we turned our allies against us, sold out the people of Ukraine, eliminated the rule of law, became a fascist police state, and destroyed the government services from the weather service to the national parks to Social Security.

😂😂😂 Republican Mike Lawler gives a non-answer to a question about tariffs at his town hall tonight in Rockland Cty, NY and the audience starts chanting "blah blah blah. BLAH BLAH BLAH"

Perfection.

#mikelawler

Turns out, markets do not like spending a long weekend wondering if the president intends to unlawfully fire Jerome Powell.

Where we are is the inevitable result of giving undue deference to "sincerely held beliefs."

It actually does not matter if your beliefs are sincerely held or not. If your sincerely held belief is that certain human beings are less than others, you suck, no matter how sincerely you believe it.

NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for their decision not to turn the planes around on March 15.

He orders them either to fix their mistake or identify who made those decisions (presumably for further sanctions).

Warriors coach Steve Kerr blasts Trump attack on Harvard after win Warriors coach Steve Kerr was sporting a Harvard shirt following the Dubs' play-in tournament win against Memphis in support of the university defying Trump.

'Dumbest thing I've ever heard': Warriors' Kerr blasts Trump attack on Harvard after win www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.

The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

The Promise of American Higher Education No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

We need more of this—and more solidarity:

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

- Harvard President Alan Garber

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i'm watching a group of conservative law professors insist that there is a grand debate over birthright citizenship that somehow escaped generations of scholarship and only popped into existence after a right-wing president announced an effort to nullify the 14th amendment.

so no, I don't think "they'll never trust us again" is really the biggest problem. It's more that Americans are going to have to engage in the foreign policy equivalent of pissing into a cup to get a job

The claim that the U.S. can’t get him back is 1) false and 2) obviously a pretext for their deliberate attempt to ignore the Due process clauses of the 5th and 14th Amendments. It’s the sort of transparent deception this SCOTUS majority would see through if it came from a Democratic president.

us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

There is no dissent to this Supreme Court order to the Administration to return Abredo Garcia to the United States

JPMORGAN: To argue that today’s 145% China tariff clarification “is somehow less of a shock as a result is very misguided .. The sudden stop of roughly $450bn in US imports and the resulting disruption to US supply chains would be a significant blow .. We maintain our call for a US recession ..”

Blaming 'unforeseen' firings in a mine-safety office inside the CDC, the Trump administration this week announced the suspension of a rule meant to protect coal miners from inhaling silica — the contaminant that causes black lung disease.

lol she’s not kidding.

The whole Administration is so ludicrously lawless

what a delightfully charming oopsie from the septuagenarian with the nuclear codes 👍👍

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A tweet by Alex Cole (@acnewsitics ) reads, "My favorite sign." The accompanying photo shows a young person at a protest holding a sign that says, "BUT IT WAS THE GULF OF MEXICO AT BIRTH!" written in colorful markers. The sign also features a small rainbow flag. The protest appears to be outdoors on a grassy area with many people in the background holding various signs, one of which partially reads "NO MY." The crowd includes people of different ages, some wearing casual clothing and others in shorts, suggesting a warm day.

Good one!

“If Harris wins this election, the result will be a Kamala economic crash. .. A 1929-style depression. When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand new Trump economic boom.”

- Trump, 8/14/24