Family’s 1st HS grad. Worked for unions. Elected Dems. Did policy. Got rare disease. Nearly died 5 times. Getting healthy/writing/gardening/ferrying twins.
2016, JJ Holmes, who was 12 & has severe cerebral palsy, convinced his mom to take him to a Trump rally to protest Trump for mocking disabled people. He started protesting, Trump said “get him out,” Trumpers hit JJ’s wheelchair, & ppl yelled “grab her p***y” about his mom /1
Last year, a young man named Harry wrote me a letter about what it’s like to live with a stutter. Tonight, I met him and his family in Milwaukee and shared some techniques I use to overcome mine.
My message to Harry was simple: don’t let anyone tell you what you can or can’t do.
On MSNBC Peter Baker just said something to the effect that eggs cost the same as last year
January 2023 national avg for a dozen large eggs was $4.82
January 2024 it was $2.52
Journalistic malpractice like this is a big reason why people say the economy is worse than it is
White supremacy was on the ballot in 2016. Hillary Clinton told everyone it was. Most of the press either ignored her or essentially said she was being histrionic.
Whoa. Federal judge just brought Kemp’s victory lap to a screeching halt. No certifications until Friday—was supposed to be tomorrow—& every clerk must set up a system for voters to find out the status of their provisional ballots.
Imagine how beaten down he’d feel if he was brought to the US as a seven year old, has never gotten in legal trouble, but every day fears he will be taken from his wife & children& sent to a country where he has no ties & can’t speak the language fluently.
To say that today’s loss of American lives in Kabul is sickening does not begin to do justice to what has happened. It is enraging. And Joe Biden is responsible. It is now clear beyond all doubt that he has neither the capacity nor the will to lead. He must resign
According to the Washington Post Donald Trump will be “at the autoworkers’ strike.”
By “at the autoworkers strike” they mean at a non-union parts manufacturer where, since there’s no union, there’s no strike.
The next day Obama was nearby campaigning for Hillary, & some great staffers made this happen for JJ & his sister
A guy who’s an inspiration to fellow stutters, or a guy who mocks the disabled & whose followers hit the wheelchair of a disabled 12 year old
That’s the choice/2
2020: Biden won women 57-42.
2022: Dobbs
2022 midterm, w a Dem President so should strongly favor Repubs, Dems won women 53-45
2024: NYT poll says rapist who overturned Roe tied at 46 among women
Uh huh. Completely plausible.
[eyeroll]
According to the Washington Post, Paul Manafort was “criticized for Russia ties.”
Yes, 25 counts of criticism for Russia ties, for which he pleaded guilty & was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison
To parents with kids in school: They didn’t finish last school year in the classroom because of coronavirus. They won’t start this school year in the classroom because of Donald Trump.
Samantha Woll, President of a Detroit Synagogue, was stabbed to death outside her home today.
Her murder happened in Michigan which is represented by
@RepRashida
.
In recent days, the congresswoman has been spreading anti-Israel rhetoric and falsely accusing Israel of attacking…
Wait, hold on, day after publishing letters from Trump supporters, the NYT _isn’t_ publishing letters from Dreamers, families separated by ICE, trans people, women asssulted by Trump, POC, Muslims, disabled, or people who aren’t white supremacists, theocrats, or Russian assets?
This is an excellent statement. It says nothing positive about him as a government official or as a person, & it implies Biden isn’t among those who loved him.
Most of the migrants coming over the southern border are Christian. Why is it special that this family is Christian?
Oh, that’s right, it’s because they’re white.
BULLETIN: A Christian family from Germany is about to be deported by the Biden Administration. They've been in the USA for over a decade - legally. Meanwhile, Biden is letting millions of criminals breach our southern border. Let's save the Romeike Family! Call Congress!
Back in 2012 Mitt Romney made a big deal about his father’s record on civil rights. And rightly so. His father had an esteemed record on civil rights. Maybe Mitt should ask himself whether his father would want him to support voting rights, or support the tool of the Dixiecrats
I’ve said this for months:
There are maybe 50K total Arab-American votes that in a worst case Biden could lose in Michigan.
Biden won Michigan by 150K votes.
Before January 6th.
Before 91 felony charges.
Before Dobbs.
Why are people so wide-eyed about Conor Lamb’s “personally opposed to abortion but support legal right of women to have an abortion” position & framing? This has been a fairly standard framing—esp among Catholic Dems—for decades. Including some Emily’s List candidates!
I’m seeing a lot of news outlets saying Trump is going to a picket line.
If you’re a journalist, read this slowly:
Donald
Trump
Is
Not
Going
To
A
Picket
Line
Donald Trump is going to a Donald Trump rally staged in a factory. Reporting it as anything but that is hackery
NPR: Trump said this weekend the Trump Tower mtg was to get dirt on an opponent. He previously said it was about adoptions. “Is he changing his story?”
YES, YOU JACKASSES, HE IS, AND YOU JUST TOLD US HE IS, WHY ARE YOU RAISING DOUBTS ABOUT SOMETHING THATS UNAMBIGUOUS?
BREAKING / NBC News: In a statement U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman says "I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning."
He says he found out he was "stepping down" by reading it in a press release.
Good scoop by NYT to figure out troll sites attacking Dems are run by a Repub connected to Trump’s campaign
But it would have been nice if in in a gazillion word article they’d mentioned that what’s described likely violates numerous campaign finance laws
This country has not started answering questions like:
Are laws signed by an asset of a foreign adversary legitimate? Do we abrogate those laws?
What do we do about judges & other officials, appointed to long or even lifetime positions, by an asset of a foreign adversary?
Is anyone going to talk about one of the worst parts of the Amy Coney Barrett event? That she had her kids unmasked around a bunch of other people not wearing masks?
Sorry, you don’t get to trade on your supposedly great parenting when you risk your kids’ lives for a photo op
NEW: Several members of the Palestinian-American community refused to meet with Secretary of State Blinken in DC today. The rejection comes just one week after Arab & Muslim leaders declined to meet with Biden’s campaign in Michigan.
Key divide btwn pro-&-anti-Pelosi Dems: anti’s think Dems can still finesse things & vote w Repubs a lot & win in swing or conservative areas. Pelosi has understood for a while those days are gone, & her job is to sharpen the differences btwn the parties
Hey, I wonder if this widespread culture of sexual harassment in journalism had any effect on coverage of the first female major-party presidential nominee?
Anecdotal rather than scientific, but most of the Warren people I know loathe Bernie. They see her as doing the work but not getting the credit & him as a mediocre white guy who skates by without having to learn any details.
Guy in that NYT article, who lives in Hinsdale IL (median home value $765,000) that is so outraged by inflation that he won’t pay $9 for a burrito? Last April he happily paid $16 for a burrito
Why does the NYT continue to suck at this?
Roger Stone was never funny. He was as entertaining as watching a kitten be tortured. The NYC press treated him like he was a rascal. He wasn’t. He was a dangerous, cruel miscreant who arguably committed treason to put a narcissistic, monstrous Russian asset in the White House.
Biden called Kellyanne C’s bluff
This is really shrewd. Either Trump takes Biden’s call, which elevates Biden’s stature, or he doesn’t & he looks like a coward.
.
@JoeBiden
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@realDonaldTrump
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#COVID
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@KellyannePolls
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So I’ve been wondering why SC had mandatory evacuation along the entire coast, but NC, where Florence is expected to make landfall, hasn’t. I just learned in NC it’s decided by county governments. And it appears the people in charge of some of those counties are fucking morons.
If I was a top Bernie staffer, & it was 32 hours before polls open in the state in which a loss will be the death knell of bernie’s candidacy,
there’s nothing I would view more important than tweeting a witless dig at
@neeratanden
Weird how Max Blumenthal, Matt Taibbi, Jordan Chariton, & now Tara Reade all end up paying attorney fees out of their own pockets to the same Maryland-based former employee of Sputnik, a Russian propaganda operation.
If Biden wins two things you should expect on January 20th: Republicans will suddenly pretend to care about the debt, & Glenn Greenwald will suddenly pretend to care about drones.
This may—this will sound crazy, but hear me out—he may be angry bc he’s not used to criticism, which suggests the press has not held him to account for his nullifying obstruction since forever.
Have not seen McConnell this angry in public in some time - now on floor defending his decision to block election security bills last week when Ds tried to bring it up by UC
Army should quit wasting time, get rid of the Confederate name on one of the major military bases, rename it for recipient of the Medal of Honor & the Presidential Medal of Freedom, & true American hero Daniel Inouye.
Tulsi Gabbard has put her life on the line to defend this country. People can disagree on issues, but it is outrageous for anyone to suggest that Tulsi is a foreign asset.
“The US cares so little about Palestinian lives that they’re providing them the same nutritionally balanced & dense emergency rations they provide their own soldiers in war zones” isn’t a particularly coherent criticism.
It’s basically random calories to keep them from dying. This isn’t the aid that’s needed. And keeping Gazans barely alive so that your bombs can finish them off isn’t humanitarian. It’s evil.
If you’re under 33 years old you’ve never voted in a presidential election in which the Republican won the popular vote. If you’re between 33 and 49 years old you voted in at most one.
The anti-vax/COVID deniers are now polluting my mentions
And if you think disease isnt a major factor in a lot of wars, we’ll, you’re pretty fucking stupid.
It’s not Osama Siblan, his name is Osama Siblani, & while I was sometimes successful getting him to support my candidates, he’s a Republican. He wasn’t pro-Biden in 2020, so this is nothing new for him, it’s pretty much who he’s always been.
Osama Siblan, the Publisher of Arab American News: “I will never vote Biden again, if he stands on his head... We will not meet with anyone who represents the Biden or Kamala Harris campaign because they lied to us."
No joke. I choked up thinking about this guy w a stutter—so serious that even before he was POTUS his photo hung in offices of speech pathologists, bc his story is so inspiring—this guy w a stutter delivered this speech. It was like a QB w an injured arm winning the Super Bowl
Dems just passed a massive, massive, massive bill. There are working class families that will get over _twenty thousand dollars_. There’s nothing in the bill that’s not awesome. But there are people in my thread talking about Manchin
Jeez, people, take a fucking victory lap!
@MarzapRussell
@CeeEyes
When that happened it made me proud to have been a political professional/staffer. That was stellar staff work grounded in principle & kindness.
Oh go fuck yourself. It’s not a coronation. Nobody was prevented from running vs him. It’s that every Dem aspiring to be POTUS knew they’d lose bc Dem primary voters would stick w Biden
Go fuck that “coronation” bullshit, pull your head out of your ass, & learn about politics
Bernie getting so angry over that Bloomberg punch is a great example of one of Bernie’s greatest weaknesses: he’s thin-skinned and has never faced a negative campaign. And I’m not talking about debates, I’m talking about every ad, every every press story, everything.
Most deprived, sadistic official in the entire Federal Government? Consider the following:
Strip searched mother in front of her Dreamer son
Targeted parents dropping off kids at their school
1/
Looking forward to Marco Rubio, Lindsay Graham, Rand Paul, & Ted Cruz defend the guy who likely got help from Russia to defeat them for the Republican nomination.
The mendacity of these nihilistic miscreants isn’t surprising, but it is still breathtaking. Michigan had the best COVID numbers in the Midwest. Then the Repub lege got the Repub MI Supreme Ct to strip Whitmer of exec powers, they opened up everything, & of course COVID took over
Gov.
@GretchenWhitmer
's COVID-19 Response:
# 1 in worst COVID-19 infection rate
Top 10 in highest COVID-19 death rate
Top 10 in most days locked down
Top 10 in most businesses closed
Gov. Whitmer doesn't have a strategy. Michigan deserves better.
#FireWhitmer
Worth noting that Dean Heller flipped from being opposed to being in favor of ACA repeal because he was leaned on by Steve Wynn & Sheldon Adelson.
It’s cartoonishly evil people funding & dictating policy to the Republicans are like updated caricatures of Dickensian villains.
If Biden & Congressional Dems govern like they expect to lose their majorities in the midterms, so they ignore squawking by Repubs & the press & do everything they want done as quickly as possible, they’ll be more likely to hold their majorities in the midterms
JFC, on MSNBC Jonathan Allen just complained that you don’t see anyone crossing over party lines in their responses to the Trump indictment
WHY THE FUCK SHOULD DEMOCRATS BE EXPECTED TO DEFEND TRUMP??!?!?!!!?!!?!!!!?!?