Man with an honorary doctorate tells a woman who earned her doctorate (along with two masters degrees, and a bachelor’s degree) that she shouldn’t be called “Dr.”
What is this misogynistic crap you are publishing
@WSJopinion
?
Some thoughts on the stuff about
@JoyAnnReid
. I don’t know all the details nor ins and outs of what people are claiming but I do know she is anything but homophobic or bigoted. Long thread warning...
🧵 As noted, Mike Pence’s brother is on the committee and has been part of the meetings.
The brother of Donald Trump’s Vice President, leading sycophant, and someone who played a key role in the scandal is in the room.
This Republican talking point is so ridiculous.
Trump - who is against forgiving even $10,000 in student loan debt for working families - got $287 million in his own debt forgiven.
Tell me again how the economy isn’t rigged to benefit the wealthy.
Breaking: New NYT tax report.
Trump's federal income tax records show for the first time that, since 2010, Deutsche Bank and other lenders have forgiven about $287 million in debt that Trump failed to repay.
By the way - can we pause for a second to give props to the
@MiamiHerald
team. They have been cranking out such good journalism on so many fronts. Here is today's example.
@MichaelCBender
@tparti
They are claiming it was an official event - but saying that the campaign needs to respond?
Seems like by directing you all to the campaign, they are contradicting their spin about the Hatch Act.
Hearing
@FlaDems
Chair
@NikkiFried
finally ushered through historic reforms on how the party is governed, ending the weighted vote system that prevented the party from doing the things necessary to win for so long.
While it is VERY arcane, it is a huge and necessary reform.
One of the most under-told stories of the '22 cycle.
Republicans for two years said that attacking public schools was their key to winning suburban voters. Their culture war attacks failed, as parents and voters supported candidates running to strengthen public schools.
I am old enough to remember when Republicans were just fine with protesting outside of people's homes.
Like here when the Republican Party of Florida sent anti-choice protestors to protest outside my parents' house when they hosted an event for
@AnnaForFlorida
.
@NikkiFried
Ron DeSantis’s politicization of public schools is driving passionate and inspiring educators out of the classroom, taking away opportunities from Florida’s students to learn.
The disrespect of educators has to stop.
Running for president requires enjoying interacting with people.
Ron DeSantis hates interacting with people.
The problem with the DeSantis campaign is Ron DeSantis.
Scoop — The Federal Bureau of Investigation
@FBI
today executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, two sources confirm to
@Fla_Pol
.
"They just left," one source said.
Not sure what the search warrant was about.
TBH, Im not a strong enough reporter to hunt this down, but its real.
❤️GARTH BROOKS: “Diversity. Inclusiveness. That’s me. That’s always been me… diversity is the answer to our problems. If you come to our bar, come in with love.”
@garthbrooks
addresses the unhinged backlash to his NASHVILLE bar carrying Bud Light. This is leadership.
The
@Disney
v.
@RonDeSantis
court scheduling briefing is in. Disney asks for a July 2024 court date. DeSantis defendants ask for an August 2025 - post-election - court date.
The GOP claimed Barack Obama wanted to kill grandma with Obamacare.
10 years later (to the day since the ACA was signed into law), Republicans are going on national TV to literally proposing killing grandparents here.
👇👇👇👇👇
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) was just on Fox saying he agrees with Trump. He cast it as an opportunity for seniors to sacrifice in order to keep the country intact for their grandchildren. “Let's get back to living... And those of us that are 70+, we'll take care of ourselves.”
After showing the world how weak Ron DeSantis is last night,
@CharlieCrist
is calling for more debates.
Surely Ron “I never backs down from a fight (in my campaign videos)” DeSantis will accept, right?
UNF poll: 58% of Jacksonville voters surveyed oppose the RNC convention coming to town, 71% said they were concerned the coronavirus would spread due to the convention, 65% said they worried about “social unrest” & Biden leads Trump by 7 points there
More evidence that Ron DeSantis’s operation isn’t ready for primetime.
His official office and campaign are saying totally opposite things about how Mickey Mouse got the best of him.
Fun Fact: One of the most effective messages in the Virginia races was:
Don't make Virginia into Florida.
Was used by candidates across the commonwealth up and down the ballot.
OMG. This this as gross as it is nuts.
Ron DeSantis just stands by - and later his campaign sidesteps a question about - his supporter calling on bringing lynching back in Florida.
There is no context that makes this ok. It is as racist as it is wrong.
So when I read people claiming you are homophobic or bigoted – it honestly makes me angry – because the
@JoyAnnReid
I know is far from that. The Joy Ann Reid I know helped me find my voice to fight for equality because it is the right thing to do.
.
@VP
& her OVP team deserve enormous credit & respect for standing up for Florida’s educators’ and students’ freedom to learn and teach the honest and full history of the Sunshine State and nation.
Can’t imagine the logistics around making this trip happen in less than 36 hours.
In place of facts, extremists in Florida want to erase our full history and censor our truths.
We will not stand for it.
I am on my way to Jacksonville to fight back.
Really hope someone writes about the symbolic meaning of
@VP
delivering this speech at Ritz Theater & Museum in Jacksonville.
The Ritz is an iconic piece of Black history in Florida.
From TB Times .... Hillsborough schools cut back on Shakespeare, citing new Florida rules "There's some raunchiness in Shakespeare," a reading teacher told the news org.
I’m old enough to remember when
@steveschale
and
@TheRickWilson
talking wasn’t newsworthy.
But glad to see that our friends on the IE side of the wall are strategizing together on how to be most effective in their work.
One of the lead strategists for the super PAC that helped lift Biden during the Democratic primaries is talking strategy with the Lincoln Project.
From
@aterkel
and
@svdate
‘s story on the Biden campaign’s relationship with Never-Trumpers:
NEW: Joe Benarroch, who joined Twitter with CEO Linda Yaccarino and seems to be functioning as a head of comms, sent his first company-wide email urging employees not to leak. He asked tweeps to report colleagues who are suspected of sharing confidential info. 1/
Wow. Frederica Wilson not only knew the family, Sgt. La David Johnson in 2010 graduated from her 5000 Role Models of Excellence program, which helps at-risk black youth
Thank you
@BarackObama
for the building the longest period of economic expansion and job growth in American history, turning around an economy in free fall and delivering for the American people.
After getting approximately 9,673,864 texts and emails from the DeSantis campaign about their donor wall, I just noticed they are writing the names using a dry erase marker.
They worried a sharpie is too permanent given how his campaign is going?
Later today the Senate will pass a bill to end the government
#shutdown
that the House intends to pass & the President will sign. Everyone has committed to moving quickly to make sure impacted federal workers receive their backpay quickly.
@ElectProject
Yup.
The current mayor was the Republican Party of Florida chairman before becoming mayor.
The GOP had a super majority on the city council.
This is huge.
Polling shows book bans are toxic with general election voters. It is political malpractice for DeSantis to continue leaning into them.
And yet, that is what he keeps doing in his quest to get Fox News hits and out-Trump Trump.
Insane: Under Ron DeSantis's book crackdown, 20 books by Jodi Picoult just got banned at one county's schools.
One of them is "The Storyteller," about the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor.
"Banning 'The Storyteller' is shocking," Picoult tells us:
After his Lt. Gov. caused a scandal by calling for sending Cuban refugees to Delaware, Ron DeSantis is sending Venezuelan refugees fleeing the Maduro regime to Massachusetts.
Listen: 911 tape released in criminal investigation of Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler. “She told me she was raped yesterday and she’s scared to leave her house.” - Florida Center for Government Accountability
@jameshohmann
I care way more about the actions of Senators than what they wear.
Their outfits don’t impact my life, but what they do and how they vote does.
Know there are many that want to cast aspersions at Florida - but hard not to share the joy these Floridians celebrating
@JoeBiden
and
@KamalaHarris
tonight right now.
Must read:
"Declaring that teachers can discuss these topics impartially will do nothing to mitigate the chilling effect these laws are having, because this is, after all, what they’re designed to do in the first place."
Good question from James Grossman, head of the American Historical Association, about Tennessee's law:
“Can I teach that in Tennessee for over a hundred years the textbooks said one race is superior to another?”
Read my interview with Grossman below. 6/
.
@Annette_Taddeo
is right. Ron DeSantis is using the Venezuelan refugees fleeing the oppressive Maduro dictatorship as pawns in his political games.
Sad that so many politicians like
@marcorubio
&
@MaElviraSalazar
refuse to stand up to DeSantis and for those seeking freedom.
"Make America Florida" is the worst campaign slogan I have ever heard.
This proves, there is no one in the DeSantis orbit that can tell the DeSanti anything but "yes."
I believe
@JoyAnnReid
just called
@fladems
Chair
@NikkiFried
the "Best [chair] they've had in a while," after pointing out the role Florida Democrats played in pressuring Ron DeSantis to speak out about Trump.
👏👏👏
Last week, I said it was nice that
@FlaDems
finally has a voice again after the last few years.
Here we see it working.
@NikkiFried
and her team deserve credit for this effort to hold DeSantis accountable.
Hey
@ChrisHartline
- your date line needs a correction. It should be “On a luxury yacht off Italy”
But even the “Washington D.C.” is interesting for a Senator from Florida on Florida’s primary night during the August recess…
Some reporters are trying too hard tonight...
Standing up against political violence isn't political. Telling all Americans to "vote" isn't partisan. Warning about the future of our democracy isn't campaigning.
It is what presidents have done for generations.
It is American.
Such a smart piece.
Michigan Dems are showing how to counter the GOP with a smart, inclusive, pro-working family agenda.
For all the attention that Florida and other GOP run states are getting, MI should get more.
Don't overlook this, it's a big deal: Michigan Dems are passing pro-labor *and* pro-LGBTQ/abortion bills. They're explicitly casting this as a pro-worker agenda, economically *and* culturally. This is the blue state answer to red state culture war madness:
And, after
@NikkiFried
came in and helped reestablish the strong voice of
@FlaDems
over the past few weeks.
Now Nikki successfully ushered through this major reform of the party.
Glad to see her off to such a great start in rebuilding the party from the ground up.
DeSantis has gone from 39% to 27%. The more people get to know DeSantis, the more they dislike him.
And these numbers explain his erratic shift in strategy, from no commenting Trump to now responding.
He is failing.
Monmouth shows Trump continuing to gain in the presidential primary, with Trump up 41-27.
This is longest-long-term trend from a high-quality poll in the race. Since December, Trump has gained 15 points while DeSantis has lost 12 points=
@jmartNYT
Respectfully, aren't the only people who care about this Democratic bedwetters, the Trump campaign comms team, and maybe a few opinion columnists?
Pretty much everyone else agrees Biden is doing the right thing, no?
@ThePlumLineGS
Correct. Winning PA, MI, & WI was literally the plan.
NE2, AZ, GA, NC, & FL were the backup plans. 3 of which flipped, the other 2 forced the Trump Campaign to spend their time and money defending so they didn't have the time & resources to expand their efforts in PA, MI, & WI.
Love seeing
@fladems
take the fight to Ron DeSantis, working to hold him accountable as he continues to put his own personal ambitions above doing what is right for the people of Florida.
I just filed a state ethics complaint against
@GovRonDeSantis
for accepting prohibited gifts from his political committee, including:
- $235k Four Seasons* Palm Beach
- $142k Four Seasons* Miami
- $11k Dirty French Steakhouse
*not the Total Landscaping kind
@PeterSchorschFL
@RonDeSantis
The campaign is long and so much can happen.
But for this to be true, there would have to be the self
-awareness that DeSantis has never shown.
This is nuts: Hundreds of books have now been pulled from schools across Iowa, many due to a new law targeting depictions of "sex acts." They include:
1984
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse-Five
Ulysses
Critics of these laws have been vindicated. Free link:
Impressive comms from
@FlaDems
on the insurance crisis facing Florida.
Pulling off the rapid response like they did today on a complex policy issue takes a ton of work to get right.
Doing it on the heels of the successful Leadership Blue dinner makes it harder.
Props to them.
“It’s a perfect storm that’s been going on for years,”
@FlaDems
Chair
@NikkiFried
said.
“We need to ensure we’re centering customers in our policy solutions and we’re not allowing industry to dictate the direction,” - Rep.
@AnnaForFlorida
.
Donald Trump’s people are telling
@ChrisMZiegler
to stay.
So unless Trump himself says otherwise, we should take this as Donald Trump telling Ziegler to say on as RPOF Chair.
Where did the talk of a potential payout to the Florida GOP chair being investigated for rape start?
How do Steve Bannon and Corey Lewandowski fit into this evolving sex scandal?
Find out 👇
.
@NikkiFried
is off to a very strong start as
@FlaDems
Chair as she focuses on restoring the party's voice in holding Ron DeSantis and Republicans accountable, while also working to rebuild the party from the ground up.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nikki Fried is on a mission to “rebrand” the Florida Democratic Party, and fashion it into a louder, more aggressive and more engaged political powerhouse — one that is tapping all avenues to communicate with voters.
From
@MelLeonor_
:
If there was ever a message that would play well in Florida, this is it.
Help us all go to bed early on election night... Vote
@JoeBiden
to make that a reality.
Have to give credit where it is due.
No reporter or columnist has correctly focused as much on the GOP overreach on culture wars, how out of the mainstream the right wings attacks on education has been, and how these issues have failed at the ballot box than
@ThePlumLineGS
.
Some Democrats still appear skittish about the "culture wars." But these arguments are winnable. Dems should speak more directly to the people who are sticking their necks out and resisting outbreaks of hysteria in deep red places:
A lot still to count. But
@JoeBiden
seems poised to have one of the best midterms elections for a first-term president since Bush's post-9/11, in a far less favorable environment
I first met Joy in 2008, shortly after I started as the spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party. As someone who used to read her blog religiously, this whole thing is nuts.
A Wisconsin school board has banned the song “Rainbowland” by Dolly Parton & Miley Cyrus from a concert because they say the lyrics are “controversial.” The song says, “Wouldn’t it be nice to live in paradise... where we're free to be exactly who we are.”
I know DeSantis is looking to stoke outrage - in an effort to change the subject from how he was owned by Mickey Mouse - BUT this comparison is disgusting.
Nazis killed 12 million people - including 6 million Jews - while censoring history, banning books, & attacking education.
In other remarks on American history in Michigan today,
@GovRonDeSantis
likens Republicans in Florida fighting Democrats to Americans fighting Russian communists and Nazis. Hinting at his yet-to-be-announced presidential campaign, he ends with: "I've only begun to fight."