Jason Karsh
@jkarsh
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Writer. Photographer. Liberal. Obama alum. Petter of dogs. Partaker of libations. Medium: @jkarsh | Instagram: _jkarsh
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Two of the most qualified women in the country ran for president against an unqualified, racist game show host who had a history of committing fraud and sexual abuse. And the country was basically split 50-50. That should tell us some things.
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Part of the problem with putting Republicans in office today is that you don’t know if the stupidity is genuine, performative, or both. But, outside of the racism and the cruelty, it is defining the party and killing our ability to govern.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) speaks against solar energy because “at night, it just doesn’t work.”
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There should be calls on JD Vance not just to step down from the ticket, but resign from office. And not just from Democrats.
Springfield, Ohio's Haitian community wakes up to smashed widows and acid thrown on their cars. MSNBC.
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Michelle really reminds you why Republicans hate her so much. Because at any moment, she can come off the bench, put 50 on the board, and bring down the house. 🙌🙌.
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Republicans: You will NEVER create a registry of gun owners on our watch, because freedom. Also Republicans:.
New Oklahoma bill could allow state to create database of women who had abortions
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Donald Trump is in Wisconsin and just forgot Paul Ryan's name. He called him Ron. Twice.
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It is hilarious to hear Dana Bash asking detailed policy questions and follow-ups to Harris when this is virtually never done with Republicans and absolutely would not happen with Trump. I mean, I support journalism and she should do this, the double standard is just interesting.
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Last night, as the prisoners hugged it out with their families, Biden went onto the plane to thank the crew and the diplomats who wanted to remain off-camera. That has now been turned into this. People’s brains are just broken.
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No, she’s not. Our political press is bored. Trump is off the rails, all but wandering a grocery store in a bathrobe swearing about immigrants and promising a new Third Reich. But they think covering him that way sounds biased, so it’s back to ‘But her policies!’ It’s insulting.
Vice President Kamala Harris is facing new urgency to define how her potential presidency would be different from that of President Joe Biden.
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RFK Jr. is going to delete all these old tweets and Politifact is gonna be like, “There’s no evidence he ever said this.”.
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Gen Xer here, relax, man. They left us $50 for pizza and we’ve got HBO, we’ll be fine.
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Louder. Louder. Louder. If Democrats do not hold the Senate, Harris will not be allowed to seat a SCOTUS judge. Republicans will also push back, slow roll, and try to deny her as many cabinet and Senate-confirmed positions as possible. #ElectionsMatter.
If this man doesn’t win, McConnell will not allow the Black lady to appoint any judges, even if Harris wins. McConnell does not believe in letting Black presidents exercise the full authority of their office. If you care about the courts at all, Tester must win.
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It’s slightly infuriating that we’re two weeks from Election Day and it take Mark Cuban to ask this question and start explaining what Trump’s plan to violently round up and deport 10M+ people will look like in practice.
Mark Cuban on CNBC: I sat in front of restaurant owners and asked them 'what would it be like if you got a knock on your door and there was someone from Stephen Miller's squad asking you for the immigration status of everyone who works for you?' That's not how you run a country.
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A lot of legacy media outlets should be absolutely embarrassed that it was Univision that beat them to a question on long Covid, medical debt and homelessness. It’s not surprising but Harris keeps doing so much more without them than with.
this is a very emotional town hall. Harris takes a question from a homeless woman whose life was wrecked by long covid about what she'll do for people like her
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TRUMP'S VP ANNOUNCEMENT WILL COME BY NEXT MONDAY - ABC.
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I know we’re still in the honeymoon phase, but the more Harris looks like a movement and the Trump campaign looks like a trainwreck, the more I hope our voter protection and legal teams are getting ready. Because voter purges and lawsuits after the results come in are on the way.
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Man, if this is how the AP is reporting Venezuela, it does not give you hope for November.
BREAKING: Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro is declared the winner in the presidential election amid opposition claims of irregularities.
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I feel like Elizabeth Warren is just going to keep grinding out plans to help the country while we keep being served listicles of the top 10 counters Beto has jumped on recently.
Housing is one of the biggest purchases most Americans will make in their lifetimes. My new Housing plan would address some of the most pressing issues that have kept homeownership out of reach for too many families. Here’s how we’re going to do it:
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Not very hot take: Julian Castro is running the best campaign that nobody wants to cover. He went to Skid Row in L.A. He went into the tunnels in Vegas. His plans are thought-out and comprehensive. And on and on.
Skid Row in Los Angeles has one of the highest concentrated populations of people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. Today I had the chance to return to the neighborhood to talk with people living there about what we can do to help.
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There is no way you will convince me the Republican party isn’t organizing for state sanctioned violence.
"She is some sick bastard, that Hillary Clinton. What a sick son of a bitch. The whole fucking party. A bunch of degenerates. Lowlives, Jew-haters, and lowlives. Every one of 'em. Every one of 'em."
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It is a banner day for Republicans getting dunked on on this app. 😂
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We need to call this the casual racism it is. There is no reason to intentionally mispronounce someone’s name and refuse to be corrected unless you believe them to be beneath you. As an elected official, this is wholly unacceptable and entirely representative of today’s GOP.
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Again, someone wrote this for him. Meaning, the people around him want to invoke a law used to round up legal citizens and put them in camps—this is the law used to detain Japanese citizens in WWII. This is a five alarm fire.
Trump: and I will invoke the aliens enemy act of 1798. This was put there in 1798. That is a long time ago, right? To target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil.
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The political press seems dug in. The trade-off they seem to want is, ‘Give us a brokered convention—or at least another nominee so we can cover the chaos or we’re going to ignore the Republican effort to end democracy all the way through November. Your choice.’.
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You will never convince me this wasn’t misogyny. Not with the way Trump constantly mocked and demeaned those who served.
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If there are going to be two runoff elections in GA with the fate of the Senate hanging in the balance, my advice is simple. Give Stacey Abrams every resource she needs and get out of her way.
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Stepping back for a second, I wonder why the political press shifted so hard, so fast into an anti-Biden campaign. It wasn’t the debate, they all knew he was 80 years old. The debate was the excuse, and I know it’s personal pettiness for the NYT, but what was it for the rest.
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What’s also funny about Stephanopoulos wasting 20 minutes with the president on one question is just today we had the sitting Lt Gov of NC saying he thinks some people need to be killed. Namely those who disagree with his politics. But I guess that’s not news so I get it.
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1. The "Southern White House' is not a thing. 2. The 'Winter White House' is not a thing. 3. Mar-a-Lago is a private Trump business.
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Hi, yes, I have a question. Thank you. Um, what the actual fuck?
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And there it is. The Heritage Foundation is telling you this election will “institutionalize Trumpism,” and he’s telling you that you won’t need to vote in four years because it will be “much different.” This election is about ending democracy in this country.
Trump: "You gotta get out and vote. Just this time. In four years you don't have to vote, ok? In four years don't vote, I don't care. But we'll have it all straightened out, so it'll be much different."
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When GA melts down just remember, Stacey Abrams wouldn’t have done this and Brian Kemp stole that election from her.
BREAKING: Gov. Kemp says business like gyms, barbers and hair stylists will be allowed to reopen Friday, April 24th. Theaters, restaurants to follow Monday, April 27.
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Jill Stein is on MSNBC right now whining about she was a legit candidate in 2016. It’s like watching Devin Nunes drown in the ball pit at a Chuck E. Cheese.
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The reason the polling hasn’t changed since the debate is because it’s the press, not the people, who became addicted to the drama under Trump. Normal people don’t like living with existential dread, they may not like Biden being old, but the choice is still an easy one.
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Just to confirm, this was the WH Chief of Staff giving orders to Fox News and the response was, “Yes sir.”.
Meadows responded: “Stress every vote matters. Get out and vote.”. “Yes sir,” Hannity replied. “On it. Any place in particular we need a push.”. “Pennsylvania. NC AZ,” Meadows wrote. “Nevada.”. Oh?. Lordy, I bet there are texts to the NV fraud crew. #WeMatter.
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I don’t care how you feel about the debate, but someone took a shot at a presidential candidate two days ago, today the RNC put a fellow fascist on the ticket, and easily 75% of this interview on asking Biden why he’s still running. This is journalistically embarrassing.
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Not for nothing, but Stacey Abrams wouldn’t have killed a bunch of Georgians to prove her fealty to Donald Trump.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp explicitly voids local mask mandates, as other states order face coverings to fight pandemic.
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Translation: I was very comfortable lying about Joe Biden to help me benefit personally and politically, but when my district needed his help he showed up and delivered—despite my behavior. I should be ashamed, but I’ll instead say I was impressed.
New: Anna Paulina Luna offered measured praise for Biden after meeting w/ him abt Hurricane Milton over the weekend. “I have…been very critical of [him] in the past, but I will say that him stepping in & taking control of the situation…was very honestly kind of shocking for me”.
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I think I speak for most Americans when I say that Memorial Day is a solemn occasion that we should honor by arresting Jared Kushner.
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WaPo’s Kathleen Parker: “[Walz] wouldn’t have passed the truth test in my father’s household, where lying was ranked as the highest punishable offense. I’m not saying that Walz lies, precisely.” My grandma woulda said calling someone a liar while saying you’re not is a lie.
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I’m sorry, it would get rid of the FDIC? First of all, WHAT? Second of all, do people over 60 know about this? Because literally both my parents are terrified of any non-FDIC institution.
Project 2025 will get rid of the FDIC so your bank accounts are no longer insured, while also deregulating banks so they can take risks that make them more likely to fail. How do you feel about the safety of your life savings being up to banks?.F**king VOTE.
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Good God. So this exchange just happened. Katy Tur: What's more important then the sanctity of our elections?. Jeff Flake: Well, I got what I wanted on tariffs.
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I honestly never thought I’d see someone run for office almost exclusively on a platform of openly and aggressively hating women, but here we are.
Unearthed video: JD Vance attacks women “who can't have kids” because they “passed the biological period when it was possible” as “miserable” people who “have no real value system” and struggle to find “meaning”
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Somewhere Ann Richards and Molly Ivins are smiling.
A Democratic nominee for president has decided to give a national speech defending abortion rights from _T_E_X_A_S.
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They told me Joe Biden should be going to bed earlier, but right now it’s midnight in DC and I’m watching him on the tarmac welcome home political prisoners in the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War.
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I’ve come back to this a couple of times today and one of the (many) instructive things here is that there is a level of violence—in this case, rape—that Republicans will not only tolerate, but embrace so long as it furthers their agenda.
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This seems like big news that won’t get much coverage. And it didn’t take Trump starting a land war with Mexico to do it. Who would have thought.
My statement on the arrest of alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel ⤵️
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Strong question by @chrislhayes: “Should we ask a coal miner to pay $3 million every weekend for Donald Trump to go golfing?” #inners.
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Once again, he is reading this. It’s not him ad-libbing lies about this community, this is planned incitement. From the same guy who enabled a violent insurrection that cost lives. In no world can this be acceptable.
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DeJoy’s Post Office yesterday: OK, all right, we won’t pick up the mail boxes. DeJoy’s post office today:.
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Every time you hear someone talking about vouchers and “school choice,” you should be thinking about headlines like this. Because vouchers are purely—PURELY—about taking public money and stuffing it into private pockets.
Florida public schools were defunded $2.5 BILLION this year to finance the purchase of lavish perks and private school tuition for wealthy families. Unaccountable school vouchers are an multi-billion dollar disaster and taxpayers are footing the bill.
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Andrea Mitchell says she's heard—from a single source—Trump officials are purging their phones b/c they're scared of getting subpoenaed.
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If you're asking if Nancy Pelosi is 'too toxic' but not why the GOP won't kick Steve King, an open white supremacist, out of their party, it's tough to take you seriously.
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I cannot stress this enough, Rick F'ing Snyder is still in office. #ElectionsMatter
BREAKING: The state of Michigan is done providing Flint residents with free bottled water #FlintWaterCrisis.
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We’ve reached the point where the Republican front runner for the nomination is rooting for terrorist attacks and an economic collapse while maintaining that he must have complete immunity to commit crimes. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is old so surely you can see why the race is close.
Trump, citing Hannity, claims it's "100 percent certain" there will be a terrorist attack in the US
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It’s almost as if Republicans are lying about supporting this now because they’re terrified of losing in November.
Nearly every Senate Republican voted against my legislation that would have required insurance to cover IVF.
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Also, have we just completed memory-holed the $10M bribe from Egypt? And are we not going to talk about the burner phones from MBS story?.
New Harris campaign release: As Trump Stumps in PA, Will He Keep Avoiding the Media?. Trump should be answering questions about:. 1. Why he is still spreading debunked lies about hurricane relief on the eve of Hurricane Milton's landfall?. 2. Why is he dodging a second debate on.
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How is a Senator from SC traveling to Nebraska 40+ before a presidential election to try to get them to change how they allot electoral votes not election interference?.
"To my friends in Nebraska, that one electoral vote could be the difference between Harris being president or not and she's a disaster for Nebraska and the world" -- Lindsey Graham on Meet the Press calls for Nebraska to change its election rules before November 5
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The twitter bio for @AltNatParkSer is so good. The #Resistance will be led by forest rangers. And women. And probably librarians. #Resist
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What Kagan is also doing here is ringing the alarm bell. Conservative groups are trying to send the same bigoted, racist, misogynist cases they’ve lost on before back up the ladder because they now have a politically partisan lock on SCOTUS.
In dissent, Justice Kagan writes that Alito has effectively transformed his earlier dissent in Cooper v. Harris into the law now, making it nearly impossible for federal courts to strike down racist gerrymanders.
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Imagine claiming that every veteran who served two decades in the military didn’t really serve, worse, really, that they had stolen valor if they did not see combat. The Republican party really sees our troops as losers and suckers, don’t they.
Vance attacking Walz: What’s bothers me about Tim Walz is this stolen valor garbage. Do not pretend to be something that you’re not.
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There’s no reason to ever book this person a second time on your network, let alone pay her $300k to rehab her image with gaslighting while you layoff actual journalists. @NBCNews just taking a blowtorch to their credibility.
McDaniel says she has no regrets about participating in Trump's pressure campaign to try to overturn his 2020 loss in Michigan
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People didn’t think he could do it in 100 days, his admin did it in 50.
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At this point, Donald Trump is literally going around the country and complaining that specific individuals didn’t help him facilitate his coup and prosecutors are still like, ‘Can we charge him? Boy, I mean, IDK how that would look.’.
Trump in a new statement says he won’t endorse Bill McSwain for Governor because he didn’t help overturn the election when he was top fed prosecutor in Philadelphia. telling line from Trump: . “It was there for the taking and he failed so badly.”
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‘We thought we could simply yell at the Vice President of the United States and she was supposed to just take it. Instead she made us look stupid, that’s not right!’.
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Once again, I am begging people to now flip the switch and give to Dems down ballot. Harris has fixed the money issue at the top of the ticket. They are good. Down ballot Dems are not, and giving money to them will go further.
Unfortunate: @amandalitman tells me on the pod that state-level candidates are not getting the donor money they need. People are "throwing money" at top of the ticket and Super PACs, she says, but "downballot candidates are still struggling for resources.".
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Nancy Pelosi has been filibustering on MSNBC for like ten minutes about what Dems have done and the hosts can’t get her off TV. 🙌😂.
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Update on how the racists are celebrating the confirmation of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.
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Bob Woodward held onto this for a f’ing book. Because of course. And this should also be a massive scandal and disqualifying for office. Of course, nothing matters if you’re a Republican so this may not even be news by Tuesday.
In June 2021, Six months into Biden’s term, Trump pressured Mo Brooks to call for a special election to reinstate Trump as president, according to Woodward’s new book. Brooks refused, leading to their split.
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It will forever be weird to me that only Democrats are required to say this because only Dems are expected to be responsible for governing the country. We never ask Republicans if they will work with Ds to improve the lives of all Americans—maybe because we know the answer.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’ll work with anyone—Republican or Democrat—to do what’s best for #KS03.
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It’s also the largest union in Nevada with roughly 60,000 members. This cycle, Culinary will put hundreds and hundreds of its members on the phones and on the doors to make sure Nevada stays blue for Harris/Walz and re-elects Sen. Jacky Rosen.
NEW: The Culinary Union in Nevada is endorsing VP Harris and Gov. Tim Walz. This is the largest Latino/Black/AAPI/ immigrant organization. In January, @VP met with union members in Las Vegas, her first trip for 2024.
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Something has to have happened early on between him and the Biden team because he’s behaved like a jilted ex this entire term.
"If he does not [step aside], it will be Biden’s age, and not Trump’s moral and ethical void, that will dominate the rest of this most important campaign and sully the president’s historic legacy," writes @davidaxelrod
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I’d missed this. But it’s interesting that a guy who, unless I’m mistaken, should be in jail is just out here saying this and everyone just shrugs like, ‘Welp, Republicans are just going to end democracy, purge the government, and replace people with fascist jackboots. Oh well.’.
Steve Bannon on Project 2025: We are going to purge the federal government of those who don’t support Trump. We will restructure the Justice Department to prosecute our political opponents. We are going to get rid of tons of personnel on the afternoon of January 20, 2025
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So we’re clear, when Trump says “He wouldn’t do anything,” what he means is that Kemp would not commit election fraud to help Trump win Georgia in 2020. That’s what Kemp wouldn’t do.
Trump is going all in on attacking Brian Kemp for not helping him steal the 2020 election: "Kemp is very bad for the Republican Party. He wouldn't do anything.". Trump complains about Kemp preventing Georgia Republicans from having a special session to "go over" the 2020 results
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In short, being a Democrat is worst than being a pedophile. This is where the Republican party is in 2017.
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Who wants to tell her about the kids her dad is putting in cages at the border and then adopting out to new parents?.
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It’s nuts that we never had a real conversation about what losing a million Americans in a year did to the labor market. Let alone what long covid is still doing. Instead it’s, ‘Nobody wants to work anymore!’ and ‘Hey, what if we let 13 year-olds work in the meat packing plant.’.
I really wish folks were understanding the relationship between the sudden slew of underage labor bills in various states, and economist’s reports on what Covid has done/is doing/is projected to do to the labor force. Covid is a labor issue.
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Is this both ageist and ableist?.
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All of this is true. That said, relying on @marceelias to have a 100% success rate in court to save democracy is not sustainable. We need to get HR1 and the John Lewis VRA passed and into law.
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You mean you thought Steve Bannon wouldn't use his position to get rich too? .
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Republicans are going to gut this country, strip it, and sell it off for parts if they take control of the government again. Only voting for Democrats at every level stops this in November. That’s our only out.
WATCH: In his time at the Christian Nationalist Courage Tour today, J.D. Vance called public schools "radical organizations" that teach socialism instead of reading, math, and other subjects required for graduation. Then he called for ending public funding of all education.
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We really don’t talk enough about how Republicans are now rooting for a terror attack. Like, openly. WTF.
"9/11 or worse is coming" -- it's a day that ends in y, which means Hannity is having a wet dream on air about the possibility of a terrorist attack between now and November
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I’m glad at least Lawrence is willing to say this. Because the behavior of reporters around Trump has been embarrassing for years.
Compare the tame (fearful?) behavior of reporters in Trump “press conference” to reporters behavior in Biden White House press briefings. Trump has been given special treatment by media from day one and still gets it.
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I’m not exactly shocked the American right was openly rooting for the fascists to take over France, but I am a little surprised they’re still like, ‘Guys, don’t worry, fascism can still win here.’
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I’ve never liked these and Harris has found a good way to shut them down, but if anyone in this world—and I mean anyone—gets a pass on these for a single night, it is HRC. No questions asked.
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Interesting to note, because Biden got infrastructure spending done for the first time in over a generation, and because PA was able to rebuild that bridge that collapsed in record time, Dems have the credibility to say things like this. Competence in government matters.
Biden on the Baltimore port: "I have directed my team to move heaven and earth to reopen the port and rebuild the bridge as soon as humanly possible . it is my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge."
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I absolutely love that Big Gretch mispronounced Mar-a-Lago. Whether it was intentional or not, it is going to send Trump through the roof. 😂.
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Tell me again how Democrats need to change their tone, stop making couch jokes, etc. And explain it to me real slow.
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There is, and I cannot stress this enough, a zero percent chance that the 900 page plan—which is the culmination of the conservative project to end the administrative state and that will be a Trump admin’s governing bible—simply gets thrown away. No. Chance.
NEWS: Project 2025 director Paul Dans has stepped down at Heritage Foundation after pressure from Trump campaign leadership, ongoing power rift over staffing control for potential second Trump admin, per internal email. This suggests Project 2025 will likely shut down. Story TK.
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Meghan McCain: ‘You should go on Fox News.'. Elizabeth Warren: ‘The TV outlet that promotes white nationalism? Yeah, they don’t get to use me to make money. So, I’ll pass, thanx.'.
"I’m just not going to help the Fox News executives raise money off my name.”. Sen. @ewarren on why she declined an invitation for a Fox News town hall: “I’ll go anywhere in the country — I want to talk to people — and find as many ways as I can."
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