A collection of 46 posts
Steve Peoples for the Associated Press: Kamala Harris smashes fundraising record with stunning $81 million haul over 24 hours Kamala Harris is smashing fundraising records as the Democratic Party’s donors — big and small — open their wallets for the vice president in the immediate aftermath of President Joe Biden’s
The Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Inquirer: To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race The debate served as a reminder of what another four years of Trump would look like. More lies, grievance, narcissism, and hate. Supporters say they like Trump because he says whatever he thinks.
David Remnick: Donald Trump Is Guilty in His New York Hush-Money Trial | the New Yorker The conviction on these felony charges is only the most recent stain on the legal history of the former President. Last year, in a civil trial, another New York jury found Trump liable for sexual
Amanda Marcotte: Trump Is Degenerating Before Our Eyes — MAGA Voters Don't Notice or Don't Care Around lunchtime on Monday, all three cable news networks cut to Trump awkwardly accepting the Supreme Court nullifying the 14th Amendment on his behalf. After a few semi-coherent, if gross, remarks
John Gruber: Trump’s Dark Plans for a Second Term Trump and his supporters remain the biggest threat to America, and to the concept of liberal democracy itself, the world has ever seen. These are plans for a dictatorship, pure and simple. Absolutely true, and something we need to remember
Heatmap News: Is There Really a Working Class Backlash to Biden’s Climate Law? when voters are asked about the individual provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, including EV subsidies, tax incentives to install solar panels and industry subsidies for wind and solar power generation, they support them by double-digit
Eric Tucker: Trump Allies Cite Clinton Email Probe to Attack Classified Records Case. There Are Big Differences Beyond just the hoarding of documents — in locations including a bathroom, ballroom, shower and his bedroom — the Justice Department says Trump showed highly sensitive material to visitors without security clearances and obstructed the
Jacob Ogles: Bloggers Having to Register With the State if They Want to Criticize the State. The bill then requires reporting with the state “if a blogger posts to a blog about an elected state officer and receives, or will receive, compensation for that post.” Registration is required within five
Parker Molloy: This Fox News Segment Perfectly Illustrates How Off-the-Rails the Right-Wing Anti-Trans Attacks Have Become TODD PIRO, Co-Host: Joe, I wanna get your thoughts on this. There is a bizarre new Batman storyline that has the Joker becoming pregnant and giving birth. This is a statement you literally could
Nick Heer: Republicans Ignore Door Opened for Them and Sue Google Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has continued to send out emails promising subscribers the “GOLDEN TRUMP” award if they donate money within the hour. They really sent that email. And they also sent one with the subject line “READ
Beth Mole: That Florida “analysis” on COVID vaccines is-you guessed it-total garbage Experts roundly dubbed the analysis "utter rubbish," "extremely misleading," and "comically bad." Some called the analysis method "terrible," and one epidemiologist called it "the absolute most batshit study design
Jason DeParle: Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty In 1993, safety net programs cut child poverty by 9 percent from what it would have been absent the aid. By 2019, those programs had cut child poverty by 44 percent, and the number of children they removed from
Li Zhoh: Republicans have a nonsensical argument against the same-sex marriage bill Many Senate Republicans, rather than confront the substance of new legislation that would provide federal protections for same-sex marriage, are instead arguing that a vote on the bill is unnecessary. By their reasoning, lawmakers don’t need to
From the press release announcing the proposed act: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI), Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) today announced the introduction of the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the
A new poll out this week shows 64% of those who plan on voting in the Democratic primary in 2024 would prefer someone other than Joe Biden to be on the ticket. I find these polls utterly fascinating. Here's some data on a theoretical Biden/Trump rematch in