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Let me tell you a story, a very personal story, about the importance and generational impact of what @JDVance cavalierly dismisses here as "progressive wokeness" in the US military. It stars my father, born and raised deep in West Virginia coal country.
What I find so enraging about the Joint Chiefs’s pandering on progressive wokeness is that they know damn well the geography and politics of who dies in American wars. The conservative Americans you trash are disproportionately bleeding for this country.
The first ten days of Trump's transition already make it the worst presidency since Woodrow Wilson's. The man is spectacularly dangerous.
What we're witnessing in these very early days of Trump II is a continuation of the insurrection. It is now an insurrection from within, a dismantling of the constitutional order and legal order by those nominally elected to defend it, but actually elected to dismantle it.
Every so often I flash back to those days in early 2017, when Donald Trump denied he had ever demanded personal loyalty from Jim Comey and then added, "... but it would be alright if I did."
To be fair, Trump didn't name an entire horse to be his AG. He only named a horse's ass.
People are comparing Trump picking Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz to Caligula wanting to make his horse a consul, but that's a bit unfair. After all, Caligula's horse was not an actual supporter of the Parthian Empire.
With some people -- and some issues -- all the evidence in the world is worth nothing. Surely we have learned that much, right?
John Oliver explains how Democrats can respond to the trans issue. All they need to do is tell people there's no evidence that trans girls are at an unfair advantage or pose a threat to safety in athletic competition.
This story needs to go super viral. Imagine what Republicans would do if a state superintendent demanded that students watch them pray for Kamala Harris.
***NEW*** Okla. State Supt. Ryan Walters sent school leaders across the state this email today, requiring them to play students this video of Walters discussing "woke teachers unions," before asking them to join him as he prays for President-Elect Trump and others. @kfor
How many have said so publicly? Zero?
The WSJ reports this morning that there are 30 No votes on Matt Gaetz in the Senate GOP, so I don't think this is going to be a problem.
If I'm Brian Kemp, I'm thinking 2026, two years into this Trump II madness, would be a risky time to run for Senate as a Republican, while 2028 sets up nicely for a presidential run as a successful governor/DC outsider. ajc.com/politics/donal…
VANDY HUSTLER: “Despite efforts to promote diversity Vanderbilt U saw a 21% decrease in the proportion of students of color enrolled in its first-year class compared to last year…” The SCOTUS affirmative action ban having the intended results. vanderbilthustler.com/2024/11/11/fir…
I think it's important that we start to get the nomenclature right. Trump and MAGA are not "conservative." "Conservative" is a dead word from the before time that disguises their true purpose. They are radical. They are right-wing radicals.
This is simple: Trump is trying to foment a constitutional crisis pitting the president against Congress and the courts. He wants to nuke the whole constitutional system. @davidfrum @BillKristol @monacharen @HeathMayo @eastmond_andrew @amandacarpenter @WalshFreedom @Liz_Cheney
I don't want conservative judges at conservative functions. I don't want liberal judges at liberal functions. If you don't want the courts to appear political, quit acting political.
At the Federalist Society’s annual Scalia Memorial Dinner, Justice Neil Gorsuch is speaking with former Justice Stephen Breyer. Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Amy Coney Barrett are here, too.
What links RFK, a stereotypical Hollywood celebrity liberal fixated on far-out, conspiratorial ideas about health & science, with the obese, exercise-averse, burger-fries-and ketchup-eating Trump? They thirst for the spotlight, and recognize each other as a means to grab it.
The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.
Fox News contributor Ben Domenech weighs in on Matt Gaetz and commits a brutal murder.
The countdown of Trump's next four years in office doesn't even begin for another two months.
Don't dismiss Gaetz, Gabbard, Hegseth as unserious. They may not be serious about things the rest of us see as serious, but they're deadly serious about the things they care about. Things like power and hurting their enemies, and using power to hurt their enemies.
One thing about Matt Gaetz I think is misunderstood: He’s a smart tactical thinker with real goals. People treating him as a clown pick rather than a power move with lots of baggage are wrong on that part. If he becomes AG, he won’t just immediately implode, he’ll have plans.
I'm so old, I remember Republicans gravely lecturing us about the dangers of situational ethics.
Have they announced the nomination of Martin Shkreli as head of the SEC yet? Or is that tomorrow?
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