Adam Shapiro

Family guy, foodie-wanna-be, sports freak, paleo-lite, living 2 learn. Yes, a history major and former lawyer.

[Adam Shapiro @AdamShap]

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[Alex גדעון בן װעלװל @JewishWonk]

A pro-Israel Jewish Democrat won a statewide race in Michigan.

Simplistic narratives about Harris being too pro-Israel, being pushed by leftists all over this site, will conveniently overlook this race.

[Annie Waldman @AnnieWaldman]

Calgary stopped adding fluoride to its water in 2011.

What happened?

"The need for intravenous antibiotic therapy by children to avoid death by infection rose 700% at the Alberta Children’s Hospital." - Dr. James Dickinson @ University of Calgary

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[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Men that care about the women in their lives #Vote for Kamala Harris 💪

[Adam Shapiro @AdamShap]

@steveschale I admire your positivity. I'm having a hard time squaring "I believe in my heart that America's best days are ahead" with a Trump win.

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

Absolutely brutal split screen for Trump tonight on the CBS Evening News, with Harris barnstorming the blue wall states while Trump is “pushing false claims” after a weekend engaging in “lewd locker room talk” and hosting a “campaign stunt.” https://t.co/YutLcMklDk

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Fmr. GOP Sen. Jeff Flake:

“I’m voting for Kamala Harris not in spite of being a Republican or a conservative, but because I’m a conservative. Conservatives first and foremost believe in the rule of law. And to have a former president who lost a free and fair election then attempted to overturn that election-How can any conservative support such a person?”

[Danny Miller @DanielMillerEsq]

This man’s basic questions and subsequent facial reactions somehow told a story about Trump that the media has failed to tell in the last 9 years. Remarkable.

[Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin @JRubinBlogger]

For starters, Trump has consistently evidenced racism throughout his career. He might have flipped on abortion, but racial animus seems baked into his psyche. Whether being sued for refusing to rent to African Americans, demonizing the innocent Central Park Five, promoting the “birther” conspiracy theory to delegitimize the first Black president, announcing his entry into politics by slandering immigrants as murderers and thugs, refusing to denounce white nationalists at a debate in 2016, referring to non-White-majority countries as “s---holes” or preemptively blaming Jews for his defeat, Trump has never departed from a steady stream of racism, xenophobia and antisemitism. His exaggeration about crime in big cities is a racial dog whistle; his phony “immigrant crime wave” is a racial bullhorn. This is who he is.
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[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I can’t believe you posted a link to

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People with no intention of attending the rally might end up filling out the form and that would just be so wrong.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Youngkin: I don’t think Trump was referring to sending the military after Americans

Tapper: I’m literally reading his quotes to you. He’s literally talking about sending the military after Democrats

Youngkin: I don’t believe that

Tapper: I just read the quote!

[Sharon Yang @sharonjqyang]

NEW: VP Harris to @rolandsmartin this AM on Trump:

"His staff won't let him do a 60 Minutes interview...he will not debate me again...he won't put out his medical records...Why is his staff doing that? And it may be because they think he's just not ready. And unfit & unstable."

[Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera]

Sore Loser
With three weeks to go until Election Day, Donald J. Trump stands a reasonable chance of becoming the 47th President of the United States. Despite assassination attempts, impeachments, special counsels, felony convictions and hundreds of millions in civil penalties, most polls show his race against V.P. Kamala Harris is too close to call.
The first time he ran for president in 2016, he was coming off the last season of Celebrity Apprentice. I had a front row seat as a finalist on that final season and marveled at his audacity with his checkered past to seek the highest office in the land. Then, in the blink of an eye, he went from novice to formidable challenger to victorious over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
As President he was a loyal friend, who allowed regular access. My resulting coverage gave him the benefit of most doubts. His presidency was underrated. Throughout his first big scandal in office, the 2017-2019 Mueller Investigation into allegations Trump conspired with Russia to undermine our political process, I stuck with him, deeply suspicious of constant efforts to undermine his Administration.
The last time President Trump and I spoke was Friday, November 13, 2020, when he called me at home. It was ten days after his narrow lost to Joe Biden. He was calling to get my take on the controversies surrounding the election, which appeared to have been decided by a handful of votes in several states. I asked him what he would do if the vote count remained against him. As I reported on Fox News that same morning, Friday the 13th, he told me he was a reasonable man and would do the right thing if that time came.
It never did. Instead, President Trump embarked on an increasingly menacing campaign to discredit the 2020 election. With a motley supporting cast of increasingly fringe characters, he careened from one bizarre theory to the next, offering no meaningful proof, that he had been robbed by the Democrats.
None exists. If you are a Republican, Donald Trump has made a liar of you. He has coaxed and intimidated tens of millions into pretending he was reelected in 2020, and that the election was stolen.
In furtherance of that Big Lie, on January 6, 2021, Trump incited and unleashed the violent attack on the center of democracy, the U.S. Capitol for which he was Impeached. As his followers trashed that sacred space, he was on the phone urging Vice President Mike Pence essentially to overturn the will of the American people. Pence refused to put Trump ahead of the Constitution. Trump stabbed the Constitution in the back.
Maybe you are inclined to vote for the former president anyway, because he says he will cut your taxes or build the border wall or pull out of NATO or put tariffs on China. However, you justify voting for Trump, adopting his big lie about the stolen election makes you a liar.
Better to admit he lost last time but that you don’t care because a Harris presidency would be a disaster, or you admire his defiance in the face of an assassin’s bullet. Just don’t pretend that he got robbed in 2020. That is a lie. Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution. That is why I am voting for Kamala Harris to be our 47th President.

[Donovan Reynolds @donovanreyno1ds]

Who Should You Vote For in 2024?

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[Paul Krugman @paulkrugman]

WSJ survey of economists. This is as close to unanimity as the profession gets

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

This is how Black people got killed in the Jim Crow era. Something "bad" happened to a white person, and a lynch mob rushed out to string up a Black person. It's how Emmett Till got lynched, how the Central Park Five got framed, and how Haitian immigrants are being targeted.

[Bruce Bartlett @BruceBartlett]

Let's not forget that Trump wanted to lynch the Central Park Five without a trial. They were later found to be innocent. https://t.co/QHABiy0nKl

[Adam Shapiro @AdamShap]

@jkarl26 - terrific Opinion Today newsletter "Taylor Swift is so over Trump’s antics". Is there a public shareable web version?

[Julia Hamelburg @juliahamelburg]

Donald Trump could literally never.

WATCH Kamala Harris steps out of debate prep in Pittsburgh to inspire the next generation, chat with voters, thank a teacher, and be a normal, wholesome person

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Fuck that.

It’s blatant antisemitic hate speech calling for the elimination of Israel from the map.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Democratic Convention plays montage of Kamala Harris' best Senate hearing moments 🔥🔥🔥