🔥 EPIC! Mayor Zohran Mamdani brilliantly destroys a political rival for refusing to meet with Donald Trump.
He explicitly states he will absolutely meet the President if it means securing the release of a New Yorker unjustly detained by ICE. A massive leadership moment!
E se a gente fizesse uma ação marcando a Mariah e o Team pra **The Star** voltar pra setlist dos shows de Natal deste ano? Aí teríamos esse hino no Brasil! Topam essa aventura? The Star merece muito mais reconhecimento 🤧✨️
Before his big victory in Iowa last night, Paralympian Josh Turek showed CNN’s @jeffzeleny how he campaigned door-to-door by wheelchair to try to win every last vote in the Senate primary.
Kyle Kulinski: “Jake Tapper wrote a motherfucking book about Joe Biden and his cognitive decline and the massive cover-up. Well Jake, why don’t you get to work on your Trump book now because I guarantee you the cover-up that’s happening with him is way worse and way more severe and they’re covering more extreme stuff. His body is failing and his mind is failing on a regular basis”
Scott Bessent melts down when Rep. Boyle shreds him with facts of the Trump's "failed presidency... I'm citing the facts. Those are the facts you have a problem with."
Mariah Carey é a artista mais bem-sucedida da história, com recordes de #1 na Billboard (incluindo 19 no Hot 100), enorme impacto global em vendas físicas, digitais e streaming, e títulos como “Songbird Supreme” e “Queen of Christmas”. 🔗New York Times
This is what having courage, strength and integrity looks like friends. I’m in awe of the way @HunterBiden has faced his demons, taken accountability for his actions, and emerged from relentless public shaming with his dignity intact. Massive respect.🙌
Season 2 picks up two months after the kiss! No immediate resolution, no big fallout conversation.
"In fact, the roommates have effectively swept any discussion of that kiss under the rug." (via @TeenVogue)
Like before, I have a lot of thoughts about this latest Platner story. Feel free to yell at me about them, but here they are:
1/ This story is not a nothing burger, and I think the people saying that need to stop. I understand there are complicated feelings because one of the women coming forward is a Republican operative, but there are certainly more than enough stories out there that demonstrate that Graham Platner is not a particularly great human being and has treated women very poorly in his life—from the tattoo to the cheating on his wife, the Reddit comments, to this. There’s a lot that is adding up, and none of it’s great for him.
I don’t want our party to become desensitized to this stuff in the way the Republicans have.
2/ The Republican operatives and influencers chasing clout and clicks by talking about how bad this story was going to be have done Platner a tremendous favor. A lot of people were bracing for something far worse than what was in this story, and now, because the expectations don’t meet the reality, it creates a political situation where his campaign may find a way out of this.
That said, most of the undecided voters in the race in one of the latest polls were women, and you cannot imagine a story about his treatment of past girlfriends is going to help him there.
3/ I’m not sure that this changes much about the dynamic of the race. There is so much out there about Platner and his past. I can’t imagine anybody who was comfortable with the tattoo or the Reddit comments or the sexting or anything else is really gonna feel that differently about him.
And I’ll continue to remind people that the choice here is going to be between a very flawed Democrat with a very good economic message versus a complete and total failure of a politician in Susan Collins. She’s been in office since 1996 and has basically accomplished nothing for the people of Maine. That’s going to be the choice in this election. The people are ultimately going to decide that.
4/ I wish that people would simply be more honest about the reason they are defending guys like Platner and Paxton. We’ve all become so desensitized to this stuff, and a lot of Republicans are reflexively defending Ken Paxton because they want him to vote with Republicans and they want Republicans to control the Senate. Same with Platner on our side, with the added fact that a lot of people want to stick it to the establishment here. I wish people would just be honest about that.
5/ I’ll also say this as a practicing Catholic who is a very different person than I was 5 or 10 years ago: I believe people can change, grow, and learn from their mistakes, and I want to *believe* Graham Platner has done that, but who knows. I do know that the United States Senate is probably not the right place for someone to get a second chance like that.
That doesn’t mean I want Susan Collins to win—I think she’s been a tremendous failure and a pro-Trump hack who saved Brett Kavanaugh—but it does mean the vetting process for candidates has to be better.
More importantly, Democrats need to do a better job of building a bench of talented leaders in all 50 states who are prepared to step up and run for higher office when the opportunity arises.
That's it, love you guys.