David Letterman to Jeffrey Goldberg on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension: “You can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian—a criminal—administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.” #TAF25
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
The reenactment of the ride of Paul Revere commenced last night, on the anniversary of the midnight ride 250 years ago on April 18, 1775, to alert American colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Kidnapping an activist and jailing him in the middle of the night is a brazen act of authoritarianism.
Punishing dissent by revoking legal status is a dangerous precedent to set.
PolitiFact has fact-checked Donald Trump 1,078 times since 2011. About 77% of his claims have landed on our rating scale’s bottom half: Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire! Read all of our Trump fact-checks here. https://t.co/rXdKWPjP1Z
This guy is a leech on the public. No matter how many billions he gets in tax cuts and government contracts, it will never be enough for him.
Now he’s going after the elderly, the disabled, and orphaned children so he can pocket it in tax cuts for himself.
It’s disgusting.
Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
"I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath."
Marc Elias responds to Elon Musk's recent criticism of him. Read Marc's full letter to Musk below.
https://t.co/fq6xJhyAap
.@JDVance -If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.
Just gotta repeat it:
They have not found a single dollar of fraud. They are just calling spending they don’t like “fraud,” and violating the Constitution to impound it.
If there is one clip EVERY AMERICAN should watch today it is this piece from the New York Times.
Please bookmark it because in months to come it will become more and more relevant.