Michael Winship

Schumann Sr Writing Fellow, @CommonDreams. Formerly at President, Writers Guild of America, East, 2007-2017, 2021-23.

[Michael Winship @MichaelWinship]

@RpsAgainstTrump @LarrySabato Clinically delusional and fatally dangerous to us all

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

It’s D-Day. Trump’s first post on Truth Social is a bizarre AI video about how much people love Donald Trump. Not a word about the heroes who stormed the beaches of Normandy.

That tells you everything you need to know about Trump.

[Michael Winship @MichaelWinship]

@MollyJongFast God willing, 24 years June 27.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

If you have sometime this weekend, watch my latest explainer on what the Supreme Court is doing to democracy and voting rights and what to watch for this month as the biggest, most important opinions get released.

Then share it with a friend. https://t.co/1ChI7w50He

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

The posting in lockstep stuff (that @stclairashley describes well in her videos) is wild.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

‼️ Sen. Susan Collins failed to report up to $395,000 in stock trades.

- 24 transactions in Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase & CVS from 2013-2018 weren’t disclosed violating the STOCK Act she helped pass.

- Even a Pfizer purchase earlier this year missed the deadline.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

WE WON -- Trump's name is coming off the Kennedy Center

His team's response? Misrepresent the judge's order

So we went back to court — same week

I break down the full saga in my publishers note 👇 -TN https://t.co/JVKHO8brPn

[BlackMountain @DBlack_Mountain]

WILL MAGA EVER LEARN?

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

We won’t let people forget the atrocities that happened during Operation Midway Blitz and the erosion of our democracy here in the US.

Illinois will hold Donald Trump and his accomplices accountable.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican candidate Tommy Tuberville committed voter fraud by voting in Florida while living in Alabama.

Many legal scholars now claim he is not eligible to run for governor of Alabama.

[Polly Sigh @dcpoll]

I’m constantly amazed at how Republicans keep pretending that this isn’t the dumbest motherfucker who ever lived.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

The intense media focus on Graham Platner is understandable. He is an unknown in a crucial Senate race with a lot of baggage. Less understandable is the lack of coverage of Ken Paxton, whose sins are far worse. That it is “old news” is no excuse. Most voters have no clue.

[Martin O'Malley @MartinOMalley]

Intentionally falsifying a federal record to declare living people as dead is a federal crime – Trump and DOGE tried to do that to 2.7 million people.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of smuggling more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

Trump gave him a full pardon.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Extraordinary Letter.

Points to Bill Pulte appointment as national security danger.

"The undersigned include twenty-eight former service secretaries and retired general and flag officers who
collectively served under every president from John F. Kennedy to Joseph R. Biden, Jr"

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Another day another pardoned J6er arrested and sentenced to 19 years for sexually assaulting a 7 year old little girl!

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

“The Vatican has replaced Silicon Valley as ground zero for disruptive thinking. The Catholic church … is becoming a beacon of light in a very dark world…. The pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarity.” https://t.co/Y85YTArice

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump promised not to “touch” Medicaid.

Now he is cutting it by $1 trillion and taking health care away from patients with cancer, AIDS and other life-threatening diseases to pay for tax breaks to the top 1% and his wealthy campaign contributors.

Unimaginable cruelty.