Bath Full of Teeth

the wet baby

[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.

[Mason Pressler @Press4BC]

Yeah I’m going with the hardworking people of the @UAW, rather than Chuck Schumer and AIPAC.

[Bath Full of Teeth @MyPinIs7428]

@NeoconDon @MiddleEastEye @BGOnTheScene Oh, so you’re completely wrong. Okay.

[Bath Full of Teeth @MyPinIs7428]

@NeoconDon @MiddleEastEye Did you have a stroke, bud?

[🏳️‍⚧️ romeo @ronunclockable]

If 80% of disabled people live in the Global South, why are conversations about disability so often limited to congenital conditions and individual diagnoses? Rarely do ppl talk about disabilities produced by war, incarceration, gender-based violence, etc.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

The NYT has put more resources into investigating Graham Platner than it has into everything the IDF has ever said.

[Bath Full of Teeth @MyPinIs7428]

@NeoconDon @MiddleEastEye Where is that part of the video, NeoconDon?

[Bath Full of Teeth @MyPinIs7428]

@MiddleEastEye Violent suppression of protestors, you say? Well, that was our initial justification for Iran. I guess this means we’re due for a regime change!

[Dr. Annelle Rodriguez Sheline @AnnelleSheline]

"Under the aid model, @BenFreemanDC said, a voter who objects to Israeli military actions can call a member of Congress & demand a vote against aid

But under the procurement model, 'You have no one to call'

[It would intentionally obscure] how much US money is going to Israel”

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

This from The Economist magazine is a good reminder that corporate media is not “objective” — it is an explicit and focused political project with a clear ideology.

Pass it on.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @RepShontelBrown to Trump’s Ag Sec @SecRollins: “You called it ‘GOOD NEWS’ 4.5 Million people were ‘MOVED OFF’ SNAP (food stamps) — they’re not leaving the program because they’re doing better… millions of Americans are going hungry and you’re saying it’s a success story.”🤔

[Bath Full of Teeth @MyPinIs7428]

@cspan @RepDelBene Bessent is one of the smuggest and corrosive assholes I’ve ever seen spew shit from his mouth.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Running uncorroborated claims on Platner from an ex-girlfriend who is a professional Republican operative is outrageous from the New York Times. It's consistent with their biased treatment of candidates skeptical of Israel.

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

@Reuters Wow Reuters you should’ve run that by a news organization before posting

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Gas prices up nearly 50%.

Groceries up 30%.

Health insurance up 26%.

Childcare up 9%.

Trump’s "Golden Age" is working for billionaires while working people are paying the price.

America last.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

A la izquierda, una escena de la película "Zona de Interés", que recrea cómo vivía una familia nazi al lado del campo de concentración de Auschwitz.

A la derecha, colonos sionistas viviendo al lado del campo de concentración palestino en Belén, en el apartheid de "Israel".

[Summer Lee @SummerForPA]

The silence from Democrats when Muslim colleagues and candidates are attacked is a cancerous rot.

We cannot lead our country out this moment if we're willing to accept the abuse or dehumanization of any marginalized group.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

Lebanon can't wait.