In Off Topic/On Politics podcast, @KellyMena shares intel that Julie Menin and Jessica Tisch met at Menin's home about Netanyahu arrest ahead of Mamdani's NYT interview 👀 to discuss "combatting any messaging" on the prospective arrest
https://t.co/c8fo0Kg49h
Protesters have blocked the front entrance to a popular college bar in Madison as a way to cause financial pain and pressure Madison leaders to act on Corey Ruiz’s execution.
That Elon Musk interview is a car crash. I know plenty are furious at the Economist for platforming him but if you watch it you’ll see a man given just enough rope to hang himself. He’s a blundering idiot on almost every topic. Quite reminiscent of Boris Johnson as PM.
While volunteering at the WASHINGTON COUNTY Fair last night, I held an informal poll asking those who stopped to chat with us (at the Democratic Party booth) what direction they were leaning in the upcoming Gubernatorial primary.
Here are the results.
If statewide electability is your concern, Washington County (the most conservative in the state) should serve as a solid barometer.
@FrancescaHongWI is the leader Wisconsin needs in this moment, and the leader our great state deserves.
This woman is the anti-oracle, all-time poor judgement
Naturally she is revered within the Democratic establishment, who love being told they are popular and good at their jobs
🎥 “It’s been very hard for me to reckon with the extent of killing I was involved in,” former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes said.
🔹Rhodes spoke to Peter Beinart about Biden officials who are failing to fully reckon with their role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, saying many remain inside a Washington feedback loop where AIPAC and FDD figures reassure them they did the right thing, while their careers still benefit from not breaking with Israel.
🔹He said his own reckoning with the Obama years has involved recognizing that he had been “operating machinery that was often inhumane” and “participating in a supremacy that was baked into the entire wiring of the machinery.”
🔹“It’s uncomfortable for them to face up to the genocide they’re a part of,” Rhodes explained, discussing their possible thinking. “But I’m actually not sorry relative to the harm that was done and could be done in the future. People’s feet do need to be held to the fire.”
🔗 Full discussion on “Beinart Notebook” includes guest Yousef Munayyer, Palestinian American political analyst and scholar at Arab Center Washington DC. It is linked below.
@PeterBeinart | @brhodes
Patt Braxton says Norwest Detroit has been flooded by mailers showing former President Obama with Stevens. “A lot of people are not aware.”
She says Stevens’ support of Israel is wrong, “as a Black woman, from an oppressed people in United States, I can’t stand behind that.”
Donald Trump has earned more money in his first and second year, in his second term as president, than in the previous 60 years of his life, per Bloomberg.
In the latest WOLA Border Update:
Border Patrol migrant apprehensions declined little in June despite summer heat. Asylum denials have exceeded 90 percent for 4 straight months. ICE arrests are now at record levels.
https://t.co/uW2ohSp9qh
Wow. Look how close Nelson Rockefeller was with AFL-CIO's CIA AIFLD boss George Meany
Offers insight into how difficult UAW President Walter Reuthers efforts to join UFW with UAW, MLK.s Poor Peoples Campaign and Sanitation strikers with the 1968 RFK For President Campaign.
The Argentine television news channel Todo Noticias has published a list of people it is accusing of “Argentinophobia.”
The list includes IShowSpeed, who was racially abused during a livestream, Hossam Hassan, Egypt’s football manager, Piers Morgan, Samuel L. Jackson, Zohran Mamdani, and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.