The Clintonites have spent a quarter century trying to purge the Dem Party of anyone to the left of a Wall Street CEO. No guilt-by-association tactic is too grotesque for them. They maximize every unrelated scandal as an opportunity to try to expand their purge (see the below effort to use the Platner debacle to try to smear El-Sayed) — and they are typically assisted by a worshipful pundit class and backed by a lot of money.
Their ruthlessness is formidable & their sociopathy makes me unsure of whether they can be stopped. Having scars of my own from 30 years in work against their corporatism, hear me when I say that you underestimate them at your peril.
Joy Reid on the I've Had It Podcast: "I went to a meeting of CBC members in Mississippi and I didn't get any applause for it but I told them from the stage: you all have to divorce AIPAC."
"That divorce needs to happen now because as long as AIPAC money is flowing into your coffers you're never gonna be truly free to tell the truth about our foreign policy."
Rep. Haley Stevens responds to concerns over continued U.S. aid to Israel and contrasts her position with Democratic primary opponent Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who has called for ending military aid to Israel.
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting.
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"This happened last Monday at Cedar Creek Correctional Facility in Oregon.
Tyler Brooks, 29, is serving year five of a seven-year sentence. His eight-year-old Golden Retriever, Moose, had been with him for three years before he went in. His sister took Moose, then moved overseas for work. Moose went to Tyler's parents - until his dad got sick and they couldn't care for him anymore. Moose ended up in a shelter.
Prison chaplain Ryan discovered Moose was still there through a volunteer program and arranged this visit through the facility's rehabilitation initiative.
Security footage shows Tyler at the metal table, hands shaking, barely breathing. The door opens. Moose stops, stares, doesn't move. Tyler drops to his knees on the concrete: "Moose. It's me." Moose's tail starts wagging - then he runs full sprint, crashing into Tyler. Both go down. Tyler sobs, burying his face in Moose's fur while Moose frantically licks his face, checking every inch of him.
"Tyler's been a model inmate for five years," Chaplain Ryan told us. "Finding out his dog was still waiting destroyed him and gave him hope at the same time."
"Five years. I thought he'd forgotten me," Tyler said through tears. "But the second he saw me, it was like I never left. He still loves me."
The shelter is holding Moose until Tyler's release in eight months. His sister is flying back from overseas to foster Moose until then.
Sometimes a dog's loyalty has four legs and never stopped waiting for you to come home.
“Hearing people who attacked you reminded me of @NickKristof… He was called a Palestinian propagandist. He was accused of lying, accused of making up facts, and now the Wall Street Journal basically confirms everything.”
Thanks to @Morning_Joe for having me on.
Massie: "I don't think the problem is that our elections aren't secure because we control the House, Senate, White House, and to some degree we control the Supreme Court. So I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!"