Susan Tate

Don’t poke the Bear

[badger @badger69420]

Trump attempting to open the Strait of Hormuz

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

“Whatever the ending may be the historical verdict on Mitch McConnell’s career is already taking shape. The high court of history is convening. The judgement will be appropriately brutal for service so unpatriotic and selfish.”

https://t.co/iITLfhD5OW

[Mike Madrid @madrid_mike]

Every US Senator - Democrat and Republican- should be publicly demanding a transparent health report on Mitch McConnell

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

This is a pretty stunning admission about @ScottJenningsKY @CNN

Then why does he host a “news” show???

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

It’s incredible how many of our current global issues have been caused by three white men, all well past the average life expectancy, clinging to power and starting vanity wars to avoid going to prison for the rest of their lives, or worse.

[Michelle Tandler @michelletandler]

Moraff is the grandson of the founder of Toys R Us. (He found Platner.)

Platner comes from a line of ivy grads and lawyers.

These men are spoiled, wealthy, white males, being tasked with bringing the working class to the Dems.

It's somewhat astounding.

[José @josecanyousee]

Dan Moraff:

If you vote for Barack Obama, you are throwing your vote away,

Also Dan Moraff:

Graham Platner is the second coming of Obama!

What a weird little man.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Holy shit who did this? 😂😂😂

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

Frankenstein was also deeply disappointed in his monster.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Markwayne Mullin is a part of this murder and cover-up. Impeach him now.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Scoop by @MikeElk: Rep. Summer Lee barred Platner recruiter Daniel Moraff “from her 2022 congressional campaign after receiving at least three complaints of sexual misconduct.”

https://t.co/xaTOHwe0Hw

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

All the signals are flashing red, the latest being @POTUS's summary dismissal of the remaining Federal Election Assistance Commission members.
Put that together with political hack Pulte's odious appt as DNI; election deniers in the most sensitive oversight positions; Trump's exec order on mail-in voting, and potential use of the Postal Service as a weapon of subversion; his pathological prioritization of the SAVE act, which would be the most powerful voter suppression tool in generations; and his persistent, unfounded claims of election fraud, which he uses to justify extraordinary federal interventions.
On the square, the @GOP would take a beating this fall, largely because of Trump's unpopularity.
So he's setting up Plan B--do whatever you need to do to win. Anything.
Anyone who says "Well, he wouldn't do THAT" hasn't paid attention. He's already proven he will!
So the period AFTER the Midterms may be even more turbulent than the run up to them.
The courts are going to be very busy this fall.

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

Bernie, come get your boy! This is ridiculous. Platner has not officially dropped out, and says he will not until the deadline on Monday. So Trumpian - me, me, me. Zero humility or remorse for the damage he has done. What a loser and a 🤡

[MAGAts_Exposed @MAGAts_Exposed]

The now infamous open letter from Amber Tamblyn to MAGAt James Woods, as published in @TeenVogue.

Dear Mr. Woods,

What you are experiencing is called a teachable moment. It is called a gift. It is called a humbling. It is called Jesus, I come to thee. It is called an awakening. It is called a growth edge. It is called hope.

The hope being that through this experience, you can change. You can redefine the man who will come after this moment and this man who came before.

Since you've now called me a liar, I will now call you a silencer. I see your gaslight and now will raise you a scorched earth.

My friend Billy and I were at the Roxy on Sunset Boulevard seeing a band we loved. We decided to go to Mel's diner on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood to get burgers after. I had just gotten my driver's license and very specifically remember my nervousness trying to park in the diner parking lot. Upon leaving the restaurant we were stopped by you and your friend, who both seemed very nice. At one point you suggested we should all go to Las Vegas together. "It's such a great place, have you ever been?" You tried to make it sound innocent. This is something predatory men like to do, I've noticed. Make it sound innocent. Just a dollop of insinuation. Just a hair of persuasion. Just a pinch of suggestion. "It will be so much fun, I promise you. Nothing has to happen, we will just have a good time together." I told you my age, kindly and with no judgment or aggression. I told you my age because I thought you would be immediately horrified and take back your offer. You laughed and said, "Even better. We'll have so much fun, I promise."

Here's the thing, Mr. Woods. At that time I was not a public persona. I had done a couple years on a soap opera as an actress, but you wouldn't know me from Adam. I'm sure you've racked your brain trying to remember how you could've possibly hit on the actress Amber Tamblyn at a diner almost two decades ago. You think, it's not possible, there's no way I would've been so stupid as to hit on a 16-year-old known actress. But I wasn't known then, James. I was just a girl. And I'm going to wager that there have been many girls who were just girls or women who were just women who you've done this to because you can get away with it.

The saddest part of this story doesn't even concern me but concerns the universal woman's story. The nation's harmful narrative of disbelieving women first, above all else. Asking them to first corroborate or first give proof or first make sure we're not misremembering or first consider the consequences of speaking out or first let men give their side or first just let your sanity come last.

So it is with hope, Mr. Woods, that I ask you to go inward now and ask yourself the hard stuff. The ominous unconscious stuff. The archetypal masculinity stuff. The power-play stuff. The perversion persuasion stuff. The secretive stuff. The id's most cherished stuff.

Only you and your darkness know who you are. Only you and your actions know what you've done. That means you and only you have the power to change your behavior.

Are you and your history with women and girls a part of the problem, Mr. Woods?

Go now and look in the mirror and ask yourself if this is true. Go on, I'll wait. But I won't hold my breath.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🚨 MIC DROP OF THE YEAR
Mehdi Hasan just went nuclear on Trump :
“Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant,
the grandson of an immigrant,
and married to an immigrant.
In fact, two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.”

The crowd reaction says it all:
Speech at the No Kings rally.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

A million jobs, just gone. Thanks to Trump, and the GOP who have enabled his terrible policies.

[Susan Tate @TateTribe]

@Honesttruthman My sympathies to the people of South Korea. She’s an idiot.

[Susan Tate @TateTribe]

@RashidaTlaib @joncoopertweets Too late. His stink is all over you.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

Elaine Chao: “I had to flee the hospital. My family runs a $14 billion shipping and chemical empire in China. And the staff kept forcing me to plug Mitch back in while I was charging my iPhone.”

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

😂 Who doesn’t love Team Belgium mocking Trump’s Double Jerk-Off Dance in their locker room after annihilating USA 4-1?