every DC-based political operative bio is like: “Strategist. Storyteller. Girldad. Fighter of good fights. Lives on a diet of coffee and red wine, but usually not in the same cup 🤫. Always down to yap about redistricting. Hook ‘em 🤘”
Proud moment overhearing my husband say to canvassers “my wife told me that’s who we’re voting for” after hearing the opposite on the doors and phones for so many years as an organizer
Has anyone else noticed that a big chunk of ppl online have lowkey turned into Javert from Les Mis? Every day I see a new Javert style crusade against some minor celeb who is supposedly irredeemably wicked and I fear the Javerification of online discourse will last forever
The midterm elections are less than six months away, and one Democratic senator is sounding the alarm on the party’s leadership and vision for the future.
Sen. Cory Booker pointed to three Democrats who he thinks represent the future of the party: Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia, Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico and Roy Cooper, the former governor of North Carolina and current Senate candidate. https://t.co/wufTTnTbFd
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"Reporters and editors who get their ideas from their social-media feeds — which is most of them, most of the time — can mistake a paid simulation of public interest for the real thing and then make it real by covering it. "
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NYT: “He’s dealing with a personal heath condition, and he’ll be back soon”, Rep. Tom Kean’s chief of staff Dan Scharfenberger said in an interview.
When pressed on the nature of the health condition and why Kean had not been seen in New Jersey or in Washington, Scharfenberger said, “There’s no cameras where Tom is.”
He declined to elaborate.
He gets a ballroom. An Arch. A new reflecting pool. 10 billion directly into his pocket from taxpayers. Billions from special interests seeking favors and pardons.
What has America gotten? Tariffs, a new war, higher gas prices, inflation.
Truly a golden age.
People I care a whole lot about rely on SSRIs to make their lives work. I don’t know where I would be without SSRIs.
Get your fucking hands and your crazy conspiracy theories out of our medicine cabinets.