Andrea Roman

[Howard Mortman @HowardMortman]

"Rudy Giuliani. I mean, think about it. Rudy Giuliani. There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11."

-- Joe Biden, October 30, 2007, Democratic Presidential debate in Philadelphia

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Hillary Clinton: "Right now we are not a serious country. We are a dangerous country. We are causing all kind of problems in the world. We're picking fights with our best friends. We're giving passes to those who wish us ill. We are not a serious country and we don't have serious leadership."

[John Brennan @jmbprime]

President Trump‘s recent posts are extremely disturbing. The one showing him hitting PM Carney with a hockey stick in the stomach is deranged. It’s hard to believe 77 million Americans voted for this.

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

Mitt Romney’s former campaign manager.
#VoteBlue 🌊

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

This is outrageous. Un-American. Straight from an authoritarian playbook.

ICE has no business knowing how you voted.

It’s time to wake the hell up.
Our democracy is under threat.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

CNN: You're not going to trust mail voting if the Supreme Court allows this to go through?

BLUMENTHAL: I won't. And I think most Americans will view mail voting as lacking credibility because the Postal Service is gonna be screening your ballot and sending them back if it finds a single discrepancy, and you may not know.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

The sadism from DHS is unrelenting. These are ~90% legal immigrants who came legally and were working legally in this country, but are now being publicly humiliated for not wanting to go back to a failed state. Except for Trump DHS, only a dictatorship would put this out.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

This Mad Men clip on Israel, Zionism and Utopia, is just perfect!

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.

[Acyn @Acyn]

El-Sayed: Donald Trump cannot seem to keep my name out of his mouth. Habibi, if you can’t say the name, don’t say the name. “Abdul. Abull”. Do not say it like that. It is creepy. Holds onto the "L" a little too long. Natalie is going to show him this clip and he’s going to be so mad.

[Klitschko @Klitschko]

Today is Hayden’s birthday. Instead of celebrating the way we had planned, today we celebrate her life, her spirit, and the love she brought into this world.

I want to thank all of Hayden’s fans, friends, and everyone who has reached out for the incredible outpouring of love and support. At a time filled with so much sadness, your kindness has reminded me that there is still so much good in humanity.

If you’re reading this, I ask just one thing: even if only for a moment, think about LOVE. Reach out to a friend. Forgive someone. Be kind.

Love is a superpower. Use it.

Happy Birthday, Hayden. ❤️ You are loved, you are missed, and you will never be forgotten

[Acyn @Acyn]

Martha MacCallum thought she was going to get another highlight reel of her attacking a socialist. That’s not what happened here.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: When you step back and consider it, the situation is absurd. Tech titans dig bunkers and warn us the new intelligence they’re training could lead to mass joblessness or human extinction, while our Congress debates ballrooms and youth sports.

We’ve amassed enough firepower to end the world 1,000 times over, but we can’t summon the will to guarantee health care and pre-K. I say all this to say, but it’s the crushing weakness of our politics, against the unmet needs of our people and the massive stakes of our times, that’s shaking our faith in the future.

But Atlanta, I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become.

When Eva is old enough to ask me why I let this happen. I'm determined to answer truthfully, that I didn’t

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: Mike Collins literally gets so scared, you can see his hand shaking at the podium until he just flees. A crumbling little bigot, and the sad spectacle of a collapsing campaign.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and trades stocks. So he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: I've passed 60 bipartisan bills through the Texas legislature. These are not nibble-around-the-edges incremental bills.

I passed the largest early childhood education bill in our state's history. I passed the first ever cap on insulin co-pays in our state. I passed a major reform to our justice system allowing incarcerated minors to earn a high school diploma. These are major bills that are making a real impact on Texans.

I have no problem going toe to toe when I need to. But then the next day we may find a piece of common ground that we can actually get something done on.

We're told that it's a choice between people who fight and people who get things done. I think the people of Texas deserve a senator who can do both — and I've shown in the statehouse that I can do both.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Houston Mayor John Whitmire: For the Salgado family, life will never be the same. At no fault of theirs, Mr. Salgado was chased by a unmarked vehicles. Before he could identify himself and speak as a Houstonian, he was shot and killed. We will use all of our resources to pursue an independent and transparent investigation.

[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.