Marissa

Writer, reader, Aries, progressive, reluctant exerciser, and BACON fanatic. #RESIST

[Laurie Penny @PennyRed]

Women don’t owe the world children.

They don’t owe men babies.

And they don’t owe you an explanation.

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

By the way: Fuck Trump, forever

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

CNN's decision to abrogate its journalistic responsibilities by not fact checking Trump's firehose of lies is unforgivable.

This debate is Biden vs the tag team of Trump and CNN's utter failure as a news organization

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

To recap: Over the span of just a few hours, Donald Trump confused Joe Biden for Barack Obama, couldn't pronounce the country "Venezuela," and literally short-circuited mid-sentence. Trump is old & unwell & it's time the media start giving it the attention it deserves.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

We need to talk about why there is so much focus on Biden's age, as he navigates multiple tough situations effectively, and so little on Trump, who can't even remember who the current president, his November opponent, is.

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

Hey @kwelkernbc @GStephanopoulos @margbrennan

Roughly two dozen times on Saturday Donald Trump stumbled through words, transposed them, couldn't pronounce them, and otherwise showed signs of aphasia or dementia

You guys gonna start reporting this or nah

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

“I’m gonna vote to end democracy as we know it because I don’t understand how anything works” is a hell of a position.

Not a coherent one, but definitely a position.

[Old hippie @Darslifemate]

What Beto O'Rourke actually said.

[I Smoked Mitch McConnell's Brain @BlackKnight10k]

Bro, YOU ARE THE REPORTER IN THIS STORY

Biden was right. You are stupid.

[David Cay Johnston @DavidCayJ]

Brilliant:

[Marissa @arieswriter]

@KwikWarren Way late to the convo but I don't get the appeal of Kornacki either. Now John King is another story....💕💕

[Richard W. Painter @RWPUSA]

This has been going on for decades.
Justices shouldn’t be taking free flights on billionaires’ private planes.
And it was a violation of federal law not to disclose it.
https://t.co/aVK2GQ5X13

[Billie Jean King @BillieJeanKing]

48 years ago today, on July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first Black man to win a #Wimbledon  singles title.

That same year, I won the Wimbledon women’s singles title, and we shared a dance together at the ball.

#HistoryMatters

📷: Alamy

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is a scandal. The Supreme Court is now just a 9 person legislature, slinging takes and making law with cases that are basically made up by friendly right wing groups in order to get the new law they want from their 6 buddies on the court. https://t.co/mXYJPvHLDN

[Skyler Higley @skyler_higley]

6 members of the Supreme Court could fit on a submersible

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

The Supreme Court's recent rulings were sadly predictable for anyone who understands the hard-right agenda. Their goal has always been to install Justices whose job is to turn back the clock on our freedoms, on decades of constitutional decisions, and on our continuing struggle to “form a more perfect union” that includes all of us.

Let's vote out their political enablers and rein in the dark, subversive money that supports them in their quest to reverse a century of progress.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Brett Kavanaugh Rules Against Loan Forgiveness Plan Citing Precedent That All Debts Mysteriously Vanish https://t.co/EVxAWvxvwD

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

See you at the groundbreaking.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Some possible outcomes of yesterday's events:

1. In Wagner PMC, a split has reportedly started between those who felt used and those who remained loyal to Prigozhin after the failed rebellion.

2. Combat pilots reportedly quit Wagner PMC due to their disagreement with the way planes and helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces were destroyed yesterday.

3. A vertical of power has collapsed.
No one in Russia can feel safe anymore. Neither officials, nor oligarchs, nor FSB officers who used to think they were the rulers of life. Putin stopped holding a monopoly on violence in Russia yesterday. It was proven that factions with more weapons and determination decide everything.

4. Russia might be facing a bloody war, not a civil war, but a war of clans, armed groups and private armies: Chechens, Prigozhin's supporters, armed mercenaries, who will separate from Prigozhin or other PMCs and be hired by local clans for protection from invading outsiders.
All large business and oligarchs will probably create (if they haven't already) private armies, as Gazprom has already done to protect itself.
Conflicts and redistribution of property will be resolved by force. It will be the new 90s but far worse - Resembling the Mad Max style and genre of an anti-utopia action movie.

5. The Russian army, it seems, has de facto ceased to exist as a united structure. Soldiers and officers sitting in trenches in the massacre unleashed by Putin, probably finally realized yesterday the utter pointlessness of the war against Ukraine, against the background of the fact that a group of criminals in the rear can pass 600km in a day, sweeping away everything in their path and then be amnestied after killing pilots and civilians.

6. Ukraine is a few steps closer to fully restoring its territorial integrity, including Crimea.

7. What a pity that this circus did not end with the self-destruction of Putin's regime and Prigozhin faction.
But I believe it will happen again with even larger scale!

[neon 🍁 @neon_heartbeat]

"if they died instantly what were those banging sounds" stop asking questions about the ocean. dont fuck with the sea. don't go there. i'll tell you what that noise was, none of our damn business that's what that noise was