Angela Simiele

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Donald Trump isn’t the only one preparing for his return to the White House. Several Democratic governors are uniting, they say, to protect democracy at the state level during Trump’s second term in office. https://t.co/l352wzhUeZ

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

BREAKING: Trump considering Todd Blanche as deputy AG

Yes, the same Todd Blanche who LOST the Stormy Daniels criminal campaign cover-up case brought by the Manhattan DA

Trump is so short on options that he's recycling his losers

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: Mike Johnson just announced that Matt Gaetz has resigned from Congress following his sex trafficking scandal involving a minor.

Oh wait, Matt Gaetz is resigning from Congress because Donald Trump wants him to run the Department of Justice...Smh.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

BREAKING - Matt Gaetz resigns from the House, effective today

He just won re-election to House - and can’t be AG unless confirmed by Senate next year

So why now? Because House Ethics Committee is about to make decision on Gaetz’s alleged underage sex trafficking - in TWO DAYS

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Never forget: Kevin McCarthy said, “I'll give you the truth why I'm not speaker. It's because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old.” That member is Matt Gaetz.

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

what a dumb-ass question

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

Gaetz as AG, Hegseth as Sec Def, Gabbard as DNI…

Trump is going to turn America into a cross between the f’n Hunger Games & Celebrity Apprentice.

…but but voters were upset about the price of eggs. SMH 🤦🏽‍♀️ 🤬

[Angela Simiele @asdesign3]

@ChrisDJackson It’s already a shit show!

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Millions of students and workers have more opportunities today than they did four years ago in an economy that’s growing from the middle out and bottom up.

An economy where everyone has a fair shot, where we leave no one behind, and where we invest in all of America.

[Marlow Stern @MarlowNYC]

here’s pete hegseth, fox news host and trump’s pick for secretary of defense, nearly killing a drummer with an axe on live TV https://t.co/b1RHmVz6vZ

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

The Telegraph is a relatively conservative British paper.

But unlike much of US media, they're not afraid to write the truth in a headline.

Rick Scott: Businessman behind one of the biggest medical frauds in history tipped to run Senate https://t.co/IAOrG8NPtF

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

I’m so old that I can remember when America had presidents and attorneys general who didn’t have mugshots.

[Angela Simiele @asdesign3]

@ChrisDJackson Just like Trump!

[Angela Simiele @asdesign3]

@TristanSnell Good luck with that. We are officially an oligarchy!

[Taniel @Taniel]

The AP and major networks are calling the Arizona senate race for Ruben Gallego.

He is the fourth Democratic senate candidate to carry a state won by Trump, and the second to do so without being an incumbent alongside Slotkin. (That hadn’t been done in an open race since 2012.)

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Melania Trump has rejected First Lady Jill Biden’s invitation for an official White House meeting. This is a decades-long tradition that was broken in 2020 by Melania refusing to meet with Dr. Biden.

RETWEET if you are proud to call Dr. Biden our First Lady!

[Angela Simiele @asdesign3]

@DisavowTrump20 @smartdissent Glad Dr. Biden doesn’t have to suffer through a meeting with her. Melania will spend the whole presidency at Maralago.

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

I've been involved in winning presidential races and races that lost. One common thread is that everyone seems to have a reason why you won or lost which usually reflects a personal perspective or agenda.

So here's mine: I think VP Harris ran a very good campaign that operated at a high level. She had a great convention, crushed Trump in a debate, and put on a series of big event rallies that were the best I'd ever seen.

As a Republican operative, I spent years pointing out flaws in the Democratic Party and I'm not here to say it doesn't need to go through a period of questioning and self-reflection. Those are much larger questions than one election and one campaign. But the Republican party is an anti-democratic movement, attacking the pillars of American democracy from elections to the judicial system.

I understand those who say that if there had been a "normal" Democratic primary, the results would have been better. Maybe. But think about it. In modern political history, every time a sitting VP has run for the nomination, that VP has won. Perhaps it would have been different this time and the eventual nominee would have emerged stronger for the process. But more likely there would have been a bloody primary fight that left the nominee broke and trying to patch together a fractured party to face a Republican party that has become Donald Trump's party. In all probability, VP Harris would have won that primary and been in a weakened and vulnerable position when it was finally resolved in May or June.

I would say to my Democratic friends to go through this post-election process with open minds and hearts but never doubt that the Democratic party is the only pro-democracy party in America. No one will have a position in Trump's administration who is not an election denier adhering to the Big Lie. That's toxic to a country's sense of self and the damage will take a generation to repair, if it is possible to heal.

Losing an election does not mean that you were wrong and they were right. It means you lost an election. I grew up in Mississippi watching my parents back candidates opposed to segregation. When those candidates lost, and they did for a long time, my parents didn't question if they were on the right side. They didn't ask themselves if the majority who supported segregation had proven the justness of their cause by winning.

The mid-terms start after the Super Bowl. It will likely be a good election for Democrats and then the 2028 presidential race will be upon us. After a loss, the days seem long but the months will pass quickly. Reflect, rest up, but come back prepared to fight. Fight not because victory is assured but fight because not to fight is to give up. And if we do that, we no longer deserve to call ourselves Americans.

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[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

I would rather have been wrong.

[Jonathan Greenberg @JournalistJG]

Good news!