Craig Sandler

I'm like a cross between Ben Wyatt and Ben Wyatt. Black lives matter. Abolish ICE. || Opinions are mine alone. He/his/him.

[Craig Sandler @Craigrsandler]

@PenguinClues @NandovMovies Yeah I think real consequences and an acknowledgement of how bad what she did was would go a long way toward clearing up the thematic muddiness we got.

[Craig Sandler @Craigrsandler]

@fwpx Same here. My account is showing no current tickets despite having been emailed a receipt.

[Craig Sandler @Craigrsandler]

@Sen_JoeManchin @chrislhayes u up?

[Adam Jentleson @AJentleson]

All roads lead to eliminating the filibuster. There is no "one weird trick" or super-savvy workaround. The path forward is clear: bring popular policies to the floor. If Republicans block them, eliminate the filibuster. The public will judge Democrats on what they pass, not how.

[Ayman @AymanM]

Days into their Presidency before launching a military operation in the Middle East:

Biden: 37 days strikes #Syria
Trump: 9 days launches Op in #Yemen
Obama: 3 days strikes #Pakistan
Bush: 27 days strikes #Iraq

But tell me more about how we can turn a new page in the region?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Sinema and Manchin want Dems to go into next year’s midterms - which every governing party tends to lose! - with a message of ‘Sorry, we couldn’t get you that minimum wage increase we promised you because *the parliamentarian* wouldn’t let us!’

Madness. Political suicide.

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

this is literally posting, she's posting her takes on the wall.

[Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC @MattNegrin]

A great way to get the facts on the white supremacist attack on the Capitol is apparently to have the report on it written by the white supremacists who deny there was an attack on the Capitol

[Astead @AsteadWH]

everytime they tell u that Hollywood is controlled by so called wokeness remember stuff like this. outward facing white liberalism is not the same racial equity or institutional power sharing

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

This is a powerful indictment of the Sunday shows

[Craig Sandler @Craigrsandler]

@SameeraKhan “That guy only saved my grandmother from a burning building to make George Costanza look bad, and therefore it doesn’t count.”

[Steve Benen @stevebenen]

Among the Trump nominees Manchin voted to confirm, indifferent to their "overtly partisan statements":
Jeff Sessions
Mike Pompeo
Bill Barr
Brett Kavanaugh
Ric Grenell (who was effectively a professional online troll for quite a while)

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

Rush Limbaugh had a segment called "AIDS update" set to music where he mocked dying gay people so I don't really want hear about 'speaking ill of the dead' today

[derecka @dereckapurnell]

Student debt cancellation is not a Harvard, Yale, Penn rich kid problem. It is a racial justice problem.

Per Brookings, "Four years after graduation, black graduates have nearly $25,000 more student loan debt than white graduates: $52,726 on average, compared to $28,006."

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

None of the mechanisms of accountability the sprang to life within the Republican Party to protect Trump were ever used to protect the country from Trump even as hundreds of thousands of Americans died.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Dems make half-hearted attempts at challenging GOP followed by statements about wanting a strong Republican Party & then express shock & outrage when Republicans emerge emboldened, sinking their heels in & laying groundwork for the next atrocity. Y’all aren’t tired of this cycle?

[. @GregTSargent]

The correct Dem answer to the craven GOP acquittal of Trump:

* Pass H.R.1 and S.1

* Be ready to nuke the filibuster to get the package into law

Dems have an obligation to accept the implications of GOP radicalization -- and to act on them.

My take:
https://t.co/YlHx6RnmKL

[Craig Sandler @Craigrsandler]

@JJSRB @JacobRubashkin @allahpundit Mitch thinks it would hurt his chances of becoming majority leader in 2022. Shelby and Portman I guess just don’t feel like it.

[Jacob Rubashkin @JacobRubashkin]

A look at the political pressures (or lack thereof) of the GOP guilty votes:

Burr - retiring
Cassidy - just re-elected, Louisiana primary system
Collins - just re-elected
Murkowski - Alaska top-four, RCV primary system
Romney - Utah
Sasse - just re-election
Toomey - retiring