Obama on Trump:
If this whoever you were talking about was in front of me — which has happened a couple times — he don't talk like that because he knows better.
Source: ALL THE SMOKE
Hunter Biden on Graham Platner: I always say to people: show me your phone. Give me access to your iCloud. Let’s go through it and pull everything we can find that’s inappropriate.
And if that’s the standard by which we’re going to judge people, particularly people in elected office, then I don’t think we’re going to have many people in elected office.
And so, as it relates to Graham Platner, I focus on this: I have not heard anything, in any way, that would lead me to believe he is an abusive, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or racist person.
I have heard this from Graham Platner: that he thinks we should all have free health care.
I have also heard this from Graham Platner: that he thinks we have to radically change our politics.
I have heard this from Graham Platner: that working people are getting fucking screwed.
Everyone’s stopped talking about it for some reason, but the defense of Minneapolis was the most seismic victory against Trumpism. That was supposed to be the blueprint for their autocracy and it was defeated and humiliated by astounding collective action from ordinary Americans.
Yesterday, in a NYT piece titled "I'm a Democrat. My Party Has a Double Standard on Antisemitism," @RepJoshG cited as evidence Democrats who "increasingly excuse, or join, feverish denunciations of Israel, our longstanding, democratic and strategic ally."
This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO
An absolute insane tightrope to walk as the last damn sketch of the night but everyone killed it. Instantly in the pantheon of Sarah-led sketches and felt like it was beamed in from a completely different show. Very good stuff.
People always ask this question and never “do prosecutors ever feel overwhelmed with guilt knowing they’ve put innocent people away?” Or “do prosecutors ever worry they aren’t doing justice when they destroy someone’s life over crimes of addiction or poverty?”
LeBron finished LA's Game 6 win with a game-high 28 points and 8 assists, plus 7 boards, in his 23rd NBA season, a truly unprecedented level of production at age 41.
He was +26 for the night.
41-year-old LeBron James (41y, 115d) is the oldest player in NBA history to lead his team in scoring in the playoffs, passing 41-year-old LeBron James (41y, 112d) who did it 3 days ago.