Major news to celebrate: For the first time, @Penn GSE is #1 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 rankings for graduate schools of education. https://t.co/dLe9vn8aEG
My tenant who rents my guest house told his friends to break into my house. They broke a bunch of shit but thankfully weren't successful in occupying it, and I got out in time. His lease is up on January 20th anyway, so should I let him finish up his lease or kick him out now?
This is what domestic terrorism looks like.
This is Donald Trump’s America.
Imagine the police response if these were Black people BREAKING INTO the Capitol.
If you don’t see white supremacy and a total threat to democracy when you see this, it’s because you don’t want to.
Extraordinary floor speech by @SenateMajLdr McConnell repudiating the objections today from his own caucus: “I will not pretend such a vote would be a harmless protest gesture... I will vote to respect the people’s decision and defend our system of government as we know it.”
This speech by @senatemajldr McConnel is moving because it is mostly true, and deeply galling because it reveals without question that through his years of procedural treachery, he always knew better.
Political Poetry.
President Trump began his political career by spreading the racist conspiracy theory questioning the birth of the nation’s first Black president, Barack Obama, and his presidency is ending with the first Black woman as Vice President, Kamala Harris.
It is an insult to the American people that the GOP is ramming through a Supreme Court justice with just eight days until the end of an election in which nearly 60 million people have already voted.
It’s actually AOC plus 115 because that’s how many House and Senate members have cosponsored the most ambitious climate legislation in American history.
Ruthie was my friend and I will miss her terribly. The t-shirts simply labeled “RBG” made her notorious. But it was her wit, her tenaciousness, and her skill as a jurist that made her an icon.