Last week, Ben Rhodes and I did a
@munkdebates against Kevin Roberts and Kellyanne Conway on whether Trump is leading America into a new golden age.
We won. This is from my closing statement. There’s nothing golden about a movement that bathes in gratuitous cruelty.
I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real.
The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error."
They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence.
The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release.
But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more.
The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border.
But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit.
Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.
A timely reminder that after turning 95 years old, President Jimmy Carter suffered a fall that left him with a black eye, bruises, and 14 stitches — and still went out the next day to build homes for Habitat for Humanity.
The thought of the people of Ukraine, afflicted by war, remains vivid in my heart. Let the passage of time not temper our grief and concern for that suffering population. Please, let us not grow accustomed to this tragic situation! Let us #PrayTogether
What a journey it has been. I learned so much watching @AzmatZahra work and this is benefiting me in what I am embarking on in the near future.
Conveying the voices of the unheard has and will continue to be my goal.
Traditionally, #OPW has set the mood for #StPatricksDay by symbolically ‘greening’ our most iconic Irish landmarks. This year we send a message of solidarity by illuminating 41 sites in the colours of Ukraine.
Read Minister @podonovan's statement here: https://t.co/gcC0RK5TH2
It is very important that we underscore to the world that every person stood with Joe Biden tonight. Every Republican stood on their feet. And the Ukrainians are not by themselves. Don't step on that. #SOTU
“We certainly have received hateful, hateful calls from people who say they are Catholics and speaking to us in language that I would never repeat and threatening our agencies.” https://t.co/boGxBhXXe2
Senator @SalazarSenate, THANK YOU for championing the Excluded Workers Fund. An investment in working families with over $1.6 billion distributed to NYC residents alone, the fund is changing lives.
Let's leave no worker behind and fully #FundExcludedWorkers!
As Biden signed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law on Monday, Pete Buttigieg finds himself overseeing $210 billion in discretionary grants, making him the most powerful transportation secretary ever.
Here's what's happening. 👇
https://t.co/ifVDN4axFf
I wrote to Pope Francis to tell him about "Hidden Mercy" and the heroic work undertaken by priests, nuns and LGBT Catholics during the height of HIV and AIDS in the US. To my surprise, he wrote back. What he told me, in the New York Times (@nytopinion): https://t.co/jUZRaz4LXK
These articles are utterly bizarre. It's like they're referring to an entirely different set of shootings than the ones we have video of. There's no attempt to make sense of those actual moments -- it's all rote recitation and archetypes.
https://t.co/AVMnfaC599