News Item: Matthew Wingate, the Heritage Foundation’s government relations director for defense and foreign policy who previously worked for Republican Senators Joni Ernst and Ted Cruz, was arrested for attempting to enter the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill while carrying a 10-bullet, fully loaded magazine. He was stopped when trying to clear security. A search of his briefcase revealed he also was carrying a plastic sandwich bag containing four capsules and three blue pressed pills. The pills later tested positive for cocaine and fentanyl, according to court filings.
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Democrats forced Graham Platner to step down over serious allegations - but when Max Miller faces serious allegations of throwing boiling water on his ex-wife, beating her, holding a gun to her head and breaking his 2yo daughter’s collarbone - Republicans do nothing.
Chef José Andrés shows up when the world is hurting and feeds people.
Elon Musk shows up when the world is hurting and asks how it can benefit him.
I’ll let you decide who the asshole is.
This world isn’t collapsing because humanity became too compassionate, too equal or too free. It is collapsing because greedy fucking sociopaths converted governments into protection rackets for wealth and empire.
It takes me 2.5 minutes to explain why it’s a lie that we gave all the weapons to Ukraine that we needed for Iran.
But the lie can be said in one sentence. We’re at a disadvantage when reality is nuanced.
But the truth is essential
Trump’s extended posting spree yesterday suggests that he’s literally *psychotic.*
But the press is too terrified or timid to report that.
Some professional journalists with laptops and cameras need to start doing the job of reporting on the disintegrating mental health of the man with control of the planet’s second-largest arsenal of nuclear weapons.
It should be the most important news story in the world today.
Here is what I believe.
We have been separated by people who profit from our separation.
That is the business model. Keep us apart and sell us the fight.
Here is what that separation does.
People stop talking. They stop talking, so they stop knowing each other. They stop knowing each other, so they fear each other. They fear each other, so they hate each other. You break that chain at the first link, not the last.
I also believe there is one true existential threat to this democracy and his name is Donald Trump.
So I will sit down with anyone who has a platform and sees in Trump what I see.
That is why I sat down with Nick Fuentes. His views on race and women are antithetical to mine. What he has said about the Holocaust and Nazism is indefensible. He is also demonstrably persuasive and he has a bullhorn that no amount of cancellation has taken from him. A million-plus people listen to him. I wanted to hear it myself instead of reading what I am supposed to think about it.
Nick and I agree on almost nothing. We agree on Trump.
Nothing else we argue about matters if Trump is not stopped. And the people who see what he is do not all think like me. If your standard is that everyone who opposes him has to agree with you first, you have already handed him the country.
I will take one piece of common ground over ten more years of shouting across the same street.
There is nothing more pathetic or contemptible than watching Russians launch what they thought would be a short splendid war to crush Ukraine in a matter of days, only to fail spectacularly in their blitzkrieg.
They wiped entire Ukrainian cities and regions off the face of the earth, committed an unimaginable number of war crimes, plunged Ukraine into darkness and freezing cold during the harshest winter on record, spent years bringing down apartment buildings with sleeping families inside night after night, destroyed supermarkets, children’s hospitals, theaters, and libraries, historic monuments, churches, and cathedrals, murdered people, beheaded and castrated prisoners of war on camera, executed and burned civilians, tortured them, and left mass graves behind.
And now they are hysterically wringing their hands and crying to the heavens because Ukraine is burning down warehouses full of Chinese junk meant for online sales.
“Why is this happening to us? How can there ever be peace with this Ukraine? They hate us!”
Fucking disgusting and pathetic.
Kasparov: Ukraine is the shield, and increasingly the sword, of the free world.
Western governments already possess the resources Ukraine needs, but narrow interests still obstruct the support required for victory. 2/
Gas is over $4 a gallon & here’s the rest of the story.
Trump has been dumping our strategic oil reserves to artificially keep gas prices low.
We now only have a 45 day reserve. It hasen’t been that low in 43 years
What do you think will happen when the reserves are used up?
@AntiToxicPeople For the moment you don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe that McConnell is at best so damaged he cannot speak—no brief video or even audio statement from the senator, who other senators claimed to have conversed with “for twenty minutes.”