New: DoJ officials are evaluating how to wind down the two federal criminal cases against Donald Trump before he takes office to comply with longstanding department policy that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted, per sources.
That would be great, but they've had four years to use their power for anything other than maintaining it - which they've also failed to do. The amount left on the table has been unbelievable, and I don't know why that would change in the next two months.
Right now we’re in it but if you were to look back at this era w the benefit of a century it would be CLEAR that the pandemic, just like in 1918, accelerated fascism as it brought eugenicist ideas into the mainstream
The right had their pitch from day one: the weak will die, and that’s their business. But it was the liberals who came in and, when the vaccines failed to produce herd immunity, decided to reopen anyway, abandon safety measures, and fully adopt that far right framing
Do you not see how this logic does not stop with just covid, the pandemic, and masking? How the underlying argument here is that there is no collective responsibility, there is “no society” as Thatcher would say? This is a far right idea. Ppl on the LEFT are practicing it
In a few short years we went from “let’s protect the vulnerable” to large swaths of those SAME PPL being spitting mad at the very idea of being asked to think of strangers as their responsibility, & categorizing vulnerable ppl as a disposable “other” whose deaths are irrelevant
Aside from being wholly unmoored from any of the evidence of what just happened, why even have a democratic party if this is your attitude. You want to go get trans people from under the bus you threw them under and throw them under another one?
This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book*
uh oh
*Frantically starts flipping though pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
Reports from across Gaza that Beit Lahiya is being subjected to massive bombing right now, hours after the Israeli army said there were no civilians left there (there are 100,000)
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike has killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children, in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials say. https://t.co/M4Vy9rtlEN
here's someone who's taken as much grief from as many sides as anybody and just won again because she's ideologically consistent and her voters know exactly who she is
try going to 2006 and telling a democrat voter that the dem candidate was working with the Cheneys and committing genocide and see how surprised they are about results today
Regardless of the outcome at this point, I really hope this outcome ends the idea that Trump's first term was some sort of fluke, that we as a country are 'better than that.' Naive, see-no-evil ass position that self-sabotages the work of building an holsitic alternative vision.
This year, @ProPublica has been looking into the impacts of cities increasingly removing or “sweeping” encampments. We spoke with 135 people who had experienced sweeps. We also distributed notecards so people could write about it in their own words. 🧵