Steven A. Smith was criticized by the National Association of Black Journalists, then chose to take his grievances to a white-owned media platform and sit across from a white host who has a documented history of racist commentary.
In doing so, he may have unintentionally validated the very criticism he was trying to defend himself against.
Sometimes, your response to criticism reveals more than the criticism itself.
Shout out to @thepoliticalplug for providing a thorough breakdown and giving the conversation the context it deserves.
Now, in Texas, if you have a couple of weed vapes in your possession, you could face up to 10 years in prison & felony charges.
Meanwhile, Ken Paxton let a convicted child molester off with a one-day jail sentence.
Absolutely insane.
THIS IS INSANE:
MAGA Rep. Max Miller was accused by his ex-wife of throwing scalding hot water on her, and breaking their 2-yr old daughter's collarbone.
And not a single Republican called on him to resign.
Even worse: MAGA voters say they would still support their MAGA politician IN SPITE OF domestic abuse AND sexual assault.
DISGUSTING.
This timeline truly sucks.
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.
Trump's attacks in the 2020 election was mostly about mail-in voting.
The GOP's attacks in 2022 were via massive state voter suppression laws.
Their attacks in 2024 were to prevent certification of Biden/Harris.
In 2026, they are trying to obtain/weaponize state voter data.
The Constitution gives the states the authority to set the time, place and manner of federal elections.
“It does not give the president of the United States any authority,” @marceelias says. https://t.co/l2FHZu9Aex
Social Security starts running out of money in 6 years, as Republicans keep spending America into record debt. By the end of this term, Trump will be responsible for 35% of all US debt accumulated across 250 years of US history.
https://t.co/1vIvfT5zOI
The declassified documents Trump just released tonight to “prove” the 2020 election was “rigged” actually show that Russia tried to interfere to hurt Biden and help Trump.
I'm old enough to remember when trump was begging Georgia to "find" 11,780 votes. Now he's pretending he's "found" some evidence, 6 years later?
WHAT A F*CKING LOSER.
I need 1,000 quick RTs and replies using #LoserTrumpsElectionLies to make it trend
Please and thank you! 🙏💪
BREAKING: INDICT HIM! Jared Kushner gets caught in a massive scandal as it's revealed that Iran warned the U.S. that he was abusing his negotiating role to line his and his cronies' pockets with $9 BILLION!
We suspected it, now we have the smoking gun...
According to bombshell reporting from Drop Site News, Iranian officials sent a private message to JD Vance in late June warning him that Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his corrupt son-in-law Jared Kushner were endangering the viability of negotiations to end the war.
The message revealed that Witkoff and Kushner were "more interested in exploiting insider knowledge of the negotiations to profit in financial markets than they were in reaching a deal." That characterization tracks with what we know about the two men, because neither has ever displayed any genuine interest in obtaining peace in the region.
We also know that there has been a troubling trend of Trump administration officials using insider knowledge about forthcoming government decisions and announcements to rake in massive fortunes through betting markets and stock market speculation. They're treating government like a casino, accumulating massive fortunes, and leaving the rest of us to deal with the fallout from their disastrous policies.
"Iran calculated profits from such alleged manipulation had reached $9 billion and formally requested, in writing, that Iran should share in the proceeds," Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim of Drop Site reported.
“We have conveyed through intermediaries that $4.5 billion of this sum should also be allocated to the Iranian side,” an Iranian official stated. “The exchanged texts will ultimately become part of the historical record.”
Not only that, but the Iranians were concerned about "repeated leaks" from Kushner to indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, an unsurprising trend given the "Israel First" nature of this administration.
“Even before the Islamabad talks kicked off [in April], we had already sent multiple messages to Trump through the Pakistanis, warning them about [Witkoff’s] overall destructive role in the previous negotiation,” the Iranian official said
When efforts to arouse the White House's concern about Witkoff's and Kushner's machinations failed, the Iranians reached out to Vance through intermediaries.
Vance's team insists that the message never reached the vice president, but given his demonstrated penchant for lying — and the fact that he would have never dared challenge Kushner for fear of alienating Trump — it's safest to presume that they're lying.
In any other era, this kind of scandal would bring down an entire presidency and lead to massive investigations and prosecutions. Under Trump, it's just accepted as par for the course.
But we need not accept this as the status quo.
When Democrats retake power, we must launch a well-funded forensic investigation into Kushner and the rest of these crooks, uncover their crimes, and lock them up for the maximum amount of time possible.
Please ❤️ and share if you support prosecuting Kushner!
🚨 NEWS: Wisconsin election officials have found probable cause that Elon Musk violated the state's election bribery law and have referred complaints against him to the Brown County District Attorney.
The bipartisan commission voted 5-1 after concluding there's probable cause Musk unlawfully offered $1 million to induce voting in the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election.