"'We were going to try to finish in March. It took longer. Too many things happened,' Ira Shapiro said when we spoke last week. 'But you have to stop somewhere.'"
@JillDLawrence on a compendium of Trump's depredations, and the way forward:
https://t.co/V4YVM4gAZR
Last night they tested the UFC stage lighting at the White House. Check it out.
The People’s House is looking more like a Six Flags amusement park after dark. It’s embarrassing.
The Epstein files exposed a transnational child sex trafficking network.
Thousands of pages have been released.
Years have passed.
Where are the charges?
Men claim to be ICE agents—block father carrying his baby girl from making their flight inside airport.
"They want to kidnap me!" he yells for help.
"I have my baby daughter... You have no heart—don't touch me!"
The Cuban family says agents told them to "go back to Mexico."
They were heading from Denver, Colorado to Miami, Florida with their baby daughter—when these alleged ICE agents tried to detain them.
Family ended up stuck in Denver after being unable to board their plane bound for Miami.
@atrupar It’s impossible to prove because it is not rigged. Every vote counts. All mail in ballots that arrive on time are counted no matter how long it takes
Hmm... lets break this down..
The rigging is "diabolical," sophisticated, embedded deep in the system (mail-in processing, signature verification, extended canvassing windows in California). It's so upstream and entrenched that it's "hard to prove" with forensic evidence. Just a real classic of "they control everything" framing that fuels the sense of systemic humiliation.
Despite that power, "everybody knows instinctively something is wrong." The implication is that ordinary people (the real popular will) can smell the decadence and corruption a mile away. The elites' scheme is so transparently rotten that it collapses under its own obviousness once the "truth" is simply voiced.
You know, according to Umberto Eco, in fascist societies these people rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak." On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation.
On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.
Also, they are going to run with this and use is a pretext to get directly involved in the midterms elections somehow.
RAJU: But what evidence is there to prove the California election is rigged?
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it's impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively that something is wrong here.
And who exactly are you Revo? What group are you the self proclaimed spokesperson for. I don’t speak for any group. I’m a privileged Yale educated white dude that fucked up and got addicted to crack cocaine and drank a gallon of vodka a day. I lived in hotels and motels from the Chateau to the Super 8. I’ve been to 9 rehabs. Ive done every drug you can think of and some you’ve never heard of. I’ve had guns pulled on me in Nashville and Philly and NY and LA. I’ve made a lot of money and wasted it all. I’ve known prostitues and pimps and thought of them as my friends. I’ve been robbed and mugged and been in more fist fights than I can count. I am not apart of any class- no respectable class would have me. And now I’m clean. And I am not pretending to be anyone but me. Peace brother.
A story that will make you beam with happiness 😃
Today Sienna’s 10,000 mile journey to a forever home is complete.
7 months ago she came in and could only stare at the wall. She was broken (1/7) 🧵
For all the MAGAs crying about LA elections being "rigged" now that Spencer Pratt is in third place….also remember that he said he would leave LA if he loses
Welcome to America’s new nuclear family: three marriages, multiple affairs, got wife #3 pregnant while still married to wife #2, and paid $50,000 to settle a sexual assault.