Memo to the moderators: The quest for balance is a trap. Treating both sides of a debate as equal when one side is demonstrably false is not fairness but malpractice. Truth is more important than balance. There aren't two sides to a lie.
I woke up deeply distressed. This is the United States of America. Why on God’s earth have we allowed Donald Trump to simply get away with #January6th, stealing classified U.S. documents, be a convicted felon, and then pretend he’s a normal choice for President, again in 2024.
🚨The Supreme Court did NOT strike down an extreme abortion law today. All they did was DELAY their decision until AFTER Election Day.
It was a clear effort to protect Trump and other Republicans from political fallout — and an ominous warning about how they’ll ultimately rule.
We have school districts that can’t afford bus services for students and teachers for classrooms, but here we are after nearly 12 hours of session focusing on bathrooms. #Ohio
GEORGIA EX-LT. GOV. @GeoffDuncanGA (Republican): “Enough is enough… the nightmare must end… my fellow Republicans — it is your time to do the right thing. Don’t give Trump another 4 years to destroy this country.” 🇺🇸
BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, Chief Executive Leadership Institute CEO Jeffrey Sonnenfeld says there will not be one Fortune 500 CEO supporting Donald Trump. This is wholly unprecedented. Retweet so all Americans see this shocking news.
The Trump team’s attacks on Jake Tapper are calculated. They’re preemptively trying to discredit the moderators to their base. So if Tapper and Bash ask tough questions, and Trump loses the debate, he’ll falsely cry bias and call the debate rigged. Predictable gaslighting.
There’s a ton about Project 2025 that concerns me, honestly
1. They say abortion isn’t healthcare
2. They want to mass deport 11 million people
3. They want to fire 50,000 civil servants and replace them with sycophants
4. They want to create *actual* concentration camps
I know facts don’t matter; but in 2023—the busiest year for air travel ever—there were 16.3 million U.S. flights and a cancellation rate below 1.2 percent, the lowest rate in a decade.
The most underappreciated story in state legislatures from yesterday is that apparently the Oklahoma Department of Education can't log in to its own website because the person who had the password left and didn't give it to anyone. They haven't been able to login for 2 years.
Ginni Thomas’s aunt on Clarence Thomas:
“He was so nice, we forgot he was Black. He treated her so well, all of his other qualities made up for his being Black.”
via 1991 article in @washingtonpost
FEMA is running out of money after providing so much relief to Texas and Florida.
Why can’t we get @RonDeSantis and @GregAbbott_TX to pay their own fucking bills?
Fundamentalist Christians are putting the Ten Commandments in Louisiana public schools.
Now, their kids will know God is deeply offended by stealing, coveting thy neighbor’s wife, coveting thy neighbor’s goods, adultery & bearing false witness.
And this November, those kids will watch their parents vote for Donald Trump.