wendy beck

Interested in journalism, public policy, education, and figuring things out.

[wendy beck @wsbeck]

#EthosInsuance Your ad with “Whitney Allen” is laughably bad. Her affect is more privileged Valley girl than widow. Worst radio ad ever.

[wendy beck @wsbeck]

@tedlieu @CheriJacobus @WhiteHouse And how the doctor who examined him could come to the conclusions he did. Cognitive dissonance. Believe your own eyes .

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Wow.

Why this does not concern more Americans is so strange to me.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Have you noticed that our political campaigns are almost completely devoid of ideas? No arguing over the size and scope of government. No arguing over America’s role in the world. It’s all personalities, “vibes,” and memes. Our political culture has been badly degraded. Its perfect symbol is that grotesque “cage” on the White House lawn.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Tax the oligarchy like the working class

[Rahm Emanuel @RahmEmanuel]

We've been divided before. That's not new.

What's new is a President who wakes up every morning and decides to make it worse — pitting Americans against each other so nobody notices he's not solving a single thing.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

It is Albanians, not Americans, who are protesting against American corruption.
The US appears to have accepted the corruption of the Trump family, so we Americans have to rely upon the sound anti-corruption sentiments of others.
Truly embarrassing, but thank you, Albania!

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

"Pro-life"

[Calico Skies Radio | McCartney 👐🏻 @calicoradio]

🐦‍⬛ Acaba de lograr un nuevo número 1️⃣ en UK y lo agradece. Casi 84 años. No para. Mítico. Leyenda. Adorable. Genio. McCartney es todo y mucho más. Felicidades, maestro!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Is it not obvious to every American with active firing neurons?

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family.

That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know.

I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Add schedule F to the list of things that the next president will have to undo

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

In this video, I say the obvious about Trump’s proposal to increase the military budget by nearly 50%: it’s a bribe to officers and soldiers so that they will side with him when he tries to overthrow the Constitution and stay in power indefinitely.
https://t.co/ZbXioastzV

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

They tried so hard to suppress this video today.

But because of YOU, it is now TRENDING.

Please RETWEET and QUOTE TWEET this important video reminding us all WHO WE WERE BEFORE TRUMP

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: Trump is using a specific language from the 1930s: “enemies within,” “enemies of the people,” migrants and political opponents as “vermin,” migrants “poisoning the blood” of Americans.

That language comes from Hitler, Stalin and the Stasi. 1/

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[wendy beck @wsbeck]

MUST listen. It’s about more than vacation time. It’s comparative politics and why we have so many different unions and no overall power! Europe gets more vacations than the U.S. Here are some reasons why. : Planet Money : NPR https://t.co/vf4WmiG83I

[wendy beck @wsbeck]

@DavidAFrench It’s also about getting a senate majority. I wish he were better.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

This week alone:

DOJ opens an investigation into the woman Trump raped.

The White House is caught steering a $620 million contract to Don Jr.’s firm.

The Pentagon hands out a $10 billion contract after Trump buys stock in the company.

Foreign governments are caught funneling hundreds of millions into a random JPMorgan account tied to Trump’s “Board of Peace” with no oversight.

It’s just Thursday.

The corruption isn’t hidden anymore. It’s happening out in the open.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

"At the moment, the United States is negotiating with a regime that President Trump claimed we had already changed, to open a strait that was supposed to be open last month, and to end a nuclear program that we said we had obliterated."

So no, things are not going well: https://t.co/N1whNpkzAw