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It’s time to turn the page on the dusty, antiquated sexism-disguised-as-strength that Trump represents and to reject the Evangelical/Republican/MAGA toxic masculinity once-and-for-all.
Roads, railways and bridges are experiencing increasing levels of damage and degradation because of the steady rise in temperatures. Left unconfronted, this situation will only worsen.
Energy in politics can’t be bought, and it can’t be manufactured. It has to just be there. Tonight, in an arena filled to its 12,000 capacity in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz reminded Democrats who they are.
It’s not Bill Barr‘s first time playing cover-up for a Republican president who committed crimes that rise to the level of treason against America.
Jenna Ellis pleads guilty, again, in Arizona this time. And has agreed to give testimony about Trump's conspiracy to steal the 2020 election using fake electors.
Contestants in the Weird Olympics will be scored on the shortness of time they hold ideological positions, a position’s outlandishness and the aesthetics of its total illogicality. Judges give bonus scores for bald-faced lying.
Trump is more and more obsessed with crowd size these days. Could be because Kamala Harris filled the same venue in Atlanta that he didn't. But there was no shortage of people he decided to blame for it.
Kamala Harris has a real opportunity to contrast her humor and positive energy with a very dark vision from the GOP—without letting them dictate when it’s OK for her to laugh.
Things are looking up on this Saturday in August. Winning against Trump is a moral necessity, and Kamala Harris, the vice president of the United States of America is getting it done.
And for eight years we began to sleepwalk through the world, physically here and moving through daylight but not fully present, not totally seeing—caught between the true nightmare and the imagined dream.
If election-denying Republican officials refuse to certify votes in battleground states, lawsuits will be filed in every county and statewide by Democrats to force the certification of the elections.
Whether Kamala Harris will be an effective president is a matter for the voters to decide in a few months. But as a legal matter, she is absolutely eligible to hold the office.
Every time one of Trump’s extravagant claims encounters reality, it’s another blow not only to his campaign. Now that he is a former president out there begging for votes, his braggadocio rings even more hollow.
As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared—to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with MAGA loyalists—remain.
Trump is panicked, and as this appearance proves, when he is panicked, he makes mistakes. His biggest mistake this time was agreeing to speak to an audience that would catch his lies every time he uttered them.
It’s been around 70 years since the McCarthy era. And most Americans today have no direct memory of its excesses and the damage done, both to families targeted and to Americans’ trust in our institutions of government.
