Very strange that every four years we have to tell formally educated leftists that pragmatic progress is in fact better than Republican regress.

America fought a civil war over slavery for a more perfect union as a multiracial democracy. White backlash was swift, violent, and, like today's GOP, pushed disinformation, rewrote history and weaponized govt & courts to legalize and entrench minority power.

Timely Ari Berman⬇️

Shaq: I'm disappointed in New Orleans, where they going, Chuck?

Chuck: Galveston. That dirty-ass water. We're not even gonna send them to Cancun. We're gonna send them to Galveston where that dirty-ass water be washed up on the shore.

Keon Coleman (FSU WR, No. 33 pick) in his introductory press conference with the Buffalo Bills. 🏈🤣 #NFLDraft

(h/t: Matthew Bové; 7 News WKBW)

Such a good thread

You can be someone who works your ass off to change minds and make progress, or you can treat politics as a way to make yourself feel good about how right you think you are.

I also implore voters to reward this kind of substantive reporting with your attention.
Part of the reason media devotes so much time and energy to horserace/rage-bait/etc is that's what audiences click, watch, consume (whatever their stated preferences) washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

I implore my industry to devote more resources to covering what the presidential candidates would actually *do* if given a second term (not merely how they poll/are perceived), as this critical scoop from Andrew Restuccia Nick Timiraos Alex Leary @wsj illustrates so well.

'Donald Trump is incapable of running anything, let alone the most powerful country in the history of the world.' --North America's Building Trades Unions President Sean McGarvey in a new ad.

.Chris Hayes: Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago on April 17, 2020?

Another four years of Biden will solidify some of the biggest gains in decades for labor, workers and wages across both industrial and service sectors. Another four years of Trump will stop that in its tracks and make everything else worse.

Teaching my first History course this semester has been rewarding but I don’t know what to do with this student

President Biden: Just the other day a defeated-looking guy came up to me and asked if I could help. He was drowning in debt. I said I'm sorry, Donald, but I can't help you

Three Olympic gold medals. Two national player of the year awards at Virginia. Six WNBA all-star appearances. Three national titles in seven years as a head coach. It's a very short list in basketball history of folks who have a better overall resume than Dawn Staley.

PSA for the media: Comparing the normie Dem who got major legislation passed resulting in historic investments in clean technologies with the coup attempting, classified document stealing wanna be dictator is not a 'lesser of two evils' situation.

Here is a story I would love to see more people write about.

Suppose you start with a full employment economy but where people are hoping for lower interest rates.

Now you raise the deficit, shrink the workforce, and impose a 10% tax on all imports. What happens?

If you can get to the path of totality for the #solareclipse2024 you should. It is literally a night and day difference from 99% to 100% coverage. It is a life-changing experience. Here's a look at the path of 100% totality through the middle of the U.S.

Donald, I’m glad you asked.

An amazing moment.

Trump took a softball question that any halfway normal politician (meaning not a deranged narcissistic psychopath) would have knocked out of the park, treated it as hostile (because answering it required a modicum of empathy), and attacked the reporter.

With Trump planning mass deportations and detention camps, and the Trump-aligned Project 2025 calling for the doubling of immigrant detention space, private prison company GEO Group is pouring $500K into Trump's super PAC through a subsidiary. docquery.fec.gov/pdf/106/202403…

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