Biden’s Win Was In The Fine Print

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. It’s impossible to go more than 10 minutes on cable news or even one scroll on social media right now without confronting some version of the same argument: that the government shutdown provisionally slated to start this weekend is the fault of Republicans and voters will remember it.

[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] (WASHINGTON) — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is calling on Sen. Bob Menendez to resign, saying in a statement that the federal bribery charges unveiled on Friday against his fellow New Jersey Democrat contain ”shocking allegations of corruption and specific, disturbing details of wrongdoing.” Booker’s statement came Tuesday as a growing number of Democratic senators — at least 11 so far — are calling for the three-term senator to step aside.

[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The controversy started, like so many things nowadays, with an internet rumor. “Dear Women, Tampax pays this man $10,000’s to MOCK YOU,” tweeted a right-wing influencer in April. “Don’t buy Tampax.” The offense in question: transgender TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney had posted a video with the company’s tampons. Online conservatives, enraged by Tampax’s history of trans-focused marketing, were soon excoriating the brand for entering an advertising partnership with Mulvaney.

The marketing team at the leftwing outlet sure knows its (knuckle-dragging) audience.

The news just keeps getting worse and worse for Joe Biden and now his own Democrats are turning on him.

Thanks to the toxins from Justice Neil Gorsuch’s decision about the Civil Rights Act, another American institution must now embrace so-called transgenderism.