Former President Donald Trump has spent much of this week freaking out about Project 2025, the initiative that produced the 900-page extremist right-wing guidebook for the next conservative administration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“I revere this office, but I love my country more.”
The line was perhaps the defining takeaway of President Joe Biden’s Thursday night address to the nation, his first since announcing his decision to drop out of the presidential race.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress as a partisan. He spoke not so much as a foreign leader, but, instead, as a man from Pennsylvania participating in United States domestic politics and leading the American right.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWhen his uncle Donald became president, Fred Trump III—whose son William, due to a rare genetic mutation, has seizures and an intellectual disability—saw an opportunity to advocate for disability rights.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOn Monday, an Illinois county sheriff’s department released body camera footage showing the fatal shooting of a Black woman who originally called 911 for help. Earlier this month, Deputy Sean Grayson shot 36-year-old Sonya Massey after she attempted to move a pot of water off of her stove at the officer’s behest.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“You can tell a lot by a laugh,” Donald Trump told supporters the other day, reviving a weird and arguably very sexist right-wing criticism of his new White House rival, Kamala Harris.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
When police kill someone, a medical examiner lists their cause of death—which plays a significant role in whether a police officer will be held accountable.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEven before President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race on Sunday afternoon, Republicans already had a line of attack prepared against the likely Democratic nominee Kamala Harris: “Border czar.”
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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOn July 21, soon after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, British pop icon Charli XCX broke the internet—and middle-aged political pundits’ brains—by declaring Vice President Kamala Harris “is brat.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOn Monday, a federal court struck down restrictions on an Ohio law that made it a felony for a non-family member to help return a disabled person’s absentee ballot to a mailbox or dropbox.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
On Monday morning, less than 24 hours after President Joe Biden announced his exit from the 2024 presidential race and anointed Vice President Kamala Harris as his heir apparent, far-right influencers took to social media to hurl racial epithets at the first mixed-race, female presidential candidate in history.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“You hear ‘DEI’ and you probably think of your job’s HR department,” explains Kat Abughazaleh. “But for your QAnon uncle, ‘DEI’ is an activation phrase to send the most unhinged memes in the family group chat.” In her new video for Mother Jones, Kat dives into the right’s obsessive co-opting of the term “DEI”—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—to attack Donald Trump’s new 2024 foe, Vice President Kamala Harris:
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareRemember June 27? That was when President Joe Biden delivered his bewildering and bewildered—empty eyes, mouth agape—performance in the now-infamous televised debate against former president Donald Trump.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareVice President Kamala Harris’ days as a courtroom prosecutor are long behind her.
But in her first official campaign speech as a presidential candidate in Milwaukee on Tuesday, she made it clear that it was that job, and those that followed—as District Attorney of San Francisco and Attorney General of California—that make her the best person to take on Trump.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOn Sunday night, more than 40,000 Black women reportedly gathered on a Zoom call.
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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEven after the attempted assassination of their presidential candidate, the GOP remains focused on being shitty: During a House Oversight Committee hearing Monday, several GOP representatives blamed Donald Trump’s assassination attempt on the Secret Service hiring women.
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