The NYT *refuses* to play it straight.
Joe Kent said he lost his wife "in a war manufactured by Israel." She died in Syria in the war on ISIS.
In this soft-focus profile, that's whitewashed. Instead, it's "Kent cited what he said was Israel’s influence over the Trump administration’s policies."
You may be inclined to amplify Joe Kent right now because of concerns over the Iran war.
Don’t.
He’s an extremist with deep ties to Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers who never should have been in this role in the first place (sadly one of many in this administration). 1/
IMO, any Dem is really a lot better off not palling around with a guy who did a CCP fanboy propaganda tour — in which he cried tears of joy when government minders gave him a copy of Mao’s Little Red Book
i'm a critic of at least some of this stuff. but "ferocious cultural revolution" lol
“Democrats must be obsessively focused on making life affordable. That includes increasing supply to bring down the costs of things like health care, energy and housing. It does not mean fighting old battles that Democrats lost in a rout last time," said Matt Bennett. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
Can think of more helpful things to do for the Democratic Party than backing the worst possible candidate in a must-win swing-state Senate race.
Garcia: Donald Trump thinks it’s over. He doesn’t really understand the breadth of what we’re doing here. There is so much new information about Mar-a-Lago—what their role was in the trafficking
Truly insane that the networks took this speech live after refusing to do the same for Biden in 2022
"Before 'know your domain' became a mantra at the bureau, the regional field office in Salt Lake City didn’t even know it was there. 'But Chinese spies did.'" lnk.thebulwark.com/48SMKpv
No doubt, it sounds extremely funny — a work of fiction in which Cheryl Hines is a good person with a loving, faithful, non-murderer husband.
RFK Jr when he sees the Nuzzi portrait youtu.be/tmL0pcfX7dE?...
Acton: I’m running against a guy, Vivek Ramaswamy, who has said that people are struggling in Ohio because they’re lazy, they’re mediocre, they’re not working hard enough. And I can absolutely tell you that is not the Ohioans I know or see. I think he’s completely out of touch.
Sounds like things are going really well
Nancy Pelosi is the single most effective political leader of the modern era. No other living person has given more of themselves for the Democratic Party — worked harder or accomplished more in Washington for the American people.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. (2/2)
In ‘2010, after 1L of law school, I was lucky to intern in Speaker Pelosi’s press office. Never went back to law school & over the next decade in politics, I had no greater honor than helping her take back the gavel in ‘18 as Comms Director at House Majority PAC. (1/2)
Gov. Josh Shapiro: "Make no mistake, Donald Trump is going to try to undermine our midterm election…He's made no bones about the fact that he wants to rig the process going forward. We have to stand tall. We can both deliver for the people we serve and protect our democracy."
The kind of rock solid political instincts you expect from a guy who got his ass handed to him as an incumbent in last year’s Dem primary for his suburban NY congressional seat
Best part of that perfect quote is the kicker, “He is just a vile creature — the worst thing on the face of the Earth — but anyway.”
He can’t even walk a golf course. 😂
They’ll help russia and Belarus, but not the countries needing protection from them.
This isn’t “cancel culture,” it is markedly way worse
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
The man corporate America, powerful institutions, establishment hacks, and the entirety of the right-wing have whitewashed and valorized to the level of sainthood.
Awakenings (1990)
Gonna see a lot of empty platitudes from Repubs today about the anniversary of 9/11. Coming from a party that enthusiastically supports a guy who ordered a terrorist attack on the US Capitol — and often celebrates his terrorist attack — those platitudes are less than meaningless
