raise your hand if you’re deeply disturbed almost every day by the inability of the richest country in the world to do basic things
Akela Lacy
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Akela Lacy
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Human | reporter @theintercept & co-host 🎙️ The Intercept Briefing podcast | past lives @POLITICO @pulitzercenter | Philly bred | [email protected]
- Loeffler ran ads darkening Warnock’s skin and Perdue ran ads enlarging Ossoff’s nose and I’m not done thinking about that
- Biden is consistently polling on average under 20 percent with voters ages 18-29 and I don’t know if anyone truly understands what that might mean for the future of the Democratic Party
- my best friend’s grandfather died this weekend, and they just got news that he was positive for coronavirus. her dad is also positive, and she’s caring for him while her mom cares for her grandmother separately so it doesn’t spread to her. why are we holding elections today
- can’t think of a better way to ensure that racism persists than labeling every attempt to criticize it as cancel culture
- "dissent must never lead to disorder" is a pretty remarkable thing to say in a country founded on both of those things
- I just walked in on someone washing two kittens in the bathroom at the Atlanta airport
- should she pretend she's not palestinian? orNew: Rep. Rashida Tlaib still has a Palestinian flag hanging outside her House Office amid Hamas’ invasion of Israel. Story: washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/tla…
- Pelosi spent the last three months protecting Henry CuellarA somber Speaker Pelosi starts off her presser with reaction to Roe decision. “There’s no point in saying good morning because it certainly is not one.” She says Republicans are planning a “nationwide abortion ban” if they get control of Congress
- Rep. Omar: it’s been unconscionable “to witness my colleagues in this administration refusing to recognize the genocidal war that is taking place in Gaza … working tirelessly for a ceasefire is really not a thing and they should be ashamed of themselves”
00:00 - they really ordered a hit on the guy in Portland and we’re just gonna continue on about our lives
- Republicans are master distractors and Democrats have no strategy beyond “vote”
- It’s wild that this is the main narrative we would have without WKCR, whose broadcast is buckling under the flood of listenersOn CNN @andersoncooper won’t stop implying that the students occupying the hall aren’t students. He’s not disclosing and explaining what this is based on.
