I see a lot of people being like “where are the Democrats right now???” The answer is that they’re in power all over the country sending their police out to attack protesters
Jack Mirkinson
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Jack Mirkinson
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- we are supposed to believe that the young people working to end mass slaughter are the threat and that the riot squads sent in to brutalize them are the peacekeepers
- nothing says "emergency" like "this can wait until tomorrow"New: House Democrats are holding an “emergency virtual caucus meeting” TOMORROW at 1 pm over the “Illegal Republican Funding Freeze,” per a notice that just went out to members
- israelis get to share their suffering at the dnc, and they get to speak about the suffering of palestinians, but palestinians don't get to speak for themselves. only one group of people is deemed worthy of being heard.Jon and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, parents of one of the hostages, call for a deal that returns hostages and "ends the suffering of innocent civilians in Gaza."
00:00 - just on a human level it's wild that biden is destroying his presidency for someone whose main political tactic is to publicly humiliate himBREAKING: Netanyahu attacks the Biden administration in a new video: "I told Secretary Blinken it's inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel"
00:00 - the lesson of zohran mamdani walloping one of the most racist campaigns in modern us history on the largest turnout since 1969 is that democrats need to move to the right
- Do people not remember the literal hurricane where Trump basically let Puerto Rico drown, wait why am I even asking this question
- lol sky news has a running tally of resignations during boris johnson's hearing and it keeps ticking up while he's talking
- the cdc telling all of us to just vibe with covid three seconds after the president of the united states was kept in a sealed tomb for like a month until he tested negative is really something
- biden ending his speech with "i dissent" is a perfect encapsulation of his approach to the court—he sees himself as akin to a dissenting justice who only has the power to complain, rather than a politician with the ability to do—or even try to do—something about the court
- harris literally said out loud on live television that she couldn't think of something she would have done differently from the deeply unpopular president that voters were screaming at for years not to run againThe excitement of Biden stepping down and Kamala getting the nomination was all about the feeling that this was something new and that things could change. The Harris campaign in the months between then and the election seemed determined to beat back that premise.
- can we please circle back to that whole "joe biden should drop out" thing we'd been talking about
- looking forward to the unexpected storyline where miranda gets kicked out of Columbia for wearing this shirt
