O'Donnell on RFKjr
#politics
I managed to miss the naked Hunter pics only to run into naked Melania pics. Lesbian Melania pics no less. What a world. #politics - the hashtag is ridiculous.
BTC
Fundraising numbers, April-June:
Donald Trump: $35M
Ron DeSantis: $20M
Nikki Haley: $7M
Tim Scott: $6M
Mike Pence: $1M
Joe Biden: $72M
And 97% of Biden’s donations were small grassroots donations.#politics
"When your politics becomes who you are, we can't debate that." - Jordan Klepper
#politics
Brian Krassenstein
1989-1992 - Bush increases our deficit.
1993-2000 - Clinton has a budget surplus
2001-2008 - Bush increases our deficit, also sparks Great Recession
2009-2016 - Obama reduces our deficit significantly after an increase as he takes office during the Great Recession
2017-2020 - Trump increases our deficit thanks to Tax Cuts, before Covid explodes our deficit further
2021-2023 - Biden Takes over during Covid and begins reducing our deficit
#politics #deficit
Heather Cox Richardson
Running ghost candidates is one of the techniques outlined in the Russian concept of "political technology," designed to capture a political system without overt violence. #politics #voting #elections #nightmare
Opinion A Georgia teacher’s plight exposes the essence of anti-woke #MAGA fury #breadcrumb #politics
The FBI Wasn't Supposed to Be Political—But It Has Been Since the Beginning
November 2022
#politics
Jennifer Taub
This hypocrisy around debt forgiveness when all those PPP loans were forgiven echos the financial crisis of 2008, when millions lost their homes to foreclosure when Senate blocked reduction of principal on mortgages to sunken value of homes and yet the bankers were bailed out. #politics #SCOTUS
Tim Hogan 浩勤
@TimInHonolulu
1. I was the first lawyer here to advertise consumer bankruptcy in the newspaper. My perspective on student debt controversy comes after a journey most pundits simply never took. As long as I have practiced these loans have been non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. But the way they
were administered in the old days by financial aid departments kept the amount of the loans manageable.
#SCOTUS #politics #SchoolLoans
Florida #politics
Here are 10 controversial Florida laws going into effect today, July 1
This list is horrifying.
Marc E Elias
#DemocracyDocket
Here are key dates and case developments coming up.
July 6, 2023: Oral argument in an appeal of a state-level lawsuit that will determine whether the white, conservative chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court can appoint unelected judges in Jackson (the state’s majority-Black capital) under a recently enacted, anti-democratic law, House Bill 1020.
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#politics #voting #elections #nightmare
Dahlia Lithwick
It is not Debbie Downer to worry that there is a poison pill in the Moore holding that can destabilize elections. It's a logical bet on future outcomes based on the voting rights records of several members of the majority. If the court had wanted to blow up the Independent State Legislature theory altogether it could have done so. Whether something is dicta or a promise is not knowable the day it comes down.
#politics #voting #elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/opinion/supreme-court-independent-state-legislature-theory.html
"Republicans are generally very supportive of the banks and kind of typically make some excuses for bank misbehavior. But what Silicon Valley Bank did, what Signature did, what First Republic did was so outrageous and so egregious and clearly was driven by greed and incompetence that we all could come together and come up with a good bill" -- U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown #politics
Dahlia Lithwick
mine on maybe not being committed to arguing for monarchy
Is a Sliver of the GOP Starting to Get Spooked?
From the justices who have been handing down moderate decisions to the Republicans stepping back from the brink … maybe there’s a limit #politics
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/gop-stepping-back-from-brink.html
The Radical Strategy Behind Trump’s Promise to ‘Go After’ Biden
Conservatives with close ties to Donald J. Trump are laying out a “paradigm-shifting” legal rationale to erase the Justice Department’s independence from the president. #AssWaffle #politics
New Details From Leonard Leo’s Trust Fund Expose the Inner Workings of the Right
Newly obtained documents shed light on a vast and corrupt right-wing influence network. #politics
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