Distracted lawyer, lapsed reporter, occasional songwriter. Longtime Iowan in New York; current New Yorker in Iowa.
One more time: While many people insist they need to stay on Twitter to keep informed about the real world, staying on Twitter is more likely to misinform you about the real world. Stop marinating your brain in the right-wing fever swamp. It's actively making you dumber.
Jonathan V. LastWorst part of the new @status.news report is that the Bari Weiss team appears to get its view of what is actually happening in the world from Twitter. They were asking Vega to include things that *weren't real* b/c they didn't know any better. www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...
This should be a lightbulb moment for Democrats: You are free to run on this platform because Republicans are going to accuse you of it whether you do or not!
Aaron RuparTrump: "The Democrats are gonna terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance and then they're gonna approve DC and Puerto Rico as states. They get 4 more senators, 12 more congressmen, like 40 electoral votes ... you don't want to see me cry."
If there's one thing Trump has usefully revealed it's that the gatekeepers in the media who supposedly had so much reverence for Support The Troops and Dead Soldiers etc when those things were being deployed to hurt Democrats were just liars and never cared about this even a little.
Ivan the K ™I would never presume to know how a Gold Star family feels or what they should say. However if I were in one today, I'd be absolutely ripshit with Trump.
