Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

I’ll answer the question directly: I take Black and Hispanic voters seriously. I’ve been listening across the state, and I’ll deliver on what families tell me they need: lower costs, safer communities, better schools, and real small business opportunity.

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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

For comparison, here is the line on Second Street back in January during a night with subzero wind chills waiting to visit President Carter‘s casket in the Capitol Rotunda:

Meaning that TACO Trump received frantic phone calls from some of his rich friends who employ migrants.

Great footnote here in the section on standing.

Watson Coleman Offers to Help Kean, Van Drew, and Smith Explain to Their Constituents Their Votes to Cut Medicaid

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This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour: “It has become ever more apparent that, to our president the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals, the rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain."

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

hey question, is this bad?

On 1/10/17, 10 days before his second term as President ended, Barack Obama tweeted: “Thank you for everything. My last ask is the same as my first. I'm asking you to believe—not in my ability to create change, but in yours.”

Please remember that together, we can change the world.

Isn’t it interesting that Trump’s DoJ told local Florida authorities not to investigate Gaetz because of the ongoing federal probe, then did nothing until the statute of limitations expired? Exactly what they tried to do in the Stormy Daniels case in NY. 🤔

This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it.

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While Trump crows about his great COVID record, remember this, from the COVID Crisis Group (a bipartisan collection of scientists and public health experts), in a study published last year.
Excerpt from The Death of Expertise, second edition.