Hey @benjaminwittes-- Does the CDC Director who doctored/altered the CDC "meatpacking" reports- who assisted the Trump Admins efforts to alter these reports to produce info that led to 100s of deaths- could he face any criminal charges??
@sounds like @maddow is going to post the real vs watered down reports. That will tell us a lot.
And @Lawrence is so awesome. He is massively supportive of women and thus, obviously comfortable about his own (impressive) achievements so he's able to celebrate those of his female colleagues. On my new fancy website, I am going to do a lot of celebrating of awesome people
Power panel @ZerlinaMaxwell & @Yamiche. Y'all should check out my @ElectionWsphr convo w Zerlina about her book- The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide
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The Cycle Monday Memo
Live Free. Die fast. Get Digested Slowly
Let’s begin with a quick vibe check. Are you breathing air with an AQI over 300 today? Wearing Crocs in public because it’s too hot for socks but too dangerous to go barefoot? Great. Then you’re ready for this week’s news.
The Elon Musk Civil War: America Party Edition
First up, our favorite discount Bond villain, Elon Musk, declared civil war on the Republican Party this week by suggesting he’s launching the “America Party,” a political vehicle so inspiring it was conceived during a Twitter poll with as much methodological rigor as your drunk uncle asking, “Who wants to go to Waffle House?” at 3am.
Now, Musk says he didn’t actually file an FEC filing for a new party. That’s what his lawyer told him, anyway. So maybe he did, maybe he didn’t. He’s a busy guy juggling at least 6 jobs with a ketamine and video game addiction.
What we know for sure: conservative influencers lost their minds at the idea.
In case you’re wondering how Trump feels about it, he issued his usual sized rant, to which Elon responded: I ain’t reading that.”
Elon Musk has decided America needs a new political party. And not just any party – the America Party, founded on the deeply inspiring and universally unifying mission of… eliminating the national debt??
(Please RT this!)
Don’t get me wrong, there is always decent public support for lowering the debt, theoretically.
Its when you get into the specifics of how to achieve debt reduction, which requires either massive tax increases or massive spending cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, that support drops massively.
🧵🚨🧨🎇🎆U.S. Blues
States Once Ruled Your Mind, Body, and Bedroom.
They Want to Do It Again
Tomorrow is July 4th. Independence Day. Almost 250 years since America went to war to declare itself free from being ruled by a king and created government for the people, by the people.
For the love of democracy, please RT👇
But for the first time since the Civil War, the survival of American democracy is at stake.
100 years ago, Americans were not all that free, and certainly not free in the modern sense.
Most Americans had almost no protection from government overreach – not just from the federal government, but from their state governments.
States could ban birth control. States could segregate schools, buses, and lunch counters. States could make it illegal to publish certain books or possess certain films. States could search your home or tap your phone with few limits. States could shut down your speech. Your liberties were almost entirely at the mercy of state governments.
Shit has hit the fan in LA and other Blue cities as the realities of rounding up millions of people, many of whom have lived in the U.S. for years or came as children and have grown up American begin to take root. thecycle.substack.com/p/the-cycle-mo…
For those of us who’ve spent the last 6 months discussing how Trump would use mass deportations to create chaos is the Blue states and then use that chaos as an excuse to declare a national emergency and seize total power, things are right on schedule.
Although MAGA seems to think Democrats created the illegal immigration problem, the issues with illegal immigration dates back decades and is a byproduct of decisions made by the last 8 or 9 presidents combined.
Here’s the truth they don’t teach in high school civics or scream about on Fox News: America didn’t always have a “border crisis.”