Sincere question: why can't Schumer suspend the filibuster for the debt ceiling only, and then either raise it or eliminate it with 51 votes? Have Manchin/Sinema signaled they won't even go along with that?
I hate that I even have to devote brain cells to this, we are a failed state
"The global economy may collapse because the Senate must say the magic words that allow them to pay for the debt they've incurred" dumbest possible timeline
The Anti-Defamation League rightly calls the great replacement a "racist conspiracy theory." If I were Joe Biden I would boot Fox News from the White House briefing room until the network retracted this and apologized for it.
Seriously when is anyone in a position of real-world power going to put their foot down when it comes to this stuff? "If you spread unequivocally racist conspiracy theories you are not allowed in the briefing room" is not a terribly strict standard to uphold
Ditto for @APSAtweets and their John Eastman fiasco: "If you attempt to overturn the results of a free and fair election you are not allowed to speak at our conference." We're talking about bare minimum stuff here!
Oh, I know! You invite the chief architect of the former president's coup attempt to give a talk at your annual meeting, thereby lending your credibility to that effort and raising the odds that it happens again!
@APSAtweets "strongly condemns... all those who have continuously endorsed and disseminated falsehoods and misinformation, and who have worked to overturn the results of a free and fair Presidential Election." Not strong enough to disinvite them from your conference though, eh?
It's easy to gloss over this. Who gives a shit who a relatively obscure academic group invites to their conference! But it drives me nuts because this is *precisely* how democratic backsliding gets normalized.
Just so we're clear, @MnDPS_DPS is saying that the likelihood of its officers shooting people for complying with their orders is so high that they recommended drivers carry a special device to prevent that from happening.
You could have profiled the wife, @latimes. You could have written about the kids. Instead you wrote a puff piece about a murderer. What the fuck were you guys thinking?
Editors will respond with some pablum like “we wanted to understand what happened here.” But this piece does *none* of that. No insight into any radicalization. No serious probing of the mental illness. Just 2,000 words of “he was such a great guy and then suddenly this happened”
This is only happening because the Trump admin decided to take wolves off the endangered list last fall. Now would be a great time for the Biden White House to put wolves back on the endangered list, where they belong, and put an end to this nonsense.