A thread as you remember Jackie Mason, who campaigned for Rudy Giuliani in 19189 until he made a series of racist attacks on David Dinkins.

This is Mason telling Arsenio Hall about campaigning for Rudy — before he was booted. ...and this is the rest of the appearance, in which a bemused Arsenio does his best to let Mason rescue the bit. Mason would go on to get reluctantly dropped by Rudy for remarks about Mr. Dinkins, like...

Visiting my mom in the hospital for possibly the last time today. I happened to pick this shirt, and then I remembered it's the exact same color as the cushion she handmade me for my sousaphone (yep, I played that).

https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/1403030531638497287

Lots of reminders of Mom today. Passed an AccessLink van on the Parkway, that's how she would come to see us sometimes. Passed a Stewart's. That was our special place when I was little. She...

CNN poll undersampled Black voters — that's how Trump made up 10 points over last month. THREAD.

Wondering how Trump closed his gap with Biden from 14 points in June to 4 points in August? So was I.

June cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2020/image…

August cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2020/image… There are 2 related reasons. The June poll included an oversample of Black voters, while the August poll did not sample enough Black voters to include them in crosstabs, which means fewer than 125 (see poll methodology). And the Aug poll oversampled "battleground states" voters.

THREAD on the Joe Biden "n-word" video smear that's been going around. It's obvious he's quoting someone, this is the passage it was clipped from. He was grilling a Reagan nominee about pre-clearing an obviously racist redistricting plan. mediaite.com/a/isgeg Biden first brought up the quote the day before, but the video was jacked up, there's only audio. He was reading from a memo that the nominee William Bradley Reynolds saw BEFORE he precleared the racist plan. mediaite.com/a/isgeg

"You said what you said!" - absolutely BRUTAL grilling of Mulvaney by Chris Wallace on quid pro quo. Full sequence pt 1

@fawfulfan @leahmcelrath @emilycrockett @Mediaite There are a few reasons why this bothers me, but I'd first like us all to agree on the facts. What she said in 2007 is definitely in conflict with what she says now, and what she said in 2007 was factual. She lacked the credentials to keep the job. @fawfulfan @leahmcelrath @emilycrockett @Mediaite From a purely political perspective, Warren has considerable strengths, but also vulnerabilities that need to be addressed and aren't. They need to be addressed before she's the nominee, not exploited after. So I'll stipulate to her strengths.

1. Here's a thread on this thread. The @SenFeinstein video needs to be viewed 2 ways, on the optics and the substance. On the optics, there's clearly a gulf between the edited and the full video.

https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/1099137889043140609

@SenFeinstein 2. All of the conflict occurs after @SenFeinstein agrees she might vote YES on #GND, and spends several minutes engaging substantively on the issue. That's important context that they left out.

Here's the @SenFeinstein video threaded #DianneFeinstein To recap: she engaged on substance, told them she might vote "yes," and OFFERED ONE OF THEM AN INTERNSHIP. pt 1 @SenFeinstein Here's the @SenFeinstein video threaded #DianneFeinstein pt 2

Something getting lost in the blizzard of gross that was Kelly's statement: there were MANY lies, not 1. Let's count ijr.com/2017/10/100192… 1. "when he died, he was surrounded by the best men on this Earth: his friends." Lie. Sgt. Johnson was alone at best ijr.com/2017/10/100192…