'I detect an undercurrent of self-doubt among some Americans about what your role in the world should be...At a time when our world is at history's turning point...Freedom and democracy are currently under threat around the globe.'

— Japanese PM Fumio Kishida addresses Congress

Edie Falco has a message for maga white supremacists.

Trump’s former Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Donald Trump:

'I do regard him as a threat to democracy.'

Bill Barr on what would happen if Trump was re-elected:

“He’s already saying it’s going to be about retribution, and he’s a very petty man, and it’s all about him. And he has a very fragile ego...Things would start moving toward chaos.”

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Putin’s genocidal plan to wipe Ukraine off the map has failed. He is in no position to negotiate. The war must end with his unconditional surrender. 🧵

NOTABLE: When Trump filed his sprawling lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the judge who got the case — Donald Middlebrooks — noted that Trump had filed the suit in the Fort Pierce division, an apparent attempt to get it before ... Judge Aileen Cannon.
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Interesting. Folks have been confusing 'redistricting helps Republicans a lot relative to some nonpartisan baseline' (true) and 'redistricting helps Republicans a lot relative to 2012-2020' (not really, because 2010 redistricting was also favorable for them).

The intellectual dishonesty that we have seen in critiques of Biden's handling of the exit from Afghanistan has been spectacular.

“I started the process, all the troops are coming home, they (Biden) couldn’t stop the process. 21 years is enough. They (Biden) couldn’t stop the process, they (Biden) wanted to but couldn’t stop the process.”

- Trump, 1 month ago

Political opportunists exploiting a tragedy for TV time. Two more nominees for the Scummy Awards for Miami Mierda 2021. I’d say shame on Mayor Francis Suarez and Dan Gelber — but they have none. #BecauseMiami

Since we took office, we’ve gone from an economy in crisis to one that is projected to grow faster than it has in nearly 40 years.

That’s progress. Let’s keep it going.

“There is simply nothing more dangerous for a two-party democracy than to have one party declare that no election where it loses is legitimate, and, therefore, if it loses it will just lie about the results and change the rules.” nytimes.com/2021/05/04/opi…

The GOP wants corporate donations but doesn’t want their opinion.

The GOP wants your vote but doesn’t want your opinion.

They want power. They don’t want to govern.

After his election, Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez Gimenez promised to be less partisan. But this vote, which may be the most important he’ll ever take, seems to undermine that pledge and leaves him open to the charge he placed loyalty to Trump above all else. CBS News Miami

This organized riot and attempted coup has been planned for quite some time, initiated by Donald J. Trump and supported by hundreds of elected Republicans.

The #FBI must conduct a through investigation and hold EVERY SINGLE one accountable.

No one is above the law.

Ironically Georgia’s runoff system was created to prevent Black candidates from winning elections. Now the first Black senator in Georgia was elected in a runoff. Also, without this system, David Perdue would have definitively won re-election in November.

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

Republicans are corporate socialists. Democrats are compassionate capitalists.

Whitehouse to his Republican colleagues: 'Don't think that when you have established the rule of 'because we can,' that should the shoe be on the other foot, you will have any credibility.'