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not the most notable or monstrous thing about the monster, but it's absolutely wild how trump just openly, reflexively sympathizes with sexual assailants any time he's asked about a sex assault matter. it's genuinely fucking crazy. open fucking rapist president

I can't really believe it but it seems to be the case that the Times has not covered a credible accusation of rape against the President of the United States, but has two solid stories on Obama's cheesecake factory quip.

There is truly nothing you could do to make fun of the NYT covering the Obama Cheesecake Factory quip instead of Trump being accused of rape. It’s completely beyond parody.

FFS, NY Times!! He is not pursing “economic incentives” to “secure an end to the war in Ukraine!” He is giving Putin this money in exchange for gifting Lukoil to his friends, family and Middle Eastern bag men!

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This doesn't even make sense.

Alabama not only gerrymandered to eliminate a minority seat but they delayed their primary only for the 2 Black seats and 2 adjacent seats so that they could box out Shomari. The fact that Trump is now trying to shore up Shomari’s opponent tells you how things are going for the GOP.

The Vance signature move: When you can't succeed by emulating Richard Nixon alone, try emulating George Wallace

There's so much else wrong with this stupid lawsuit but on this specific point: despite being "busy" with "lives" and "jobs," Alaskans were able to spell M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I when they reelected her to the Senate as a write-in candidate in 2010 after she lost the GOP primary.

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

CBS deleted this post and reposted it admitting that their original one was misleading. And the misleading post from CBS was intentionally misleading, not an innocent mistake. CBS continues to lose credibility.

Major press failure: treating Jared Kushner taking foreign bribes and shaping US foreign policy as less relevant than Hunter Biden not taking bribes nor influencing policy. Covering Kushner accurately was considered partisan, biased. Lies about Hunter or his minor actions treated as more important.

Feb 26

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

So disgusting. The cavalier racism, bigotry, and misogyny spewed by these scuzzbuckets every single day.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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No. The charges are already time barred. Under the relevant statute of limitations, an indictment must be filed within 10 years of the offense, which allegedly occurred on October 5, 2016. This DOJ is out of control.

My most important endorsement comes from my husband, Bryan. I couldn’t do what I do without him!

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

🚨Illinois Governor JB Pritzker calls for Trump to be REMOVED via the 25th Amendment: "There is something genuinely wrong with this man..." The calls to remove Trump are growing LOUDER.

In 1964, blue collar support for the dems peaked at 80%. After that, the dems pushed civil rights through, it dropped to 47% in 1968, then 38% in 1972. The workers left the dem party because the dem party first fought for civil rights for black people, then women, then latinos and then queers.

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

These racist, festering lesions don’t get to dictate what it means to be an American.

Bolsonaro had corrupt media on his side, Meta interference on his side, US propaganda operations, and his party's officials actively sabotaging public transport in Lula strongholds to prevent turnout. Yet he was still beaten by the power of voter turnout.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

Yet another reason to vote for Democrats!

I want this so badly…

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

This is true. Qatar is widely believed to be the biggest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Two more years of this?

The next 10 days will be monumental, with elections in Serbia, Brazil, Israel and the US. This one was a victory for democracy.

seriously, though, while the U.S. continues to set everything in its line of vision on fire, achieving a bunch of cooperative multilateral goals rests even more on the outcome of critical elections in Brazil, Germany, and France, alongside a few others

A stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, whose government cultivated close ties with Donald Trump and his family, has conceded defeat to a student-led opposition movement in a historic parliamentary election.

Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.

Oops. Left out the Terrorist Fist Jab and the Caffe Latte Salute

Republicans say this without hoods on. Progess I guess. So, so disgusting.

"What a..... Does it piss me off!" He nearly did.

I missed this one at the time: "Vance lamented the Supreme Court upholding the separation of church and state, saying at a Turning Point USA event, 'I think it was a terrible mistake, and we’re still paying for the consequences of it today.'”

Trump Unleashes Racist Tirade That should be the headline in every newspaper.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”