AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"
Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state.
The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
Tonight, we’re kicking off our Clear Eyes, Full Hearts Tour with some special guests from the cast of Friday Night Lights.
We’ve come this far together. Now it’s time to leave it all on the field.
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JD Vance: "I've not seen a single shred of evidence that Donald Trump participates or sanctions in that corruption ... I've not once seen evidence that Donald Trump has enriched himself"
Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.
BREAKING WaPo:
Trump officials scrutinized Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2019. They didn't find citizenship issues.
The earlier review of Omar's immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.
UPDATE: @billmaher says he’s having dinner with Trump again next week 🤔
(As he attacks Larry David for calling him out for glazing Trump after the last dinner— calling Larry a “hypocrite” and “not a political sophisticate”)
When Bill shows you who he is, believe him
CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday aired humiliating footage of pervasive empty seats at President Donald Trump's rally in Youngstown, Ohio, one week after Trump insisted he has never had an empty seat and never will.
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
I am angry tonight.
Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.
ICE makes this city less safe.
We want them out. Now.
"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate
Danish artist Jens Galschiøt unveiled a sculpture depicting a naked US President Donald Trump surrounded by golf equipment. It was unveiled on the grounds of the European Parliament building in Strasbourg.
De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away. What do we tell him? Your fucking hands off our vote
I am facing 17 years in federal prison for doing my job and standing up to Trump’s merciless immigration enforcement campaign. I am finding the strength to keep standing up every single day.
Rep. Beatty on what Trump said on a call today about the Kennedy Center: "He wanted to blame me if someone died, if something happened, if the ceiling fell in. And I reminded him he has us at war and people are dying."
"Shame on you!" chant breaks out as Roger Marshall makes excuses for his medical debt collection practices experts called "extreme" and "unbelievably aggressive."
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
Crowds took to the streets of Dublin to protest Trump’s visit to Ireland, with demonstrators invoking Trump’s ties to Epstein and his alliance with Netanyahu.
Kamlager-Dove on Speaker Johnson: I know he’s got to get ready for this gaslighting convention that they have next week in Dallas. I’m just going to ask Grindr to make sure you are at capacity because Republicans are coming to a town near you.
Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year
“Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November”
from last night: Olivia Rodrigo and Stevie Nicks, "Landslide," from Rodrigo's inaugural Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival which raised $20M for groups including Planned Parenthood, National Network of Abortion Funds, Girls Inc., the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and Indigenous Women Rising.
Child: It’s the mayor.
Mamdani: *laughs*
Child: What? You are the mayor. You could become the king.
Mamdani: I’m happy as the mayor. Jalen Brunson is the king.
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe.
But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario
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"What did he do to deserve to be murdered, to be left cold, on the ground, dead, my child? What did he do? ... they don't care ... I expect an apology. Why shouldn't we get one?" -- Alex Pretti's mom
El-Sayed: I thought you were for the everyday man. If you're for billionaires, you and I disagree.
Watters: I just think I have the right to the fruits of my own labor
El-Sayed: Billionaires don't make their money off of their labor. They make their money off their money