By Senator Tim Kaine, posted on Kaine's official facebook and other social media today. This is powerful and intelligent and I'm so proud to have voted for him for Vice President.

Thoughts on a Saturday Morning:

So many of you have reached out-while the Capitol attack was going on and in the days since-to ask how I am and express your deep concern ( Read more... )

I strongly encourage everyone to go read an entire newspaper account of yesterday’s events. Social media is not a news outlet. (And if you need proof of that, just look at how far we got into yesterday before they were willing to suspend Trump’s accounts...)

In amidst everything else that's been going on, don't miss the occasional good news - like the administration being rebuked by the courts again in their ongoing attempt to discriminate against trans people in the military.
The Ninth Circuit ruling holds that the stay requested by the government “would upend, rather than preserve, the status quo,” ( Read more... )

I recommend today's episode of NYT's The Daily, "Trump Sides With Putin" for catching up on yesterday's debacle in Helsinki with a reporter who was there and paints a vivid picture of what it was like to report on the presser.

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[x-posted from my tumblr with light editing for clarity and local style conventions]Today has me wondering: What if we made a sustained public push on the Mexico City Rule/Global Gag Rule, which has reliably flipped on and off each time the White House switched parties since Reagan instituted it and which most people still don't even know about? ( Read more... )

I see a lot of people right now, especially in the facebook threads of journalists and Democratic politicians, saying, "What can we do?" Not rhetorically, but as a real question - faced with a completely malicious, inept, and violent head of government and a congressional Republican majority to sign off on his impulses regardless of what any ( Read more... )