Joe Sudbay

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Mainer in DC. Host “State of the States” on SiriusXM Progress

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"Let’s be clear. The Republican Party despises labor unions." newrepublic.com/article/1839...

Yes, a Union Leader Spoke at the RNC. Yes, the GOP Still Hates Labor.newrepublic.com The GOP and the Teamsters have some history, but the party still doesn't want to help workers.

Now would this include Vance's wife who is 38 and could probably still have children? Begs the question why they only have 3 kids. How is that? Someone should ask -since he wants to pry into the most private aspects of everyone else's lives

Remember also that JD Vance just last week was a featured speaker at a conference that promoted faith, family, and fertility. And he would like to track your periods. nymag.com/intelligence...

The Nursemaids of National Conservatismnymag.com At a conference on the future of the right, women are a resource for men.

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Remember also that JD Vance just last week was a featured speaker at a conference that promoted faith, family, and fertility. And he would like to track your periods. nymag.com/intelligence...

JD Vance, Menstrual Surveillance Hawk talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/jd-va...

JD Vance, Menstrual Surveillance Hawktalkingpointsmemo.com This Spring HHS finalized new regulations under HIPAA to limit law enforcement...

The Nursemaids of National Conservatismnymag.com At a conference on the future of the right, women are a resource for men.

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What's the scene like at the Republican National Convention? It depends on which national newspaper you ask.

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the “dark rhetoric” never left and never was going to

Analysis by Aaron Blake: The dark rhetoric was back in a big way at the Republican National Convention, and Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis delivered key — if not effusive — speeches for Donald Trump. Here are some takeaways from the second night.

Analysis | 4 takeaways from Night 2 of the Republican National Conventionwapo.st The dark rhetoric was back in a big way, and Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis delivered key — if not effusive — speeches for Trump.

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"By the end of the night, it became clear that apocalyptic language was more than back, just 72 hours after the Trump rally shooting."

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LEFT: Me, three months ago RIGHT: Donald Trump falling into the trap today MORE: www.findinggravity.net/p/breaking-t...

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Donald Trump just embraced the deeply unpopular Supreme Court, walking right into a trap. (by me) www.findinggravity.net/p/breaking-t...

The Supreme Court is Donald Trump's real running mate. Democrats should act like it. (By me.) www.findinggravity.net/p/trumpthoma...

Trump/Thomas 2024www.findinggravity.net Nearly 30 years ago, Democrats chose a rhetorical running mate for their Republican opponent. That playbook could be the key to winning in 2024.

BREAKING: Trump walks into Biden's Supreme Court trapwww.findinggravity.net It's all happening

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I wrote about Ted Cruz's immigrant-voting line, which managed to take a dishonest, opportunistic, hostile argument and make it significantly grosser. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Ted Cruz pushes the GOP’s immigrant-voting lie deeper into the slimewww.washingtonpost.com The Republican Party has tried to stoke baseless fears of non-citizen voting. At the party convention, Cruz took the falsehood much further.

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Getting a handle on J.D. Vance? @paulwaldman.bsky.social and Tom Schaller new piece is a must read. 👇

How J.D. Vance Abandoned His Tough Love for the White Working Classnewrepublic.com He used to tell them they had no one to blame but themselves but he's found more politically palatable targets.

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“They wanted votes from illegals more then they wanted to protect our children” Sen. Cruz said in his RNC speech echoing the words of domestic terrorists and election denial, conspiracy theories that threaten American democracy.

Protect children? This craven fuck Could Cruz name any of the kids massacred by an AR-15?

"Democrats cynically decided they wanted votes from illegals more than they want to protect our children." — Ted Cruz with one of the grossest, most dishonest attacks I've heard in a long time

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Stefanik has some nerve. When convicted felon Donald Trump recently dismissed the Charlottesville rally—where white supremacists chanted “Jews will not replace us”—as “a little peanut,” she said nothing: americasvoice.org/blog/congres...

Rep. Stefanik (NY) took the stage to claim that she is some defender of antisemitism following after her friends just did multiple renditions of the antisemitic replacement theory, a bigoted lie that she has repeatedly promoted, despite it’s connection to deadly terrorist violence

Wash Post (5/16/22): Stefanik echoed racist theory allegedly espoused by Buffalo suspect NYT (5/16/22): Racist Attack Spotlights Stefanik’s Echo of Replacement Theory NBC News (5/19/22): Stefanik's echo of 'great replacement' rhetoric offers clues to her national ambitions

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One reason they will never disavow Charlottesville is that "You will not replace us!" has become their whole thing.

RNC night two is the replacement theory addition. So far, multiple Senate candidates have used their minutes on stage to promote the white nationalist replacement theory, which has inspired multiple deadly terrorist attacks and is a lie that actively threatens American democracy.

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Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott are speaking tonite. They'll do a lot of immigrant bashing. Rant about "invasion" - but neither will mention what happened in El Paso They'll mention victims of violence tonight - but not the ones killed in their state by a racist echoing that same rhetoric

"As the Democratic congresswoman from El Paso, Texas, where five years ago a white supremacist targeted Latino shoppers at a Walmart in the city, killing 23 people, Escobar said she knows first hand how dangerous rhetoric can have deadly consequences" www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Republican speakers at convention tonight include Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio and Mike Johnson – livewww.theguardian.com Donald Trump’s presidential primary opponents are expected to speak at the Republican national convention today

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Our demand to rein in the runaway Supreme Court has gone from the streets to the halls of Congress and now to the Oval Office. It cannot stop there.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Reforming this court is imperative. Ethics rules and term limits alone cannot fully restore balance and independence to #SCOTUS. But today’s announcement is a watershed moment in the fight to take back the court. Our stmt from @liptonlubet.bsky.social:

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The white supremacist gunman who targeted this peaceful border city had been infuriated over a so-called “Hispanic invasion” of Texas. This sort of once-fringe conspiracy theory is now an integral part of GOP speeches, ads, and campaigns: americasvoice.org/blog/new-dat...

"Thiel has spent millions of dollars convincing the American media that JD Vance has something to say about rural America” Matt Hildreth of @ruralorganizing.bsky.social told us "But rural Americans don’t need JD Vance to write our elegy, we need politicians who will stand up to corps like Purdue”

JD Vance used to tell the white working class to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Now he's fighting a very different fight. From me and Tom Schaller at TNR:

How J.D. Vance Abandoned His Tough Love for the White Working Classnewrepublic.com He used to tell them they had no one to blame but themselves but he's found more politically palatable targets.

ruralorganizing.org

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Matt Hildreth at @ruralorganizing.bsky.social calls him "Hillbilly Forgery" ruralorganizing.org/press/ruralo...

RuralOrganizing Statement On GOP Vice Presidential Nominee J.D. Vance: The Hillbilly Forgery | Rural Organizingruralorganizing.org The following is a statement from Matt Hildreth, Executive Director of RuralOrganizing.org:

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In which the Washington Post sanitizes right-wing Court decisions paving the way to autocracy as simply “a string of wins” for Trump.

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“Purge of undoc workers by the president’s company spreads to at least 5 Trump golf courses.” Trump and the Trump Org exploited undoc workers across _multiple properties_ yet they’re trying to make Americans fearful and spiteful of these workers in the name of political expediency. It’s so sick.

since it's RNC immigrant bashing night, can some reporter ask Trump, his sons or his campaign about their long history of hiring undocumented workers? They demonize the very people who fed them, cleaned for them and made their businesses profitable www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pur...

Purge of undocumented workers by the president’s company spreads to at least 5 Trump golf courseswww.washingtonpost.com Eric Trump confirmed at least 18 firings in New York and New Jersey over the past two months.

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The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.

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Just learned that Fox News is trying to go after me for using the word "war" in a column, which they allege is inappropriate rhetoric. This is sort of like being lectured on anti-semitism by Hitler.