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Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social |
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Senior politics reporter for HuffPost. Mama. 🏳️🌈 Tips: jen.bendery@huffpost.com
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"The debate isn’t what changed the dynamics," this senator told HuffPost. "It’s just what forced them to see it.”
Another former longtime House Democrat said there’s a lot of private anger right now toward Biden’s closest advisors, including Jill Biden. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
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One senator, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, said to them it's been obvious all along that Biden is going to lose the election. “I don’t know why [Dems] are just now freaking out," said this senator. "The handwriting has been on the wall for months."
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Dem lawmakers and top aides are all over the place on Biden's path ahead. Rep. Lloyd Doggett says he should step aside. Rep. Al Green says “everybody knows he’s old," but he's good. One veteran House Dem says to knock this off and focus on Trump: "I mean, who cares what Lloyd Doggett thinks?”
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NEW: Inside the mounting Democratic freakout over Joe Biden's bad debate www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
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JUST IN: Leonard Peltier denied parole after nearly 50 years in prison
President Joe Biden is likely the last hope for the ailing, 79-year-old Native American rights activist to ever go home. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...
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Legal experts said Monday that yes, as horrific + authoritarian as it sounds, the court's decision means President Biden could theoretically order Trump killed and be immune from criminal prosecution. "Presumptively, he has the power to assassinate a rival." --John Dean, former Nixon WH counsel
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Supreme Court Gives Joe Biden The Legal OK To Assassinate Donald Trump
Something is wrong “when dissenting justices warn that the majority may have just legalized murder by one individual in the country,” said legal expert Norm Eisen. www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
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John Dean was White House counsel to President Nixon from July 1970 to April 1973.
He says he's "stunned" by SCOTUS' sweeping decision today on presidential immunity.
“I’m not even sure you could get to the Nixon tapes under this ruling." www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
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NEW: "Richard Nixon would have had a pass": John Dean, former Nixon White House counsel, stunned by Trump immunity ruling.
“Virtually all of his Watergate conduct” could easily fall into what the Supreme Court now says is official conduct. www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
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Barney?
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go on girl go on
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O'Donnell says starting tomorrow, the Biden campaign "needs this kind of support" from Harris out there selling their message + attacking Trump. Biden needs team support "more than any other presidential candidate maybe has" and Harris is "the one who can get the most attention."
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"What we just heard in her first response to you was more powerful, clearer, stronger than anything we heard from her running mate tonight," O'Donnell says of Harris.
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"She just became so much more important to this campaign than she was yesterday," MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell says of VP Kamala Harris, who just did an interview with MSNBC panelists post-debate.
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So that was a disaster for Joe Biden. www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bi...
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One potential VP pick said he'd never do business with Trump because “you’re judged by the company you keep.” Another described Trump as “a whack job.” Still another wondered if Trump is “America’s Hitler.” Now they're all clamoring to be his running mate. 🇺🇸
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Donald Trump says he’s made his decision on his vice presidential pick, and that this person will be in attendance at tonight's presidential debate.
Here's a quick and dirty guide to who's on his shortlist. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
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Climate Power has been meticulously tracking public announcements of private sector clean energy jobs since Inflation Reduction Act became law in August 2022. As of May 31: U.S. companies have created 312,900 new clean energy jobs for electricians, mechanics, construction workers + many more.
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NEW: Joe Biden’s climate law has already created more than 300,000 clean energy jobs, a new analysis found www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bi...
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Good’s campaign acknowledged to HuffPost that no fires actually happened. “They were fire alarms [and] they went off resulting in polling locations being evacuated until the alarms were checked out,” Good’s campaign manager emailed. “We don’t have any further information.”
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Good seemed to suggest these incidents on Tuesday weren’t random.
But in all three of the counties that he cited, Virginia election officials told HuffPost that nothing happened except routine fire alarms.
“Steam from the water heater set the alarm off." www.huffpost.com/entry/bob-go...
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In a follow-up post, Good wrote: “AI estimates the probability being 0.0000000318% chance" of three "fires" at precincts on election day. Good, who said Donald Trump's election loss in 2020 was rigged, is now implying that his is, too.
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Good, who chairs the far-right House Freedom Caucus and is currently fighting for his political life, raised questions about his campaign facing "3 'fires' on election day in 3 precincts, all requiring the precincts to be evacuated for 20 minutes." "What is the probability?"
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NEW: Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), who is fighting for his political life, is citing suspicious "fires" in his district during Tuesday's election.
Except election officials told HuffPost there was nothing weird about routine fire alarms that didn’t interfere with voting. www.huffpost.com/entry/bob-go...
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The future of American democracy is hanging in the balance, but rest assured we will have a bird when it all goes down.
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NEW: The U.S. Catholic Church formally apologized for its role in inflicting trauma on generations of Indigenous children in Indian boarding schools.
Key senators commended the step, but said that's precisely what it is. A step. www.huffpost.com/entry/cathol...
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Hundreds of thousands of people are marching against the far-right in France today, as the far-right has never been so close to power. Images from Paris’s March, where a lot of signs are focusing on demanding that left leaders stay united to counter the far-right:
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Dick Durbin, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on subpoenaing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito over his scandals and ethical lapses: "It's not gonna happen." www.huffpost.com/entry/dick-d...
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He's a Birman and there's something called "seal tabby point," according to my wife who knows all about this.
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You may recall Trump went on a pardoning spree at the end of his presidency in 2020.
His beneficiaries included military contractors who killed children, crooked politicians, law enforcement officers who violated civil rights + members of his family. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Meanwhile, Trump, now a convicted felon, has vowed to make full use of his pardon powers for his supporters if he’s elected president in Nov. In April, he said he’d “absolutely” consider pardons for the 100s of criminals convicted for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection that he incited.
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Biden also praised his son for having “overcome an addiction.” “He’s one of the brightest, most decent men I know,” he said of Hunter, adding that he will “abide by the jury’s decision” in his son’s case.
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Joe Biden said today that he wouldn't use his authority to commute a prison sentence for his son, Hunter Biden, who was just found guilty of illegally owning a gun in 2018. www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bi...
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it's hard being so beautiful?
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena — including three who defied their own congressional subpoenas over their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...
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This is Diana "Wonder Woman" Prince.
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Both-- they're doing these forums to figure out how to potentially legislate to prevent some of these policies from happening.
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Every member of both chambers should be talking about this every single day. Hold hearings.
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Wendy Sherman, a former US deputy secretary of state, said there’s a reason why Biden so often talks about democracy.
“It’s to remind people that, without you even being aware of it, you can lose your freedoms,” she said. “You can lose your democracies.” www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...
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Consider Trump’s national security plans: withdrawing from NATO, starting a war in Mexico, carrying out mass executions, pulling the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement + pardoning J6 insurrectionists. “People should be alarmed,” Mike McFaul, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told HuffPost.
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Huffman said Trump could get moving with a lot of his plans even before inauguration, as his allies have already vetted and proposed scores of people for top roles. “For people who think something like ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ could never happen here, I think it’s happening in real time."
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Trump's policy agenda includes deporting 11M people, banning abortion pills nationwide and deploying U.S. troops against American citizens. They’re not strictly his plans; the Heritage Foundation provided him with a 920-page “Project 2025” blueprint that he intends to follow.
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Huffman is very, very concerned that most people don't realize what Trump is planning to do if he gets back into the White House. And how quickly he can act. "I believe we’re really close to having our democracy replaced by a dystopian, right-wing theocracy," he told HuffPost.
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NEW: Today, a group of House Democrats is launching a new task force to combat Trump's "dystopian" policy plans if he wins in Nov.
“We have to mount the resistance in real time," said Rep. Jared Huffman. "If we’re caught off guard by it, we’re going to be too late." www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...
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Peltier has been imprisoned for 47 years. Mandela was freed after 27. We have been talking about “when will Peltier be freed” for decades now. It is obscene that he is behind bars.
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it'll hurt and enrage you but if you haven't read up on leonard peltier's case, you must. i hope with my whole heart he sees the freedom he's been so wrongfully denied for so long.
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NEW: Leonard Peltier, the Native American rights activist the U.S. govt put in prison ~50 years ago, is getting what may be his last chance at freedom.
FBI director Chris Wray says the bureau remains opposed to his parole.
His statement is full of holes. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...
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Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) urged people to read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich to see what "Nazis did to gain ultimate power in Germany." "The historical references and the similarities ... to what the Democrat Party has been doing, they cannot be denied at this point." 🤔
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