VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump bails on debate with Harris in unhinged rant
Sure, Trump is a coward. But in his defense, he's right to be afraid that the vice president would humiliate him. This might actually be smartest move he's ever made.
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Republicans are about to become desperate
Brian Beutler, Off Message: "We’ve long understood the anti-Trump opposition as a mass “normie” rejection of Trumpian aberrance—the cruelty and incompetence and narcissism. But it took the Harris reset, and a certain kind of street-smart thinking, to recognize that the best way to maintain the coalition is by defining MAGA, first and foremost, as the opposite of normal. Not dangerous, not intimidating, though it is those things. But weird. Weird ideas about policy, weird ideas about women, weird rallies where an old cult leader rants about Hannibal Lecter and electrocuting sharks. MAGA activists love guns and puffed chests and want to inspire fear. But they mostly just embody a way of life people find bizarre. Recognizing that, and articulating it, is the politically galvanizing flip-side of the early resistance mantra “this is not normal,” which conveyed fear and helplessness, rather than confidence and resolve. It’s not that there’s no weirdness in the anti-Trump coalition, but it’s a welcoming kind. The happy weirdness of Simpsons trivia and pride parades and dancing in public, set against the abusive, medieval, rule-or-ruin weirdness of the new internet-addled American far right."
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Kamala Harris SURGES in polls against Trump
Kamala Harris for President: Top pollster Matt McDermott reports that various polls at both the swing state and national level are showing a +6-8% shift towards Harris, which he says is "a huge, basically unprecedented shift in modern politics!" The momentum is on our side and we can't let up for a second if we're going to defeat Donald Trump and his misogynistic minion JD Vance. Will you chip in to help make history and protect our democracy from would-be-dictator Donald Trump?
Trans teens in Maine fought back against their school and won
Benjamin Perry, Teen Vogue: "Communities like mine are fighting back so that every child can attend school safely and be welcomed in the fullness of who they are. What went down in Maine, for example, offers a roadmap for how a town can reclaim power from those who wield it for harm. This Pride, queer students in my small town saw neighbors who were willing to fight for their ability to thrive. Trans rights aren’t a “big-city” issue; they’re woven into the fabric of every community. Trans people are our neighbors, children, coworkers, and friends. And appealing to the empathy of people determined to harm queer youth is simply not sufficient."
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JD Vance is the baby of big tech and big oil. He’s no ‘working-class populist’
Jan-Werner Müller, The Guardian:Vance is all at once a nationalistic natalist (“breed, baby, breed!” for the nation), a promoter of fossil fuel industries (“drill, baby, drill!”), and a conduit of accelerationism (“break things, baby, break things!”). Given how unpopular he’s proven in polls, it does not seem like this is a vision for which Americans care. It’s also not the break with libertarianism that pundits praising the Republicans’ supposed turn to workers think it is. But there’s a hell of a lot of money backing it.
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The GOP's corporate agenda masquerading as working class
UAW Region 9A leader, Brandon Mancilla, Jacobin: "The Republican Party has put a lot of effort in recent years into trying to rebrand itself from the party of plutocracy to the party of workers — or perhaps more accurately, the party of plutocracy and workers, depending on who you’re talking to and what day it is. The Republican Party does not have a working-class agenda and is definitely looking to undermine organized labor and workers who want the right to unionize. Any union member who thinks that Trump and the far right is a path to working-class power is engaging in some wishful thinking at best. At worst, our unions, if they open the door to the Republican Party, are helping the billionaire class and the companies."
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