Sen. Josh Hawley's mentor has disavowed him. "Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life," former Sen. John Danforth told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. trib.al/47pu90H

The image of the man in Speaker Pelosi’s office says it all. He is the embodiment of the cynical fascism that has risen up in the last few years. That movement believes that we don’t need a government that is meant to have no interest but to stand up for the rights of the...

...least fortunate, those who have been unlucky or not born into stability. They believe that government is play-acting; they think it’s a game. Whether it be to say that government is terrible at spending money because it spends more than it has on programs to feed and...

...support. Or if it is to say that being sensitive to another’s plight is somehow pandering, even though that notion is the foundation of The Golden Rule. It makes those people feel better when they think they are being more “honest” than everyone else because they think it...

...that they are better than everyone else. That picture in Speaker Pelosi’s office says it all because it shows that they are wrong. You can’t simply walk into an office and be part of governing our nation.

Couldn’t say it better

Friend called. Black guy. Doctor, heading south from CT to Fl. Tells me he was checking into a Courtyard Marriott in VA and he was advised: a big rowdy group has checked in. Do not stay here (for his safety). Keep driving.

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Ding dong

Wow. I just heard an actual presidential press conference. Inspired by the return to normalcy.

Why is it that the congresspeople who are from states with the worst economies are allowed to have an opinion on federal economic issues? #thereshouldbeatest

So sad to hear of George’s passing.

BREAKING: American and Southwest Airlines announce that they will ignore Republican Governor Greg Abbott's foolish ban on vaccine mandates and will continue to enforce them in deference to the Biden administration's orders. RT IF YOU SUPPORT THEIR DECISION!

“He… did not believe that any sizable number of rational citizens could contemplate disrupting the best government the world had ever seen.” - Biographer David Herbert Donald, on why Lincoln didn’t believe in 1860 that the South would really secede

If you don’t support gun control, you’re not pro life.

Someone should tell Fox News that there is some news being made on Capital Hill that their page is completely missing. #realnews

AOC on Meet the Press: "What I believe that the president and the Democratic Party needs to come to terms with is that this is not just a crisis of Roe, this is a crisis of our democracy ... this is a crisis of legitimacy and President Biden must address that"

@TheDaveHolland @TrinityWallSt David Gage to the rescue!

“From the Buddhist perspective, life and death are two phases of a continuum. Life does not begin at birth nor end at death. Everything in the universe—from invisible microbes in the air we breathe to great swirling galaxies—passes through these phases. Our individual lives are