On May 4, 1970, after three tense days of demonstrations, members of the National Guard opened fire on an anti-war protest at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine more.
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It’s says something about the sickness in the GOP that a congressman can approvingly tweet a video of a college student making monkey sounds at a black woman and there is no blowback from his colleagues, no fear of repercussion.

Important to remember this pier would not be needed if Israel allowed free and open flow of aid to Gazans. It is a costly and inefficient workaround by the US in the face of Israeli instransigence and disregard for the basic rights and needs of Gazans.

Former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson on Donald Trump:

“This guy is so full of himself that he would overturn every kind of rule of law or Constitutional process because of his own ego, which is twisted…I’ll never vote for him again — that’s for goddamn sure.”

Embryos aren’t people! Women’s lives are more important than embryos. Who does not understand that??? If you don’t, you hate the women in your lives & women who believe this, you hate yourselves, your daughters, your granddaughters. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️😡

With all these folks calling protestors un-American, I’m reminded that a candidate for president not accepting a free and fair election result is the most un-American thing going on right now…has been for a while now.

Republicans are not sending us their best.

It’s not a secret that he wants to be a dictator. That’s really not in question. What’s mind boggling is how uninterested the coverage of this seems to be. Fascinating case study of a democracy with a choice between freedom & authoritarianism… & 47% are choosing dictatorship!

In the 1985 movie 'Runaway Train,' John Ryan asks a guy if he's ever seen a riot in a maximum security prison. 'Your brains are too small to imagine it,' he says.

That's part of the problem Americans have trying to imagine a second Trump term.

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Same news, two different stories.

Folks, it's my honor to present the nineteen extraordinary Americans who will join me at the White House this afternoon to receive our nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Trump has already said he won't accept the election results if he loses... and it's not front-page news?!?

My new column on 2024 and the dangers of a 2020 (or 1968) redux: newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

BREAKING: Judge corrects Trump for lying outside court yesterday

Trump said gag order prevented him from testifying

Judge: you have an absolute right to testify at trial or not & gag order has nothing to do with it

Merchan is not tolerating Trump's disinfo campaign!

And Rep. Justin Jones beats them senseless again. Ain’t y’all had enough GOP?

President Biden’s announcement today in NC of $3 billion to replace toxic lead pipes and deliver clean drinking water in every state is called governing. Something his predecessor and opponent was never able to do. That’s news too.

It turns out that if you don't call in anti-terror cops to beat, detain, and arrest your students, you can actually avoid escalating violence and chaos, and becoming headline news across the globe, and actually have a productive discussion with demonstrators on your campus.

He wants to deploy law enforcement to go into liberal cities for vague hand-waving purposes, conduct immigration operations against suspicious persons, and shoot shoplifters on the spot.

And then make them immune from prosecution.

Think about that. You don't even need half a…

To refuse to say he’ll accept the will of the people is a direct attack on our democracy. He’s a traitor, plain and simple.

“Americans simply cannot imagine how badly Trump’s first term might have turned out, and how ghastly his second term is likely to be,” Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic Daily. We just don’t know how to conceptualize “the end of democracy in America.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier to cheat. That is their only plan.