“It is a bit sad that that they’re trying to reduce the campaign to two post 75-yr.-old white men, but this Democrat will gladly go to bat for either of them — and if it does come down to those two, hopefully they’ll choose Warren or some other younger/black/female choice to build unity.”
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Ayanna Pressley Pitches Elizabeth Warren In South Carolina
“Elizabeth Warren gives me hope because I know she sees me and I know she listens to me,” Pressley said. “That’s clear, given the policies that she’s developed in her vision for the country. It’s one that it’s a world that we deserve to live in. It’s the world that I want my 11-year -old daughter to inherit. She’s a partner. She keeps her promises. She’s a good student. And she has a racial justice and equity lens. She’s been very intentional about the development of that.”
https://www.theroot.com/ayanna-pressleys-pitch-for-elizabeth-warren-1841981729
Chauncey DeVega Interviews Greg Palast About Ekection Theft
“In this conversation, Palast explains how Donald Trump, the Republican Party and their agents will try to steal the 2020 presidential election from the American people at the ballot box. Palast also warns that the Democratic Party’s leadership will try to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders by sabotaging the vote in the upcoming California primary. He also details the connections between Roger Stone, the 2000 Florida presidential election “recount” fiasco and the rise of Donald Trump.”
Replaying My Shame by Emily Gould
A meditation on public shame and how it resounds through the years. Highly recommended:
“When I watch the clip — me and Jimmy Kimmel, in split screen — it’s possible to see the exact moment when I realize what’s going on, that what I’d thought was a joke is in fact serious. It’s when one of the experts tells me that it’s only a matter of time before the map gets a celebrity murdered, and I’m shaking my head in disbelief, causing my stylist-fluffed barrel curls to wag from side to side. Something flips then, and you can see in my widened eyes that I know I’m completely fucked; I’ve been talking about media and they are talking about murder, seemingly meaning it. Objectively, this is the moment to laugh at me. It is funny to watch someone be humiliated. We all think, Wow, thank God it’s not me. The segment lasts about five minutes and ends with Kimmel sternly telling me that I am going to hell.
Someone must have come in and taken off my microphone; someone must have said something empty and cheerful as I exited the studio; someone must have led me to the Town Car waiting downstairs. I must have slept that night. I know that I threw the Chanel jacket in the trash when I got home.”
https://www.thecut.com/2020/02/emily-gould-gawker-shame.html
Charlie Pierce on Why He Voted for Elizabeth Warren
If you know me, you know this guy is not only one of my favorite writers, but my go-to guy when it comes to knowing what’s what about politics while wanting the same things:
“The basics, first. I voted for her because I know her and her husband, Bruce Mann, and I like them very much. But, besides that, I think she is so obviously the right person for this particular moment in time that it’s almost not worthy of discussion. She has the right combination of righteous anger, uncompromising vision, and policy chops to meet the times ahead.
In addition, I admire how she has resolutely refused to be the suicide bomber dispatched to blow up the Sanders campaign on behalf of some bed-wetting Republican exiles and a bunch of Democratic moderates who have proven to be inadequate to the task of running against each other, let alone Sanders. (By the way, Joe Biden is beginning to slip, visibly, and not just in the polls, either.) I respect the fact that, as we learned over the weekend, she scared the hell out of Michael Bloomberg long before she handed him his freshly extracted viscera the other night. (She also makes Mark Zuckerberg nervous, which is a very good thing.) I admire also her ability to see past the end of her nose and to recognize that, if she had managed to sink Sanders, she would be the next target of the people who hate the ideas they share and, for that matter, any progressive renaissance in the running of the country. So that’s what I did on Tuesday at noontime.”
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