Reposting this for no particular reason…
Ted Cruz (2016): “I want to tell you what I really think of Donald Trump. This man is a pathological liar...He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth…The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist at a level I don't think this country has ever seen.”
Erasing our history cheapens who we are. We are not a great nation in spite of our sins, but because we’ve found the strength to overcome them.
Trump’s attempt to whitewash the American story is wrong.
@SykesCharlie Our social arsonist has risen to new heights. Most frightening is that about a third of voting Americans blindly support him.
“There’s a sucker born every minute” and they are empowering the end of our democracy. Shame on the congress, shame on the Supreme Court.
From our 2025 "Year in Review": (Thread)
Authoritarianism, but also oligarchy, desecration, and pusillanimity. Brute squads, crypto crooks, corruption on an industrial scale. A wingèd bribe from the Qataris, unhinged midnight presidential rants, and pardons scattered like Skittles to cronies, kingpins, and rioters. Troops on the streets of American cities, tanks on parade in DC, judges defied and threatened.
charliesykes.substack.com/p/2025-in-revi…
The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. In his announcement of the closing, OMB Director Russell Vought called the center “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.”
NCAR, as the center is known, was founded in 1960 and has facilitated generations of breakthroughs in climate and weather science.
The announcement has drawn outcry from meteorologists and climate scientists across the country.
William Brangham recently spoke with Brown University’s Kim Cobb and meteorologist @MatthewCappucci.
I believe Bill Clinton on this as well! It’s because Dems always look to the FUTURE, whereas Republicans lament about the PAST and the good old days. It’s why conservatives want women, minorities and LGBTQ to know their place in society. 👏👏👏
He nails it, @jamestalarico answers a question on welfare queens, come in, if you're not paying taxes as a corporation and your employees need government subsidies to live, that is screwing the system. #DemsUnited
🚨BUFFETT JUST GAVE A SERIOUS WARNING:
HE SAID GOVERNMENTS ALWAYS DESTROY THEIR OWN MONEY AND US POLICY SCARES HIM!
🇯🇵 NOW BERKSHIRE IS MOVING $348B INTO JAPANESE YEN.
THE MAN WHO NEVER PANICS IS PREPARING FOR A DOLLAR FALL...
.@JamesTalarico: These predatory social media algorithms elevate the most extreme voices to provoke our outrage.
Billionaires are engineering our emotions so they can profit off of our pain.
These platforms want us at each other's throats because those billionaires benefit.