Charles Campisi

@1813doncarlo.bsky.social

Sicilian-American, FDR Democrat, Dante, Shakespeare, Dickens, Michelangelo, Hemingway, Beethoven, walk in light, speak truth to power, keep your friends close, take the cannoli

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage. bit.ly/4xp2b3p

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.

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"Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8eT8YDks/J... Trump's madness, unpredictability, relentess fascist assault on democracy & the Constitution, delusional fantasies & the incessant barrage of brazen lies are the single greatest threat to America.

Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous (The Atlantic)

Many Americans—and much of the rest of the world—have become inured to Donald Trump’s strange rants. When he shouts ab...

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BREAKING: Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Todd Blanche of lying under oath. He says Blanche told him in his office — with witnesses — that the slush fund was a mistake. In his confirmation hearing, Blanche denied that remark.

UPDATE: I've been sharing that Beshear has until August 4 to appoint a dem to McConnell's seat. That's not correct. There is no cutoff date. The August 4th date came from this language in the KY constitution, but it only applies if Mitch's term wouldn't end this year, and only for special elections.

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If Senate norms/protocol had prevailed at the Senate hearing on Wednesday, July 29, chaired by Rand Paul, at which Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared, GOP Senator Bernie Moreno would've been expelled for his profane insults directed at Fauci. GOP Sen. Hawley would've been ejected too for ridiculing Fauci.

It will be recorded for generations to come that one of the most shameful & disgraceful days in the history of the U.S. Senate occurred on July 29th, when Rand Paul & several of his GOP committee colleagues smeared, vilified & defamed Dr. Anthony Fauci in the most vile, disgusting manner possible.

Either Trump and today's fascist Republican Party must go or American democracy. The two are fundamentally irreconcilable and incompatible. They cannot co-exist. One or the other has to go. This is the dark perilous moment we're in.

Republicans are trying desperately to make Dr. Fauci the scapegoat & sacrificial lamb to blame for Covid deaths, when the real villain & chief culprit is Trump whose gross criminal negligence - whose lies, denials, indifference and dishonesty are the reason why a million Americans lost their lives.

We're living thru one of the most insanely absurd, batshit crazy, unbelievably stupid upside-down periods in American history. Corruption, crimes, depravity, madness, mania, irrationality, extremism in the Executive Branch & among Republicans in Congress have become accepted & normalized.

Rand Paul held a hearing on Wednesday that was nothing more than a vicious hatchet-job on Dr. Anthony Fauci intended to smear & defame an honored public servant who's dedicated his career to saving lives. The spectacle Rand Paul chaired on Weds. is something we would've seen in Stalinist Russia.

Ohio GOP Senator Bernie Moreno is a foul-mouthed, filthy-tongued, scurrilous, smart-assed punk who disgraced himself & embarrassed the Senate on Wednedsay in his hostile, insulting & antagonistic questioning of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Fauci is an American hero. Moreno is a vile, sleazy street hood.