Jerry Weinstein

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Speechwriter • Civic Engagement • Filmmaker • Strategist • Mediator • Board Member: @Stonewall_CDC, @cbsix | Read FOMO, my newsletter: http://fomo.substack.com

Just like a lot of pundits have internalized the idea that conservatives are the only real Americans, they have internalized the idea that right wing christianity is the only real American religious tradition

The framers of Mississippi’s 1890 constitution openly said that their intent was to block Black political power. The system they set up has been incredibly effective at achieving its original goals. On one major aspect of the structural racism Scott Colom and Mississippi voters just overcame:

A Voting Rights Promise, Betrayed for 156 Years - Bolts

After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they quickly ignored the restriction. It has finally caught up with one state, w...

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Massie is leaving Congress with no stone unturned. A bipartisan effort to get to the bottom of one of the most disgusting scandals must move forward. We deserve the truth, and Epstein’s victims deserve to see the monsters who abused them face accountability.

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The fact that the threatening letter came from the White House Counsel Will Scharf and not the DOJ tells you that it’s a political rhetorical document. It’s an over the top one as well: there’s not the faintest possibility of a crime by the incoming Democratic legislators talking oversight.

Will Scharf is the Waylon Smithers of the White House. He’s the guy who hands Trump the meaningless executive orders. He can be safely ignored, and should be loudly mocked wherever he goes.

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🚨BREAKING: Democrat Scott Colom has won Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race, unseating Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, CNN and others are projecting. Colom will be the first Black senator to represent the state in over 140 years.

Scott Colom will defeat Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in a major upset to become the first Democrat that voters in deep-red Mississippi have elected to the chamber in more than four decades, CNN projects.