"'Debate me' has become a bad faith propaganda tool for the right, designed to legitimize lies & target critics for harassment. It’s ripped from the right's 'free speech' playbook, which demands bad actors get access to all platforms & audiences - or else" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/hotez-rogan-rfk-jr-vaccines-debate
"The state’s Democratic majority didn’t just succeed because they had a trifecta. It’s also because they set aside the urge to engage in bipartisanship with the bad actors of the Minnesota GOP, who thought Democrats’ one-vote majority was fragile and would require them to obtain bipartisan support to pass key legislation." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/minnesota-democrats-accomplishments-2023
Minnesota Republican state Sen. Steve Drazkowski on bill providing free school breakfast and lunch: "I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that is hungry. Yet today. I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that says they don't have access to enough food to eat." #mnleg
This got me thinking about Fox's obsessive coverage of the Twitter files. Which got me thinking about Elon literally asking people to vote Republican. Lots of reciprocation going on.
New in Public Notice: There’s been lots of speculation about what concessions Kevin McCarthy made to the MAGA lunatic fringe to secure their votes for his speaker bid. Well, it appears one of them was turning the House Oversight Committee into a glorified Tucker panel. https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/house-oversight-committee-greene-boebert
New in Public Notice: Hochul bipartisans herself into a mess
"When Democrats like Hochul defy their coalition to ally with Republicans, they aren’t embracing comity and bridging divisions. They’re helping a rogue antidemocratic party advance an agenda designed to target the marginalized and shred America’s better values. If opposing that is partisanship, then more partisanship is what we need." https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/kathy-hochul-hector-lasalle-bipartisanship