This week: Republican takeover in south Texas, Biden family values, the strategist at dusk, the movie for our time, what is a woman anyway, and Panama. Let’s go —
1) “I don’t think we understand how incredible, historical that win is. We’re talking about a district that has been Democrat-controlled for far longer than my grandpa has been alive.”
2) “Why are so many coming now? We asked that question to every migrant we spoke to in Mexico and Texas, and nearly every one of them at some point said that they had heard it was a good time to come, that they would be able to get in. They’re not wrong. What they find upon arriving in northern Mexico, however, is not what many of them expected.”
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/16/border-dispatch-part-i-everyone-who-arrives-here-has-paid/
3) “He'll talk about anything that I want him to, that he believes in. If I say it's important to me, then he will work a way in which to make it a part of his platform. My dad respects me more than he respects anyone in the world, and I know that to be certain, so it’s not going to be about whether it affects his politics.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/hunter-biden-laptop-presidennt-joe-tapes
4) “U.S. bishops are pleading for an end to violence following the ongoing attacks on Catholic churches and pro-life pregnancy centers.”
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/u-s-bishops-urge-action-following-church-pro-life-pregnancy-attacks
5) “That the [Guttmacher] institute has spent the course of the Biden administration paralyzed makes it typical of not just the abortion rights community — Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and other reproductive health organizations had similarly been locked in knock-down, drag-out fights between competing factions of their organizations, most often breaking down along staff-versus-management lines. It’s also true of the progressive advocacy space across the board, which has, more or less, effectively ceased to function. The Sierra Club, Demos, the American Civil Liberties Union, Color of Change, the Movement for Black Lives, Human Rights Campaign, Time’s Up, the Sunrise Movement, and many other organizations have seen wrenching and debilitating turmoil in the past couple years. In fact, it’s hard to find a Washington-based progressive organization that hasn’t been in tumult, or isn’t currently in tumult.”
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-infighting-callout-culture/
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