Kamala Harris’s Full-Court Press
Plus: She Started an Orchestra to Show Ukrainian Resolve to the World
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JILL D. LAWRENCE: Kamala Harris’s Full-Court Press
WHAT IS THE WORST THING ABOUT Donald Trump?
His cruelty, his lying, his dumb and damaging economic ideas, his fascistic tendencies, his cronyism and corruption, his narcissism, his misogyny, his xenophobia, his racism, his amorality, his greed, the normalizing of political threats, vengeance and violence that are his and MAGA’s hallmark and probable legacy?
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The lines sparked immediate backlash and even condemnation from fellow Republicans. But four top campaign sources said it could have been even worse.
“He had a joke calling [Vice President Kamala] Harris a ‘cunt,’” a campaign insider involved in the discussions about the event told The Bulwark. “Let’s say it was a red flag.”
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JILL D. LAWRENCE: She Started an Orchestra to Show Ukrainian Resolve to the World
KERI-LYNN WILSON CARRIES A BATON, not a rifle, but that doesn’t make her any less a warrior. She is the founder and conductor of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, and considers it an army in its own way.
“We are doing the music fighting on the cultural front. There is nothing passive about this orchestra. We are here as a symbol of the strength and greatness” of Ukrainian culture, Wilson told me in an interview this month. Her message to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his invading army could not be more clear, or more impassioned: “You cannot silence Ukraine’s culture. You cannot kill its soul, which is its music, its literature, and its art.”
🚨OVERTIME🚨
Happy Monday! I voted! First time in Cincinnati and first time in Ohio since probably 2003, and it was flawless. Compliments to the Hamilton County Board of Elections for the fighter-jet flyover. it was a nice touch1. President Biden voted today, too, and here are his (brief) thoughts on last night’s mayhem in Manhattan.
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The Comically Terrible Rollout… of Latter-day Saints for Trump, by McKay Coppins in The Atlantic 🎁.
Obeying in advance… Media billionaires ask for tyranny (Timothy Snyder)
John Oliver has a new naturalization anthem… Move over, Lee Greenwood.
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I actually don’t know the reason for the flyover, but suspect a funeral.