AOC Is Bringing In a Slew of New Recruits to the ‘Squad’

By Sam Brodey

“People said the Squad’s just a couple votes,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told The Daily Beast. “And I said, all right, let’s go get more.”

By Scott Bixby

“She was sort of an instant rock star, as Beau was,” said former Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler. “They were destined to get together and collaborate.”

By Michael Tomasky

In the four months between now and the election, and the two and a half months between the election and the next inauguration, he’s poised to do tremendous damage.

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By Will Sommer

Parler billed itself as the free-speech, conservative-friendly alternative to Twitter. The problem is, most conservatives find Twitter better at amplifying their views and voices.

By Matt Lewis

Of course everyone wants to get back to normal. But can school be “normal” if we’re still seeing tens of thousands of new cases a day?

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It’s hard to find a big city in America that isn’t seeing a wave of violence, even as other reports of crimes have fallen during the pandemic.

While working at a daily newspaper, I was supposed to be “objective.” Then I was laid off. So here’s the real objective truth: Republicans are killing democracy.

If people joining the movement now won’t do the internal auditing to understand how their day-to-day interactions with Black people lead to the anger and unrest, nothing changes.

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 PANTS ON FIRE

Fittingly, an interview with Sean Hannity helped Trump shoot over the milestone.

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As U.S. hits new case number records, the president retweeted the conservative conspiracy theorist and former game show host Chuck Woolery.

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