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By now, you and everyone’s dog knows how it goes: a Republican compares basic health and safety measures during a pandemic to the Holocaust, people are outraged, and that Republican gets free advertising on social media and a potential boost from voters.
Another day, another Rudy Giuliani conference — and though this one wasn’t sandwiched between a crematorium and an adult bookstore, it didn’t disappoint in terms of complete and utter farcical madness.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was given just 90 seconds to speak at the Democratic National Convention tonight — 30 longer than had been rumored — and she used them to great effect. The Bronx native chose to officially nominate Bernie Sanders in a race we all knew the Vermont senator had already lost. She didn’t have to do so, of course. She could have bowed out, politely stayed quiet, chosen to pass on delivering that roll call nomination. Her early endorsement of the senator didn’t compel her to turn on her camera tonight and appear as a dissenting voice among many other Democrats professing Biden to be “the next president of the United States”.
Donald Trump wants you to know that he takes hydroxychloroquine. “I take it,” he told reporters earlier on Monday during a press conference, adding that “so far, I feel OK.”
No one who has ever quit a dead-end job could fail to recognise the look of relieved bliss on Theresa May’s face last Saturday as she busted out her favourite Pinocchio-like moves to ABBA at Henley Festival. It was the dance of a woman who has weathered every political storm, been called every name under the sun, and chosen
From AOC to Christine Lagarde, everyone seems to be wondering what exactly Ivanka Trump is doing at the G20 summit. In case you haven’t encountered the video evidence already, the Elysee Palace released a short, painful clip of the First Daughter attempting to make social justice chit-chat with Lagarde,
Thursday’s was a much more spirited debate than Wednesday’s, and a much more confrontational one. In the middle of ten candidates stood the three who made a lasting impression: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris. The first two were always predicted to come out on top (albeit on different
Baxter is co-editor of Independent Voices, columnist and author.
