Two of the men who voted to take away a womanβs right to control her own body have been credibly accused of sexual assault.
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Wouldnβt it be powerful if tomorrow the 33 US Senators who called on Al Franken to resign called a press conference and called for Senate hearings on allegations of sexual assault by Donald Trump.
In case youβre counting, it was 13 days ago that Trump called the coronavirus a hoax at a campaign rally.
I think we can all safely say, without any doubt, that Donald J Trump is the worst president our country has ever had.
This is just unthinkable: SEVEN police officers were inside the school but did not confront the shooter per . They waited "about an hour" for a Border Patrol tactical team to arrive. A full hour. Seven armed officers to one 18 year-old. The good guys with the guns?
Make Amy Klobuchar the Senate Majority Leader. She'll deal with McConnell.
Hearing from a friend in Portland that there are 10-15k marching tonight. The βWalls of Momsβ (wearing yellow) & Dads (orange), joined by βWall of Vets,β βTeachers Against Tyrantsβ (green), Healthcare Workers (in scrubs) & Lawyers for BLM (purple)
The Trump campaign just released a cease and desist letter demanding that TV stations immediately pull this ad. So obv share it everywhere!
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Why aren't Democrats - TONIGHT - holding a press conference about Trump having a 90 minutes, closed-door meeting with Putin tomorrow? Days after another round of indictments for interfering with our democracy? Why aren't you fighting for us?!
Rand Paul just tried to play a doctor on tv, and Dr. Fauci is schooling him and exposing him as the fool he is.
We control the Senate now. Why does anyone give AF when McConnell wants to start the impeachment trial?
Susan Collins, who said Trump had learned "a pretty big lesson" from impeachment, isn't sure if he should be impeached this time.
You really fucked up Maine.
We are about to see the end of a lot of Republicans' political careers.
Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley need to smile more. And theyβre so emotional! And their voices sound shrill, they seem hysterical. It must be that time of the month.
Wisconsin - 51 of 72 counties have completed their canvasses, resulting in Biden gaining 10 votes and Trump losing 271 votes.
Womp womp.
These incoming GOP freshman - Boebert, Cawthorn, Taylor Greene, Tuberville...how do I put this nicely?...They are dumb AF and lower the standing of our Congress.
Itβs not enough to beat Trump: he must lose in a landslide of all 50 states and take the Senate down with him. All his enablers Mitch, Lindsey, Collins, Gardner, Ernst etc must be sent packing. We need 60 Senate seats to clean up this horrendous mess Trump is leaving. 148 days!
Kellyanne Conway coming forward to say she too was a victim of sexual assault, and then using it to say she doesn't expect "anybody to be held responsible for that" to shield Kavanaugh, has to be some of the most twisted shit Iβve ever seen.
Carl Bernstein on calling out Trump, saying this tape is far worse than Watergate, and calls out McConnell and McCarthy for enabling authoritarianism adding this could spell the end of the Republican Party.
Just remember we had an impeachment hearing. 22 Republicans who voted not to call witnesses are up for re-election in the Senate. Every enabler in the House is running. 138 days. Hold them accountable!
The best way to deal with Manchin is to pick up more Senate seats in 2022 and make him irrelevant.
Not a single Republican condemning sex trafficking by Matt Gaetz. Not one. The so-called party of family values - LOL.
I worry how numb we have become to our near brush with authoritarianism - when it is revealed that there was a memo with a 6 step plan for a coup, and it doesn't even get top of the hour news coverage - let alone consequences for all involved. We are in danger of a repeat folks!
I don't want to read one more about the white people who voted for Trump because of jobs. The truth is marching in #Charlottesville tonight.
WAPO: Secret Service agents outraged by Trumpβs drive outside hospital.
βWhere are the adults?β said one former agent.
βHeβs not even pretending to care now,β said another.
Arizona: nearly 10,000 registered Republicans have changed their party affiliation since the insurrection per election officials.
Biden's start has been such a pleasant surprise for me. He and his team have restored normalcy and competence, and come in with a plan that they have methodically executed on, day by day. Couldn't be happier with the first 2 1/2 weeks. Do you agree?
At no time in history have there been back-to-back marches with millions taking to the streets, and yet our media seems to have zero interest in exploring the Resistance and what is actually happening in America. Can you imagine what would happen if a million white men marched?
Not for nothing, but some of us knew who Trump was and what he would do back in Nov 2016, and we were ridiculed and called various forms of hysterical. There needs to be a recognition of those who knew and warned what would happen - and why Trump was normalized for so long.
Imagine if a Senate Democrat called a Democrat secretary of state in a blue state and asked them to hide votes to help Biden win.
This can never be normalized. Lindsey Graham MUST face an investigation and consequences!
I missed the part where I voted for Jared Kushner, or he had the background to be the voice of the United States, or heck, even security clearance. And then I remembered, we live in an authoritarian regime now, so of course a family member is speaking for us.
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LIVE: Jared Kushner, the US president's son-in-law, senior adviser and top official overseeing US effort in Middle East peace, delivers speech at Jerusalem embassy opening. nbcnews.to/2rFPaUu
Serious question: how can anyone who identifies as βpro-lifeβ not be infuriated that 9 million low income children (and mothers) are about to lose access to medical care?
Republicans under quarantine for coronavirus so far:
* Ted Cruz
* Paul Gosar
* Doug Collins
* Matt Gaetz
Who said Mother Nature doesnβt have a sense of humor.
Pelosi rejects calls to shutter the Capitol, saying
βWe are the captains of the ship. We are the last to leave."
This is leadership!
Republicans in Congress- if you remain silent after yesterdayβs debacle, you are truly cowards and traitors to our democracy.
Biden wasn't my 1st or 2nd or 3rd or 4th choice, but he has shown us he is right person for this time and the challenges we now face. His first 50 days have been nothing short of remarkable. Feeling grateful and also tonight hopeful, for the first time in a very long time.
McConnell adjourned the Senate until Sept 14. An entire month. No relief bill passed in the Senate. He wasn't even involved in negotiating one. He just left. With tens of millions not getting a $600 a week payment. He just left. With long lines at food banks. He just left.
Itβs amazing how much Republicans pretended to care about 4 Americans lost in Benghazi - dragging on for years and years and years.
Then 40,000 die, and suddenly itβs radio silence.
Lindsey Graham is up for re-election in 2020. I will write a check to whichever Democrat can take him down, and I know I speak for plenty!
As bad as the pedophilia allegations are against Roy Moore, can we also not lose sight of his slavery comments, his views on Jews and gays. That this βmanβ can be a viable candidate for senate, AND have the backing not only of Trump but the RNC, is a stain on our great country.
Have to ask again why 7 Republican senators are in Moscow today in closed-door meetings with Russian politicians without media access on day Senate Intel Comm finds Russia helped elect Trump! And Trump too plans to meet with Putin one-on-one on July 16. This should be story #1!
Six months after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince.
$2 billion. And Kushner worked in the Trump regime on determining US foreign policy. But letβs talk more about Hunter Bidenβs lap top π€¦π»ββοΈ
It needs to be said: Donald Trump was put into office with the knowing help of a foreign enemy who sought to weaken our world leadership and has succeeded. Trump is now undermining our institutions and democracy. He is a traitor to America.
Donβt get me wrong: let Maxwell rot in jail and throw away the key.
But how about the misogyny in our country and legal system that only a woman has been held accountable, while the men who sexually abused and enabled the abuse of children have suffered no consequences.
Judge Reinhart needs to sue TF out of Brian Kilmeade, Tucker Carlson and Fox News!
Dear Elon Musk,
I look forward to watching you lose billions on this investment.
Hereβs your reminder that 34 Senate seats are up for re-election in November, and 20 of those are Republicans. There is a chance to send several GOP Senators packing, or to pick up empty seats and make Manchin and Sinema irrelevant.
The things we have normalized in the era of Trump: photo of his meeting this week and military leaders and some of his cabinet members.
Not a single woman at the table.
Not a single person of color at the table.
If the justices who sit on the highest court in our land are able to lie under oath, what does that say about the viability of our justice system?
I don't understand why every tv networks and newspaper doesn't have cameras on our southern border capturing what is happening to migrant children split from their parents. This is a human atrocity of historical nature. Should be front page, top of the hour every day!!
I donβt understand the animosity aimed at our President. Heβs faced a bevy of concurrent crises, and I think done a remarkable job. He has restored our role of global leadership as Putin invaded Ukraine.
Next time you think it's not worth your time to fill in the Census ....New York is losing a Congressional seat after falling 89 residents short.
I don't want to EVER hear another Republican claim they care about life!
Far-right media like Fox News is going to hate 4 years of Psaki. She is not falling for any of their stunts.
You heard it here first (and repeatedly): none of the Trumps will ever hold public office again. They will spend the coming years in the court systems, and trying to figure out how to pay back that mountain of debt with their brand damaged beyond repair. It's over.
As of 1/1/20:
*Trump - impeached
*Manafort - in prison
*Cohen - in prison
*Flynn - going to prison
*Stone - going to prison
*Gates - going to prison
*Prince, Giuliani, Parnas, Fruman - under investigation
*Lewandowski - not running
*reputations ruined
βAll the presidentβs men.β
Key nugget today: Trump reviewed the permit for the rally at the Ellipse, which originally did not include marching to the US Capitol - and had it revised to allow that.
Signs of hope:
Fox News' ratings are plummeting. All day long. They are now in a distant third place, after dominating for 2 decades.
I must say, amid the suffering and sadness, seeing Cuomo drag Mitch McConnell and expose him as immoral, thoughtless, and his ideas βdumbβ has to be one of the highlights of the year.
Dear media -
Please do NOT broadcast the former guy's CPAC speech live! No more amplifying the big lie that has already done so much damage to our country and democracy.
Citigroup announces staff in the US who have not been vaccinated by Jan. 14 will be placed on unpaid leave and fired at the end of the month.
This is how you do it. Of course they have a woman CEO ;)
I seriously donβt understand why Trumpβs approval isnβt down to 10 or 20%. He is leaving Americans to suffer, die and starve. He has no basic human decency. The only people who should still be supporting him are the unrepentant racists.
Nearly 4 million have voted in Texas - voter suppression and all. Truly remarkable. In 2016, a total of 8.9 voted.
Keep going folks. Letβs turn Texas blue and end Cornyn!
Trying to manage the rage I am feeling about the way these Republican white men are mistreating a victim of sexual assault. And I am sure I am not alone.
President Biden is doing a spectacular job. Thank you Mr. President! πΊπΈπΊπΈ
I just want to point out that so far today, 32 Americans have died in the state of Michigan, and Trump is taking steps to deny that state getting critical medical supplies from vendors, because he thinks Gov. Whitmer hasnβt been nice enough to him.
We are living in a fucking nightmare! The election is now 183 days away. I would walk 100 miles with stones being thrown at me to vote this incompetent, corrupt, sociopathic buffoon out of office.
NEW: 26 Republicans voted with Democrats 257-150 for the House postal service relief bill - a rebuke of Trump. Pelosi had expected just a handful.
Watching how swiftly the UK Parliament is moving on Cambridge Analytica while our Republican-led Congress refuses to even hold hearings is everything on how broken our government is right now. These people need to be voted out of office!
Folks in Georgia - please consider ways to get Raffensperger to certify the new Senators early. He can do so anytime between Jan 15-22. If he wants accountability for Trump, he could put Schumer in charge of the Senate and bring impeachment to the floor Jan 15.
New NBC poll finds βthreats to democracyβ has overtaken the cost of living as votersβ top issue facing the country for midterms.
I do not understand why our media is framing the story as if Trump has the option of whether he lost and will leave. He did and he will. The question is what is wrong with him and the GOP 23 days later.
Nothing was learned 4 years later.
A reminder if GOP state legislatures had allowed early counting in PA, WI and MI the results would have been out last night or this morning.
This delay was ironically because of Republicans.
Let me break it down for you Republican Party: youβre arming terrorists with automatic weapons to kill our children. The last three mass murders were at a school, a church, a concert. Nowhere is safe.
Trump sent 100 tweets and retweets today, a clear sign he did nothing wrong, has nothing to hide, and is not at all worried about being impeached.
Okay, can we go back to a 26 year-old lesbian whose wife is African American won a state Senate race in Okla-fucking-homa last night - in a district Trump won +40 with 67% of vote a year ago! That's not just a shift, that's a tectonic shift.
If 19 armed police inside PLUS 150 police outside, were afraid to engage ONE 18 year-old with an AR-15, the only solution is to ban AR-15 style rifles, period!
Once again a woman putting her career, safety and future on the line for service to our country.
Hereβs where I remind us that 34 Senate seats are up in the midterms, and 20 of those are Republican seats. Get busy taking them!
First we learn Sinema spent the week of recess in Paris, instead of in AZ with her constituents. Then we find out the $1.1 million she raised in 3Q came 90% out of state, with a huge influx from Big Pharma execs who want to block part of bill to cap prices. This is diabolical π‘
Ted Cruz wakes up every morning with a thought bubble: 'how can I be a bigger douchebag today?'
Turnout so far today in Dekalb County - where Biden garnered 83% of the vote - has already exceeded that of the Nov. 3 election.
A reminder that Donald Jr had dinner with Butina, a Russian spy who was indicted today - shortly before he hosted the June 9 meeting at Trump Tower with more Russians.
Mystified as to why it's not the top story today that 7 US Senator visited Moscow Tuesday for a "conciliatory" meeting with their Russian counterparts, on the same day the GOP-led Senate Intel Comm released a report that Russia interfered to elect Trump in 2016.
I want to add, it's not enough for him to resign. Every person involved directly, or indirectly through knowledge and silent complicity in the attempted coup of our democracy needs to be brought to justice. We cannot rest until this is complete, however long it takes.
You knew it had to be really, really bad, and well beyond breaking the law, for Barr to resign.
Maybe Jeff Bezosβs Amazon can deliver the mail-in ballots. Suggest it and watch Trumpβs head explode.
Canβt believe our media companies had the budgets to fly crews and hosts and reporters all the way to Singapore to cover Trumpβs stagecraft, yet refuse to send staff to our own southern border to record these ongoing atrocities to humanity.
Kevin McCarthy is the worst Republican House leader I have seen in my lifetime. He is a weak, spineless man.
OMG - blocked a resolution in that Senate that passed in the House 405-11 condemning Armenian genocide, after meeting with Trump and Erdogan. This is so deeply troubling, and happening in the light of day! What is wrong with this man!
Who wants to bet that Trump sold or planned to sell classified US top secret documents for his own financial gain?
4 years ago today was the Women's March. All I can say is Democrats now control the House, Senate and White House. We did it! πΊπΈ