I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.
I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system.
In 1952, the corporate share of federal tax revenue was 32%. In 2020, it was down to 7%.
Here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
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D. Leigh Henson
@DLHenson1
30 yrs. high school Eng. teacher; 14 yrs. university tech writing professor; anti-demagoguery&bigotry; pro-Lincoln legacy (conservative progressive).
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BREAKING: Elon Musk deleted a tweet saying Congressman Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) “brain is too small” and Schiff responded that Elon has curated an environment of bigotry and hate on Twitter. RETWEET IF YOU SUPPORT CONGRESSMAN SCHIFF!
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IRS - pursuant to regulation - audited Obama and Biden. But not Trump. IRS under Trump appointees DID, however, audit FBI officials Comey and McCabe. All very suspicious. Trump IRS officials have to answer for this. This must be investigated.
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Our work on the has led us to criminally refer Donald Trump to DOJ. We now turn to the criminal justice system to ensure Justice under the law. The American people can ensure he’s never elected again.
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Elon Musk calls himself a free speech absolutist, to justify turning a blind eye to hatred and bigotry on Twitter.
But when journalists report unfavorable news, they are banned without warning.
The devotion to free speech is apparently not that absolute. But the hypocrisy is.
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Apparently it’s “Free speech for me. Not for thee.”
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Elon Musk is now explicitly encouraging his 120 million followers to start following QAnon.
Put differently, Elon Musk is encouraging his 120 million followers to join a domestic terrorism movement.
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18 weeks now since the MAL search. Trump has no plausible defense and has never even explained why he took the docs (and he never will). Just a matter now of WHEN he will be charged.
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17 weeks since the MAL search; lots of legal wins, lots of grand jury work (good practice!), and now time to put it all together. twitter.com/AWeissmann_/st…
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Had I known that standing up for the truth would cost me my job, friendships, and even my personal security, I would without hesitation, do it all over again.
Watch live my last speech as a Congressman on the House floor ->
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I’m never going to forget the shattered glass on the floor of the Capitol or the spray paint on the walls. But I will also remember walking at 3 a.m. to affirm the people’s will and certify the election. We must pass the Electoral Count Reform Act.
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What if everyone on this platform blocked its owner.
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Constitution-trashing in itself isn’t disqualifying: some leading legal scholars have written academic articles urging the Constitution’s abandonment. What’s disqualifying is trying to do it to seize power for oneself and one’s faction as Trump is doing.
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“You shouldn’t get the glory for pulling democracy back from the brink if you helped carry it up there in the first place.” And that’s just what the servile #MikePence did — throughout Trump’s presidency
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DeSantis official says Justice Dept. can’t send monitors to 3 Florida counties because it would "violate state law." BREAKING NEWS: Article VI of the U.S. Constitution makes federal law supreme.
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Newsflash: If the GOP regains power, they’ll pass tax cuts for the rich that will not solve inflation. Let me remind you: The GOP doesn't give a damn about inflation. All they care about is padding the pockets of their ultra-rich donors.
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BREAKING: Reporters reveal that just froze some Twitter employee’s access to internal tools used for content moderation and other policy enforcement, decreasing Twitter’s ability to clamp down on Russian fake news ahead of the midterm elections. RT TO EXPOSE ELON MUSK!
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Some rich American patriot needs to start a new platform called Truth Absolute.
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Justice Thomas violated 28 USC 455, requiring any "justice" to recuse when his or her "impartiality might reasonably be questioned" or his or her "spouse is known by the justice to have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome"
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Justice Thomas is giving the finger to the Court on which he sits, the Chief Justice and Associate Justices with whom he serves, the Constitution he interprets and the Nation that pays his salary.
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BREAKING: Bannon sentenced to 4 months. But key here is he won’t be required to surrender to prison until after his “timely” appeal. Bannon now will seek to delay that process until he can be pardoned. Yet again.
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I admire enormously for the courage he showed in making this entirely apt but no doubt provocative comparison:
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On the left, a Nazi rally in New York City in 1939.
On the right, a Trump rally in Ohio in 2022.
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Trump’s ominous forecast that the nation would face unprecedented “problems” if he were put on trial “is an incitement to violence, plain and simple. It echoes the same rhetoric he deployed in the run-up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”
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BREAKING: We just filed an official plea with the DOJ to prosecute Abbott and DeSantis for violating Section 274(a)(1)(A)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act which makes it a federal crime to transport undocumented persons across state lines. 🧵
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CNN’s Erin Burnett just used her segment to talk about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Russian disinformation is now being portrayed as “news” by CNN. This is a deliberate propaganda campaign by CNN to help MAGA win the midterms. And it’s happening right before our very eyes. #BoycottCNN
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tRUMP will never be found guilty of any criminal behavior for the simple reason that his defense attorneys will always be able to slip at least one MAGAt into the jury. Not to mention the SCOTUS tRUMP sympathizers who would rule on an appeal. Constitutional government thus ends.
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Judge Aileen Cannon's bizarre decision endangers national security and attacks the rule of law. It is untethered from principle and purely results-driven. Its defense of the idea that the former president deserves privileged treatment is pathetic. She is a disgrace to the bench.
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Rarely see as uniform repudiation from legal community of a lower court decision vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/d
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Trump knows exactly what he's doing by demonizing the FBI and DOJ as "vicious monsters." He's dehumanizing them in order to give his loyal Trumpies, especially those with firearms, permission to injure or kill FBI & DOJ employees who are just trying to do their jobs.
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If it doesn't, fox fake news, and an emboldened Trump Crime Family will continue until there's a military take over of these United States and we will all be the stupid people that believed it. As we are murdered in the street + roasted in crematoriums we will regret.
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A Trump judge delivers for Trump in a big way. Delays now could lead to further chaos and mischief on his part. A big win for Trump. A big loss for accountability. News organizations should dive deep into what Trump did to politicize the federal judiciary.
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INCREDIBLE- Now 4 full weeks since the search warrant was executed by DOJ and publicized by Trump, and Trump has still not said a word as to why he took the documents, why he did not return them all, why he lied and said he did, and what he was doing with them for over 18 months.
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Now THREE full weeks since the search warrant was executed by DOJ and publicized by Trump, and Trump has still not said a word as to why he took the documents, why he did not return them all, why he lied and said he did, and what he was doing with them for over 18 months. twitter.com/AWeissmann_/st…
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According to Judge Cannon, the robber can get a special master — but only if he had been the president before robbing the bank, because “the investigation and treatment of a former president is of unique interest to the general public.” I.e., a former president is above the law.
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Suppose a guy robs a bank and government gets a search warrant and finds stolen dough along with guy’s pocket change and an email from his lawyer. Can guy get a special master to sort out the cash and the email, and an injunction against further investigation in the meantime?
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This moment is akin to 1860 or 1940, the two points in our past when we faced existential threats from antidemocratic forces of domination and subordination. As at those times, those who believe “we shall overcome” will prevail — if we keep the faith and work our hearts out.
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For anyone wondering why voting for Democrats matters, this is why. A Republican president and a Republican senate are how you get judges appointed to life long seats who allow bullshit maneuvers like this. She's a Trump appointed judge, voted on by a Republican senate.
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Trump is attacking law enforcement and yet again using language he knows will provoke violence. Only one group of Americans has a chance to diminish this danger— Republicans.
If my fellow Republicans fail to step up to stop this, they will share the blame for all that follows.
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I think was the best of the CNN journalists. Pushing him out, as Chris Licht, CNN’s new CEO has done, shows that CNN is on a scary new path. We don’t need a #FoxNews light. One dishonest cable network is more than enough.
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personal news:
today's my last day at CNN
proud of the work
thanks to my colleagues
i've been lucky to serve the best in American media - St. Petersburg Times, WSJ, NYT, the NBC family, CNN
look forward to figuring out what's next
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I am determined to ban assault weapons in this country. I did it once before, and I’ll do it again.
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BREAKING: Demands for Supreme Court impeachment grow as it’s revealed that traitor Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, also pushed for a “clean slate of electors” in Wisconsin, which is a way of saying fake electors. RT TO DEMAND IMPEACHMENT!
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The government’s brief is devastating.
The legal arguments are compelling, but what is most striking are the facts outlining how the former president and his team knowingly put our national security at risk.
Here’s what stands out to me:
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Yet more indefensible conduct by Donald Trump revealed this morning.
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