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C. Danté
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The only easy day was yesterday | Engineering + Politics + F1 | Views are my own | Follows, likes & RTs ≠ endorsements
Born May 27, 1998Joined March 2016

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Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, two members in good standing, are being removed from their committees, while an abject fraud like George Santos will oversee fraud in the PPP program. Kevin McCarthy, by what logic does this make sense?
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James Comer, the Chair of House Oversight, said if George Santos broke campaign finance law, “he will be removed from Congress.” Santos has now admitted to breaking campaign finance law with an illicit $500K loan. It’s time for him to be removed.
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I wonder why Matt Taibbi didn't do an entire Twitter Files thread about this attempt by a government official to interfere with the speech decisions of a private company.
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McCarthy had his general counsel "spend hours" with senior executives at Twitter trying to get Marjorie Taylor Greene back on the platform after she was banned for violating misinformation policies. From @jonathanvswan @CatieEdmondson nytimes.com/2023/01/23/us/
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NEW: The FBI seized about a dozen classified documents from former Vice President Mike Pence’s home in Indiana, despite him saying he possessed no classified documents. Will Republicans be outraged at this like they were for Biden?
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All of a sudden everybody has classified documents at home
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NEWS: A lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence discovered about a dozen documents marked as classified at Pence's Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI, w/ @jamiegangel @evanperez cnn.com/2023/01/24/pol
These next few years will be very interesting. With Africa as the desired continent for many, the direction the continent and it's countries take will be important in determining its place in the global heirarchy. I look forward to this.
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South Africa to side with Russia on push for redesigned global order theglobeandmail.com/world/article- from @geoffreyyork
There is no question that our system for handling classified documents within the White House needs to be reassessed. And yet, to see the Trump and Biden situations solely as the inevitable results of a systems failure ignores Trump’s distinct, but related crime: obstruction. 1/
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Stolen funds raised for a disabled veteran’s service dog, and immigration docs showing his mother was not in New York as he claimed on 9/11, are just the latest developments embroiling George Santos. and I mapped out the controversy
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(Bloomberg) -- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will resign her position by Feb. 7, saying she doesn’t have the energy or inspiration to seek re-election at this year’s general election.
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When are journos gonna actually do hard hitting follow up questions? Start making folks follow up with proof. Someone should have just calmly asked “which states?”
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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise falsely claims infanticide is “legal in some states”: “If a baby is born alive, outside the womb, in some states, they actually are allowing that baby to be killed and calling it abortion."
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“Every MLK Day we are treated to a bevy of pieces about the actual scope and radicalism of King’s views, apparent in even his most celebrated speech. What I want to suggest is, what if we could just ignore all of that and celebrate the pretend King who makes me feel good?”
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Every MLK Day we are treated to a bevy of thinkpieces on how the only way to achieve MLK's dream is to embrace group redistributionism and racial discrimination. MLK may have made such arguments in 1968, but that simply isn't the dream or the pathway we celebrate him for.
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Keenan Anderson—a 31-year-old high school teacher & father—stopped LA police for help after an accident. They instead cuffed him, pinned him, & tased him repeatedly as he begged them to stop. Keenan died of cardiac arrest from excessive tasing. His crime—asking police for help.
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Finally, we have 3 months in a row of core inflation at a significantly lower level from where it stubbornly was. This is a major achievement. It also makes it clearer what the doves and hawks will each argue now, which we'll outline here as we dive in. Let's go! Let's go! /1
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