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From abroad, the mass shootings in the US seem like a preventable illness. Two friends in the UK independently told me “if Americans don’t want to fix the problem, I can’t feel sorry for them.” It gave me pause.
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We Dems are old-fashioned fighters for the economic common good. The Rs have a nakedly plutocrat agenda: let rich tax cheats skate free by defunding the IRS, drain Social Security and Medicare, and drive us over a debt cliff after building record deficits.
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Trees voting for axes, turkeys for thanksgiving
Any Brit who votes Tory is choosing a cult of lies and greed
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One in five British people still intend to vote Tory. I mean how shit do they have to be? twitter.com/britainelects/…
Roses are red,
Violets are blue
DC has more residents than Wyoming
And should be a state, too.
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CONFIRMED! Adam Schiff will run for US Senate, Do you support this? 🤔♻️
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Great news: Rep. Grace Meng just introduced a bill that would lower the voting age to 16 years old in America. Here's the bottom line: If 16 and 17-year-olds are allowed to work full-time, drive, & pay taxes, then they also deserve the right to vote. Period.
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If you’re VAXXED — had zero side effects from the vaccine, and would do it all over again…
Raise your proud hand! 🤚
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Protecting the Boundary Waters is key to supporting clean water, a healthy landscape and its surrounding wildlife, upholding our Tribal trust and treaty responsibilities, and boosting the local outdoor recreation economy.
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Breaking: A 20-year mining ban was just issued by to protect the Boundary Waters Wilderness! This is the most significant achievement for Boundary Waters protection since 1978. Say thank you and learn more about this historic moment now: savetheboundarywaters.org/20-year-mining
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The McGonigal question goes even beyond these issues. He had authority in the most sensitive possible investigations within U.S. intelligence. Sorting this out will require a concern for the United States that goes beyond party loyalty. 20/20
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I remember a certain frivolity from 2016. Trump was a curiosity. Russia was irrelevant. Nothing to take seriously. Then Trump was elected, blocked weapon sales to Ukraine, and tried to stage a coup. Now Ukrainians are dying every day in the defining conflict of our time. 19/20
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The Russian influence operation to get Trump elected was real. It serves no one to pretend otherwise. We are still learning about it. Denying that it happened makes the United States vulnerable to ongoing Russian operations. 18/20
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Back in June 2016, Kevin McCarthy expressed his suspicion that Donald Trump was under Putin's influence. He and other Republican members concluded that the risk of an embarrassment to their party was more important than American security. #RoadToUnfreedom, p. 255. 17/20
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Right after the McGonigal story broke, Kevin McCarthy ejected Adam Schiff from the House intelligence committee. Schiff is expert on Russian influence operations. It exhibits carelessness about national security to exclude him. It is downright suspicious to exclude him now. 16/20
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We need to understand why the FBI failed in 2016 to address the essence of an ongoing Russian influence operation. The character of that operation suggests that it would have been the responsibility of an FBI section whose head is now accused of taking Russian money. 15/20
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The reason I was thinking about Trump & Putin in 2016 was a pattern. Russia had sought to control Ukraine, using social media, money, & a pliable head of state. Russia backed Trump the way that it had backed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, in the hopes of soft control 2/20
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The person who led the relevant section, Charles McGonigal, has just been charged with taking money from the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Follow this thread to see just how this connects to the victory of Trump, the Russian war in Ukraine, and U.S. national security. 1/20
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Our right-wing Supreme Court has turned for-profit corporations into citizens with political rights, women into citizens without reproductive rights and minority groups into citizens without a Voting Rights Act. They don’t want a democracy, they want a corporate state.
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🚨Significant- Sen. Lindsey Graham tells me he’s known Biden for a long time and would be shocked if there was anything sinister going on with his handling of classified documents.
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The clear choice for AZ Senator is . Graph via Data for Progress…Sinema is NOT popular in AZ!
#ResistanceUnited #OurBlueVoice #ProudBlue
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James Comey felt compelled to announce the reopening of the Hillary email investigation because it had already been leaked by two agents at the NY FBI office, one of whom we now learn was a Russian agent.
Don’t tell me Putin didn’t steal the 2016 election.
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I don't think an assault rifle has ever been used to save a life. Only to claim a life.
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By refusing to seat Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar on their committees while seating compulsive liar and conman George Santos and bowing and scraping to compulsive liar and conman Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy has shown America exactly what he believes in: nothing.
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When DeSantis comes for AP Art classes because he feels it's "degenerate art," will you cave then like you did with AP African-American Studies?
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This question needs an answer: Was a compromised top FBI official, now facing criminal charges, a source for an election-eve bombshell NYT report that may have elected Trump?
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Hey, @deanbaquet was this the source responsible for the above the fold headline days before the 2016 election saying FBI found no links between Russia and the election? twitter.com/jedicounselor/…
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This is why DeSantis doesn’t want Black history being taught. The attacks on black people for existing has been constant. Check out the period in the early 1900s. Tulsa is the one some people know but there were many more never taught in school.
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“In narrowly divided Wisconsin, a one-seat edge is all the majority needs to change the state’s politics.”
The Wisconsin Supreme Court election is *the* most important election in 2023. Here’s what’s at stake:
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Whatever mentions about my husband he doesn’t know my husband. He should be silent and shut up the lies about my husband. It is such bad information and the wrong information. This is not acceptable. #justiceforjamal
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Elon Musk's Twitter wants you to think liberals are exaggerating Florida's book ban. But they aren't. The policy treats all classroom books as banned until they can be combed over by censors.
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When a liar is given extreme powers as leader of the country then the corruption is allowed to spread into so many other parts of the democracy,that the whole system is called into question,making the BBC no longer a provider of quality unbiased news admired worldwide!
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Recap: Sharp's a Tory donor, Sunak's former boss & adviser, & Johnson's adviser as mayor. The panel appointing Sharp included a Tory donor & Johnson's former boss. Sharp's appointment being reviewed by a prominent conservative activist & father of No.10 policy chief/ Sunak donor.
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Britain’s slide into corruptionism, plutocracy and incipient autocracy has been lightning fast. Thank the Tories. Remind me who the msm destroyed Jeremy Corbyn’s chances?
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EXCL: Govt-appointed panel that approved Richard Sharp as BBC chair included Tory donor & wife of Boris Johnson’s ex-boss at Spectator - @marksweney
theguardian.com/media/2023/jan
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We have become a corrupt country in so many ways. These charlatans have to be swept from power and preferably never allowed back. Electoral reform is becoming more attractive in that context
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EXCL: Govt-appointed panel that approved Richard Sharp as BBC chair included Tory donor & wife of Boris Johnson’s ex-boss at Spectator - @marksweney
theguardian.com/media/2023/jan
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So to summarise, Rishi Sunak, who promised a new era of "accountability and integrity"
- Won't sack Nadhim Zahawi who had to pay a penalty for failing to pay his taxes
- Won't reveal what Zahawi told him about the penalty
- Won't say if he has also ever had to pay a penalty
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It’s the crime of the century: An FBI agent working for Putin swayed the 2016 election by both leaking disinformation about Russia-Gate and revealing the reopening of the email investigation, right before the election
But please MSM, tell us more about Biden’s closet.
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Starmer absolutely excoriating as he (as I thought he would) takes jab at PM wife's former non-doc status). "We all know why he's reluctant to ask his c/m abt family affairs & tax avoidance" And then: "His failure to sack [NZ] shows how weak [PM] is" > Very tough exhcange for PM
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"My name is Tova Friedman and I'm a Holocaust survivor...I tell the story, because I want to remember, I am a witness."
Join the #WeRemember Campaign to remind the world of what can happen when hatred is allowed to thrive unchecked.
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On two fronts, public services with the focus on probation and then Zahawi, destroyed there. Sunak left with ‘but what about Corbyn?’ as last line of defence. Starmer was brutal. And it was deserved.
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