My Under the (Almost) Tuscan Sun account relating the misadventures of a Bagnoregio home restoration. Ex-Archaeologist/Art Restorer. Always Musicophile. ☮️
Marilyn Monroe’s iconic dress has reportedly been damaged after being worn by Kim Kardashian at the Met Gala.
The dress now shows signs of tearing, and several crystals are either missing or hanging off of it.
Katy Tur is somehow making today’s conviction of Trump about her. Unfriggin’ believable. And now she’s warning that the jurors will “have to live with this.” Why do you continuously subject your viewers to her
@MSNBC
@MSNBCPR
?
@Tim_Tweeted
When did it become ok to aggressively harass strangers in public? Is this all Trump-related? Do we have to fear being accosted when we’re out, and if we answer back, they might pull out their concealed-carry gun and claim self-defense when they shoot us? Is that where we are?
I couldn’t despise
@senatemajldr
more if I tried.
#KYSen
McConnell warns Kentucky that if he doesn’t win, taxpayers in his state won’t have someone in DC fighting for them.
Dunno, but after 36+ years at the bottom of every ranking, maybe KY can do better.
#VoteAmyMcGrath
🇺🇸
The reason I’ve turned off
@MSNBC
during the day. I’m sure I’m not alone
@MSNBCPR
. Wonder if your advertisers have noted a ratings decline? Your loyal audience tells you Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd, Katy Tur, and Kristen Welker are offensive, yet you ignore us, so we ignore you.
I can’t believe what I’m watching! MSNBC letting Trump tell lies about Fani Willis and Jack Smith. All lies and they let him lie for 15 minutes. Whats wrong with you! This is all MSM fault
Have we ever learned why that group of Republicans visited Moscow on the 4th of July a few years ago? If it was in their capacity as U.S. representatives, shouldn’t they have had to disclose what their meeting with high level Russian politicians was about?
@donwinslow
And the fact that SCOTUS spiked the ball on gerrymandering which gifted just enough seats to Republicans is only being discussed by a few experts online. It should terrify everyone that the highest court in the land has basically gone rogue and aren’t looking back.
@maddenifico
Do the people orchestrating/financing Trump’s defenses think they’ll control him once they get him back into the WH? That’s what I don’t get. If he and his crew return, the world will be so unstable Leo and his billionaire pals won’t have a country left over which to rule.
.
@MSNBC
’s reporting that *some* members of Congress are being invited to the WH today to get a debriefing on what the Trump administration knew about Putin paying bounties on military heads.
NO DEMS ARE INVITED.
ANY GOP going—without insisting DEMs are included—are
#traitors
.
@DWUhlfelderLaw
Is a candidate allowed to use money ostensibly raised for a political campaign to pay for the costs of that person’s legal defense? It seems kinda problematic.
Thus far, this my favorite
@TheLastWord
show ever
@Lawrence
! Please continue holding your colleagues to the standards we all need/expect, now more than ever.
I’ve been at a loss as to why Hope Hicks has been given a pass, much the way Ivanka is. Beauty is only skin deep.
I don’t get it. A group of rich kids at Yale years ago decided to create the Federalist Society to think-tank how to take over the govt. Doubt they ever thought it was really possible. Now they’re here/protecting each other/profiting/on SCOTUS. And the media doesn’t spell it out.
Finally, a retired ATF special agent asks the question aloud: in states with open-carry, how do you know the person walking toward you with a gun is a ‘good guy,’ and not about to start a mass shooting?
Does everybody not see how insane this is?
#maddow
#Boulder
#GunControlNOW
@kamimagic
This all seems so orchestrated. It feels like somebody on high, with loads of cash (Leonard Leo?), is financing GOP think-tanks to game-plan takeovers through whatever means possible. Meanwhile, with their eyes on the ‘high road,’ DEMs don’t see it happening.
OMG. I thought somebody photoshopped this. Went to his Twitter feed to check, and it’s real. JFC! WHAT will it take to remove this clear and present danger from the WH? I mean, if “great and unmatched wisdom” doesn’t scream
#25thAmendment
, what does?
#GreatAndUnmatchedWisdom
OK. Now what happens if we find out that
@alfranken
was railroaded out of Congress by his own colleagues based on Stone lies? When all he asked
@SenGillibrand
and others was for an investigation? Could they have been THAT gullible? Was Franken targeted due to his effectiveness?
I literally can’t abide Katy Tur and her ‘bored to tears’ tone when listing Trump’s crimes. Funny how
@MSNBCPR
runs commercials repeatedly to watch her show—guess they’ve noticed the numbers. She could go to FOX News, but only if she dyes her hair blonde and starts wearing pink.
#DonaldWilliams
trying to reason with
#DerekChauvin
and his partners.
These witnesses seem to carry more trauma from not being able to save
#GeorgeFloyd
than the cops do for killing him.
@tweetmommybop
@RiskyLiberal
@FLOTUS
It’s not the bad dancing that I object to...it’s the fact that he’s taken to dancing at each event as though people aren’t dying every day from a pandemic he’s decided to ignore. Apparently we all signed up for herd immunity without a say in the matter.
#GraveDancing
@CarolMithers
Arrived like you and moved into the sort of hotel for young women that no longer exists. Went to a deli nearby and asked for a piece of “Death By Chocolate” cake to mark by b’day. I apologized asking for a fork, because I had none. They said the cake was free and welcome to NY.🥲
FYI
@SenatorBurr
.
#BurrKnew
He didn’t warn the country despite being Chair of the Senate Intel Committee. He sat by watching Trump downplay the risk.
Then he sold all his stocks. And gave a heads up to wealthy donors.
Burr is the worst sort of
#traitor
. More people will die.
@MittRomney
@johnastoehr
Good to hear
@MittRomney
. Hope your wife is well too.
Now please use this time to reflect on whether you want to dedicate the rest of your life to protecting a corrupt regime and a Republican Party that has forgotten who they’re beholden to.
You’re a smart man. Be a leader.
@kaitlancollins
@abdallahcnn
He’s such a baby. Like all bullies. When he doesn’t get his way, he takes his toys and leaves.
This time though, I hope WE take away ALL his toys and put HIM away. Along with all his playmates.
@BGrueskin
WTF is Graham SO ANGRY about?! Has he been assaulted and ignored? Is he about to lose all his rights? Is he asking what happened to his gov’t and WHY the opposing party is enabling treason? Seriously...WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM?!
@axios
.
@senatemajldr
should probably be working on how he’s going to explain why he and his caucus decided aiding and abetting a Russian asset was part of their oath to protect and defend the Constitution.
And he DARES say NO progressives after shoving through a handmaiden? Really?
@zachsdorfman
@abramson1234
Wait until you get through Vol. II.
It’s free on
@audible_com
everybody...if you like listening to books, this is right up there with a John Grisham novel, except it’s all true, and vitally important to the salvation of US democracy. Make time to listen, unlike most GOP.
@GlennKesslerWP
If people who honestly didn’t know better have been sent TO JAIL for attempting to exercise their right to vote, then a POLITICIAN who knows the rules, and knowingly attempted to skirt them, should be held accountable too.
#MarkMeadows
I am livid listening to
@maddow
.
The whistleblower doctor who refused to sign off on Trump’s miracle-cure says that cronies were awarded extremely lucrative contracts for drugs that were not approved.
This WH and their circle will kill you for money.
On MSNBC, they’re discussing how Trump’s upcoming trials will affect his campaign—
And I feel like EVERYONE’s gone completely crazy! The man incited a coup to overturn a U.S. election, has promised to destroy democracy, and pundits analyze his chances as though it’s all normal?
@SIfill_
What I don’t understand is how the Fed Soc and other groups managed to implement their decades-long strategy, and DEMs were seemingly caught unaware. It’s as though judges/politicians/intel professionals/law enforcement/media were strategically placed sleeper cells now activated.
@chadmccullough
Major surgery in Europe—they wouldn’t let me leave the hospital until I could walk out on my own. Major surgery in the US—they woke me up in recovery to send me home. Guess which one didn’t send me a bill…
Every 6 months or so I check my former bff’s feed to see if there’s any glimmer of recognition—this week it’s all Diamond & Silk. We grew up together/went to church together/worked together. Then FOX News came to town and she changed. They knowingly prey on people: it’s a cult.
Rewatching the HBO doc “Pelosi in the House,” and can’t help but note that most members applauded Nancy when she said the purpose of the insurrection was to stop the election validation—and that purpose would not be filled. You can see
#JimJordan
exchange a look with Matt Gaetz:
.
@maddow
suggested Barr may have inserted his lackeys not only to bury Trump’s myriad cases, but also to investigate those Obama/Clinton conspiracies just in time for the election.
No GOP seem worried about their seats despite daily atrocities by the WH. Why? What do they know?
Is it me, or are some in the media at this WH Press Briefing holding the new administration to some impossible standard on their first full day in office, when they accepted insults, lies, and obfuscation from the previous press secretaries? And Jen Psaki’s maintaining her cool.
@psychdr100
@jacksnowknows
That would explain it, because I can’t get over his energy...always insulting, gesticulating, lying...no pause, no waivering. Don’t know how he does it. Only time I’ve ever seen such manic arrogance is from newsreels of Hitler and Mussolini. He’s a very dangerous man.
We are living in bizarro world...Trump bans immigrants, yet has taken advantage of them for decades; Evangelicals praise Trump, yet he’s broken most Commandments; Pro-lifers want to control a woman’s body, but won’t give up their guns.
Trump is a conman. Why don’t they see it?
Undocumented employees that worked for Trump and were shortchanged pay share portraits, uniforms, pay stubs. Q is: where, along with mountain of other evidence, do these images land? 📷 Jose Gabriel Juarez;
@vanhoutenphoto
@washpostphoto
@fahrenthold
Holy shit. Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language network, has decided to cancel ad-buys by the Biden campaign in Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, & Florida after Trump met with their executives last week. Our media continues to fail us. This is how our democracy dies.
Melania’s holiday concept was something out of a horror movie—but then again—she expressed clearly how she felt about doing the “fuckin’” Christmas decorations. And speaking of Mrs. Trump: when will the Rose Garden be restored? Maybe Jill Biden can send the bill to Mar-a-Lago?
How can Jim Jordan be upfront in suggesting the House GOP hold Hunter in contempt of Congress because Biden DOES want to testify, but NOT behind closed doors—while Jordan himself is currently ignoring his own subpoena?
More on the threat James Comer & Jim Jordan made: "House Republicans are threatening to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress if he does not appear for a scheduled closed-door deposition next week as part of a subpoena." Insanity. They are pathetic.
I’ve often thought the absence of Letterman & Jon Stewart during the 2016 election helped Trump escape mainstream ridicule. Same goes for Chuck Todd in the “MTP” seat instead of Tim Russert. Doubt McConnell’s GOP would’ve been able to withstand questioning from a real journalist.
@redondodave1
@brianschatz
Who would’ve procured a burner phone for Trump? In doing so, wouldn’t that person also be guilty of trying to evade the Presidential Records Act? And wouldn’t that person be a coconspirator?
@johnrobertsFox
@PressSec
Should a representative from an “entertainment” network be given press credentials to the WH in your opinion?
Not saying Doocy shouldn’t be allowed in; just stating the obvious—either FOX News is a news network or an entertainment channel. Can’t have it both ways.
@SIfill_
I’m wondering more about US intel agencies who knew who he was prior to 2016, what he was capable of, and even after firsthand evidence, just let him waltz out of town without ANYONE monitoring his activities? We all figured he’d been fulfilling Putin’s to-do list…didn’t they?
@sarahkendzior
@eyemagistus
@RiDavlo
I’ve never gotten past the fact that Kushner said the national stockpile belonged to them and that states were on their own—and he apparently just gets to take his billions and go off somewhere unimpeded by conscience or federal inquiries.
GOP Rep Crawford suggests Howard Schultz’s involvement w/Starbucks, which has franchises located in Russia, could pose a transparency problem.
@McFaul
masterfully replies, “That’s why we need to see the tax returns of candidates.”
#HouseIntelHearingOnRussianInterference
@AshleyRParker
“attendees in private meetings”
@AshleyRParker
?
Do you hear yourself? Are you really doing a both sides argument instead of perhaps thinking twice before you tweet? THEN doubling down? And you want viewers to trust your reporting?
On
#AMJoy
,
@sarahkendzior
makes clear that the reason Trump seeks out authoritarians, is because they don’t follow diplomatic rules, so he can therefore go about his own kleptocratic aims to enrich himself striking deals around the world.
Can you pls tweet the clip
@amjoyshow
?
@SenFeinstein
Maybe you can go hug Lindsey Graham again to celebrate
@SenFeinstein
!
Seriously, Americans are dying of COVID at a record pace, have received no $ aid in months, and have a crazy guy holed up in the WH.
Do you see where you might not be in touch with the electorate any longer?
Now that there are US fatalities in
#Kabul
, the GOP will treat them like Biden’s Benghazi: DON’T LET THEM. Trump/Pompeo released 5,000 Taliban from prison and got nothing in return. Stephen Miller purposefully stopped document processing for refugees. They did this. Why?
@lindyli
@bannerite
Enron did it too.
The traders that caused the 2008 crisis by bundling risky mortgages are now buying up all single-family houses, pricing out buyers, then renting them to people with no other option—BECAUSE Wall St was bailed out and nobody was held accountable. Rinse/repeat.
On MSNBC, they’re saying Trump is leading Biden by a few points.
I have no clue how that could be happening. Do people really want a buffoon who’ll endanger not only the whole world, but their own healthcare, education, jobs, retirement, etc.?
Seriously? Just to ‘own’ the Libs?
I don’t think people are sufficiently angry re: the fact that DeJoy was installed to destroy the USPS for vote-by-mail; that GOP governors like Abbott in Texas are removing drop-off boxes; and Trump ordered his militias to enter polling sites. GOP ONLY win with voter suppression.
@File411
For someone with, from all disclosed info, so little relevant experience—Judge Cannon seems awfully sure of herself when issuing all these delaying orders. It’s almost as though she’s being coached by an entire think-tank of Federalist Soc lawyers who want Trump back in office…
Repeated stimulus payments & giveaway packages have encouraged people not to go to work. The Republicans seem to know how to get people to work and the Democrats seem to know how to tax your money and give it to people as an incentive not to work.
So, the
#AmyConeyBarrett
hearing is STILL going?
Imagine if McConnell had worked with such diligence and speed on fighting for COVID tests, for PPE, and negotiating financial assistance to help Americans weather the pandemic!
Nah, the billionaires don’t need THAT stuff...
@denisedwheeler
She was aided and abetted by
@mitchellreports
who led her show EVERY SINGLE DAY with a Hillary’s emails story. It got to the point where it seemed as though she had a personal grievance with the Clintons.
@RVAwonk
Why is he allowed on tv? There used to be a line you couldn’t cross, or you’d lose your broadcasting license. At what point do we take the guy who helped incite an insurrection, encouraged people to ignore Covid, and who is now blaming black people for injustices—OFF THE AIR?
@joelockhart
Birx was blaming states, saying medical professionals get used to running a certain kind of test, they have enough of the new one, but don’t know how to use it.
Did anyone bother to alert them/explain how to use it? Maybe she’d like to tell us all again how attentive Trump is?
Highly recommend this week’s
@gaslitnation
. Speculation over whether Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest NOW may have been to weaponize Epstein info in order to keep support in line for those in power. If you’ve never listened to a podcast, start with this one.
All of this is because Disney dared assert their continued support of of LGBT people? Is that really how all this started? And Floridians aren’t pushing back on his discrimination—or the fact he’s wasting taxpayer dollars fighting a company that gives back so much to Florida?
@MarcusF96941237
@Wolfiesmom
When (and I know this has been said a thousand times), today’s GOP would lock up Jesus if he returned on the wrong side of the US border.
From Whole Woman’s Health CEO
@AmyHM
: We have staff and doctors providing abortions in Texas - still at this hour - and they are all in to provide care until 11:59 tonight. Our waiting rooms are filled with patients and their loved ones. Right now.
VERY IMPORTANT podcast episode which details the various dark money groups behind everything from the GOP to propaganda outlets. And a warning that if they capture Congress, their decades-long obsession to end democracy will succeed. People need to wake up and get angry/involved.
"Trump's presidency was the culmination of the capture of the GOP by a far-right network of donors brought together by the Koch Brothers and the hundreds of organizations they fund." --
@NancyMacLean5
on
@gaslitnation
As a concerned citizen, the first thing I did today was check to see how
#Midland
was doing after learning about the dams breaking last night.
Look! There’s a Trump tweet. At least he’s saying something to the people of Michigan.
Oh. It’s not about the flood.
#25thAmendment
And then FEMA withholds them. Who’s Trump saving medical supplies for? Is HE the one selling items out the back door for a profit, as he accused New York hospitals of doing?
WATCH: Gov. Cuomo explains how US states are bidding against each other and FEMA to purchase ventilators:
“It’s like being on eBay with 50 other states ... And FEMA starts bidding. And now FEMA is bidding on top of the 50 [states] ... What sense does this make?!”
@MontyBoa99
@frankthorp
Manchin no longer has to even pretend to play nice with DEMs after last night’s election results. If things had gone differently in VA, he might’ve signed onto the bills he negotiated prior. Now he only needs to drag it out another year and the GOP will gift him WV in perpetuity.
If you listen to nothing else, dedicate an hour to this
@gaslitnation
podcast episode. ⬇️ I found myself replaying parts to make certain of the dates, because the warnings are so prescient in hindsight, it’s terrifying. Everyone needs to follow
@sarahkendzior
&
@AndreaChalupa
.
This week, we provide a montage of Gaslit Nation episodes going back to the beginning, counting down to the violent 2020 coup attempt. This is an SOS for our democracy and a call to ensure there will be no third coup: one our democracy will not survive.
Funny how
#ClarenceThomas
was known for NEVER asking questions in
#SCOTUS
hearings, but in the cases he should’ve recused from because of his wife’s active involvement in the insurrection, he is the first to speak up—just shoving his disrespect in the faces of all Americans.
These are the people protesting
#GovWhitmer
—waving Confederate flags, Proud Boy signs, and showing their support for Trump.
They should be asked to sign waivers saying they can be refused
#COVID
medical care.
Thing is, brave First Responders would never deny these cowards aid.
I REALLY hate how the media is treating Hope Hicks—IIRC, she helped Trump write a press release on Air Force One describing the Don Jr meeting with Russian operatives as “just about adoption.”
Yeah, she’s gorgeous, and she may have been nice to them—but she was in on it ALL.
@NewlevelofHell
@TheRickWilson
@HolmesJosh
I’ve always wondered why no one ever asks what Elaine Chao did for four years as one of the longest-serving Trump cabinet members. Was she simply there as a conduit for McConnell?