Ernest A. Canning
@cann4ing
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Retired attorney, member of CA state bar since 1977. Undergraduate & graduate degrees in political science as well as juris doctor. Author. Vietnam Vet.
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It is the dark & oppressive nature of the immensely unpopular decisions handed down by 6 right wing SCOTUS ideologues that, ironically, may facilitate a new dawn.
'The Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn'
Ernest A.
@cann4ing
on how democracy can reverse the damage wrought by corrupt, right-wing Supreme Court ideologues...
FULL STORY:
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@JoyAnnReid
As I watched Trump and Congressional Republicans celebrate the
#GOPTaxScamBill
the words "thick as thieves" came to mind.
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@acnewsitics
They didn't just condemn the attack. Both Nancy Pelosi and
@POTUS
said they'd pray for his safety.
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@RawStory
Officer Rispoli must be fired immediately. There’s no way someone who calls for a member of Congress to be murdered should be allowed to carry a gun and wear a badge. Had enough?
#VoteBlue2020
#Bernie2020
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@krassenstein
Nope! The impeacment fell short by 4 votes. Stick a fork in the baseless Mayorkas impeachment. It's done!
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@marceelias
These pleadings entail the first time I've read an allegation that Trump's litigation counsel took part in the infamous Jan. 2 Trump/Raffensperger phone call. If so, that call also entailed a violation of the rules of professional conduct.
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@KatQannayahu
@AnandWrites
The problem is systemic. It is simply unacceptable that 6 major media corporations control 90% of what Americans see or hear.
#PresidentSanders
and a new progressive Congress must tackle
#MediaReform
, starting w/a repeal of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
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@LBcrats
@RBReich
Nothing good can happen unless we take the Senate out of the hands of
#MoscowMitch
Progressives must back the two Dem Senate runoff candidates in GA!
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@danielmarans
Why should
@BernieSanders
be "deterred" by
@GlennKesslerWP
's defamatory falsehoods? His own paper cited the exact same study as establishing there are 530,000 medically related bankruptcies/year in the U.S.
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@bartongellman
@rickhasen
If this week had been scripted for a movie it would have been rejected as unbearable
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@Pa1Lauren
@BerniesBack2020
@CNN
They're not alone. who won the debate poll:
Bernie 32.7%,
Liz 17.91%,
Pete 15.67%,
Amy 13.37%,
Bloomberg 11.29%,
Biden 9.05%.
(I thought, however, that Bloomberg was destroyed).
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@Clarknt67
@politico
It will be weirder still after
@SenSanders
passes Biden in the polls and the
#MSM
only reports about 2nd and 3rd
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If Dems take back the Senate, amongst their first order of Congressional business should be a statute mandating
#HandMarkedPaperBallots
w/risk limiting audits and/or public hand tallies in all federal elections.
We shld manually audit ALL races & states, but Rs killed the
#SAFEAct
which wld have required this 4 federal races. Now that Trump lost, they want to audit only his race & examine only those places that they think might help him & not harm them, which is inequitable.
@jennycohn1
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@kyledcheney
@petestrzok
Is it just me, or do others find it galling that the Garland DOJ would take the institutional stance of trying to block inquiry into whether the DOJ/FBI under his predecessors improperly fired Strzok for political reasons?
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@DavidWright_CNN
@jmartNYT
@Kantar_Media
Give his non-existent poll numbers, it would appear that
@MikeBloomberg
falls within the category of a fool and his money are soon parted.
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@GunnelsWarren
I was with all the way until you used “Boomer” as a slur. Many of us support
#CancelAllStudentDebt
and
#TuitionFreeCollege
while this “Boomer” is on Medicare, I also support
#MedicareForAll
#VoteBlue2022
#Bernie2024
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@AWeissmann_
I'm having trouble w/accepting that there was anything close to an "institutional concern about deposition of a president". DJT is a "former president". Bill Clinton sat for a deposition in a civil case even while still in office.
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@justinamash
There's absolutely no legal basis for their claims. A President cannot use executive privilege as an excuse to withhold evidence that is "demonstrably relevant to a criminal trial" Here the President is being tried for high crimes.
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@CatsPet_DogsPet
@HouseJudiciary
When it comes to Social Security and Medicare there are no "multiple viewpoints". There is basic decency and a commitment to the interests of all Americans vs the greed of the billionaire class.
#MedicareForAll
#ExpandSocialSecurity
#CodifyRoe
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@ChrisMurphyCT
Best be prepared to
#ExpandTheCourt
to 13 Justices and impose 10 year term limits for all federal judges -- 5 more years for all who have already served 5 or more years. We must undo the damage wrought by a 1/2 century of GOP packing courts w/
#RadicalsInRobes
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@GunnelsWarren
In their zeal to unfairly disparage
@BernieSanders
and
#MedicareForAll
about a statistic they knew to be true, WaPo falsely claimed the work of David Himmelstein, M.D., long a
@PNHP
#SinglePayer
champion, was not peer reviewed. It was.
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@moesdeph
@tomtomorrow
As if Atheists would be intimidated by a sign that says they're eternally damned!
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@ihghost
@thehill
Nonsense! HRC lost b/c she was a deeply flawed, corporate & Wall Street compromised candidate.
#BernieWouldHaveWon
@JudgeJeanine
HRC lost b/c of ties 2 Wall St/corp America, TPP & corrupt opposition 2
#SinglePayer
She's yesterday's news 2B swept into dustbin of history
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@LakotaMan1
As a fellow vet (Vietnam, 1968) I have zero respect for Republicans who elected
#CadetBoneSpurs
, voted against VA benefits & continued to support DJT after he mocked everyone who ever served as a "suckers" & a "losers".
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@rickhasen
What's with the urban vs. rural "areas". In a genuine democracy, it is the people, not the land/areas that are supposed to vote.
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@Jonesin31
@BernieSanders
They're "allowed" to do it b/c our government, as currently structured, is an oligarchy. Billionaires rule. The GOP is their tool. We must restore the Eisenhower era top marginal tax rate of 91% and apply it to all incomes over $5 million per year.
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Andrew Cockburn's comprehensive examination of
@JoeBiden
's disastrous legislative history is a must-read.
#VetBiden
#Bernie2020
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@tribelaw
It's worse than that. At a moment of a potential Holocaust in Gaza, Donald Trump's call for Israel to "Finish the Problem" in Gaza ominously sounds like Hitler's call for a Final Solution.
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@AWeissmann_
Pecker's credible testimony already destroyed the Michael Cohen did it on his own defense. As Cohen's federal guilty plea revealed, everything he did was at the behest of Individual 1 aka Donald J. Trump.
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@JoyAnnReid
@JohnCornyn
We vets didn't serve on behalf cloth or musical symbols. We served rights enshrined in constitution, like right to "life" & right to protest
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@markwag78113061
@BernieSanders
You can blame Republicans who used the filibuster to block a windfall profits tax for that. Disagree? Name one concrete Republican policy designed to reduce inflation.
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@cmclymer
Holy shit! You're as slow as the moderators.
@BernieSanders
"back to climate change" was "intended" as a run-up to the "intersectionality" between climate change and its disparate impact on ppl of color. If she hadn't rudely interrupted, she'd have quickly learned that!
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@emptywheel
@AWeissmann_
Agree. The best course of action is a request for an emergency stay while the appeal is pending, followed by a DC grand jury indictment. That would render the pre-indictment order moot.
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@jennycohn1
Way past time for Congress to mandate
#HandMarkedPaperBallots
in ALL federal elections + op scans with robust RLAs.
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@MaryLTrump
Would prosecutors have limited their request for fines and a warning if any other criminal defendant repeatedly & willfully violated a gag order. The Court should jail DJT at least for several days.
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@ibrahimpols
Talk about ingratitude. After she was nominated, no one campaigned harder for HRC than
@BernieSanders
. Unfortunately even Bernie couldn’t overcome her Wall Street ties & betrayal of the working class
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@CalltoActivism
The high velocity AR-15 is a semi-automatic version of the deadly M-16 I carried in Vietnam. It was engineered to inflict maximum damage on human beings. No civilian should be allowed to possess or carry them.
#BanAndConfiscateAssaultWeapons
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@acnewsitics
And let's not overlook J-6 testimony that as those gallows were erecting amidst chants of "Hang Mike Pence",
#ConvictedFelonDonaldTrump
believed Pence "deserved it."
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@AriBerman
Classic example of GOP caging technique used to purge lawful Dems from registration lists
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@SpeakerPelosi
The con man who swindled Trump University students, just offered to give Dreamers something they already had in exchange for a $5.1 billion vanity wall. Dreamers already received temporary relief via a court decision overturning Trump's DACA repeal order.
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@krystalball
How can a caucus system where
@BernieSanders
receives the most votes yet ends up second in delegates be described as "democratic"? More people voted for
#Bernie2020
in Iowa than they did for any other candidate.
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@DanFmTo
@andrewperezdc
@washingtonpost
The 500K number was "not" wrong! The
@washingtonpost
itself had previously cited the same study as establishing 530K med bankruptcies/year. WaPo ignored "facts" it knew to be true in publishing/refusing to retract its defamatory hit-piece.
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@Lawrence
@theintercept
Correct. And if it's funded by the Koch Bros it isn't "grassroots". It's AstroTurf
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@SenSanders
An even more troubling statistic: One man, Jeff Bezos, rakes in $215 million per day, every day, 365 days per year.
#Bernie2020
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@Raindance_33
@cenkuygur
@BernieSanders
@JoeBiden
The "mistake" was the one made by those who voted for a deeply flawed, Wall St./corp $$ compromised candidate in the 2016 primaries. "That" is what opened the door to 4 years of The Donald.
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@SpittingBack
@krystalball
Let's not overlook
@ewarren
's repetition of her Big Lie. She keeps saying no other candidate has refused to accept Super PAC $$ when she knows that
@BernieSanders
has not and never will accept Super PAC $$.
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@Myopinion0603
@DashDobrofsky
This isn't coincidental.
@CNN
is now under the control of RW billionaire John Malone who wants it to emulate the Fox Propaganda Network.
#BoycottCNN
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@BernieSanders
@BernieSanders
' condemnation of the tyranny of capitalist oligarchy along with his FDR-like case for economic and political security/freedom was so powerful that all 3 major cable networks cut-away mid-speech.
#NoMiddleGround
#Bernie2020
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@DashDobrofsky
Don't want to be gaslighted by
@CNN
? Join the
#BoycottCNN
movement. One Fox Propaganda Network was already one too many!
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@therecount
@AOC
So women calling men out for their crude sexist remarks is “disingenuous”?
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@dailydirtnap
Twitter's value will plummet after droves of users move over to
@TribelSocial
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@krystalball
The time for progressive
@ewarren
supporters to exercise their 2d choice,
@BernieSanders
, is now! Join the
#NotMeUs
#PoliticalRevolution
. Ensure that
#WeThePeople
, not corrupt lobbyist/superdelegates decide the nomination.
#Bernie2020
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@thehill
So we have a Senate majority leader who wants to play, Mother may I, rather than allow his own chamber to vote to end the carnage.
#NoMoreThoughtsAndPrayers
#NoMoreNRA
#NoMoreRepublicans
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@sahilkapur
@chucktodd
@SenSchumer
Not surprised that Schumer would duck a
#MedicareForAll
question given Schumer's Health Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industry campaign contributions.
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@washingtonpost
@KellyannePolls
uninterested in "evidence" b/c her unofficial job title is Minister of Propaganda
#NichtMeinFuhrer
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@thehill
Empty platitudes from the most Wall Street/corporate money compromised Democratic presidential candidate.
#NeverBiden
#Bernie2020
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@NerdMilwaukee
@Redistrict
Bernie lost b/c of a slick Obama engineered 11th hour maneuver that had all the other corp Dems withdrawing & endorsing Biden on Super Tuesday. Absurd to compare a grassroots-funded candidate to a rapacious billionaire.
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@BernieSanders
@NYforbernie2020
Poor Jeff "Ebenezer Scrooge" Bezos. I mean how is a guy who makes a meager $275 million/day supposed to get by if he provides healthcare coverage for his workers?
#NotMeUs
#UnionStrong
#Bernie2020
.
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@jennycohn1
@MSNBC
@Will_Bunch
Can't get over the Orwellian descriptor: "tender age shelters" for places where toddlers, torn away from their mothers' arms, are housed like cattle.
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@washingtonpost
Antifa isn't even an organization. It's an ideology. It simply means "against fascism", which is the reality that so troubles American Fascists, like
@mtgreene
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@marceelias
This exceeds Senate ethics issues. The next US AG should investigate and, if warranted, seek to indict Graham and Collins for attempted election fraud.
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@neal_katyal
It is also a victory for the 50 State Supreme Court Justices who submitted an artful and compelling amicus brief.
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@BernieSanders
I can think of no state where
@HillaryClinton
trade betrayal warrants a more resounding defeat than Michigan
#FeelTheBern
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@AWeissmann_
It gets worse. Given Durham's aversion to the word "collusion" Schiff says, "let's just call it 'good old-fashion GOP cheating with the enemy'."
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@LeftwardSwing
Roe can be codified by an Act of Congress. Only then can Biden act to restore Roe by signing that Congressionally-approved Act into law.
#POTUS
doesn't have unilateral authority. Civics 101.
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@MaxineWaters
Team Trump a criminal enterprise enabled by utterly dishonest Congressional GOP refusal 2 publicly investigate
#Impeach45
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@NYforSanders
@RoseAnnDeMoro
By voting to repeal Glass-Steagall, Biden played a contributing role in facilitating the 2008 Wall Street meltdown.
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@GeorgeLakoff
@gofundme
By filing this defamation action, Kaveladze has opened himself up to civil pretrial discovery re everything related to his participation in the Trump Tower meeting.
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@tribelaw
Even if votes are not flipped onscreen there’s no way to verify that votes have been accurately counted. Solution: hand-marked
#PaperBallots
publicly hand tallied with results posted at each precinct on election night
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@davidsirota
@BernieSanders
@JoeBiden
1988 Joe Biden drops out of Presidential race due to multiple instances of plagiarism. 2019, in his 1st major policy address Biden plagiarizes portions of
@BernieSanders
education policy. (At least he's consistent).
#Bernie2020
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@AWeissmann_
The blood of children is on the hands of everyone who opposes an assault weapon ban.
#BanAssaultWeaponsNow
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@NateSilver538
That myopic thinking is why Dems lost 900 state legislative seats btw 2008 & 2014 and disaster struck in 2016.
@BernieSanders
town hall offered a rare opportunity to cut thru the Fox propaganda curtain + all
#MSM
use pro-corporate propaganda
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@MiaFarrow
Never knew you had polio as a child. Really touching photo, and thanks for sharing it on Father's Day.
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@TED44E
@SMAlvaranga
@LasVegasLocally
You don’t know who took the photo or whether
@BernieSanders
knew someone would take it. You leaped to this unsupported assumption b/c it squared with your anti-Bernie agenda. Disgraceful!
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@daviddoel
@joncoopertweets
Where else, besides RT, was the late Ed Schultz supposed to broadcast his message after he was fired by
@MSNBC
b/c he supported
#Bernie2016
? Unacceptable that 6 major media for corporations control 90% of what we see and hear.
#Bernie2020
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@LakotaMan1
Thank you again,
@LakotaMan1
. Your tweets often provide a valuable education in Native American history.
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@LisaMarieBoothe
No more terrifying than FDR! What's frightening is that ordinary citizens often vote against themselves in accepting the vice-into-virtue capitalist ideology that places a higher value on the greed of the privileged few, than the health safety and survival of humanity.
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@teddysanfran
@BarbaraLee4Spkr
@rtraister
Lee was the "only" member of Congress to vote against the 2001 AUMF which opened the door to an endless and feckless "war on terror"
#BarbaraLeeForSpeaker
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@JordanChariton
It’s not a “defense” budget. It’s a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary taxpayers to the military industrial complex and only a fraction of the money is needed to actually “defend” the US
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@LeftFlankVets
“For whatever reason”? We know why the
#MSM
doesn’t want to admit Bernie is winning. He’s a threat to their corporate bottom line
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@AWeissmann_
Given that "Stop the Steal", itself, raised $250 million, "forfeiture of PAC money" would truly entail a significant sum, much of which has already been used & continues to be used to cover not only Trump's legal fees, but the legal fees of his co-defendants he seeks to control.
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