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For decades, I’ve made my work free & open online. Tonight, I’m facing a real financial crunch. If you’ve ever benefitted from insight, information, or connections I shared, I hope you will consider paying that forward, as I work on what’s next:
Thank you.
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Congresswoman
@AOC
is from Brooklyn.
@RepPressley
from Chicago (born in OH).
@RepRashida
is from Detroit.
@ilhanmn
was a refugee from Somalia, before she won election to Congress in Minnesota.
They're all Americans, leading a new generation representing their constituents in DC.
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Check, meet balance: a federal judge rejected an argument from President Trump that a sitting
@POTUS
is immune from criminal investigations, allowing the Manhattan district attorney’s office to subpoena 8 years of Trump’s personal & corporate tax returns.
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@elonmusk
Data do show asymmetric polarization – but the opposite of this claim.
The GOP has shifted to the far-right since the 1990s, embracing illiberalism & anti-democratic views.
The Democratic Party has not shifted far-left.
@TheEIU
:
The
#Republican
party in the
#US
has retreated from upholding
#democratic
norms in recent years. Its rhetoric is now close to
#authoritarian
parties such as
#AKP
in
#Turkey
&
#Fidesz
in
#Hungary
, the new V-Party Illiberalism Index shows.
@CNN
:
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All along the northern edge of Lafayette Park, people are leaving signs & notes, & have woven in messages. It’s a striking, organic memorial, remaking the ugly new fencing as public art in a reclaimed space for passerby & protestors to honor remember the messages & people in them
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June 2020:
@FoxNews
runs faked news, producing digitally altered composite photos of Capitol Hill in Seattle: Fox retracted after
@SeattleTimes
contacted them.
This goes beyond abysmal ethics. Fox made propaganda to support Trump’s lies about “terrorism.”
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The
@ManhattanDA
has hired a top prosecutor with deep expertise in investigating organized crime & racketeering to “follow the money” at
@Trump
:
Tax fraud is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.
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@RudyGiuliani
You were once a US Attorney in
@SDNYnews
, but were never appointed US Attorney General nor served in that capacity.
Why are you misrepresenting your public service?
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In 5 days, I expect
@BarackObama
will take back his Twitter account from
@ofa
. 80.5 million followers. 4x Trump's reach, for those counting.
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@JaclynLeeTV
@BensalemPolice
@6abc
BEWARE: As Halloween draws near, local news & police will fearmonger about our kids being given candy laced with THC, instead of holding local governments accountable for addressing risks from air pollution, housing, lead pipes & paint, cities made for cars, & school shootings.
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@PatrickRuffini
They need to reach out to three-armed voters in an all-hands-on-deck moment?
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A reminder from one year ago today that most Americans come to our
@USCapitol
in peace, bearing ideas, questions, petitions, and pens.
The walls outside of
@AOC
’s office were a memorial to love, not hate.
To open expression, not closed denialism.
I hope we can all return to it.
Outside of some -— but far from all — of the offices of US representatives there sits a small desk with a guestbook. But there is only one office that looks like
@RepAOC
‘s.
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Dear tech press covering today's Facebook hearing:
Please consider not mocking Members of Congress for not understanding the tech. The public also doesn't understand, and you're going to alienate them. Educate everyone, & report on why there's no Office of Technology Assessment.
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In 2016:
19.8% Americans voted for Clinton
19.5% for Trump
2.2% for other
29.9% didn't vote
28.6% ineligible
#ddj
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Why is a taxpayer-funded government agency promoting
@IvankaTrump
's book?
cc
@OfficeGovEthics
@GOPOversight
@OversightDems
In New Book, Ivanka Trump Gets Serious About Women at Work
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@drdrew
International travel requires vaccinations, & has for decades.
I had to get them to visit Brazil in 1999, & India in 2015.
The USA requires foreign nationals to be vaccinated:
I felt fine.
Vaccines work.
I want to be protected against preventable disease.
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“In the same area that
#GabbyPetito
disappeared, 710 indigenous people— mostly girls—disappeared between 2011 & 2020 but their stories didn’t lead news cycles, Internet sleuths didn’t clog Instagram & Twitter trying to solve the mystery”—
@MollyJongFast
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@RudyGiuliani
What government are you an “official” in right now?
If the USA, which agency? When were you sworn in?
If not, have you registered at as a foreign agent?
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Fred Trump was born in NY.
Friedrich Trumpf was born in Germany, emigrated to America at age 16, made a fortune as a hotelier in the Yukon Gold Rush, & was later denied repatriation to Germany for dodging the draft
#FactCheckingDay
Trump just said "my father is German, was German. Born in a very wonderful place in Germany." Fred Trump was born in New York.
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The
@StateDept
condemned the murder of an American citizen working as a journalist in Turkey.
The
@POTUS
just tweeted about Stephen Curry.
Shockwaves in Turkey after Syrian dissident and her American daughter killed in their Istanbul home:
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In 2014,
@JonathanTurley
wrote it's a myth that an impeachable offense must involve a violation of criminal law: "While there’s a high bar for what constitutes grounds for impeachment, an offense does not have to be indictable."
He was correct – then.
Prof Turley says an act, to be an impeachable offense, must be a crime. That would exclude the most serious impeachable acts, such as a deliberate refusal by a president to defend the country against foreign attack.
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Hundreds of people are outside of the
@uscapitol
at 9:30 PM. Men, women & children, standing & sharing
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*more insightful, & than, that is.
Sigh. If all goes as normal, this is one of the tweets that will go viral.
(I still haven’t paid for
@TwitterBlue
, so I can’t edit my tweets.)
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Ford pardoned Nixon.
Bush pardoned Iran-Contra felons.
No Bush administration officials went to jail over Iraq.
No CEOs went to jail after 2008 $ crisis.
Without accountability, trust withers.
Congress needs a special commission, like Truman’s, to investigate Trumpian corruption:
My new piece in
@VanityFair
.
Even if Democrats retake the White House, we’ll still need a full accounting of the Trump administration’s misdeeds and full accountability for those responsible for them.
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Yep, the immutable law that tweets with grammar or copy errors will go viral holds true.
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@elonmusk
Nope.
Investigative reporting at newspapers involves digging through public records, making FOI requests+suing, finding human sources, making phone calls, obtaining & collecting data, verifying claims, getting comment, writing code.
It's not just googling & printing out websites.
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“That’s what happens when hometown journalism fades — neighborhood stories don’t get reported until it’s too late, after the deal’s gone down. Most local papers are gasping for life, & if they die it will be their readers who lose the most.”—
@Carl_Hiaasen
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When
@abbydphillip
asked if he wants
@MattWhitaker46
to rein in Mueller,
@realdonaldtrump
said it was a "stupid question."
When
@yamiche
asked if he was emboldening white nationalists, he said it was a "racist question."
He called
@AprilDRyan
a "loser."
There's a pattern here.
Trump lashes out at female reporter over "stupid question".
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President Trump went golfing by himself at his private club in Virginia this morning. His motorcade will have to return through a District of Columbia in which people are spilling out into the streets, erupting in celebration after news networks called
#Election2020
for Biden.
Biden2020 flags wave in Lafayette Park outside the White House
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Mussolini was one of the key creators of fascism, which Hitler adapted. The Italian dictator passed abhorrent anti-race laws & tried to create a totalitarian state. The US & our Allies defeated the Axis powers (Italy, Germany & Japan) in WWII at great cost
“We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.” Benito Mussolini
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@Mike_Pence
@StevenTDennis
Why did you make room for
@realDonaldTrump
, then? He praised Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “smart” & “genius.”
He stood before the world, & said he believed Putin over US officials.
He denied Russian active measures in 2016-2020:
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Brian is a
@WashingtonPost
reporter at the
@FCC
right now.
@ceciliakang
is there for the
@NYTimes
. Note that security is asking if they took pictures. Please circle back to that,
@AjitPaiFCC
: it's an open meeting. Should be no issue with media photography.
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Barr’s memo prompted
@TheJusticeDept
official who oversees investigations of voter fraud to resign in hours
Barr’s authorization ignored policies intended to keep
@TheJusticeDept
from affecting the outcome of an election.
An abuse of power to keep power.
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Listening to
@gtconway3d
talk with
@PreetBharara
now: It's a reasonable, friendly, rational, legally grounded conversation about this crazy moment, diving into Trump's narcissism & corruption, impeachment, & much more.
He hasn’t done a TV, radio, or pod interview in a year, but
@gtconway3d
joined me on
#StayTuned
today. He doesn’t mince words. Episode drops tomorrow morning.
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Trump’s talking points echo the Kremlin’s.
Again & again.
Russian playbook of active measures:
*Discredit US intel agencies
*Stir up racial tensions in US
*Start rumors about conspiracies
*Create & spread false stories
*Covert media placement
*Buy agents of influence
Familiar?
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“What proved even more deadly was the government policy toward the truth”-John M. Berry, on the 1918 flu pandemic
“while influenza bled into American life, public health officials, determined to keep morale up, began to lie.”
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@AndrewRoseSC
Did you get any or all of the other vaccines the
@DeptofDefense
requires members of the military to receive to protect them & their families from diseases?
Why did you choose to refuse a safe & effective vaccine & get discharged instead?
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Given what
@realDonaldTrump
to told
@JudgeJeanine
, the public should expect him to release a transcript of his Helsinki meeting with Putin at the same time he releases his tax returns.
"That meeting is open for grabs," Trump says about readout of Trump/Putin meeting. Then says Russia probe is a "hoax." "Everybody knows there was no collusion whatsoever."
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FLOTUS
@MelaniaTrump
said her heart goes out to” the seditionists who died in a violent insurrection seeking to overturn the election, & Capitol Police officers who died defending against it.
Trying to imagine Laura Bush saying her heart went out to 9/11 attackers on 9/16/2001.
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If a presidential nominee breaks a transparency norm without electoral consequence, cascading influence on disclosure expectations follows:
Corker: Committee won't demand Tillerson's tax returns during confirmation for state position
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"No, no, I'm not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed, that I can tell you"-
@POTUS
, last night.
As
@DLeonhardt
@ianprasad
document,
@realDonaldTrump
has talked about & treated people differently based on their race for decades:
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“Basically,
@Twitter
’s own lawyers are admitting in a court filing that the guy who owns their company is spewing utter nonsense about what the
#TwitterFiles
revealed. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like this.”-
@mmasnick
🧌 👑 has no👕👖
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@prolibshow
Amplifying a parody account like it’s a verified Member of Congress is a form of misinformation, whether intentional or not. Please retract (delete) & be more careful.
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The record shows that the
@PressSec
does not always treat the journalists covering the
@WhiteHouse
with respect.
Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for
@POTUS
and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so
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@SenThomTillis
@renato_mariotti
That’s true. Senator, Trump praised Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “smart” & “genius” in 2022.
He stood before the world & said he believed Putin over US officials.
He denied Russian active measures in 2016-2020:
Is he fit to serve as POTUS again?
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@DanRather
…Made inglorious bummer by this son of Queens;
And all his tweets that low’r’d upon the House
Impeachment charges by the Senate buried
Now are our brows bent to funeral wreaths;
Our bruised hearts debate traitorous monuments;
Our schools & work changed to virtual meetings
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@elonmusk
This is a violation of
@X
’s policies on synthetic media & misleading identities. Are you going to retroactively change them to allow violations in an election year? cc
@lindayaX
@nickpickles
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@GOPLeader
That map is misleading.
19.8% of (65.8M) Americans voted for Clinton, 19.5% (62.9M) for Trump, 2.2% other. 29.9% didn't vote. 28.6% ineligible.
Try dasymetric dot density, or cartogram:
Also: Impeachment doesn't "reverse" elections. It checks corruption.
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The former director of US
@OfficeGovEthics
warned Congress in 2016 that removing due process protections for civil servans could lead to "politically motivated personnel actions."
In 2018, the public is now seeing that play out at the
@FBI
.
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Like I said, follow
@waltshaub
.
When a former
@OfficeGovEthics
director is this upset, pay attention: your government is under threat.
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@JohnCornyn
Loopholes, enforcement, access to guns outside CA.
But Californians are ~25% less likely to die in mass shootings.
California’s rate of firearm mortality is 8.5 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 2020, vs 13.7/100,000 nationally & 14.2/100,000 in Texas.
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@peterbakernyt
@sbg1
Do you know anyone who can make the authoritarian threat clearer on a front page?
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Does this mean
@IvankaTrump
won't:
•need a waiver from anti-nepotism law?
•need to disclose assets or divest?
•need a security clearance?
BREAKING: Ivanka Trump is joining her father's WH staff with a West Wing office. She won't have an official position or take a salary.
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Outside of some -— but far from all — of the offices of US representatives there sits a small desk with a guestbook. But there is only one office that looks like
@RepAOC
‘s.
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Every state should do this — along with the territories + DC that should be states.
Breaking: A federal judge on Monday required paper backups of voter registration and absentee voting information at every Georgia polling place, a safeguard to allow voters to continue casting ballots if computers fail on Election Day:
#gapol
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@Jim_Jordan
Is it?
How about
@whitehouse
visitor logs?
Tax returns of the
@potus
?
Declassification at
@USNatArchives
?
Credit card fees at
@cfpb
?
Targets of consumer complaints filed at
@FCC
?
New
@OpenGovPart
plan?
Missing FOIA policy at
@FOIApost
?
Leak investigations?
@PressSec
@POTUS
@ODNIgov
@TheJusticeDept
@carterwpage
@FBI
Disclosures that are timely, accurate, & meaningful can & do inform public debate: Overclassification & secrecy is an enormous problems in US democracy, but neither is being addressed by this
@WhiteHouse
’s approach to transparency. Cf
@opengovpart
neglect.
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@LindseyGrahamSC
The
@HolocaustMuseum
in DC has an exhibit on the MS St. Louis, a ship carrying Jewish refugees fleeing persecution that the USA turned away:
What are the differences between those men, women, & children & the refugees fleeing Honduras today?
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@LucasFoxNews
While on Twitter, a Fox News correspondent was asked if it was ethical for him to use the passive voice to obfuscate the fact he had asked POTUS this question, & then reported on air POTUS was being asked questions about his age. If not, how will you practice journalism better?
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If you have information about Russia undermining democracy, securely send it to the
@washingtonpost
:
Do you have information on the CIA undermining democracy? Securely send it to WikiLeaks:
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@BasedMikeLee
I predict that you will delete this embarrassing tweet without notice or apology, Senator, after a staffer or concerned colleague tells you this man is holding a vape.
Actually he’s not a cop, he’s holding a vape, and he’s got a photo he stole from Nancy Pelosi’s office hidden under there. He’s been sentenced to four years in prison. Nice try tho!
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It's been 411 days since the
@POTUS
has held a solo press conference: He's likely to take 1 question at a joint press conference, now:
I am getting great credit for my press conference today. Crooked Hillary should be admonished for not having a press conference in 179 days.
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Doxxing is posting non-public personally identifiable info (PII) online with malicious intent.
A reporter tweeting when a
@POTUS
returns to the White House or a CEO comes on-stage at a conference or concert is not doxxing them.
Live-streaming a person in public is not doxxing.
“Doxxing” is the act of gathering personal identifying information, by licit & illicit means, & posting it online with malicious intent:
A journalist who identifies the author of a popular social media account is not doxxing them:
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@postpolitics
@mateagold
“Neighbors say” suggests there‘s multiple versions of an objective truth. Instead of repeating a false claim, please consider a headline that stats the facts 1st, then the claim, then the fact check.
“There is no 10-foot wall around the Obamas’ DC house, contrary to Trump’s lie”
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The most recent tweet from the 45th
@POTUS
, who remained in denial this week & this year.
4 years of denial of science, facts, expertise, math, logic, democratic norms, rules, laws, rules, truth, justice, & common decency.
73 days to go until Inauguration Day.
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@DrLeanaWen
@CNN
You're proposing airports should tell the same people who've refused to get vaccinated or wear masks for over a year that they have to sit in an anti-vaxx section of a terminal or plane, & task flight attendants with enforcing compliance with masking only for that group in air?
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The
@VP
is the only person not wearing a mask in this photo at a medical clinic.
This is a failure of leadership.
It signals to partisans that they don’t need to wear one, either.
Masks are not a sign of weakness.
Remember: “I protect you, you protect me”
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@SenBobCorker
Where have you been for the past 2 years, Senator? The problems have been obvious.
Why have you failed to hold hearings on this
@POTUS
' foreign entanglements, his lack of disclosure, & corruption that places his private interests over national security & characters of our nation?
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In 2017, the
@AtlantaFalcons
were leading, often solidly, in many key football fields, in almost all instances
@Patriots
-controlled. Then, one by one, the 28-3 lead started to magically disappear as surprise touchdown dumps in the 4th Quarter & overtime were counted. VERY STRANGE
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There are many competing visions & narratives about what the USA or stands for today. I choose to stand with my fellow Americans who feed, house, clothe, & welcome those who are in need, without fear or favor. To those to whom much are given, more is expected. 🙌
@chefjoseandres
This photo of our
@WCKitchen
team distributing sandwiches to hungry Venezuelans on the Francisco Bridge in Cúcuta says more than my words can describe...
#ChefsForVenezuela
#ChefsForThePeople
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@juliamacfarlane
Our moment didn’t get global attention, but I think the response held up. Jump ahead for my daughter’s giggles.
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@elonmusk
Putin’s favored candidate in 2016 2020, & 2024 has always been Trump. Amplifying false Russian talking points to the contrary either makes you complicit, or a useful idiot who has refused to read the vast amount of evidence of Russian active measures.
Cf. DoJ:
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Steve Martin as Roger Stone was an unexpected casting call on Saturday Night Live tonight.
Having him ask for a pardon directly the TV on Fox News was a razor-sharp cut.
I laughed at Martin’s riff at the end, parodying his classic “wild & crazy guy” bit.
#SNL
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Folks who work on good governance & democracy integrity have been raising the alarm for years. The slide of the US away from healthy democracy is much further along than the public realizes.
Read this thread from former
@OfficeGovEthics
director to get a sense of the risk/danger:
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@EWErickson
Which part of this speech was a “political attack on his opponent” ?
There is no mention of former President Trump.
There is a reference to Putin & his war on Ukraine.
(It was not “appropriate” for the previous President to refuse to concede, attempt an
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@ChuckGrassley
Mr. Chairman,
@potus44
criticized a Supreme Court decision, not Justice Alito. That’s not a rebuke.
@realDonaldTrump
is attacking the independent judiciary itself, politicizing the courts & law enforcement, & Roberts by name. On Thanksgiving Day, no less.
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@realDonaldTrump
Like “John Barron,” who lied to Forbes about your wealth?
Or the “senior administration officials” your
@whitehouse
@presssec
still insists must be “on background?”
You’re lying to the public: editors must know who a source is. Reporters don’t invent them.
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@megynkelly
There were tampons in our family bathroom growing up, & I survived.
Stigmatizing menstrual products or menstruation isn’t healthy for anyone.
As a parent, I’m far more worried about kids not only having to practice for school shootings, but living in fear of that genuine risk.
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@realDonaldTrump
The new US government report found “that Earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities. The impacts of global
#climatechange
are already being felt in the USA”:
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You won’t find a better, more lucid explanation of complex legal matters on Twitter than Mariotti provides in these threads.
THREAD: What does today's news that Manafort's attorneys briefed Trump's attorneys about what he told Mueller after he agreed to cooperate tell us?
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Confederate flags “were not widely used after the Civil War but were reintroduced in the middle of the 20th century by white Southerners to fight against civil rights for African Americans” They are to racism,
@NikkiHaley
, as a swastika is anti-Semitism.
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“Any American president ought to know that that phrase does not have a noble pedigree”-
@JeffFlake
on
@realDonaldTrump
calling the press the enemy of the people, noting that authoritarian leaders around the world now use “fake news” to delegitimize journalism.
#SummitforDemocracy
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2018: Pornography website announces a ban of videos created with software that grafts the faces of celebrities onto the bodies of other people.
(NB: The site in question is still full of user-generated "deepfakes." Dystopia has arrived, & it's getting darker fast.)
Pornhub is banning all AI-generated fake porn on the grounds that deepfakes are "nonconsensual"
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Dear
@POTUS
,
@POTUS44
promised us an but the website fell short of his promise. (
@POTUS45
, the most corrupt President in US history, took it down.)
Please create the database
@waltshaub
describes at
@OfficeGovEthics
, & redirect that (apt!) .gov URL to it.
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There are now 6 states in the US Climate Alliance & 100+ Mayors committed to upholding
#ParisAgreement
Significant: Governor Charlie Baker (a Republican) announces that Massachusetts is joining NY, CA, and NY in the US Climate Alliance.
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@AP
One insurrection, one seditious conspiracy, one former president indicted after inciting mob violence with lies, one wire service determined to frame a signal event in US history as having two sides instead of seeking truth & reporting it.
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Public meeting "will ensure transparency in how we approach ethical governance"-Director
@OfficeGovEthics
to House
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