Well, sad to see Joe Biden step down.
His has been an historic presidency
Amazing, really.
Now, let's unite behind Kamala and Tim-
beat Trump's ass like a drum.
Months before we knew how bad COVID was, Millionaire Senators David Perdue & Kelly Loeffler got a briefing on it. They then chose to play the stock market on inside information instead of helping Georgians.
Pandemic profiteers don’t belong in the senate.
The truth may sometimes be hard to hear, but that's when it's most important that it not be silenced.
Thanks to Tiffany Cross for having those hard conversations and not giving in to the pressure to downplay or sugarcoat them.
Dropped this on IG. Just coming back here to share this. Not even bloodied. Just defiantly unbowed. 🙏🏽🤎Still riding for the rising majority. Always will.
#FredHampton
philosophy ✊🏾✊🏻✊🏽✊✊🏿
The Fraternal Order of Police endorsement of Donald Trump was intended to send a message to every person in every minority community in America- we’re not here for you, in fact, we will persecute you, every chance we get.
I believe there is something far more sinister being communicated by the law enforcement unions and organizations announcing their endorsements of Donald Trump. These endorsements send a very troubling form of communication with multiple layers of meaning. I point to one of those
If Joel Osteen was a true preacher of Christian values he would be a vocal supporter of immigrants, and an impassioned critic of Republican tactics which criminalizes them.
Osteen's silence brands him as a fraud, a coward a racist and a charlatan.
Today would be a great day for Texas mega-pastor Joel Osteen to do lead by example and do what Jesus would do: house undocumented refugees in his massive mega-church. Sadly, Osteen is too busy flying around in his $86 million private jet and lounging in his $11 million mansion.
We do need to take a strategic approach. The times demand that it be a hard nosed, no prisoners approach to all Republican obstructive tactics. Impeach. Indict. Try. Imprison.
Then elect honest, informed leaders to replace Republicans and half-hearted Democrats.
Thanks for seeing "The Handmaid's Tale" through to completion. Let's hope your dystopian view isn't, in the end, too mild. Long live the true rebels against totalitarian rule. You, Margaret Atwood, are one of the best.
Margaret Atwood: “Although I eventually completed this novel and called it The Handmaid’s Tale, I stopped writing it several times, because I considered it too far-fetched. Silly me. Theocratic dictatorships do not lie only in the distant past.”
There's a fundamental problem with our legal system if the Saudi's can buy massive amounts of U.S. farmland, drain our aquifers to irrigate the crops, then send those crops back home. They are the largest contributor to acts of terrorism in the world, after all.
Saudi Arabia is draining the water resources of the American Southwest to grow alfalfa for Saudi's dairy cows.
That country is a parasite on democracies.
Hold on.
I got this.
Dear Mike;
Trump is a convicted felon that will be sentenced on September 18th, 2024.
Trump is also a child rapist and pedophile.
Sue me.
I fucking dare you.
Discovery will be delicious.
#TrumpPedoFiles
@MalcolmNance
@SpeakerPelosi
I agree. It's not a matter of choice. If the Constitution is being violated, a crime has been committed. Do your duty. Investigate the crime. Bring the criminal to justice. Oversight is a duty, not an option. It's not a salad bar. It's the law.
2018: John Heilemann suggests Devin Nunes is a Russian agent. “He’s behaving like someone who’s been compromised, and there are people in the intel community and others w great expertise in this area who look at him and say, ‘That guy’s been compromised.’
Donald Trump was not only an incompetent leader- he was treacherous, racist, and compromised, and worked in concert with the forces arrayed against the international rule of law and American principles.
HORRIFIC—Trump’s Pentagon ran an anti-vaccine campaign during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, secretly spreading disinfo on Twitter to Philippines, with the hashtag line: “China is the virus”. Besides being RACIST, this further hurts vaccinations for other diseases.
I don't think Hollywood could have scripted a better witness than Fiona Hill. She was steely, genuine, precise, professional, articulate and principled.
Republicans erroneously believe :
America was founded as a Christian nation. It was not.
Fossil fuels are good for America. They are not.
Vaccine mandates are un-Constitutional. They are not.
Renewable energy can't power the world. It can.
Pollution is inevitable. It is not.
America needs to see Ivanka Trump in prison, along with her husband and two brothers, for the extreme damage they've done, the illegal deals they made and their gross malfeasance in office and out.
Ivanka Trump wasn’t a private citizen while Donald Trump was in office. She was his Senior White House advisor who received trademarks from China for voting machines, body bags, & caskets.
Ivanka’s charity got $100Million from Saudi Arabia
Who else demands an investigation? 🤚
Rod Serling didn't have to be prescient to make this, in 1962, as he was just reflecting the viewpoints of the Klan, but it turns out that he is spot on for today's GOP.
Rod Serling was a genius who never shied from big topics, greed, morality, paranoia, racism, sexism, bigotry, conformity, McCarthyism and here he shows how easy it is to sleepwalk into fascism. It's as relevant today as it was 62 years ago…
Dear Democratic Leadership:
At some point you're going to have to put your big boy pants on and do something bold. My suggestion- Ask the Squad what to do. They're capable of doing more than one thing at a time. A task you've failed miserably at.
@EdKrassen
Sorry, Ed. The judge's rationale for handing out a sentence that fell that far outside the recommended sentence was a lie. He said, except for these crimes, Paul Manafort had led an exemplary life. That's a lie. He was a career criminal. So, no. Protesting this decision is right.
We're in need of a separate division of the Justice Department, walled off from all other investigations, devoted solely to right wing crime-that's how varied, dangerous, and wide ranging it has proven to be.
Pastor Locke is close w/ Roger Stone. He literally believes in witches and is affiliated w/ a rapidly accelerating militant theocratic movement that has taken over the MAGA coalition. These maniacs cannot retain or acquire power. Not now. Not ever. 1/
J.D. Vance. in quoting Nixon, and portraying college professors as enemies of the people, is rehashing every totalitarian strategy of the past century, from Mao to Hitler, Stalin to Mussolini, and Pol Pot to Putin.
J.D. Vance is a tool of the billionaire, Peter Thiel.
Trump's reelection would be such a blow to this country I'm not sure it could recover. As it is, because of the number of hardcore conservative nut case judges he's appointed, with more to come, the deleterious effects of just 1 term will last for the next 40 years,
Thank you, LaTosha Brown, and
@BlackVotersMatter
, for helping fight fascism and attempting to strengthen our democratic republic and make it work for us all.
Black voters are fighting GOP-led voter suppression to organize unprecedented voter turnout.
"It is going to be community-led efforts … that are literally our best defense on the frontlines from protecting us against facism," says
@MsLaToshaBrown
of
@BlackVotersMtr
.
Some simple logic :
If gun ownership made a country safer from gun violence, America would be the safest in the world.
If prosperity alone made people happy, America would be the happiest place in the world.
They don't, and we aren't.
Individual One- We have thought about it. You became president with the help of a foreign power. You accepted that help willingly. You provided them with polling data so they could fine tune their attacks to critical voting districts in key states. You have yet to investigate.
Think of it. I became President of the United States in one of the most hard fought and consequential elections in the history of our great nation. From long before I ever took office, I was under a sick & unlawful investigation concerning what has become known as the Russian....
Like all racists, Ron and Casey DeSantis are spreading a toxic message, using a blatantly racist meme, that of an alligator, jaws open, the same imagery shown on racist post cards, only the DeSantis's decided including the Black child being used as bait would be a bit too much.
Florida is where Black people shopping at Dollar General go to die. It’s where women go to die, bleed out when they are not legally allowed to get abortions. Florida is where education goes to die. Its where corporate America flees, and home ownership goes to die.
Florida is
Martha Raddatz, in her reductio ad absurdum attempt at mislabeling Joe Biden's essential address to the American people, wrongfully equates calling out fascism with fascism itself, and portrays an honest attempt at unifying Americans with an all out attack on the GOP. Very sad.
Embarrassing. The media’s push label Biden’s speech as hatred is a gross journalism failure. One side supported, incited and attempted an insurrection and continues to encourage political violence. The other side has not. One group wants democracy to fall. Not that hard.
Make no mistake, crazed religious fanatics like Amy Coney Barrett have Dr. Caitlin Bernard in their sights, are busily setting the stage for her assassination, and will revel in her death, calling it the will of God and the work of an avenging angel.
Pelosi's tearing that damn speech up was rich - with righteous indignation, principled disgust, street savvy dissing and high level pissing. She outshot him there. Got him right between the eyes. He oughta know, not to press us with those lies.
There is no doubt that the Electoral College, a feature of the U.S. political system, has caused great harm, enshrined a non-elected, radical Supreme Court, empowered Republicans in the Senate elected by a fraction of the population, and ushered in an era of corporate control.
Keep in mind that Cassidy Hutchinson remains, to date, the only member of the Trump administration with a conscience, and a patriot's soul, all others acting with a traitor's compass as their guide.
@UROCKlive1
@mmpadellan
@realDonaldTrump
They do operate under the delusion Fox News is factual.
Propaganda is a powerful tool. Russia has state sponsored media for a reason. It eliminates regime criticism and amplifies state propaganda. Exactly what Fox News does for Republicans.
Yes, I know you already know all this.
@ninaandtito
@lauferlaw
Alan Dershowitz is a compromised authority on all legal issues affecting Trump. His judgment is subjective, as he has deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein and, through him, to Trump. Are his attacks on the Mueller investigation part of this bias ? It seems that they are.
Ronald Reagan institutionalized most of today's major issues -
Homelessness
Wars of Empire
AIDS
Mass Incarceration
Crack Cocaine
Central American refugees
Decay of Urban areas
Industrialization of farming
Loss of Old Growth Forests
Climate Change
Pollution
Corporate Socialism
"Never forget that Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt from $738 billion to $2.1 trillion!
Dropped the income tax rate on the top 1% from 70% to 28%!
Sold 500 missiles to Iran!
Let 90,000 Americans die of AIDS!
And set into motion the end of mental institutions –
The MAGA Morons, those religious leaders who chose Trump, and believe he was sent by God
The same way they thought George W. Bush was sent by God, in order to start a war in the Middle East with Muslims, which would lead to the Battle of Armageddon and the end of the world.
RUN MAGA… RUN !!! 🏃♂️
Run to pay Trump’s $5,000,000 in damages to E. Jean Carroll for sexual assault and defamation.
Stormy Daniels indictment. ✅
E. Jean Carroll. ✅
Up next:
Incitement of an insurrection.
Georgia Election Fraud.
Stolen Top Secret documents.
Tax Evasion.
Mark Meadows, Trump's Chief of Staff, acted as Coup Central, fielding seditious texts from 34 members of Congress in the days leading up to and after Jan. 6.
Gives me chills.
Today Hong Kong protesters covered one eye.
To stand in solidarity with the woman who police shot in the eye during the protests.
#FreeHongKong
Be careful out there. Covid19 is on the hunt, with both infections and deaths reaching troubling levels in the two weeks prior to Xmas.
Anecdotally, my next door neighbor became infected 4 days ago, a friend, three weeks ago, and a friend of my sister died from it recently.
If, as Trump supporters declare, the Jan. 6 hearings were biased, why did the vast majority of the testimony come from 58 Republicans, who either worked for the Trump administration, state governments or Trump himself ?
@OMGno2trump
@GlennWi82833189
It may mean all that, but, I think, mostly it means that his lies, and the lies of Fox News for 23 years and right wing radio, for 30 years, have taken roost in Americans' minds. They do not believe anyone but their own news sources. And that leaves us all in a dangerous place.
Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson, despicable as they come, crass and cowardly, British scumbags, reveling in the opportunity to play in the royal pigpen and roll around in the racist drivel they call journalism, shamelessly trolling Megan Markle and Prince Harry.
1/4
If we weren't smack in the middle of Trump World, this Jeffrey Epstein scandal would be bigger than Watergate, Russiagate and Beyonce combined. Think of it- A president and a former president hung out with a man who trafficked young girls for sex,
To be crystal clear, Home Depot: Your problem is not the economy. The economy has fully recovered from 2020. Your problem is
@HomeDepot
going FULL MAGA, supporting Trump, and you’re being boycotted for that. We’ve switched to
@AceHardware
&
@Lowes
💪🏽
Without the protection of a Voting Rights Act which supersedes all state level Republican machinations, democracy is at risk of being gerrymandered and legislated out of existence, state legislature by state legislature.
🚨 🚨
NEW WHITEBOARD
Gerrymandered fortresses!
Until everyone wakes up to the fact that it’s undemocratic/rigged statehouses that are the safe ground from which all the attacks on democracy are taking place, and do something about it, the attacks will only get worse.
WATCH:
Did you hear that Trump will be fingerprinted and have a DNA swab entered into the NY State database when he’s arrested?
Below is a list of lovely ladies whose lawyers might be interested in Trump’s DNA
I don’t see Jane Doe the 13 year old Trump rape victim on the list
@AOC
Oh, and the chairmanship of Elijah Cummings is, indeed, a master class in diplomacy, focus and determination. He wields a blade with a deft touch. Draws blood with scarcely any movement. Calm, in control and decorous. A pleasure to watch. Better than Netflix.
Some people aren’t eating bacon anymore because of wind power?
You are NOT hearing things.
This is NOT edited.
This is THE Republican presidential candidate in all of his demented glory.
What an absolute embarrassment.
It seems incomprehensible that indictments have not been flying out the front door of the Justice Department for every single Congressman who voted to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Prosecuting the organizers of the Jan 6 attack is not just a matter of accountability and safety now, but a matter of precedent. The message Congress, the FBI, and others are sending is that violent, seditious attacks on our country are fine. Their refusal to act invites more.
Devin Nunes; Thank you for bringing to my attention, via your lawsuit, how many funny attacks there are on your ludicrous performance as a congressman. Apparently you are not similarly amused. I understand. There is a genetic component to humor. You may be short a chromosome.
@audiomagnate
“Reality Winner is "frustrated." Even as a Senate report on Russian election hacking supports her decision to blow the whistle on gov't inaction, she's slated to spend 3 more years behind bars. My new column on an American injustice.”
@Will_Bunch
Last fall, we learned President Trump’s businesses gave some different information to tax authorities and lenders, which could be a type of fraud. NYC looked into it and made a referral to prosecutors because it could indicate a crime.
E. Jean Carroll may soon be an owner of note
Mar-a-Lago the manor by ocean, Trump moans
Where will money come from, the judgement severe,
Perhaps from the place without winters severe
🚨International terrorist Erik Prince & Kremlin mouthpiece Tucker Carlson are big fans of the Stasi—“the embodiment of German innovation & efficiency.”
The Stasi created a brutal, fascist police state which was enforced through “Zersetzung,” a psychological warfare tactic
Hakeem Jeffries is a power within the House, as eloquent and dedicated a public servant as we have.
He speaks the truth here and justifiably calls out Clarence Thomas for his abhorrent behavior on the bench.
The Republican Party leadership is complicit in all of Trump's crimes, as are the voters.
It's a sad commentary on the state of America when the entire voting base of one of the two major political parties
45 sold us out in Helsinki - they protected him
45 blackmailed Zelensky - they protected him
All of 1/6 inc. a possible lynching - they protected him
45 danced to dead children at the NRA - they protected him
45 is selling America out and they want to shield him?
This has to stop
Did I miss the announcement that U.S. oil companies are patriotically ramping up production to ease the price of oil? No? I didn't think so. Maybe we should take their $440B subsidies paid by the government and use them to give low income people a credit for gas purchases.
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter is paid for by the same country that few planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on 9/11.
The ones who owned a significant chunk of Trump Tower apartments.
The ones who paid Jared Kushner $2 billion.
Nothing says “today’s GOP” like MAGA Maine state representative Laurel Libby asking what the Nazis did that was so bad and what did they do that was so illegal and how did they infringe on anyone’s rights. JFC. 🤦♂️
Normally anything coming from Karl Rove is a Republican fever dream, involving murder, mayhem, theft on a colossal scale, and religious fascism, kind of like today’s Republicans, but, in this case, he’s got it right.
HOLY SHIT, Republican Karl Rove BLASTED trump and his seditious January 6th thugs.
"Every one of those sons of bitches who did that, we ought to find them, try them, and send them to jail."
Nice move, Mike, punishing the wives of soldiers for becoming pregnant while not in the U.S. Now their children won't be U.S. citizens unless they leave their husbands and travel home, alone and pregnant. That's a dick move, Mike. Punishing service to one's country. Deplorable.
Under the leadership of President
@realDonaldTrump
, America is more prosperous, our military is stronger, and our veterans are getting the care and respect they deserve! Our Administration will ALWAYS stand with the amazing men and women of our Armed Forces. 🇺🇸
Yes, Mitch, just as expanding access to clean water is, I guess, harmful to health. We really can't take you anywhere Mitch, without you acting the fool, can we ?
Biden should admit he fucked up and appoint Sally Yates, Stacey Abrams or any warm body who can stand in front of his employees and say" I want indictments for all Trump's crimes on my desk by Friday !"
or really made any headway on ANYTHING that matters
He is the absolutely HEIGHT of passive incompetence & white male mediocrity, who thinks his highest & best purpose is protecting other white men in power
He is second only to Bill Barr in terms of undermining the rule of law.
Let's recap the specifics of this impeachment :
1) President crimes.
2) House investigates.
3) Senate trial, evidence blocked.
4) Lawyers argue Trump above law.
Next ? Acquittal.
Result ? Dictatorship begins.
Why ? No checks on the president.
Unbelievable. Our children, caught in scenes reminiscent of a horror movie, with the monster in the room with them, and help seemingly mere feet away, when in reality it was nowhere to be found, being an insurmountable racial divide away.
When fully half of a nation is fed a steady diet of lies, half truths, exaggerations and innuendo about other citizens, then division, acrimony and hatred are the only outcome.
Folk are literally disowning their own family members and friends because a steady Fox diet has turned them into raving, incoherent hatebags over the course of 2 decades. A society can’t withstand that level of sustained public neurotoxin without falling apart at the macro level.
If the Democrats get a two, three or four seat advantage in the Senate, and maintain or expand their advantage in the House this Nov., then our country has a fighting chance in 2024.
Just like cockroaches, for every one seen there are dozens hidden. If the National Enquirer buried 60 damaging stories about Trump, you can be sure the total number of disturbing incidents he's had with women ranges into the hundreds, or thousands.
@AOC
How many Republicans does it take to hold a serious discussion about a pressing problem with global implications for the existence of mankind ? Sorry, that was a trick question. None would ever show up.
Jr: Like I’ve never seen like she can do like a half an hour and like there’s no like three words. No it’s like I don’t know whether to be like upset or impressed. You know? It’s like.. she was like.. Like, like like that’s next
Today, we wrapped up the second week of our trial against Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.
The numbers don’t lie: Trump engaged in years of financial fraud to enrich himself and his family.
With subpoenas issued to Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Lindsey Graham, Jenna Ellis, and Cleta Mitchell, it looks like Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis is serious about getting some answers for us all.
Using celebrity for positive change, in the 1950's, or today, is always a good thing.
Whether it be Marilyn Monroe, Harry Belafonte, Lebron James or Colin Kaepernick, right is right.
Justice, luckily, is now the law of the land, however poorly understood, and enforced.
#wtpBLUE
#DemVoice1
#Fresh
TODAY IN HISTORY
1917 — Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald born.
When Ella Fitzgerald couldn’t get booked by a popular club because she was Black, Marilyn Monroe told the owner she would be there every night if they let Ella sing.
That's how to be an ally.
What happened to us? How did we end up with Matt Gaetz, MTG, Gym Jordan, Lauren Boebert, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar, Rafael Cruz, Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, Kevin McCarthy, Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Lindsey Graham and others representing us? It is a sad day in our history.
It is no coincidence that the three countries in which Rupert Murdoch has the most influence via his media empire, Australia, the U.S., and the U.K., are the exact three countries which display the highest degree of doubt in evolution and climate change.
Rupert Murdoch has far too much power & political influence in the US with Fox News, New York Post and the Wall Street Journal.
His media empire is home to the most vocal climate change deniers in the US.
He has far too much power in the UK & Australia too.
#DemVoice1
#Fresh
If Republicans read the Constitution word for word on the House floor in Jan. 2023, it will be their Maiden Voyage through that document, and the last time, I'm sure, they ever refer to it, except to mischaracterize partial passages, out of context.
If it can be proven, even circumstantially, that Trump plotted to turn over the names of U.S. operatives to Putin, resulting in their capture and deaths, then the death penalty for him should definitely be on the table, if it's not already.