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Starting a 🧵about Project 2025.
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#StopProject2025
#MAYDAYforDEMOCRACY
I'm dying of laughter, tears running out of my eyes (no emoji necessary! who knew?).... Right before running the Gazpacho Police clip, Stephen Colbert described this picture of MTG as "a Terminator sent back from the future to make sure we'd be too stupid to invent Skynet."
When a career criminal is being dismantled by the legal system, one of the patterns we keep seeing is that the civil cases & criminal cases involved start to compound each other, ultimately making things untenable for that villain.
Now we’re seeing that play out with Steve…
Donald Trump has a long track record of getting volcanically angry—often allowing his rage to dictate political, legal, & policy decisions. His rage during the 1st week of his NY criminal trial was “maxed out, even for him,” 3 sources close to him tell Rolling Stone. He's been…
Trevor Noah says he agrees with cracking down on teaching of critical race theory in Texas:
"If black people want to learn about racism in Texas, they'll have to do it the old-fashioned way—by trying to vote."
#ResistanceUnited
#wtpBLUE
#ONEV1
A clip of President Biden appearing to slur his words during a speech at a brewery in Wisconsin went viral Thursday night. Fox & Friends showed the short clip Friday morning & used it to continue to push the narrative that Biden is suffering from cognitive decline.
Biden was…
Someone in the congressional office of Rep. Angie Craig is having fun with acronyms.
On Wednesday, the Minnesota Democrat unveiled a bill taking aim at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as the federal government nears a shutdown at the end of the month. Party in-fighting…
After sitting through hours of jokes about his age at Saturday’s Gridiron Club and Foundation dinner, President Biden turned the tables on the journalists putting on the skits.
“The big news this week is, two candidates clinched their parties’ nomination for president. One…
I'm usually shy 'bout showin' my face online, but today is special in a humorously nugatory way: 2-22-22 & my birthday.
Thanks so much to my followers! Y'all can send silly birthday GIFs if you want, but I'd love it if you read what's pinned to my profile.
#FBR
💙
The government of Mexico is suing U.S. gun makers for their role in facilitating cross-border gun trafficking that has supercharged violent crime in Mexico.
The lawsuit seeks $10 billion in damages & a court order to force the companies named in the lawsuit—including Smith &…
Stephen Colbert, commenting on Biden's new sanctions imposed on Russia, "This means no Russian money can come into the US.
"There goes Tucker Carlson's sponsors!"
#StandWithUkraine
#BidenRussianSanctions
@jonkarl
@NotHoodlum
It's kind of a backwards compliment to Hillary. I mean, she literally was the more powerful, the more formidable person on that stage.
1/ Are you white? Do you know a white person?
If you said "Yes," think again.
Sociologist WEB DuBois: "The discovery of whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing—a 19th & 20th century matter."
Whiteness is just a concept.
#DemVoice1
I'm still so boggled by what happened w/ the border deal, I want to write it down & get it clear in my head.
Roughly a week ago, Senate Republicans were praising a new deal on immigration. Conservatives like Sen. James Lankford called it “by far the most conservative border…
The love story of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is woven deep in the fabric of my own life's love story. In 1977, when I was in college, I had the honor of going to Jimmy Carter's inaugural ball. Specifically the Georgia ball, for friends and family and longtime Georgia supporters. I
When you base your entire strategy for “winning” your criminal trial around keeping the trial from ever happening, suffice it to say that once the trial jury has been fully seated against you, you’ve failed miserably.
This seems to be sinking in for Donald Trump, who posted yet…
For years, Trump has made it abundantly clear that if he doesn’t win the 2024 presidential election, he is willing to cheat & steal it. Since President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, according to sources w/ intimate knowledge of the situation, Biden & his inner circle have been
While various members of the Beltway press are still dickering around about Biden's age, the paper of record in my home town, the Houston Chronicle, just published a powerful, ringing endorsement of Joe Biden.
The whole thing is worth reading, but here are its final paragraphs:
@1sounddept
He can't claim he doesn't have the money when his numerous real estate assets are right there for the whole world to see. He may not have the cash, but the courts can make him liquidate those properties.
@HankRacette
@MarkRuffalo
Read up on Project 2025. It's a concerted plan by over 50 rightwing thinktanks (e.g., the Heritage Foundation) to radically expand the power of the executive branch, politicize the federal bureaucracy from top to bottom, imprison LGBTQ+ people, institute censorship of the…
Speaking in what looks & sounds like a luxurious private jet, Vivek Magaswampy throws himself on his teensy sword for Orange Jesus. He withdraws his name from the Colorado primary unless Trump is reinstated there. And he demands DeSantis, Haley & Christie do the same or else
Wednesday's Guardian featured a creepy story about the way that House Speaker Mike Johnson's denial of science & medicine had a negative impact not only on his Louisiana community, but on his own family.
Patrick Johnson, Mike's father, was a former firefighter in the Louisiana…
Another 🧵 of editorial cartoons: feel free to steal any of 'em & repost, y'all!
Since we all have the Monday trial date on our minds, I'll start w/ those...
#ProudBlue
#USDemocracy
@yashar
In 1977, when I was in college, I had the honor of going to Jimmy Carter's inaugural ball (specifically, the Georgia ball, for friends & family & longtime Georgia supporters). I was invited because the guy I was dating then—the same guy I've been married to now for 45 years—is…
@lisa_liberal
@OmarRiverosays
She did plenty! She was flat broke and several months behind on her rent when she fired the Trump lawyer who wanted her to say "I don't recall" when subpoemaed by Congress.
She was very courageous for such a young person. She testified live before the Jan 6 Select Committee.…
@FeistyLibLady
@WeHearPodcast
Huge underreported mistake that administration made:
—head of HHS recommended mailing masks to every house in the US
—Jared (Jared!) says, "Most deaths in NY, a blue state, so don't bother"
—masks are not mailed
—masks are politicized
Ben Brody says his life was going fine. He had just finished college & was prepping for law school. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Elon Musk used his considerable social media clout to amplify an online mob’s misguided rants accusing the 22-year-old from California of being an
Important piece by Tom Nichols in Atlantic:
"The 2024 election has become a waking nightmare where many of us gawk at DJT as he unleashes new attacks on a judge’s daughter, immigrants, the rule of law, US nat'l security, the Constitution.
"We blink & shake our heads, stunned…
@sfpelosi
@KatieBrittforAL
@KatieBrittforAL
I was really infuriated by the story you told, because it was almost exactly what happened to my niece, in 2007. She was a bright promising kid until at age 13, she was kidnapped on her way home from school. She was imprisoned in a tiny room w/ a mattress on the
@tribelaw
The mordant irony of a Court that's kicked aside precedent after precedent trying to design a precedent to be held up in the future rather than deliberate this one case on its merits!
@RpsAgainstTrump
He has aged so much in the past few years from all the stress & hatred!
Most presidents age remarkably while in office. Trump is aging at a fast pace since January 2021.
@RonFilipkowski
@patriottakes
I find that description of Alina Habba's arguments utterly revolting. Basically "being raped by a famous guy made her famous, so it's all fine & dandy." As if Carroll didn't have her own career in the media right there in New York, prior to the rape! =barf noise=
Alina Habba is…
What follows is my synopsis of Maggie Haberman's piece in the Sunday NYTimes. As you probably know, she's a seasoned observer of the former guy, having interviewed him at length. She has plenty of close contacts in the orbit around him.
The plan highly telegraphed in advance was…
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Fox Plays Edited Clip To Spread Lies About Biden Speech In Wisconsin
Why don't they ever have more than a 3-second clip of Biden speaking?
Stephen Colbert on our feckless former VP:
"Bob Woodward & Roberts Costas shed new light on the role of Mike Pence, whose heroic refusal to throw out the election results is how history will remember him...as long as history doesn't read this new book."
#Fresh
#wtpBLUE
#ONEV1
David Frum, writing in the Atlantic, thinks Trump's sad balloon is finally deflating. What follows is drawn from Frum's article, interspersed w/ opinions from me.
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For 9 long years, DJT dominated the GOP. Many senators, governors, donors & college-educated…
@Strandjunker
@NotYour26882355
See above chart.
Also:
—metal-tipped lawn darts banned after one kid was killed
—peanut butter banned from schools after a tiny % of kids died of peanut allergies
Meanwhile, back where the blood money flows...
#ONEV1
#OVHealthcare
This is your periodic reminder that Republicans make no secret of coming for your Medicare & Social Security. It is, of course, absurd to describe them as "real drivers of debt."
These are not just programs for the elderly, either. If you get disabled, Medicare & Social Security
Cole: Unlike any other speaker we have had, he has had the courage to talk about a long-term plan and to get at the real drivers of debt. We all know what they are. We all know it's medicare, social security..
@RonFilipkowski
@MalcolmNance
Rachel Maddow's new book, Prequel, includes a comprehensive account of how the effort to find communists in FDR's admin was just a thin cloak for rampant antisemitism & was part of the plan for a fascist takeover by Nazi sympathizers in the US.
Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post hopes the media will learn the right lesson from the Ronna McDaniel debacle.
She says, "The incident reveals just how badly some major media outlets have lost their way. Maybe the ratings frenzy and 'both-siderism' have warped management’s…
@GrandpaDennisP
For the people on this thread saying this is propaganda or Trump Derangement Syndrome: the rightwing plan for transforming America is called Project 2025. It's spelled out at length, 900-plus pages, & available for anyone to read online.
If you don't want to google Project 2025…
WATCH: Project 2025 is a plan for Trump second term that would transform America into a far-right, Christian nationalist, militarized state.
Share this video far and wide.
DJT appears to have cut Alina Habba out of a recent legal settlement, leaving her vulnerable to being sued for fraud.
Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, paid $82.5K last week to settle a lawsuit brought by former waitress Alice Bianco, who alleged that she was tricked
@MeidasTouch
@OHRGOPCaucus
says, on their website, "No amendment can overturn the God given rights with which we were born.”
I completely agree! Pregnant women were born with the God given right to bodily autonomy, to make their own decisions about their own bodies.
Embryos or fetuses,…
@yashar
@SenKatieBritt
I was really infuriated by that story, because it was almost exactly what happened to my niece, in 2007. She was a bright promising kid until at age 13, she was kidnapped on her way home from school. She was imprisoned in a tiny room w/ a mattress on the floor, injected w/ heroin…
@shaneyyricch
3 things at issue in NY criminal trial of Trump:
—$$ was sent to silence Stormy (not illegal)
—docs re. $$ were falsified (misdemeanor)
—did the first 2 to influence 2016 election (felony)
First 2 are well-documented.
#3
is the key Q for the jury.
@Out5p0ken
@jalen_drummond
Is the Trump GoFundMe page still the one set up by Elena Cardone & her husband? They are well-known to be financial fraudsters:
With Trump's other cases in limbo, state prosecutors in Manhattan are gearing up to probably be the first to try the former president on *criminal* charges—for covering up a potential sex scandal.
The Manhattan DA's office has begun to approach witnesses to prepare them for…
Convo last night between my husband Bob & me.
F: A weird thing happened today. Some washed-up celebrity I've never heard of, named John Schneider, put out a tweet in which he said, "Mr. President, I believe you are guilty of treason and should be publicly hung. Your son too."…
I'm a Texan born & bred, but I currently live in Greenbelt, Maryland—a warm-hearted small city just outside the Washington, DC, Beltway. One of the very first planned communities in the US, Greenbelt was a pet project of Eleanor Roosevelt. The town center has beautiful Art Deco…
@RpsAgainstTrump
Bennie Thompson said he finds the idea of a Phillips launch in New Hampshire "divisive and it's disrespectful to a large population and support base for the Democratic Party."
With Trump's other cases in limbo, state prosecutors in Manhattan are gearing up to probably be the first to try the former president on *criminal* charges—for covering up a potential sex scandal.
The Manhattan DA's office has begun to approach witnesses to prepare them for…
If you've never heard the story of how Donald Trump screwed up the well over $400M fortune (in today's dollars) he inherited from his father, I highly recommend the punchy summary Sidney Blumenthal has published in the Guardian.
Really the whole story is great, but here's a…
You don't speak for millions of American women, Ada.
For example, I've been happily married for 45 years & have never once needed a protector.
I am not "the man" in our relationship & he is not "the woman." We are equals. We both have autonomy.
Furthermore, my husband is not…
Why is what
@LauraLoomer
is saying controversial?
Every woman on this earth wants a man who is a protector and could protect her from whatever comes.
No woman wants to be the one having to be the man in the relationship.
I agree with her statements and don’t understand why any…
Drunk Roseanne Barr (at Mar-a-Lago fundraiser) told college students to drop out of school “because it’s going to ruin your lives ... they don’t teach you nothing good, uh, email me or Twitter me or whatever you call me, & I’ll help you with your life, but you gotta get out of…
As a physician, I'm really appalled that right now—during a winter surge of Covid infections, hospitalizations & deaths—they're hawking ivermectin as part of a "contagion emergency kit" on rightwing networks that carry Trump's speeches.
I don't know what else to say. This is…
Something Maggie Haberman posted during this morning's testimony in Trump's NY criminal trial:
"One of Trump's hallmarks, as he became president, was his tendency to treat all aspects of his world as flat & the same. He did not differentiate between the F.B.I. director & the…
Some of y'all on this platform may be finding the
#TrumpSmells
#TrumpStinks
postings to be so petty or distasteful as to be unworthy of notice.
This is more of an issue re. Trump's lack of fitness for office than it may appear. The reason why Trump is fecally incontinent is that
Michael Cohen writes, "More than 11 years ago, before DJT emerged from the primordial ooze of the far-right fever swamp, before the aborted Jan 6 insurrection & before the latest spasm of GOP extremism felled House speaker Kevin McCarthy, two renowned political scientists, Thomas…
I find this new law in Florida very creepy. My mom was a schoolteacher. She taught me that separation of church & state definitely applied to religion & the public school system.
You want Christianity in your kid's school? Send 'em to private school.
#ProudBlue
#USDemocracy
#BREAKING
: Gov. Ron DeSantis signs law letting religious chaplains into public schools, can offer support services to students
"To exclude religious groups - that is discrimination! You're basically saying that God has no place? That's wrong, that's not what our Founding Fathers…
In March a Texas lawmaker filed a bill in which any woman who has an abortion would face criminal charges that could carry the death penalty—no exception for rape or incest.
These bills may've failed so far, but I am terrified they are even introduced.
#ONEV1
#Fresh
#wtpBLUE
In FAFO news, Michigan State Rep. Josh Schriver (R) has been stripped of committee assignments, legislative staff & office budget. Why? Because he made a social media post endorsing the “great replacement” conspiracy theory.
#ProudBlue