Democrats had a 58-36 majority in the Senate when FDR took office. When LBJ signed the law creating Medicare, Democrats had a 68-32 majority. https://t.co/EHFj0XLTa6
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) October 19, 2021
Author: susie
If only it happened here
So in Brazil, a congressional panel is about to recommend mass homicide charges against President Bolsonaro. The charge is that he intentionally let the coronavirus tear through the country. 300,000 Brazilians died from #Covid. Now do Trump. https://t.co/IC1vr7m6oM
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) October 19, 2021
Also unusual
Federal prosecutor calls Matt Gaetz's buddy Joel Greenberg a 'prolific criminal' who 'was not alone' https://t.co/rM9g61XIiE
— Frank (@watercutter11) October 19, 2021
“This is an unusual request [to delay sentencing] but I think this is an unusual case,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg told the judge.
“The evidence takes us places, and frankly, it takes us places we did not anticipate.” — Stone?https://t.co/QTFpW0kmDB
— The Ghost of George Conway (@gtconway3dg) October 19, 2021
@all100senators @GOPGovs
Update on Matt Gaetz-his buddy Joel Greenberg has had so much dirt that prosecutors have opened up entire new wings of their case.The investigation into financial crimes now includes help frm Secret Service agents.There’s something HUGE here.-T.Schnell— GrandmaWhoCarries (@carries_who) October 19, 2021
I guess I should say something about this
Am I disgusted? Of course. Am I shocked? Not a bit. I live in a city where almost every day, children are shot and killed. Young people shot to death over things that hardly seem worth a punch. It seems like everyone in this place is just numb to other people, probably because their lives are pretty shitty themselves. So yeah, I can see where they pulled out their phones and recorded a woman being raped. She wasn’t real, it was just another story.
As a woman was raped on a public transit train in Philadelphia last week, riders held up their cellphones and pointed them in the direction of the sexual assault instead of calling 911, authorities say.https://t.co/nn5kauemsm
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 19, 2021
Lucky Texas
"Texas shows that there’s plenty to worry about when the governor of a state that has tens of millions of people living in it decides that his most important constituents don’t even live in the state and have shows on Fox News," @AdamSerwer writes: https://t.co/uJvdiLnsZS
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) October 19, 2021
PA peeps
Tune into @WPXI tonight at 5:30 to hear @NicoleFordTV’s story about legislation that moved today in Harrisburg which would allow out-of-state groups like the NRA to sue PA towns for trying to prevent gun violence – AND stick taxpayers with the legal fees🤦♂️https://t.co/njFdXT6NCQ
— Josh Fleitman (@JoshFleitman) October 19, 2021
This is very interesting
To get the warrant, they would have to have specific tangible evidence of a crime. And since Deripaska was recently given diplomatic immunity by the Russian, the search would need to be quite ‘precisely targeted’ – so they must know what they are looking.
FBI just raided the DC home of Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska, who has been linked to Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort. pic.twitter.com/6XjkHbuk3F
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 19, 2021
BREAKING – The FBI raid on Deripaska is also hitting his NY residence as well as his DC house, per NYT.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) October 19, 2021
#BREAKING in Washington, DC:
FBI moves to seize SUV belonging to Oleg Deripaska for evidence. pic.twitter.com/ewLtIbZQOO— Hunter Cullen 💉💉👠 (@HunterJCullen) October 19, 2021
Deripaska is a Russian Oligarch and a former business partner of one-time Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
More background (cited in the Mueller report) here: https://t.co/s6j1WmHPHI
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) October 19, 2021