Which, in this case, isn’t such a bad thing:
NEW: Staffers at One America News, the misinformation-peddling outlet favored by Trump, don’t think their own stories are true, & are cheering on lawsuits against the owners. One producer, re the Capitol riot: “That’s what happens when people listen to us” https://t.co/2ZL234P4aP
— Rachel C. Abrams (@RachelAbramsNY) April 18, 2021
A state-run newspaper says Myanmar’s military junta has charged at least 19 medical doctors for participating in civil disobedience protests against the Feb. 1 coup. https://t.co/Zym1OZljZO
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) April 14, 2021
Capitol Police Told to Hold Back on Riot Response on Jan. 6, Report Finds https://t.co/5ULsBi4neM
— Suburban Guerrilla 💙 (@SusieMadrak) April 14, 2021
Georgia House voter suppression bill includes massively undemocratic power grab giving GOP legislature control of state election board, allowing them to take over county election boards & stripping power from GOP sec of state after he stood up to Trump https://t.co/wn070q1yck
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) March 25, 2021
New: President Biden says on ABC he wants the Senate to bring back the talking filibuster — the first time he’s endorsed reform: “It’s getting to the point where democracy is having a hard time functioning.”
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) March 17, 2021
In 2013, Senate Dem used the nuclear option on the filibuster because the GOP refused to advance judicial and cabinet appointments. In 2017 McConnell nuked the filibuster to get three conservative Supreme Court judges.
The Senate is already scorched earth. Kill the filibuster.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) March 16, 2021
Fmr. Senate Majority Leader Reid calls for killing the filibuster: "The country's better off having a real democracy, not a fake democracy. 60% is not a real democracy." https://t.co/PYGHq7x44b
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 17, 2021
56 years ago today LBJ introduced Voting Rights Act before Congress & said "We Shall Overcome"
But now GOP pushing 253 new voter suppression bills in 43 states after gutting VRA
This is why HR1 & John Lewis Voting Rights Act so important pic.twitter.com/lMiJNxn4kl
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) March 15, 2021
It always helps when major employers come out against this crap:
UPDATE: @CocaCola says they now OPPOSE the voter suppression bills in the Georgia legislature.
This is a big change from 24 hours ago, which is the last time I heard from themhttps://t.co/58Ql3X8CIA pic.twitter.com/9C7cwVmdvI
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 15, 2021
That asshole. No, both of them:
Peter Thiel’s huge donation backing J.D. Vance could upend the Ohio Senate race https://t.co/HpNw4aokwj
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 15, 2021
And the Mercers are giving millions to Vance, too.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1366833112865513481
2/ According to CNN, Serhiy Lyoyovochkin was one of two intended recipients of the polling data that Paul Manafort gave to Konstantin Kilimnik on August 2, 2016. https://t.co/gkj0yT7Vbg pic.twitter.com/XasV5IRcmp
— jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) February 28, 2021
3/ According to the NYT piece in post 1, Viktor Medvedchuk (a key Putin ally) was also involved in the hacking of Ukraine's 2004 election. He, too, was reportedly in touch with the Trump campaign in 2016, though he denied it. https://t.co/9i8Ue1iR1E pic.twitter.com/Ymna29J8q5
— jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) March 1, 2021
