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1/This goes to show what our families and supporters have been saying since the beginning.
1. Officers knew…They fucking KNEW that there were dead and dying children in the classroom and they did absolutely nothing to help and/or protect them.
1. Officers knew…They fucking KNEW that there were dead and dying children in the classroom and they did absolutely nothing to help and/or protect them.
2/ We’ve heard it out of their mouths that they were afraid of getting shot. You know, one of the hazards of their profession that they know about before taking the job. That’s like me climbing my wind turbines and then refusing to work on any electrical because I could get
3/ electrocuted. You know the hazards. You choose your profession. You failed our kids. Kids died because you refused to go in.
2. Our community voted Mariano back into an elected position, despite 3 other candidates, 1 of which being a father of a slain child.
2. Our community voted Mariano back into an elected position, despite 3 other candidates, 1 of which being a father of a slain child.
Senator Cruz was on my flight, and I asked him to name any of the Uvalde victims.
He couldn’t. Texas deserves better than spineless hacks like this. Right the wrongs of 2018, and make @BetoORourke our next Governor. #betoforgovernor #cancuncrus #uvaldestrong
He couldn’t. Texas deserves better than spineless hacks like this. Right the wrongs of 2018, and make @BetoORourke our next Governor. #betoforgovernor #cancuncrus #uvaldestrong
I think it’s worth sharing that we had this exchange while I had my Pokémon neck pillow on. 🥰 
I have truly found my calling.
Uvalde. (Opinion piece)
I've been through a lot of trauma covering what I have seen over the years, and uvalde was hands down the hardest emotional experience i've had. I can't stop seeing those children's faces.
Being at the site of those memorials was hard enough, and I
I've been through a lot of trauma covering what I have seen over the years, and uvalde was hands down the hardest emotional experience i've had. I can't stop seeing those children's faces.
Being at the site of those memorials was hard enough, and I
can't even imagine how incapacitating it would have been to routinely enter the funerals. I had considered it originally, but then couldn't grit my teeth and bear the emotional toll I knew it would have had. Plus as a outsider and a journalist I feel like I may be out of place at
the funerals.
I also didn't want to ask anyone for interviews, I didn't want to out the on the spot pressure of asking for a interview to grieving members of the community, but I noticed that local Main Stream Media and CNN was asking everyone, So I did approach a couple ladies
I also didn't want to ask anyone for interviews, I didn't want to out the on the spot pressure of asking for a interview to grieving members of the community, but I noticed that local Main Stream Media and CNN was asking everyone, So I did approach a couple ladies
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen…which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshit… The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.” Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: “Did that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?”
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
“Any legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States — all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.”
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
It was easier for a 13-year-old boy to buy a rifle from a private seller at a gun show than to buy beer, cigarettes, porn, and lottery tickets. (🎥:#RealSports 2014)
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
“We are at a point [where] we are going to have to mobilize a greater movement… Until the redemptive power of the love for all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns and money, [nothing] is gonna change.”@CoryBooker
“Women and mothers have political power… We need to use our voices and our votes [to] demand change, and if our lawmakers don’t act, hold them accountable— [the] unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism.”
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
PLEASE HELP: This is Elihana Cruz Torres, one of the victims of the Uvalde massacre. Her dad is incarcerated for a drug-related offense. He received the last letter from her on Friday May 20. Thursday afternoon he found out of her passing and his compassionate release was denied.
Elihana’s family is desperately seeking a way to ensure that her dad gets to say his last goodbye to her. She was only a week away from having a physical contact visit with him.
If anyone knows of an attorney who is willing to help the family ProBono, please reach out to me. Her funeral is set to be held in a few days.
#UvaldeStrong
#UvaldeStrong
I’ve been trying to organize my thoughts and decide on what it is I should say or do. I am grateful for the encouragement and support of everyone who is sharing my plea. I am overwhelmed and intimidated. The internet is known for chewing people up and it is scary having... 🧵1/
so many eyes on me. But I no longer want to shout into obscurity, into nothingness.
Voter suppression is real. It is happening in my state and across the country. So many voices are being drowned out by over policing, misogyny and systemic racism. 2/
Voter suppression is real. It is happening in my state and across the country. So many voices are being drowned out by over policing, misogyny and systemic racism. 2/
And for many, they have been convinced that their vote doesn't count. I want to believe in our systems - that if we unite we can win. But how do you win against a system that has been designed specifically to work against you? 3/
Say her name. Jailah Silgrero.
Say his name. Jose Flores.
Say her name. Jackie Cazares.
“Justice Roberts has said that the Supreme Court can self regulate. That’s simply not true. We’ve got one sitting Justice whose wife has been shown to have been planning the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.”
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
“Justice Clarence Thomas [at AEI 5/13/22] bemoaned the leak of the SCOTUS opinion that will likely overturn Roe v Wade, [claiming] that when you lose trust in an institution, it changes that institution fundamentally.”
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
“Out of 75+ scholar citations, only 4 are women. Out of 90+ judge/justice citations, 5 are women. ‘Justice’ Samuel Alito cites HIMSELF 6 times. And this [SCOTUS opinion] would effectively govern the bodies of millions.”
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
“We now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.” Jamie Raskin
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what “is being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on board… to take the next election regardless of who wins.”
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
“In America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortable… If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.”
@Trevornoah #WHCD
@Trevornoah #WHCD
“President* Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election… Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”
@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
“If I run and if I win we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22
“Lincoln said those who embrace sedition and turn backs on the Constitution threaten to ‘destroy the only democracy in existence and prove for all time — to both future Americans and the world — that a government of the people could not survive.’”@tribelaw
“727 insurrectionists arrested… Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?” @colbertlateshow
“The threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. Debate them, vote… If that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster.” @JoeBiden
“[President* Trump] was in the dining room, gleefully watching on his TV as he often did — ‘look at all of the people fighting for me’ — hitting rewind, watching it again…”
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN
“We must decide what kind of nation we [will] be. Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?” @JoeBiden
“727 insurrectionists arrested… Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?” @colbertlateshow
"We've seen a lot in these last 4.5 years of Donald Trump and nothing, in my experience, was more serious than this attempt to overthrow a lawful election, corrupting and weaponizing the Department of Justice. Absolutely horrifying."
@SenBlumenthal @maddow
@SenBlumenthal @maddow
"The very purpose of this law is to chill people. Not just abortion providers in Texas, but to chill the entire community of people who want to help women right now into second guessing whether they’ll be on the hook."
Dahlia Lithwick @maddow #WHPA #Bounty
Dahlia Lithwick @maddow #WHPA #Bounty
“What I believe is unprecedented is for a member of House leadership of either party to be unable to condemn incitement of violence against a member of this body… What is so hard about saying that this is wrong?”
@AOC House speech, November 17, 2021
@AOC House speech, November 17, 2021
“What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution? …What is wrong with having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?”
Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley
Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley
“Guaranteeing the right to vote and ensuring every vote is counted has always been the most patriotic thing we can do… John Lewis said, ‘Freedom is not a state; it is an act.’ …We WILL act… For our democracy, for America itself, we MUST act.” @JoeBiden
Tom Brady: “Not a lot of people think that we could have won. And in fact I think about 40% of the people still don't think we won.”
President Biden: “I understand that.
President Biden: “I understand that.
