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I told my wife last night that I'd lost hope

Barring a miracle, a serial sexual assailant will both occupy the White House and be the deciding vote in overturning Roe v. Wade

This country doesn't care about women
2/ I just want to add that today Jeff Fake formally ended his political career
3/ Kavanaugh committed multiple perjuries on TV yesterday and it didn't matter
4/ Not sure what we teach our kids now besides brute force and deception wins
5/ I'll carry a dream for an hour or two more that Collins/Murkowski will save the country
6/ Rachel Mitchell was there yesterday to behind closed doors after the hearing give a room of men explicit permission to do evil, that's all that was
7/ I've never in my life been the sort of man to say I'm ashamed to be a man but today I am
8/ Republicans have in 21 months spat on every facet of the rule of law I learned in law school and while practicing
9/ This country is in the process of being destroyed and it's not even that slow a process
10/ Keep in mind all this happened while the GOP was deliberately doing nothing to safeguard the midterms from the Russians
11/ Kavanaugh's level of deceit under oath was as bad or worse in its persistence than that of most criminals I've seen when watching others' trials over the years
12/ Republicans literally changed (eviscerated) the legal definition of "corroboration" for just this one sex crime
13/ The total political package delivered by the GOP since 2016 is the most sustained and deliberate attempt to destroy Americans' hope ever seen
14/ I've loved America since I was a kid, you can't not when born in/raised around Concord (MA), but I don't even recognize it now
15/ That what's happening here is actual evil eroding the fabric of a great nation is now as much an article of fervent belief for me as a religious tenet is /end
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*ONE WEEK IN 2016*

July 27, 2016: Trump asks for Kremlin help
August 2, 2016: Manafort meets Deripaska agent Kilimnik in NYC
August 3, 2016: Trump Jr. meets Deripaska agent Zamel in NYC

NOTE: Deripaska calls himself "one with the State [Kremlin]."

(h/t @ZevShalev/@TheAtlantic)
@ZevShalev @TheAtlantic *ANOTHER WEEK IN 2016*

August 17, 2016: CIA tells Trump Kremlin is attacking US
August 19, 2016: Trump fires Manafort

NOTE: In January 2018, NBC reports Trump is privately telling friends Mueller can't get him *because* Manafort won't "flip" (he already knew Trump Jr. wouldn't)
@ZevShalev @TheAtlantic 3/ A reasonable conclusion: after he and Flynn left the room the CIA briefed them in on August 17, 2016, Trump realized that it was entirely possible Manafort's contacts with the Russians had been picked up by American intelligence, and he could therefore no longer work with him.
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*MEDIA'S AMAZING MANEUVER*

1) falsely requiring a single Hollywood-style "smoking gun" on collusion
2) reporting breathlessly on a revelation anyone in Hollywood would call a smoking gun (Manafort's delivery of data to the Kremlin)
3) pretending we're still looking for collusion
2/ I mean wow, it's almost like Donald Trump calls media his greatest enemy when it's in fact a stalwart ally, and media claims to be looking as hard as it can for collusion when in fact it just wants to keep us *watching* its "search" for collusion as America goes down the drain
3/ And somehow it's now been a *year* I've been trying to call media's attention to a January '18 NBC report saying Trump thinks Manafort could sink him, which any attorney or journalist would consider key evidence Trump in fact *did* know what Manafort was up to with the Kremlin
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NOTE: Today's "failed" Manafort redactions (including revelations that Manafort secretly negotiated on Ukraine with a Kremlin spy) put the thread below in an *entirely* new light. If you didn't read it when I posted it a few days ago, I'd strongly suggest taking a look at it now.
2/ Those who follow my feed regularly know my name-spelling game is usually pretty tight; I'm good at avoiding typos. In this case, I want to note the obvious: that having correctly spelled Konstantin Kilimnik's name a million times in my book and elsewhere, I misspelled it here.
PS/ I put "failed" in quotes here not to suggest that Manafort's attorneys were deliberately incompetent, but just as a way of explaining to those who don't know the whole story that there were redactions that were done improperly and therefore failed to redact critical material.
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#RevThread #120 b
“What the Hell?” part 2 of 5

1/ How did Evangelical teachings about sex help prepare their people to support Trump as God’s anointed choice to be President? (“President Trump,” observed Jerry Falwell the other day, “has saved America.”)
2/ When I ask my fellow Evangelicals why they are such enthusiastic Republicans, especially when Scripture is so clear about compassion for the poor and the sick, they usually tell me that for them, abortion is just murder, and they trust the Republican promise to end it,...
3/..to change the Supreme Court and overturn Roe v Wade. (There’s still, in the more rigid Evangelical churches, a strong and regrettable dose of homophobia, but Trump hasn’t yet tried to exploit that, so I won’t deal with it here.)
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#VOTE like you remember family separation.

#Vote like you remember Kavanaugh.

#Vote like you remember “Fine people on both sides.”
#Vote like you remember Helsinki.

#Vote like you remember Khizr and Ghazala Khan.

#Vote like you remember the fake Blind Trust.

#Vote like you remember their vow to take away your health care.
#Vote like you remember “alternative Facts.”

#Vote like you remember his tax returns.

#Vote like you remember the dismantling of the EPA.

#Vote LIKE YOU REMEMBER EVERY MEMBER OF THE GOP CONGRESS WHO ALLOWED ALL OF THIS TO HAPPEN.
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Many of the #youthvote kids that I've talked to are primarily concerned with 3 things, Trump, Climate Change & Gun Control. Don't tell me they aren't voting this year. My impression is that they sure are! #ElectionDay #Vote #TuesdayThoughts
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2/"Young people historically vote at lower rates, typically, than other age groups, and that has been especially true of the midterms. But this year, registration for younger voters is up substantially, with some studies anticipating the highest youth turnout in decades.
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With 21 days to go until Election Day, here are 21 reasons why you should vote for Democrats.

Reason #1: to create a better and brighter future for the next generation.
Reason #2 why you should vote: to elect leaders who will work to protect our children from gun violence in schools.
Reason #3 why you should vote: Medicare for All. Quality, affordable health care should be a right for all Americans, not a privilege for the few.
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1. An attorney for Professor Christine Blasey Ford went on CNN last night to state that her client’s life has been turned upside down since publicly alleging that Appellate Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh attempted to rape her when they were teens. cnn.com/2018/09/18/pol…
2. Ford has received death threats, her email account has been hacked, and she has been impersonated on social media. All of this has literally driven her out of her California home.
3. The Times quoted an anonymous source yesterday saying that Ford had arranged for private security and that her family “is effectively in hiding.”
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Amy Coney Barrett is a judge on the Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit & on @realDonaldTrump’s pre-approved list for SCOTUS. She passed his “litmus test” on overturning Roe v. Wade & striking down the ACA. Here’s where she stands on Americans' big issues:
Barrett attacked the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Affordable Care Act, which has helped millions of people secure health insurance coverage. scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewconten…
Barrett also fought efforts to ensure that all women have access to contraceptives. scribd.com/document/83046…
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