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Peter Daou
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To my male friends/followers, make the effort to retweet and cite more women in your feeds.

Among those I respect: @ewarren, @ruthbenghiat, @HC_Richardson, @sarahkendzior, @DrJenGunter, @Mimirocah1, @IlhanMN, @AOC, @olgaNYC1211, @BreeNewsome, @AyannaPressley, @drjudymelinek ...
MORE: @AprilDRyan, @dianabutlerbass, @jentaub, @PamKeithFL, @Maria_Hinojosa, @RepJayapal, @rulajebreal, @erintothemax, @JillFilipovic, @BerniceKing, @Sifill_LDF ...
MORE: @KarenAttiah, @MDHillRaiser, @Nelba_MG, @KristenClarkeJD, @StephMillerShow, @K_JeanPierre, @rabiasquared, @FeministaJones, @MsPackyetti, @Martina, @HawaiiDelilah, @ava, @JoyAnnReid ...
MORE: @shannonrwatts, @RVAwonk, @aimeemann, @AnastasiaSomoza, @Rosie, @MollieKatzen, @Laurie_David, @AndreaChalupa, @schemaly, @jljacobson ...

There are SO MANY MORE...
MORE: @ProfCAnderson, @ilyseh, @MelissaJPeltier, @AmandaMarcotte, @KatrinaNation, @RashidaTlaib, @amy4thepeople, @jennycohn1, @RepDebHaaland, @RepKatiePorter, @GretaThunberg, @OhNoSheTwitnt ...
MORE: @susanmcp1, @professorkim, @finneyk, @SarahBurris, @Iddybud, @irin, @funkybrownchick, @missmayn, @AnnTelnaes, @aurabogado, @Emma4Change, @VABVOX, @Karoli, @soledadobrien ...
There are so many more amazing and inspiring women who are doing critical work to protect our democracy. Please feel free to add them here so that others can follow them.
MORE: @Indira_L, @Amy_Siskind, @JessicaValenti, @RepUnderwood, @darakass, @Marie4Congress, @KierstenWarren, @amydbarnett, @najwazebian, @AshaRangappa_, @tanzinavega, @JenniferReitman ...
MORE: @BriannaWu, @ECMcLaughlin, @staceyabrams, @kejames, @hapkidogal, @FlameGoddessLee, @DeniseKShull, @chelseaperetti, @biologistimo, @NancySinatra ... And most important to me personally: @leeladaou
MORE: @PoliticusSarah, @MollyJongFast (my cousin), @Saramornell, @YNB, @morgfair, @wagatwe, @melsil, @Shakestweetz ...
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Peter Daou
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OLD REALITY

Being shocked by Trump's unhinged tweets

Realizing the GOP is as awful as Trump

Waiting for a savior, like Mueller

Trusting someone "has a plan" to stop autocracy

NEW REALITY

Seeing the unvarnished truth

Knowing the rule of law is gone

Being our own leaders
Yes, it's stark to say 'the rule of law is gone." But seeing the unvarnished truth means not sugarcoating the awful reality we're facing.

#Trump is effectively above the law.

#Barr is a threat to democracy.

#Miller is torturing children.

#McConnell is stacking the courts.
Can we revive democracy? Can we reinstate the rule of law? Yes. But we have to acknowledge reality AS IT IS, not as we want it to be. We can't let ourselves become the proverbial frogs in boiling water, waiting for Mueller or Pelosi or Schumer or a 2020 candidate to save us.
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Peter Daou
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WHO SAID THIS?

"Time after time, the President came to a fork in the road. Time after time, he had the opportunity to choose the noble and honorable path. Time after time, he chose the path of lies and lawlessness."
WHO SAID THIS?

“[The President] doesn’t have to say, ‘Go lie for me,’ to be a crime. You don’t have to say, ‘Let’s obstruct justice’ for it to be a crime. You judge people on their conduct, not magic phrases.”
WHO SAID THIS?

"The true tragedy in this case is the collapse of the President's moral authority ... there is the issue of the abuse of power and authority. This White House has perfected the art of stonewalling around the truth."
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Peter Daou
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THREAD: WHY WE'RE IN DEEP TROUBLE

...AND WHAT WE CAN DO.

The corporate media and Democratic Party establishment are simply not equipped to handle flagrant autocracy.

Institutions that depend on a system of rules & norms are confounded by the upending of the status quo.
THREAD (cont.)

Take this mainstream media headline:

The president is wielding power in ways not seen in the United States in generations — if ever.

And ask yourself why the word is "wielding" not "abusing."



(h/t @djrothkopf)
THREAD (cont.)

The fight over #impeachment between progressive activists/politicians and the Dem leadership exemplifies the problem.

Most senior Dem officials who have been in office for over a decade have only one playbook: Try to appear "bipartisan" to appease big media.
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Lyman Expand the House Stone, AKA 石來民
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Honestly the more I think about it the stranger it seems to me the article didn’t cite more women. At minimum, @_TamaraWinter is unabashedly pronatalist and has more twitter followers than all the cited men *combined.* and @FamStudies has no shortage of smart women in this space!
Yes, there are a handful of us youngish males who are obnoxiously loud and write think-tanky stuff on the topic. But I’m not sure that’s unique to this topic: the think-tank world is, spoiler, kinda male-perspective-heavy in general.
I think what must be said is simply that the crop of people writing in the pronatalist sphere has a broadly similar demographic makeup as the group of people writing on many political issues: way more full of dudes than most of us would like or consider ideal!
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Demola Olarewaju
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The likes of Peter Obi are important to the polity - they come in from outside and by sincerity of heart and oneness of purpose, they show others that things don’t have to be complex for them to work.

But not all professionals in politics are like that, Raji Fashola for example.
Fashola as Lagos State Governor used to make everything look complex so much that it became a governance style unique to him and now elevated to the national level by his party:

First disrupt everything so that people can appreciate you when you complete the project.
Under Fashola in Lagos, they could be fixing the third street from yours but they would park the heavy vehicles and block access to your own street (with a board announcing an apology) but all just to let you know that his Govt was working.

Yaba had a full year of disruption.
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Matthew Cogdeill
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📢#RETWEET 📢
🚨#Breaking 🚨

Barack Hussein Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations — one of largest fees ever levied against presidential campaign

Why was this Hidden from #WeThePeople?
👇This Thread explains👇
📢#RETWEET 📢
(2)Barack Hussein Obama fine — laid out in FEC documents that have — arose from an audit of campaign, which was published in April. Which was sent to Sean Cairncross, chief lawyer for RNC, one of groups that filed complaints about campaign’s FEC reporting from 2008
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(3)“$375,000 is huge fine,” said Republican election lawyer Jason Torchinsky. “It may be one of their top five- or 10-largest fines”

But he added, “They’re also the first billion-dollar presidential campaign. Proportionally, it’s not out of line”
#DeepStateinPanic
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Matthew Cogdeill
@Matthewcogdeill
📢#RETWEET 📢
22 of my fellow Veterans commit suicide daily

➡️Democrats CHOOSE illegals over Americans

50,000 Veterans are homeless

➡️Democrats CHOOSE illegals over Americans

Democrats are Anti-American, who chooses criminal illegal aliens over Americans
#ThursdayThoughts
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There are 9 US consulates & 1 US embassy in Mexico where non US citizens can apply for asylum without ANY risk of being separated from their kids

Democrats would prefer to neglect to mention this FACT & act as if these families have no other options
#SummerSolstice
📢#RETWEET 📢

10,000 of the 12,000 kids in ICE custody were sent ALONE by their parents with intent to ILLEGALLY cross borders

They weren’t separated by border patrol, they were abandoned well before they hit our border & came into America
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Matthew Cogdeill
@Matthewcogdeill
📢#RETWEET 📢
Facts & Oaths of Affirmation evidently don't mean anything to liberal Democrats

HILLARY clinton & "Party" indictments have begun

If #TheResistance want to #Resist these FACTS, they will join your #Resistance leader in Prison

#mondaymotivation
#KeepAmericaGreat
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🚨#BreakingNews 🚨

Hillary Clinton AND "Party" Are Officially being Charged

#QAnon First called this with Great accuracy #DrainThe

I'm helping #TheResistance to #Resist The #Resistance Brainwashing with these #Facts 👇This is REAL👇
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@realDonaldTrump is the ONLY @POTUS who actually kept his promise of moving the 🇺🇸 Embassy to Jerusalem!

✅Donald J Trump
🚫Bill Clinton
🚫George Bush Sr
🚫George Bush Jr
🚫Barack Obama

#Gaza
#Jerusalem #MondayMotivation
#KeepAmericaGreat
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I received an email from @texasinafrica about a month ago asking me to give a talk at the Duckies at #ISA2018. Some folks (I'm looking at you, @smsaideman @mcopelov @C_Wolbrecht @whinecough) have asked that I post it.

So here it is, for a limited time only.
Ode to #IRTwitter

I unlock my door, put up some hot water
Turn on the computer, sign a form for my daughter

The computer is loaded, but the tea has turned bitter
Because all of this time I’ve been checking my Twitter
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Trade wars, international law and - look – a cool map!
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