Thread by @daveweigel

Netroots panel kicking off w @IlhanMN: "There’s a constant struggle with people who have power about sharing that power. And we are not really in the business of asking to share that power; we are in the business of grabbing that power to return it to the people."

Up next, @AyannaPressley says that she is fed up with "palace intrigue," not much mystery about what she means.

The panel is moderated by @aimeeallison, who is not interested in litigating Tweet Tweek, though she nodded at it in her intro. Moving conversation to child separation. @RashidaTlaib:"This is a whole generation of children who will never forget what our nation did to them."

.@AyannaPressley: "What is happening in these ICE facilities where they pilot how they can abuse privacy rights, how they can abuse human rights, and they scale that up." But notes that black and brown people disproportionately work for CBP.

"They are now a cog in this machine of oppression of people who look just like them."

Quoting what a colleague said to her, @IlhanMN: "If there were dogs in those cages, every single member of Congress would vote to make sure those cages didn’t exist."

Moderator brings up impeachmnt with @RashidaTlaib: "We're gonna impeach the MFer, don't worry," she says.

Omar is recounting her questioning of Elliot Abrams in the Foreign Affairs committee: "[Knowing] the trail of blood that he has left in South and Central America. I wasn’t about to let him come and talk to us about what he was doing in Venezuela."

Pressley seeming to hit back at the criticism from the CBC et al: "We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need any more black voices that don’t want to be a black voice."

*black FACES that don't want etc