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Getting to the bottom of Trump’s corruption means “we’d be here for a very very long time.”

I’m game. You?
And here comes the fabulous @RepAdamSchiff with a powerful rebuttal.

Damn he’s so good.
Hahaha. Schiff says “you want me to testify? I want to hear from Mr. Sekulow about his contacts with Mr. Parnas.”

GO ON.
Honestly, the President’s legal team is so strategically stupid.

“It’ll take forever to try him so let’s just let him off!”

That’s the argument.
“It shouldn’t be a circus, it should be a fair trial, and you can’t have a fair trial without witnesses.”

Adam Schiff kicks ass.
Adam Schiff RN.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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Good morning, all.

For everyone who’s asking me “where do we go from here?”, some thoughts:

1) Today is likely the day that the myth of American democracy dies. That doesn’t mean we quit, it just means facing reality. That is where we are. Grieve it, but see it for what it is.
2) Then note this: 100m people didn’t vote in 2016. We must convert as many as possible to voters by November, while also understanding that the regime we’re living under now is going to do everything it can— including criminal conduct never before seen here— to maintain power.
3) if you haven’t educated yourself yet on combatting systemic racism and oppression in daily life, do it now. Read the books of @IjeomaOluo and @DrIbram. Follow @michaelharriot and @BreeNewsome and @TheRoot and so many others.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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.@neal_katyal beat me to the punch on something I was going to post earlier, but thought it would be too scary.

Last summer, when I was part of the org team on @Lights4Liberty, we were advised by some folks who'd been in Ferguson and elsewhere on some worst case scenario shit.
We knew already that immigration activists had been monitored, photographed, surveilled, and ARRESTED and DETAINED for speaking out against Trump's policies.

We consulted with some folks who shall remain nameless on how to handle that possibility were it to happen to us.
I'm sharing them here for all *loud Trump critics* who are average citizens without the direct access to the halls of power (read: non-ex-DOJ or Hill connected people) in the event that we all might need it.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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Assume that this is the last 24 hours where American democracy exists.

What are you going to do with it?
A story: my best friend died unexpectedly in 2006 of a brain aneurysm at 37. For a week thereafter, a huge group of her friends descended on her and her hub’s home en masse.

Our drink of choice was her fave, Lagavulin.

Fight back until you can’t.

And then: honor what’s lost.
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As @RitaKonaev notes, "Mattis had no problem disagreeing w/Obama about transgender people in the military or women in combat but won’t criticize Trump for asking foreign powers for dirt about political opponents.

This isn’t about him being above politics. This is his politics."
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(1) So, given #TheStorm that’s coming, I thought it a good time to share my opinion on /Pol/

 Why /Pol/? Anyone who has followed them knows they fit a certain motif – usually Jew haters, pro white.

They also have a nasty reputation for not wanting to piss them off.
(2) lot of people had a lot of laughs at Shia LeBouf’s expense when /Pol/ kept tracking his flag

Across the country and even across continents. And then tracked him to an art project overseas. We all laughed.

 Ever stop to think just how they did it?
(3) We lazily call it what /Pol/ calls themselves – “weaponized autism”

In reality, doesn’t that seem like something that not your average hacker should be capable of?

Movies glorify hackers as some super geniuses who can make anything happen with a few clicks of a keyboard.
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