Apart from Trump tax frauds, keep the other outrages in your (and everyone else's) heads as well:
1. New Covid wave starting at higher level than last, while
Trump still against CDC, masks and social distancing.
2. Trump is pushing an illegitimate SCOTUS justice who will kill the ACA -- along with people with pre-existing conditions.
3. Fires and hurricanes still rampaging, yet Trump rolling back EPA rules and subsidizing oil and gas.
4. Trump threatening election coup, says he won't be bound by results and won't commit to peaceful transition.
5. Plus his attacks on the press, on working Americans, on the poor, on Black and Latinx Americans, on our foreign allies.
6. Not to mention that he's done everything Putin wants. Still hasn't criticized Putin for putting a bounty on American soldiers in Afghanistan, or for interfering in US elections, or for poisoning his opponent, and on it goes.
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It was 12 years ago this month that Joe Biden (whether by design or accident) pushed the nation one big step closer to marriage equality. 🧵1/12
In the early 2000s, most Americans still saw same-sex marriage as radical. Politicians who came out in favor of it (as I did running for MA governor in 2002) did not fare well. 2/12
By 2012, the tide had only begun to turn — thanks to decades of work by brave activists and advocates.
Only 6 states and DC had legalized same-sex marriage— MA, CT, and IA as a result of judicial rulings, VT, NH, NY, and DC as the result of hard-fought legislation. 3/12
Trump ordered a crowd he knew was armed to march on the Capitol & "fight like hell." 7 people died in & after the attack. 114 Capitol Police were injured.
He watched the violence on TV but did nothing to stop it for hours.
That day was just one part of his coup attempt. 🧵1/14
Trump privately admitted he lost & knew his claim that the election was stolen was a lie.
His family, campaign manager, White House lawyers, & his Justice Dept agreed with his hand-picked attorney general that "the claims of fraud were bulls***." 2/14
Here's why the Colorado ruling that Trump can appear on the ballot despite engaging in an insurrection contains more bad news for Trump than good news.
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On Friday, Denver District Judge Sarah B. Wallace ruled that Trump “acted with the specific intent to disrupt the Electoral College certification of President Biden’s electoral victory through unlawful means; specifically, by using unlawful force and violence.” 2/8
It pains me to say it, but RFK Jr is a dangerous, right-wing nutcase.
While his father was a fierce advocate for racial justice, Junior has gone down a dark, racist rabbit hole to become a proponent of hateful and bigoted conspiracy theories. 🧵 1/10
RFK Jr pushed a racist, antisemitic conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was an “ethnic bioweapon… targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,” but spare “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” 2/10
Leaning into the right-wing, manufactured, anti-trans panic, RFK Jr promotes a conspiracy theory that chemicals in the water are turning people transgender. 3/10