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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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
Hot Labor Summer is turning into Hotter Labor Fall.
It seems likely that the @UAW will go on strike against the Big Three automakers, starting tonight.
A strike against all three companies at once has never happened before. Here’s what you should know.
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Why are United Auto Workers likely to strike?
Like so many other workers organizing across the country, auto workers want a bigger piece of the economic pie they are generating for their employers.
They have good reason to want more.
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Profits at the Big Three auto companies — Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis — have skyrocketed 92% from 2013 to 2022, collectively totaling $250 billion.
The Big Three paid out nearly $66 billion in dividend payments and stock buybacks during that same time period. 3/10