This is me getting arrested in the Capitol in 2012 for legally documenting a hearing on #fracking.
I was charged with “unlawful entry”.
There were two dozen cops present. I was arrested within 15 mins.
Never doubt what happened today.
Capitol police were complicit today.
Actually there’s a really nice jail in the Capitol.
The cleanest emptiest jail I’ve ever been in.
I always tell folks- if you want to get arrested, do it in the Capitol because it’s so cush.
All day I thought about that clean empty jail where I was handcuffed to the wall.
Watching these white supremacists trashing the capitol I remembered every pair of zip ties. Every friend shot by a rubber bullet. Every cop brutalizing a friend.
I’m so angry I’m on the verge of tears.
We did not deserve that treatment.
These cops are so hypocritical.
Charges were dropped, of course, because they would have never held up.
The arrest was ordered by the Republican chairperson of the committee, Andy Harris.
Oh yeah the whole thing is the last scene in Gasland part 2 (not to plug or anything...)
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It’s clear that Trump and the @GOP’s lawsuits are not aimed at courts- they are frivolous and they get thrown out every time.
They are aimed at creating a sense of outrage among their delusional constituents.
The GOP is trying to create a total loss of faith in our democracy.
They want to create a subset of the American population that believe in a total lie.
In fanning the flames and stoking the ire of these people they are creating a political weapon- a racist, authoritarian, anti-science bullying force that can be used to bludgeon the country.
Having a huge percentage of the population divorced from reality helps them to maintain policies that are unequal, racist, anti-science and exploitative.
In other words, the GOP is wiling to totally divide this nation in order to maintain their agenda and stop progess.
Trump not conceding is much more dangerous than it appears.
After WWI a group of German soldiers never conceded defeat after Versailles. They became an armed militia - the Frei Corps- for 20 years and eventually became Hitler’s SS.
Trumps armed militia supporters are very...
similar. They pose a huge threat to the future and to democracy.
These people are racist, authoritarian, violent and they don’t care about what is true and what is not.
Bu the most dangerous thing about them is that they feel wronged. They feel cheated. They, like their...
predecessors, The Frei Corps, feel that they have to keep fighting until they achieve a victory. The more this smolders, the more dangerous it gets.
That’s where Trump comes in- if he clings to these falsehoods, and to these armed militias, he can bring enormous pressure...
Oysters (shucked by me) are 50 cents a piece. Prosecco for 13 bucks a bottle at the corner store. This isn’t brunch. This is a cheap Nola breakfast. And I’m sure all you haters can take your comments directly to the local fishermen who are barely hanging on who we are supporting!
1) I voted for @HillaryClinton in 2016, and campaigned for her.
I loathed her campaign and many of her positions.
I voted for her because the movement I am a part of helped shape the Democratic Platform and because I knew we could apply pressure.
But mostly I voted bc...
I wanted to own some small piece of responsibility for what came next.
I voted for her so that she would have been MY President and MY responsibility-to push her, protest her, goad her and move her at every stage.
Democracy is a responsibility. My vote for her was one small..
piece of the power we hold collectively. We must hold our representatives to account, and by my actions I was owning this responsibility- not excluding myself fro it. It was my commitment to the progress of our movement and to our mutual ownership of the government.
People stuck in traffic are witnessing NYPD beat up folks on their way home.
This was sent to me by a friend of the women in the car, @tommiesunshine. Stuck in traffic for nearly an hour on 50th street and third Ave.
Ridiculously, @CNN and @donlemon are interviewing the #Nypd chief and they are saying that protestors started the beatings at the brooklyn bridge. So what is this??? People running through the streets away from cops.
3)Like all the distributors of the film that I spoke t, FFA had not seen the film prior to posting it. I don't blame @FilmsForAction for this-they did it bc of @mmflint's reputation. But I think it's strange that Michael Moore would not let anyone see the film before distribution