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7 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
"Dressed in fur pelts and a bullet proof vest, Aaron Mostofsky joined an early wave of rioters who swarmed the halls of Congress, forcing lawmakers to evacuate before certifying Joe Biden's election victory."
gothamist.com/news/trump-fur…
"Brooklyn resident Aaron Mostofsky can be seen in several photos outside the Senate chambers, holding a wooden stick and a police riot shield, alongside a man carrying a Confederate flag."
"Aaron Mostofsky's father is Shlomo Mostofsky, a prominent modern Orthodox figure in Brooklyn and former president of the National Council of Young Israel. He was elected to the Kings County Supreme Court last January with the backing of the Brooklyn Democratic Party."
"In an interview with the NY Post, Aaron said that he stormed the building because “the election was stolen"
"His brother, Nachman Mostofsky, is the vice president of the South Brooklyn Conservative Club, and an elected district leader in the borough, who claims to have connections with high-ranking members of the Trump administration. Nachman also attended the rally on Thursday..."

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7 Jan
It wasn't just the federal Capitol in Washington DC that Nazis attacked yesterday. They attacked state Capitols in Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Texas, Oregon, and Colorado. They attacked federal buildings in LA.

thedailybeast.com/local-maga-mob…
Imagine how many new members Nazi movements recruited yesterday. Both in the U.S. and across the world.
Is this your ragtag mob?
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7 Jan
We're still in a pandemic. Today's coup was a mega-super-spreader event. How many Capitol workers did the Nazi militias infect?
These are the workers who had to clean up after the Nazis trashed the Capitol.
How many D.C. workers and residents were exposed to infection today by unmasked, undistanced, chanting, yelling Nazis?
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27 Dec 20
"He died in a world where many of his fellow Americans refuse to wear a piece of cloth on their face to protect one another.”

latimes.com/world-nation/s…
“Mark, like so many others, should not have died from COVID-19. His death is due to the carelessness of the politicians who continue to jeopardize the health of brown bodies through clear lack of leadership, refusal to acknowledge the severity of this crisis...”
“His death was due to neglect of the vulnerable by the Trump Administration, which has consistently downplayed the dangers of this terrible disease. Due to isolation requirements to prevent the spread of the virus, his family was not able to be with him.”
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26 Dec 20
"every healthcare worker I know is enduring significant psychological distress from the callousness we perceive around us in the world, the oath we have taken to maintain compassion in the face of it all, and the crisis of reconciling these two realities."
aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/…
"The healthcare workers who hold the hands of our elderly as they pass, and then on their way home pass bars crowded with people – they will remember."
"Those who are isolating themselves from their loved ones, only to read text chains of extended friends and family members gathering – they will remember."
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10 Nov 20
A coup attempt is under way. This is why Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in by night just days ago.
Every statement from the Trump campaign that delegitimizes the election is a green light for hate crimes.
U.S. exceptionalism - "this is America! We don't have coups!" - is also U.S. denialism - "we'll just pretend that Trump refusing to concede and whipping up white terrorist groups isn't a big deal."
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7 Nov 20
Let the work begin.

bitchmedia.org/article/choosi…
"We can’t undo what Biden allegedly did to Reade in 1993. What we want from him now is restorative justice. For women, economic vulnerability is one of the greatest risk factors for sexual harassment and assault." - @AyadeLeon
I’m sorry!” is the accused rapist’s immediate plea.

“How sorry?” we ask. “Sorry enough to make billionaires pay their fair share of taxes? Sorry enough to raise the minimum wage to $15? To pass #MedicareForAll and #GreenNewDeal?"
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