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10 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read
"I grew up in Austria. I'm very aware of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, a rampage against the Jews in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys.

Wednesday was the Day of Broken Glass Right here in the United States...in the windows of the U.S. Capitol."
"I grew up in the ruins of a country that suffered the loss of its democracy. I was surrounded by broken men drinking away guilt over their participation in the most evil regime in history. Not all were rabid anti-Semites Nazis. Many just went along, step-by-step, down the road."
"My father would come home drunk once or twice a week and he would scream and hit us and scare my mother. I did not hold him responsible because our neighbor was doing the same to his family. And so was the next neighbor over. ... They were...in pain for what they saw and did."
"It all started with lies & lies & lies & intolerance. ... President Trump sought to overturn the results of an election, and of a fair election. He sought a coup by misleading people with lies. My father and our neighbors were misled also with lies. I know where such lies lead."
"But what are we to make of those elected officials who have enabled his lies and his treachery? ... JFK wrote a book called, 'Profiles in Courage.' A number of members of my own party, because of their spinelessness, will never see their names in such a book."
"They are complicit with those who carried the flag of self-righteous insurrection into the Capitol. ... What we need right now from our elected representatives is a public servant's heart. We need servants who will serve something larger than their own power or party."

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10 Jan
While insurrections were storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Mississippi State Rep. Dana Criswell posed with protesters at the MS Capitol.

They want a vote to bring back MS's old Confederate-themed state flag. This protester carried a full-blown Confederate flag to demonstrate.
While supporters of Mississippi's now defunct flag hope to get it on the ballot, that will almost certainly fail.

Mississippians voted 73%-27% to adopt the flag below on Nov. 3.

On Jan. 6, the MS House (incl Rep. Criswell) voted to adopt it 118-1; the Senate adopted it 43-7.
So while some (and I mean just a handful) of Mississippi Republicans will still post photos posing with Confederate flag supporters to boost cred with that constituency, only 8/174 members of the Legislature are now willing to oppose the majority 2-1 preference for a new flag.
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10 Jan
The email lady was saying this almost 5 years ago while CNN was still both-sidesing everything and entertaining the idea that @HillaryClinton was a criminal while ogling Trump like a new cash cow.
Really, CNN, we didn't need a deadly armed insurrection in the halls of Congress to know Trump was dangerous.

All you had to do was take the first woman nominated by a major party to be president seriously when it mattered.
It's almost like we pay a price when we don't listen to smart women.
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9 Jan
A Nevada GOP Chairman sent this BONKERS letter to Republican voters:

"Let me be clear: Trump will be president for another four years. Biden will not be president. Yes, I know those are shocking words in these crazy days."

Next, he accuses Pence & the Cabinet of treason.👇🏻1/
Next, like a cherry-picking preacher twisting God's words, the GOP chairman says this:

"Go back and listen to the videos all the way through. At no point does Trump even mention Biden’s name. At no point does he say he concedes. ..." 2/ 👇🏻
Nye GOP Chair: "(Trump) does say that there will be a peaceful transition to a new admin & he does say this is only the beginning."

"Indeed, we will have a new admin made up of a new VICE PRESIDENT and CABINET as the current ones have all made their TREASON complete." 3/ 👇🏻
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8 Jan
I lay awake haunted on Nov. 8-9, 2016, by searing visions of torch-wielding Brownshirts marauding violently in the streets & storming halls of gov't; of immigrant families rounded up & locked in concentration camps; & of mass death due to a careless leader.

It all happened.
I wasn't clairvoyant. I, like many LGBT people (& women & POC...) had simply listened to what Trump's supporters demanded & what he promised.

Everything from Charlottesville, to child concentration camps, to the Sedition on the Sixth was predictable. It was his platform.
As a gay man, I had to fear that Trump could appoint Supreme Court justices who'd overturn my rights.

Kennedy's retirement made me sick.

For 3 ½ years, my heart raced and I lost my breath every time I saw "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" in a push notification. And then she died.
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8 Jan
NEW: The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman, Bennie Thompson, is calling on Congress to impeach and "immediately" remove President Donald Trump from office, saying he is "a direct threat to the homeland each remaining minute he is in power."
mississippifreepress.org/8026/trump-is-…
“What occurred yesterday at our nation’s Capitol was—pure and simple—domestic terrorism incited by President Trump, his enablers, and those seeking to overturn the results of a legitimate election," said House Homeland Security Chair @BennieGThompson. mississippifreepress.org/8026/trump-is-…
“Never in my life did I ever expect to see a sitting president incite violent extremists at a rally and, after they stormed both the House and Senate chambers, raised the Confederate flag and erected a noose, tell them in a video that he loved them."
—HHS Chair @BennieGThompson
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7 Jan
NEW: U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is one of just six Senate Republicans who voted for Trump's attempted coup d'état.

“The people I represent do not believe the presidential election was constitutional ... I cannot in good conscience support certification.”
mississippifreepress.org/8008/sen-cindy…
Mark Baker, a 2019 GOP candidate for Mississippi AG, blamed Trump for today's insurrection.

“You can’t stack the wood, pour the gas, and light the match and then claim innocence. This was expected and intended. President Trump, you should be ashamed.” mississippifreepress.org/8008/sen-cindy…
Republican Mississippi State Rep. Missy McGee called it a "sad day in our nation."

"No man, no political party is greater than this country,” @MissyWMcGee said. mississippifreepress.org/8008/sen-cindy…
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