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10 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This QAnon rep was really playing for keeps
Seems like enough evidence to establish probable cause and subpoena her communications and charge her under existing laws if there’s evidence she was part of this.

We have plenty of laws, no need for new ones. This was a crime and can be prosecuted with the ones on the books.

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11 Jan
The planning for the January 16 and 17 militia events in DC is quite specific. They want at least 15k people and if they achieve that they plan to block Democrats from entering the Capitol, allowing only Republicans through. Here’s where they plan to meet ImageImage
That was available online on Jan 6 but the website has been taken down. It’s still on the wayback machine. Here are the further plans. Image
“All patriot participants will be responsible for finding their own food and lodging.” Image
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9 Jan
In 1856 the House moved to expel Rep. Preston Brooks for nearly beating abolitionist Sen. Charles Sumner to death. He resigned, producing a special election, ran in the special election and won easily. theintercept.com/2019/09/29/sid…
His buddies that helped him only for a censure
This whole story of how southern pro-slavery Senate Democrats orchestrated an assault of their own colleague on the Senate floor is worth another look.

They also murdered an anti-Slavery Democratic senator in a rigged duel theintercept.com/2019/09/29/sid…
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3 Jan
Some background on how PAYGO actually functions in the House, for those interested badnews.substack.com/p/paygone
One thing I didn't mention is that practically speaking PAYGO often acted as a *disincentive* to actually enact smart tax increases on the rich, close loopholes, or cut genuinely bad spending. Because if you do that, then you can't use it as a payfor for the next bill!
It covers anything climate related, which is basically everything, and also covers the needed public health response to the consequences of Covid, which everybody here would agree covers M4A, since that's the whole argument for why to hold the vote now
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3 Jan
These are not the even the worst quotes.

Demands for civility are often just a way to shut down dissent. And then there are people who exploit that fact to do this. Thus isn’t “tone,” and it’s beyond just uncivil. Don’t be fooled into apologizing for it
And the thing is, getting a vote on the House floor could indeed be a good organizing device. And people can keep pushing for it. But if you wanted to use this moment to fight for it, the planning should’ve started months ago, before the CPC went in on their PAYGO strategy
In 2019 when AOC and Ro fought against paygo, they were late, disorganized, and slapped together a symbolic pushback. They got crushed. So they started planning for the next round, and this time broke through. Twitter/youtube energy is great but sometimes it takes legwork too
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1 Jan
Progressives in the House have won a rules change that would allow Medicare for All, a Green New Deal or other big ticket agenda items to be exempted from paygo. This was a necessary step in opening the way for it.
Paygo is short for “pay as you go,” which Democrats proposed in the 80s to get clever with Reagan, whose tax cuts and defense spending drove up the deficit. Since then it has been used to hamstring progressive policy. Last time Pelosi won this fight theintercept.com/2019/01/02/nan…
The value of changing the rules, even though they don’t yet have the votes for M4A, is that it is easier to defend the rules as they are than fight for changes.

Also it applies to things this term that can actually pass, like more checks, Medicaid and Medicare expansion etc
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30 Dec 20
Might as well call McConnell’s bluff. They’re not actually gonna let Facebook go under. Pocket the $2k and let them sort section 230 out later.
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Yes, like this one, which would also have a hilarious time defending 10,000 libel suits a day. But sadly they’re not gonna let twitter shut down either
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