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13 Jan, 2 tweets, 1 min read
Parler has sued Amazon for refusing to provide it web services, and conservatives have rallied to Parler's defense, claiming their views are being censored.
In its legal response, Amazon cites the type of Parler content that conservatives apparently want to defend.
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The message of hope and healing that Joe Biden delivered today at Gettysburg is very much Bidenesque. And while some Democrats may find it naive after the Trump and Obama years, it explains why Biden won the nomination and may win the White House. America thirsts for it. 1/4
Biden was inspired by Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, in which that giant of US history appealed to our nation's "better angels" to avoid civil war, but it's worth noting Lincoln's appeal was not heeded. As he would note ruefully four years later, in his Second Inaugural: 2/4
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Trump's promise to reverse the trade deficit has been a dismal failure, according to new gov't data for August:

"The overall trade deficit was $67.1 billion, — the highest since 2006. The deficit for U.S. goods trade by itself was $83.9 billion, the highest ever recorded."
Trump's promise to revive the coal industry has also failed dismally:

" .... total coal production is expected to drop this year to 511 million tons, down from 775 million tons in 2017. That 34 percent decline is the largest four-year drop in production since at least 1932."
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Under Trump, we've lost 165,000.
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Watch Kirk Herbstreit's guttingly honest assessment of racial inequality in our country -- -- and then look at some of the Twitter reaction in which the hatred he condemns is so apparent:
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26 Aug 20
Trump, four years ago:

"Our Convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life. Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country...."
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"... Americans watching this address tonight have seen the recent images of violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities. Many have witnessed this violence personally, some have even been its victims...." 2/4
"I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th 2017, safety will be restored.... when I take the oath of office next year, I will restore law and order in our country." 3/4
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Why the hell is it so important to some conservative white men to insist that Kamala Harris is NOT African-American, and what gives them the right to reach such a judgment in the first place? It's both bizarre and revealing. 1/6
Listen to Mark Levin, a supposed "intellectual of the right," pretend that it's beneath him to be interested in Harris' proper ethnic identity while insisting, at length and in detail, that she cannot be called "African-American." Again, why is that so damn important to them? 2/6
Does it soothe some angry, scared little part of their soul to deny that a "real" African-American could rise to such prominence? By defining Harris out of black America, do they reassure themselves that "our blacks" still remain on the bottom, with themselves still on top? 3/6
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Remember late on Election Night in 2012, when Karl Rove took on the Fox News Decision Desk, insisting on air that Obama had NOT won Ohio, that Romney could still take the state & the WH? Fox News stood up to Rove that night, correctly sticking by its call despite pressure. 1/4
Well, if Election Night 2020 is at all close, Trump's move will be to declare victory and insist that mail-in ballots don't need to be counted. At that point, the pressure on Fox News to go along with Trump's fiction, to create the fact of his re-election, will be huge. 2/4
If they correctly insist that no, there are still millions of valid votes to be counted, Trump's ploy would be foiled. But if Fox caves to the pressure, calling the election for Trump prematurely & thus giving his base a rallying cry, boy oh boy are we going to have trouble. 3/4
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