Also, Facebook deleted a post by Majorie Taylor Greene in which she threatened the lives of AOC and Ayanna Pressley, holding a gun to their photos.
Twitter temporarily suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene over 'multiple' policy violations thehill.com/policy/technol…
Also, Marjorie Taylor Greene is a member of the new QAnon Caucus of the GOP that was just elected in November and which supported overturning the 2020 election. This was Greene at the impeachment hearings.
Marjorie Taylor Greene beat her GOP opponent in the August primary 57% to 43%. Her opponent Dr. John Cowan, is a neurosurgeon. So the people in her 14th GA district wanted a #QAnon lunatic over a doctor in a pandemic. Take that in. Her Democratic challenger dropped out Oct 30.
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I was on the Pompeo beat in 2020 and Pompeo's remaking of State and his dangerous reframing of USAID has linked the US with some of the world's worst actors.
Pompeo used USAID and its $40B budget to promote his own ideologies abroad & label them as US policy as I explained here. Biden and Blinken may not even know the breadth of what Pompeo has done via USAID,
THREAD📌 Since Jan. 20, 2017, I have been terrorized by the Trump presidency as a lesbian, as a #disabled person, as a journalist. I have reported hundreds of stories of how marginalized groups in particluar have been harmed by Trump's policies, even in his final days.
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I have reported on the uptick in poverty under Trump, particularly among women and LGBTQ people. I have written relentlessly about #healthcare and how each year under Trump fewer Americans had access to it and more people were bankrupted and having to crowdfund medical bills.
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I have written about violence against POC: the relentlessness of it. The anti-Black animus. The hatred of brown immigrants--even babies. I have reported on the way Trump and his extremist white nationalist cohort have stoked violence from Charlottesville to the Insurrection.
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I want to see an actual photo of Greeson at Obama's Inauguration. It was like 5° that day (remember how everyone slammed Beyoncé for lip-synching?). I don't see a trajectory from standing for 6hrs in frigid cold, listening to the line up that day to dying for Trump.
There is no actual indicator in this piece of what the people interviewed claim--that they drifted GOP from Democrats. Alabama hasn't voted non-GOP since it went for George Wallace in 1968. And Greeson called for the death of Obama on Parler. And for the death of Pelosi.
Fox news was too mainstream for him as was Facebook. Greeson was all in on Parler and Newsmax. Others quoted claim that the ACA changed things, which is flat out lunacy, since the ACA provided more access to healthcare than Alabama had had since LBJ created Medicare and Medicaid.
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So my very first march on Washington, I was a kid. Our church (my parents were Socialist Civil Rights worker movement folks) sent buses to the Moratorium against Vietnam and it was the most people to ever march on Washington to date. No one stormed the Capitol.
My second march on Washington was the march for the ERA and I was a teenager and went with a bunch of older white and Black lesbians who were training me to be a good feminist. We all wore white like the suffragists and never stormed the Capitol.
My next few marches were for gay rights. We didn't storm the Capitol. I also was at a march against AIDS and even though Reagan Bush was killing us, we didn't storm the Capitol.
#LisaMontgomery is the first woman to be executed by the federal government since Ethel Rosenberg in 1953 and the 11th prisoner to be executed by the Trump DOJ since Trump resumed the federal #deathpenalty in July. 1/
Although Lisa Montgomery had a long history of mental illness and severe sexual trauma, the court found that data should have been presented sooner. Montgomery's attorney had pleaded for commutation of her sentence to life in prison.
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Few global democracies still utilize the death penalty. And while the DP remains on the books in some, actual executions are mostly carried out in nations we consider rogue states or authoritarian. The #deathpenalty is state-sanctioned murder applied with no consistency.
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