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19 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Not one senator on either side has asked about Austin being on the board of Raytheon. Quite the lapse.
No sooner do I mention it and Warren raises it. Good.
Austin agrees to be "mindful of ethics on this issue" of the links between the DOD and the defense industry.
Warren says Austin's answers to her "sends a powerful message that you are working on behalf of the American people and no one else."

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Victoria Brownworth Profile picture
21 Jan
#NEW
Dr. Anthony Fauci held a 4am teleconference with the @WHO, which President Biden just rejoined yesterday with an Executive Order.

Fauci will also be part of today's press briefing.

First day of the new administration. Fauci is where he belongs: leading.
The Biden-Harris administration is making #COVID19 its central focus. Which the Trump administration should have done a year ago. The US is only 4% of the global population and 26% of the deaths from #COVID19. That didn't have to happen.

cnbc.com/2021/01/21/cor…
#NEW
The details of the Trump administration's #COVID19 plan reveals there is no actual plan.

This will further impede the new administration as it centers controlling the virus.
Chilling thought: How many would have died if Trump had succeeded in overturning the election?
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Victoria Brownworth Profile picture
19 Jan
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, Who Led Trump’s Mission at State Dept., Leaves With a Dubious Legacy nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/…
Pompeo created a "human rights panel" and used it to subvert the work of USAID, a I wrote here.

Pompeo’s Human Rights Panel Subverts LGBT and Women’s Rights epgn.com/2020/06/23/pom…
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,

Pompeo Continues Assault on LGBT+ Abroad Via USAID epgn.com/2020/08/26/pom…
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Victoria Brownworth Profile picture
19 Jan
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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18 Jan
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.
For the skeptics:

Facebook Deleted GOP Threat of Violence Against AOC
businessinsider.com/facebook-delet…
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16 Jan
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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16 Jan
THREAD📌
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.
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