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20 Jan, 27 tweets, 9 min read
Inject this into my veins
Oh it happened more than once... :)

There was a third person to who left "to go skiing."

Or as the media will report it: left for "economic grievances."

Tallahassee couldn't even get a critical mass of Florida Men together

Even @SenatorCollins said: "No. This man doesn't concern even me."

Arizona protester against a democratic election uses trash can when novelty flag became to cumbersome to hold, evidently. :)

Me scouring Twitter right now for state capitol protest pictures like:
Please, please tell me Wisconsin is one of those states that has a "no smoking within [X] feet of public buildings" ban so they can enforce it RIGHT NOW just to be petty.

"Brandon and Matt" assure us that the machine they've been feeding money into for two months "is about to pay."

In Georgia "Bottom rail on top dis time."

Somewhere in Michigan:
@gretchenwhitmer: Let me at him.
Aide: Governor, no, it would send the wrong message.
Whitmer: I GOTTA MESSAGE I WANT TO SEND.
Aide: Governor, please.
Whitmer: Fine. Bring me my baddest-ass leather jacket.

It's the *slumped against the fire hydrant in defeat* photo, for me.

North Carolina protests aren't even as hot as Cal's sexts.

In Vermont one guys showed up to protest the INJUSTICE OF AUTOMATED CUSTOMER SERVICE.

MY FAITH IN AMERICA IS BEING RESTORED BY THIS MAN. :)

Minnesota has achieved 0 MAGA degrees, Kelvin.

Somewhere, a Hooters in Tennessee is missing one of its regulars.

Just to put a point on all of this... this thread is what "insurrection" looks like when @jack de-platforms the actual violent crazy people (like Donald Trump), and leaves normal crazy people alone to figure it out for themselves.
"Let's have a counter-protest in Santa Fe. Inaugurating Biden will be, nice. We'll start a counter-protest in Santa Fe. And laugh at all the MAGA and mice."

I'd sing it but I don't sound like @RandyRainbow

I assume the guy in the skull mask is @HawleyMO's pick to be DHS secretary.

"He expected more people to be here, but was banned from Facebook so didn’t know if anything was planned."
-- this is also what they said at the Alamo

Kentucky man is the guy outside Leningrad who thinks everybody is on the same side.

Utah man shows off arts and crafts project. @Elmers has probably been waiting for their opportunity to denounce the insurrectionists.

Pretty sure Iowa has state laws prohibiting this kind of cruelty to tractors.

Look at this majestic scenery in Idaho. And the two small people who, in the midst of that natural beauty, want to watch the world burn.

These Ohio protesters remind of the time I went to the Horseshoe in 2018 dressed my @DesmondHoward jersey to protest them scoring 62 points.
... it was fun until I was arrested for public intoxication and sadness.

I saw a guy praying in front of the Oregon statehouse earlier, but maybe it was just for sunshine?

My mans in Olympia was NOT ABOUT to waste good poster board after the Q conspiracy fizzled.

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Elie Mystal Profile picture
20 Jan
People who've followed me for a while know that I rarely *knowingly* drunk tweet. Unless I'm on a late commuter rail back from the city, which hasn't happen in a while.

So, with that as a disclaimer, I think the inaugural insomnia I and others are experiencing is fucking weird.
Like... WE WON. We SURVIVED. We should be feeling elated. Like, I was in 2009 before Obama. My only concern the night before that was if the *party* I planned for that day would be fun for my guests.

This doesn't feel at all like that.

I think there are two reasons:
1. @chrislhayes made a near-miss car crash analogy tonight, and he talked about the "adrenaline" one gets as one realizes they *almost died.* I think a lot of this right now is just "holy shit, HOLY SHIT THAT MAN ALMOST KILLED US." We're a bit amped from almost not being here.
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15 Jan
Weird to listen to a president talk without constantly begging people to praise and love him.
You guys, I think the President Elect is going to get through this whole thing without blaming Asians and taking no responsibility at all.
Biden has already used a wider vocabulary in this speech than Trump used in four years.
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Elie Mystal Profile picture
11 Jan
Final thought of the evening:
As is true with so much other *crime*, if we took violent threats against women seriously, and punished the people when they did it, we'd stop so many of the violent threats against everybody and everything else.
So many of these people, now banned from Twitter for inciting violent acts against the government have, for years, been using their social media to make threats, some veiled, some not even, against women. If you banned them then, you'd wouldn't have needed to ban them now.
And, while we're here, let's not forget that Trump has been accused by 26 women of sexual misconduct, harassment, or rape.

If that was a DEAL BREAKER for people, he would have been gone a long time ago.
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10 Jan
I read this and it's harrowing and a colossal failure and all that. But I just can't get over that, after all this, with all that happened to his collogues, freaking @HawleyMO went back in there and continued with his useless political stunt.

washingtonpost.com/politics/insid…
Like, not only did he make the exact argument, entirely baseless, that was inspiring people to break into the Capitol and seriously threaten the government... he also just made some of his colleagues stay at work for two extra hours on one of the worst days of work of their lives
Who does that? Who says to the Vice President of the United States "Hey guy, I know people tried to FIND YOU AND HANG YOU FROM THE NECK UNTIL DEAD today over this, but I still gotta score political points with these people so, you can't go home yet."
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8 Jan
I can't get over this video, you guys. I can't even express the *depths* of racism in a society that allows one group of people to punch the window out behind the ear of a cop, but allows other cops to shoot an unarmed black man in the back 7 times.

I just can't.
I get scared when my children RUN NEAR a police officer. I can't risk my boys BUMPING INTO a cop.

And these white people just punched out a window, and not only did they *live*, but the cops walked away.
IT'S NOT FAIR. And I know that saying that is just a pathetic, useless complaint in this racist place, but it's not fair. It's not okay. It's not something that I should be expected to just SUCK UP to make white people feel better about their goddamn society.
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7 Jan
Things we knew about @realDonaldTrump before yesterday:
* He tried to delegitimize a Black president with a racist trope.
* He called for the execution of Black teenagers who were innocent.
* 26 women accused him of sexual misconduct, following an M.O. he admitted to on tape.
* He created a religious test for entry into the United States.
* He tried to build a racist wall by declaring a fake national emergency and stole billions from the defense budget.
* He ordered the kidnapping and caging of babies, and didn't keep track of their parents.
* He praised a Klan rally which killed a woman.
* He promised to pay the legal fees of his supporters who beat up people at his rallies.
* He declared the American media the "enemy of the people."
* He encouraged police to rough up people who were under arrest.
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