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15 Feb, 7 tweets, 2 min read
I am extremely pleased that @SpeakerPelosi is moving forward with a 9/11-type commission to look into the January 6th insurrection. I hope it's headed by someone with integrity like @russfeingold.
That commission must look at all individuals involved including criminally complicit members of congress. It must also look at all laws, rules, policies, procedures, and practices that enabled and propelled the sedition and insurrection to reality.
Like turning a ship in the harbor, nothing about government happens fast. While sometimes I hate that notion and it drives me crazy. And, everyone in the nation may be in need of quick answers. Nonetheless, government is built that way for a reason.
But it's far more important that the deep investigation be done right. A lot has been asked if us over the past 5 years when it comes to the atrocities of Trump, but we may have to be patient awhile longer for real justice.
Speaking of justice, outside of January 6th, there is an entire universe of crime and criminality of Trump, Barr, numerous ex White House staffers and republicans in Congress that has never been addressed.
I am still hopeful that Joe Biden will empower a separate commission to investigate and adjudicate all of those crimes against America, too.
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16 Feb
Okay, maybe I am being a little hard on Matt K. Lewis after seeing his appearance on @11thHour. But I believe with everything within me that he deserves it. After all, the people who invaded the Capitol would be just as happy to see me dead as they'd be content to not know...
...I ever existed. A violent, racist, seditious mob invaded the Capitol. Yet some conservatives think it's "looking down" on those people to talk about spiritual problems in America or say anything along the lines of them needing to be reprogramed, or make them feel insulted.
Let's be clear, the people who invaded the Capitol aren't interested in negotiation, compromise, or conciliation. They don't want blacks to vote. They don't want women in positions of leadership. They do want babies in cages. They claimed blue lives matter, then attacked police.
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15 Feb
Having spent 12 years plus kindergarten in the Philly school system, I'm a witness to the facts that the majority of the schools ha NO VENTILATION SYSTEMS. Most of the schools were built sometime between the death of Queen Victoria and the beginning of WWI.
The state GOP has historically starved the districts of desperately needed funds for decades. Now the same state and national republicans are squawking about reopening schools. And it all goes directly back to the entire reason behind Brown v. Board of Education in The 1950s.
With Philly being the largest district and largest predominantly black district in the state, the politics and policies have been crystal clear. The denial of funds has been race based. Call it what it is.
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14 Feb
It's kind of bizarre, and silly, to watch government officials freak out in Texas over the approaching "unprecedented" cold weather. I was in Dallas, in mid February, about 10 years ago, when another unprecedented storm hit and left a little snow and ice behind.
They were terrified about it then, too, especially since it was NBA All-Star weekend, and they were worried about losing business. But because it is winter, that kind of thing might be expected even in normal times.
However, the radical changes, extremes and severity in weather are becoming more, not less frequent, and for that they should be preparing, too. It's not like they don't see it.
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14 Feb
RECALIBRATION AND PERSECTIVE:

I needed a few hours away from it all to regain some perspective and readjust my thinking. I have been so close to the proceedings this week that I felt the need to completely disconnect once it ended.

Nonetheless, I still have to be honest.
I am as completely unsurprised as I am extremely disgusted that there was no conviction today. I'm positive many of us are. But as @repdonnaedwards said, the democrats had no responsibility to convict Trump all by ourselves. The democrats didn't fail. The republicans did.
That does not change the reality of our situation. America and American democracy is in a far more precarious position tonight than it has ever been because of the fear and cowardice of republicans. Republican failure places us in jeopardy from now on.
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12 Feb
REFLECTION AND PERSPECTIVE:

Republicans do not want to rule. They don't know how, nor do they have any interest in it. They desire to be ruled, to be ordered, and to obey.
They insist on subservience in the service to their superiors, and the subjugation of all others whom they consider inferior due to race, ethnicity, nationality and gender. Every statement, position, action and choice they've made makes that crystal clear.
It's been said that republicans fear democracy because they fear mob rule. So it's ironic that the only mobs apparent and the only ones for them to fear are racist, violent mobs of their own republicans acting under the fake guise of smaller government, populism and antistatism.
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If journalism and the press are "the first draft of history," as many reporters and media like to say, then many more of them and their organizations need to have the temerity, intellectual honesty, and integrity to call out what happened in Washington, DC and simultaneously...
...in other places across the country on January 6, 2021, exactly what it was, coordinated domestic terrorist attack, insurrection, and rebellion. There is a constitutional break down in progress, and in some ways it seems that journalism is part of the constitutional crisis.
With all of the reportation around the Black Lives Matters marches and the violence and vandalism that was attempted to be seeded, the news media had absolutely no hesitation in reporting out the incidences while leaving plenty of space for doubt...
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