Sarah Burris: Rudy Giuliani said he carried three different phones at once; I'm thinking he had a series of burner phones since he switched phones so much.
Rick: The FBI found 18 electronic devices when they raided his house. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: If you're gonna crime, you'd better crime smart. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: The Capitol Police released a letter that basically took these Republicans to task for saying the insurrectionists were peaceful tourists. The Capitol Police basically said, "How dare you?" If that had more breathing room, I wonder if it'll sway Repubs @SarahBurris
Rick: This is a failure of the Democrats to act immediately. They should have acted while emotions were still high, when the politicians were still scared.
Sarah Burris: I completely agree--this would have passed immediately. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: Already, McCarthy's thrown the guy from NY under the bus. What did he expect? I knew McCarthy was never going to support this & would drag it out as long as possible.
Rick: Yes, because he'd have to testify! @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: It seems like McCarthy knew something & that's why he's trying to stop this commission from happening. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: The Capitol Police get a lot of leeway to do what they want with protestors. Metro Police, not so much b/c they've been sued so many times. The insurrectionists had metal poles, bear spray, etc. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah: Why didn't the police shoot insurrectionists? So much talk abt breaching Capitol, stopping vote
Rick: I think they knew they'd be outgunned. I can't believe the Capitol Police leadership wasn't reading social media because I was. People said what was coming. @SarahBurris
Rick: It's the moneyed people I'm most concerned with, incl the people who organized buses & flights to get people to Capitol.
Sarah Burris: They didn't plan on it being this big thing--it was supposed to be a small rally. Then Trump took it over. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: I was so offended hearing the QAnon Shaman's atty's comments. Those people knew the difference between right & wrong. They knew this was a crime. You can't blow through a federal bldg that's closed for security purposes.
Rick: Trump said to! @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: I don't know that "He told me to" is a valid defense. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Rick: Melania had a $63,000 spa weekend. Clinton had a $400 haircut.
Sarah Burris: She was in a bad mood after finding out abt Stormy Daniels, & it ended up costing taxpayers $65,000--and that didn't incl the spa treatments! It was for Secret Service & Air Force 2 @SarahBurris
Sarah Burris: Securing Trump Tower when Melania stayed there in beginning of Trump's term was one of the biggest expenses during the Trump admin--$38 million to secure top three penthouse floors of Trump Tower. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: You can learn more by watching Mafia movies what you should do w/ those phones. You have the East River. No one's going in there--take the sim card, break it in half, & throw it in the river. I've learned how to crime better by watching movies @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: Cohen had to get in there & do some dirty work, so he knows things about Trump. Every single thing he's responsible for, he passes on to someone else. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Rick: My grandfather always said not to write anything down. If you're doing wrong, make sure you're the only one who knows about it, then you have a 50% chance of not being turned in.
Sarah Burris: I don't do crimes in the first place. @SarahBurris@RawStory
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Bob Ney: When they first came out with electric cars, they had to work out bugs, but I've driven some of my friends' electric cars, and they're pretty cool.
Rick: The new Ford Lightening will be made in the U.S. Looks like a great truck. @bobney
Rick: The Secretary of State said the U.S. was no longer interested in buying Greenland.
Bob Ney: Oh, I'd forgotten about that! Trump wanted another state so he was going to buy Greenland. @bobney
Bob Ney: To try to make the commission bill the litmus test is the most ridiculous, ludicrous thing. @bobney
Renato Mariotti: I think "grift disguised as an audit" is a good way to describe what's going on in AZ. If we could give truth serum to Republicans, I'm sure many of them would agree. Bamboo in the ballots shows they're from China? So racist & ignorant. @renato_mariotti
Renato Mariotti: It's a conclusion in search of evidence. They want to find evidence that the election was stolen, but Arizona wasn't even one of the determining states. While it's horrible for our nation, it's good the Repubs are divided. @renato_mariotti
Renato Mariotti: It's good Repubs are at the level of deciding if landing on the moon really happened, because when they get serious, they focus on suppressing voting rights, for ex. @renato_mariotti
David Carroll: The Postal Service is not necessarily digging through everyone's mail but they are analyzing our social media. @profcarroll@parsonsdesign
David Carroll: been recently discovered, esp. w/ all the shenanigans at the Postal Service, that their law enforcement arm is using Clearview AI to find people in social media very easily.
Rick: Okay, but WHY is the Postal Service using this?! @profcarroll@parsonsdesign
David Carroll: This erases a boundary between social media & law enforcement that needs to be there.
Police depts also use Clearview AI; that software can be used to find child predators, for ex. @profcarroll@parsonsdesign
Bob Ney: One thing you have to say about that lawyer [Albert Watkins, defending one of the 1/6 insurrectionists], he managed to offend three different groups in one statement. @bobney
Bob Ney: You can argue whether you need the commission or not. I think they could have set it up differently internally. It's bizarre to use the vote for the commission to determine if the people on 1/6 were tourists or insurrectionists. @bobney
Bob Ney: Steny Hoyer & I had put together a group to investigate what went wrong with ricin, anthrax, and 9/11. We wanted total transparency. @bobney
Max Berger: People within the Labor movement were a little skeptical of a more social Labor movement, & people thought it was nuts to go for $15/hr min wage. Now $15 is the floor & it's the standard demand for Democrats. @maxberger@MorePerfectUS
Max Berger: Ordinances have been passed in cities & states but it's still early days in this movement for $15/hr. @maxberger@MorePerfectUS
Justin Hendrix: There was legitimate bipartisan effort to implement the changes that McCarthy & others asked for to determine how the investigation would go. @justinhendrix
Justin Hendrix: There's a real chance this will go to the Senate, and the Senate Republicans will put a stop to it. We'll see--others have withheld their judgement so far. It would be hypocritical for Repubs to filibuster this & would be another stain on McConnell @justinhendrix
Justin Hendrix: This is an incredibly emotional & dramatic vote: will they go with Trump, continue to obfuscate, continue the big lies? @justinhendrix