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22 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEWS: CNN has terminated its contract with Rick Santorum after his racist comments about Native Americans huffpost.com/entry/rick-san…
CNN quietly ended its contract with Santorum this week, a CNN senior executive tells me.

The decision to cut ties with Santorum came shortly after he went on Chris Cuomo's show, where he attempted to explain his racist remarks.

He blew it. For everyone.
"Leadership wasn’t particularly satisfied with that appearance. None of the anchors wanted to book him,” this CNN senior executive tells me

“So he was essentially benched anyway.” huffpost.com/entry/rick-san…
Current HuffPost splash: See ya, Santorum! huffpost.com/entry/rick-san…

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21 May
On Weds, 175 House Republicans voted against creating a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

Of course they did.

So many of them are complicit in what happened that day and they don't want to talk about it. huffpost.com/entry/republic…
Reasons Republicans have given for not supporting an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection:

*It's duplicative. (It's on the same track as the 9/11 commission.)

*It's partisan. (Pelosi caved on nearly all GOP demands.)

*There was no insurrection. 😑
Imagine you're one of GOP lawmakers who has been pushing the lie that the election was stolen from Trump.

Dems call you out. Eh. "Politics."

But a respected, bipartisan, independent panel of people publicly connects the lies you spread to what fueled the insurrection? Bad news.
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20 May
Today, Native American advocacy groups, their allies and a bunch of Hollywood celebs are joining forces to pressure CNN to fire Rick Santorum huffpost.com/entry/cnn-rick…
I know CNN is trying to ignore Native groups' calls for firing Rick Santorum over his racist comments, but these groups are just getting louder and picking up more allies in racial justice/civil rights circles.

Their collective anger at Santorum is now being directed at CNN.
"CNN has continuously shown that they are a willing participant in the erasure of Native peoples -- racism that whitewashes history and is a threat to all communities of color.” -- @CrystalEchoHawk of Illuminative, a group focused increasing the visibility of Indigenous people
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20 May
The Senate Judiciary Committee is about to advance Biden's first batch of judicial nominees.
Five nominees are on track to get voted out of committee today, unless Republicans all object:

Appeals court nominees Ketanji Brown Jackson + Candace Jackson-Akiwumi.

District court nominees Julien Xavier Neals, Zahid N. Quraishi + Regina M. Rodriguez.
Pretty diverse mix of judicial nominees set to move today.

All 5 are people of color. 3 are women. Their professional backgrounds include public defense, prosecution, civil litigation, municipal law and military service. huffpost.com/entry/joe-bide…
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19 May
Dem Rep. Thompson, who put together the Jan. 6 commission bill with GOP Rep. Katko, says GOP leadership was engaged in the bill's development from the start + on board with it.

But Kevin McCarthy "has, at the last moment, raised issues that basically we have gone past," he says.
"There was no issue on his part," Thompson says of GOP Leader McCarthy being supportive behind-the-scenes of the Jan. 6 commission bill until now.

"But I guess that's politics."
"Republican members have told me privately they believe we should do this commission," says Rep. Zoe Lofgren, chair of the House Admin Committee.
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19 May
So the top two Republican leaders in the House and Senate now officially oppose an independent panel investigating what led to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and how to prevent it from ever happening again. huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mc…
I asked Sen. Roy Blunt, chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, about the idea that his party is trying to whitewash the events of Jan. 6 and the real reason GOPers are opposed to the commission is because they spread the same lies that fueled the insurrection....
He basically said don't put me in that group.

"Since I'm working on a report that [Dem] Sen. Klobuchar and [Dem] Sen. Peters will sign off on, I think it'd be pretty hard to say that's what I'm doing."

(He and Klobuchar have been holding committee hearings on this.)
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19 May
Man I loved her growing up. So, so good.

Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently nytimes.com/2021/05/18/art…
"I’m not sorry I did it. It was brilliant." -- Sinead O'Connor on ripping up the Pope pic on SNL.
"The flowers were fake ones she bought on Amazon.com, and her pair of handsome velvet chairs weren’t made for sitting.

“Deliberately, I bought uncomfortable chairs, because I don’t like people staying long." 😂
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