We’re past the point of being “alarmed,” “disheartened,” or “disappointed.” We are in a battle for democracy against a party that has made it clear for decades that they oppose it and will do everything they can to extinguish it because it’s the only way they can maintain power.
The @FBI and most of our other intelligence agencies are already investigating Jan 6th and are well aware of the complicity of @GOP Congress members. @HouseDemocrats should still conduct their own and force every Republican to testify under oath in front of the entire nation.
Drag every @GOP member who voted against the commission or abstained from the vote in front of the cameras and force them to either explain themselves to the people who elected them under oath, commit perjury (another federal offense) or resign and face charges for sedition.
Show footage of @tedcruz, @HawleyMO, @RepBoebert, @MoBrooks, @RepMTG, @RepAndyBiggsAZ actively inciting the deadly insurrection. Show their top officials in the house (@GOPLeader) and the senate (@LeaderMcConnell) condemning the attack and then voting against investigating it.
The impeachment trials of Trump were vital despite the outcome in the senate because they helped the nation see what the @GOP has become: a party of treasonous fascists and racists who used Trump to pack the courts and stack state legislatures to continue undermining democracy.
We need to stop playing defense and play offense. There is no need for nor value in bipartisanship with a party that embraces and emboldens white supremacy and endorses domestic terrorism and insurrection, even when it jeopardizes their own lives and their leader has left office.
The @GOP had no platform in 2020 other than mass murder, racism, treason, denial of science, & conspiracy theories and they still were able to cheat their way to having veto power over legislation with 50 senators and 2 Democrats who are obviously either bought or compromised.
They are counting on keeping everyone distracted so we don’t see what they’re doing at the state level all across the country to further disenfranchise and suppress votes under the guise of “electoral integrity” and “voter fraud prevention.” We see it and must combat it NOW.

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17 May
Vaccine hesitancy is something that impacts more people than just Trump supporters. If you ever were or remain more open to the idea of injecting bleach into your lungs than the vaccine into your arm, you’re not someone who can be reasoned with. This thread is for everyone else.
Most of us can’t comprehend how anyone could still be hesitant. COVID has killed nearly 600K Americans while the vaccine has killed ZERO. I hear you. But since nearly 1/3 of American adults are in this category, I’m going to try to get through to them anyway.
If we’re going to convince anyone in this group, lumping them all together as hopeless morons is not the answer. Many are not stupid but simply don’t understand the development process; how vaccines work; or are afraid of adverse reactions or long-term side effects.
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Trump is basically saying “who me? Incite violence?” while continuing to promote the same lie that incited the insurrection that killed 5 people. Jan. 6th was not a “one time occurrence.”

TRUMP. INCITED. VIOLENCE. CONSTANTLY. EVEN. AS. A. NOMINEE.
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Things that set dangerous outrageous precedents:
—Allowing a POTUS to commit endless crimes for 4 years
—Voting to keep him in office after he tried to extort Ukraine to interfere in our election
—Not holding ANY @GOP member of Congress accountable for their role in Jan 6th
—Voting to overturn the results of a free and fair election
—Endorsing Trump’s big lie that the election was “stolen” and Biden is not the legitimate President (Biden is, Trump never was)
—Voting to acquit him after he called on his cultists to storm the Capitol, killing 5 people
—Enabling a President to ignore science, downplay the risks of a pandemic, call it “a hoax,” and do nothing for 75 days leading to over HALF A MILLION American deaths
—Allowing GOP governors to ignore or repeal mask mandates
—Encouraging people not to get vaccinated
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1 May
“Qualified immunity” is what has enabled police officers to virtually never be held accountable or face consequences for breaking the very laws that their job is to enforce and has allowed thousands of them to literally get away with murder.

GET. RID. OF. QUALIFIED. IMMUNITY.
The entire concept of qualified immunity makes no sense unless the goal is to give the people in charge of enforcing the laws a license to break them. Its origins are of course rooted in racism and were to enable police—who were initially slave patrols—to do just that. Abolish it
If anything, members of law enforcement should be held to HIGHER standards when it comes to following the laws. Qualified immunity is built in to police union contracts; and serves to disincentivize them from doing that because they know they will almost never face consequences.
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12 Apr
I’ve never understood the appeal of guns. People I know have tried to explain it to me and I still can’t. Like unless you’re a hunter or something, why do you want something that discharges small pieces of metal at speeds that can kill or permanently dismember/injure someone?
They’re like “what if someone breaks into your house?” and I’m like “I wouldn’t want to kill them over a break in, unless they broke in to try and kill me or my fiance. And even THEN, I’d want them subdued so they could be prosecuted and face consequences that are non-lethal.
I feel like it’s a compensation thing. Guns make insecure men feel more secure the same way a giant truck, expensive sports car, or a sock stuffed in their pants would. They sell the illusion of security when in reality they’re more likely to kill themselves or a family member.
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Let’s start with the ones who actually faced SOME degree of accountability for their illicit behavior and work up to those who still somehow occupy seats in the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, the Supreme Court, or the halls of Mar-a-Lago instead of a prison cell.
1.) Pat Meehan resigned on April 27, 2018, after months of misconduct allegations. Meehan used taxpayer money to pay off a former aide who accused him of sexual harassment. She claimed he tried to start a romantic relationship with her and became hostile when she rejected him.
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