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14 Jun, 7 tweets, 2 min read
How many different ways can Mitch McConnell show Democrats that they should immediately expand the Supreme Court? thehill.com/homenews/senat…
JOE MANCHIN: We mustn’t do anything without 10 Republican Senate votes, for the good of the institution.

MITCH MCCONNELL: Democratic presidents can no longer appoint Supreme Court justices.

KRYSTEN SINEMA: Bipartisanship is the only way.

MCCONNELL: The letter D is now illegal.
Adam gets it —>
Everyone has agreed to pretend this part didn’t happen, but in 2016 Republicans — including John McCain! — indicated they’d block the filling of a vacant Supreme Court for *the entire Clinton administration* if she won.
This is true. What's also true is that given this dynamic, Democratic refusal to retaliate *encourages Republicans to behave like this.*

Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are *encouraging* this, by showing Republicans they pay no penalty for it.

Periodic reminder that Republicans have appointed 15 of the last 19 Supreme Court justices despite losing the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 elections.

Two-thirds of Americans weren't born yet the last time the Court had a Dem-appointed majority, more than 50 years ago.
There is a popular vote and it matters because governments derive their legitimacy from the consent of the governed.

This is not complicated.

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10 Jun
Diane Feinstein is a member of a legislative body in which a minority of members representing an even smaller minority of Americans is prevent a majority of members representing an even larger majority of Americans from passing popular legislation.

Diane Feinstein is a member of a legislative body whose work was interrupted by a deadly insurrection in its building, incited by the sitting president in a desperate bid to cling to power voters stripped from him.
Diane Feinstein is a member of a legislative body that unanimously re-authorized the Voting Rights Act, only to see an unelected Supreme Court unleash a wave of voter suppression by gutting it.
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9 Jun
The first woman in the entire history of the country to become Vice President is probably not “one of the least talented politicians in the country.”
nobody's ever gonna confuse me for Khive but if you think the first woman, first Asian American, and first black Vice President in America's entire 230-year history is a uniquely *untalented* politician, you're probably a very dim white guy who mistakes his privilege for talent.
claims about a politician's "talent" or lack thereof are classic "what does that even mean?" claims, btw. talent takes many forms.
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4 Jun
Rather than asking Manchin/Sinema for the 100th time whether they support dumping the filibuster, maybe reporters should ask them *what they are doing* to win the Republican votes they need in a 60-vote Senate to pass things they say they support.
‘Cause it sure seems like they aren’t doing a damn thing; they’re just A) claiming to support legislation while B) refusing to pass it with only Dem votes but C) waiting for someone else to win over Republicans.
Example: Sinema *says* she supports the For the People Act, though she won’t ditch the filibuster to do it.

OK, @SenatorSinema, what have you done this week to persuade 10 Republican Senators to vote for it? Which of your Republican colleagues have you lobbied? How did that go?
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13 Apr
Hi, @nytimes. Seems like an article that attempts to equate a donor to environmental causes with the Koch brothers and includes a quote from a “watchdog group” explicitly equating them should mention that *the watchdog group is funded by the Kochs.* desmogblog.com/capital-resear…
A key difference between the Kochs and Wyss, Arabella, etc etc, is that the Kochs have spent decades and billions of dollars attacking the concept of truth and funding a movement that seeks to destroy democracy, and Wyss, Arabella, etc etc have, you know … not.
This is some spectacular false equivalence by the @NYTimes. The substance of the Kochs’ actions — their goals, and the damage they do to society in order to achieve them — matters.
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13 Apr
I’ve been thinking a lot about Justice Breyer’s comments about the importance of trust in the Supreme Court, and the thing is: it’s even more important to have a *trustworthy* Court. And we do not. That’s why we must expand the court. Me, in @crookedmedia: crooked.com/articles/supre…
Democrats have won the most votes in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections, and yet two-thirds of Americans were not even born yet the last time the Supreme Court had a majority that was appointed by Democratic presidents.

Nobody can seriously argue this is how things should be
How is a court dominated by America's minority political party for 50 years and counting and that does things like gutting the Voting Rights Act, helping that party impose minority rule, worthy of our trust? It is not. It is a participant in the GOP's assault on democracy.
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6 Apr
LEFT: Headline

RIGHT: Paragraph 21

Keep carrying that water, @nytimes ImageImage
@nytimes If it was me, I probably would have noted that Edward Glaeser is a senior fellow at the right-wing Manhattan Institute, but giving readers that kind of context might make them wonder why this article even exists. Image
Car charging stations are tangible. Water pipes are tangible. Broadband is tangible!

What is the New York Times even talking about? Image
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