Despite the lack of weapons recovered from the riot, one of the officers just testified that they were surely hiding arms in their bags; “if there had been a fire fight we surely would have lost”
Rep. @AdamSchiff pretends to cry during 1/6 hearing
Biden: Our multi trillion dollar spending bills “will reduce inflation, reduce inflation, reduce inflation"
Biden: "Those of you who travel abroad, it’s not a joke. Not a joke. Ask — you know, when I went to this G7, all the major democracies. I walked in and go, 'America’s back.' I’m serious, heads of state. I give you my word as a Biden. They said, ‘Are you really back?’"
It’s 3 PM, aka the time of day Biden stumbles through remarks his handlers have carefully prepared and the media pretend they’ve just witnessed Churchill’s “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech
Biden claims Europeans asked him, “Is it going to be OK, the citadel of democracy?”
Should be a bigger issue: Some of my Spanish friends would love traveling to America this summer but cannot due to the #BidenBlockade. Spain and other EU nations opened travel to Americans earlier this summer (no vaccine or Covid tests required!); many expected … 1/
the U.S. to reciprocate, esp as Biden claims he’s restoring relations “w/ our European allies.” Instead his refusal is like a slap in the face, particularly as there’s no science-based justification for keeping the restrictions. Europe out-libertying America is just embarrassing.
Glad to see I'm not the only one complaining about this ...
"Most Un-Texan Thing To Do": @GregAbbott_TX mocks Dems for "running away from a fight," says they fled state bc they can be arrested for refusing work
Abbott also notes they're complaining about a bill that expands voting access far more than states like Delaware currently have
Texas Democratic Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (@TMFtx) on risking arrest in fleeing the state to avoid debating new voting laws: "We are not property. We are elected officials. But this is the risk that we take to stand up for democracy."
Rep. Fischer on chartering a private plane to D.C.: "Everybody wants to see" us; we "need to fly privately"
Anti-white racism is what attracts all of the attention in the CRT debate, but that’s ultimately one of its least radical propositions. The “movement” — as its founders describe it — is better understood as an effort to dismantle Western Civilization
It's embarrassing how some have been duped into defending CRT on free speech grounds when CRT advocates are actively trying to dismantle the foundation upon which free speech owes its existence
@UNC .@nhannahjones, after successfully intimidating UNC into offering her tenure position, declines position:
“To have that vote occur on the last possible day after threat of legal action, after weeks of protest … it’s just not something that I want anymore."
@UNC@nhannahjones Jones claims she never went public with her spat against UNC’s board of trustees: "I didn’t want this to become a public scandal. I didn’t want to drag my university through the pages of newspapers … This did not become public because of anything that I did."