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10 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
The American right is banning books, chilling teachers’ free speech and plotting to steal the 2024 election and combine with far right militias and white nationalists to install Donald Trump as a decrepit American autocrat, with violence if necessary. I wish that was hyperbole.
I mean you either believe in democracy or you don’t. They don’t.

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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
10 Oct
Sooo the @wsj @nypost, whatever else Rupert Murdoch owns, the @bostonherald the @EpochTimes, the @reviewjournal (owned by the late and very right wing Sheldon Adelson) and all the papers the hedge funders have bought up don’t really exist?? Huh!
And not for nothing, but I don’t know of a single person on “the left,” or even many Hillary or Obama Democrats, particularly after the Iraq war, “Her Emails” and our finally leaving Afghanistan who views the @nytimes as being “on the left.” cjr.org/special_report…
This notion of a “liberal media” is a meme that people like the late Roger Ailes & Rush Limbaugh skillfully used to convince their white, non-college audiences that the “lamestream media” that reported on desegregation, immigration, civil & womens rights etc was out to get them.
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9 Oct
Southlake, Texas — where white parents go to the mat to prevent their kids learning anti-racism, to the point of book-banning; but are apparently cool with their kids chanting the n-word. #ThisIsAmerica #bookbanners #apartheidtexas nbcnews.com/news/us-news/v…
This is truly dystopian stuff…
“Separate IS equal… Toni Morrison: bad (she wasn’t neutral enough about racism, you see…) and white children must not ever read about mean white people in history… in a country white people have always run and where they had… slaves.”—the American Right (probably)
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8 Oct
The more we learn, the more we need to come to terms with the simple, terrifying fact that a U.S. president — Donald Trump — GENUINELY tried to overturn a free and fair election and become an autocratic squatter president clinging to power. And a BUNCH of Republicans helped him.
If you don’t think this desiccated party; now shorn of nearly EVERYBODY who was willing to stand in the way, including some who stood up last time but who are gone or are now playing ball, won’t try EVERYTHING to steal the 2024 election for Trump… you are fooling yourself.
The Republican Party ITSELF is a clear and present danger to American democracy. Even the innocuous-seeming ones are suspect, in that we have seen that under pressure, they all become good Bolsheviks, to paraphrase @RadioFreeTom. Take this seriously, folks. Wake up, Democrats.
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7 Oct
Our goal tonight was to make it very clear what @LeaderMcConnell and the rest of the @SenateGOP are doing: they are gambling with your Social Security, Medicare, military pay and the economy JUST SO THEY CAN RUN ADS IN 2022
Claiming ONLY DEMOCRATS built up a $30 trillion debt.
They know, just like YOU KNOW, that the two parties TOGETHER, over hell, DECADES, spent that money. But they want to run 2022 campaign attack ads led by ex corporate Medicare Fraud co CEO @SenRickScott’s RSCC PRETENDING that Dems are spending $30 trillion on Build Back Better.
It’s a cynical and dangerous game that they’re not just playing with the economy and your livelihood — they’re also playing with their own fortunes. Mitt Romney, the richest Senator, is worth about $250 million. Mitch at #9 is worth around $34 million. Is that why they blinked?🤷🏾‍♀️
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3 Oct
So to summarize… it’s
President Biden + The Democratic Caucus, progressive to moderate, House and Senate vs Two People. This isn’t “Democrats in disarray.” It’s two people defying their entire party without even presenting a counter-proposal or a cognizable explanation.
Two people…
Two people…
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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
1 Oct
So @SenatorSinema didn’t even feel pressed to stay in DC and “negotiate” with the president and her fellow Dems. Hopefully Arizona press will ask her if she’s back home to meet with constituents or just lobbyists. As always, she’s also welcome to discuss on @thereidout. Any time.
Good piece by @Will_Bunch on what the Sinema train wreck means… inquirer.com/columnists/att…
And for those giving @SenatorSinema a pass for heading home to see the doctor… well… it’s more complicated than that, of course…
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