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16 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is such a betrayal of fellow officers, many of whom were injured or pelted with racist vitriol, and some of whom are dead… it’s actually, genuinely shocking.
Was this not a big deal to a fellow officer??
Whewwwww
And the number of police from around the country who were part of that mob should be sobering to everyone. These are the people who are policing Black and brown lives. And you wonder why so many don’t trust police…

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16 Oct
Hi Senator. Can you comment on whether/how your financial ties to the coal industry, including the $500k in dividends you collect annually from the coal brokerage Enersystems and your relationships w/ the oil lobby impact your stance? We’ve also tried booking you on @thereidout…
It also seems, per the available polling, that the people of your state SUPPORT the elements of Biden and the House Democrats’ Build Back Better plan, including the climate crisis provisions. Who are you speaking for in opposing them? filesforprogress.org/memos/build-ba…
More on the proposal which you oppose, and it’s potential impact on your state, which has a very high poverty rate relative to the rest of the country, despite the enormous power you wield in the Senate. wvpolicy.org/the-build-back…
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14 Oct
We are living through a strange, modern-day version of the Dark Ages, where opening one’s body, and the bodies of one’s loved ones and even children up to COVID, while aggressively pushing to spread it to the unwilling, have become a weird right of passage in an American cult.
Trumpism at this stage is nothing short of a religion — devoted to assuaging his rage over losing the 2020 election by finding ever-more elaborate ways to tell him he didn’t really lose; while eagerly taking in the virus he survived (without the top-tier treatments he received…)
This while defending an arcane vision of white Christian male supremacy and impunity in everything from academics & history to policing, entertainment & sports. Most importantly this religion fixates on restoring white Christian supremacy in politics and governance at all costs.
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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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10 Oct
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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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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