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13 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
In 2022, there are 34 Senators to be elected. 14 of those seats are currently held by Democrats, 20 by Republicans. It's a good opportunity to firm up Democratic control of the Senate.

1/4
5 Senators--all Republicans--have announced they're not seeing reelection. Those seats are open, and will not have an incumbent in the race:

Richard Burr- North Carolina
Pat Toomey - Pennsylvania
Rob Portman - Ohio
Richard Shelby - Alabama
Roy Blunt - Missouri

2/4
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio and perhaps Missouri are possible pickups for Democrats.

Wisconsin is another competitive state where Democrats have traditionally done well, and a possible flip (let's get rid of Ron Johnson).

Rubio in Florida should also be vulnerable.

3/4
Democrats are defending in a few competitive states, particularly Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and (according to some analysts) New Hampshire. So watch the polling, and perhaps give some support to Raphael Warnock, Mark Kelly, Catherine Cortez Masto, and Maggie Hassan.

4/4

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12 Nov
There are about five areas for which Twitter has been attacking AG Garland.

1) Hasn't indicted Trump based on Mueller's work.
2) Hasn't indicted Trump for the Stormy Daniels thing.
3) Hasn't enforced the Bannon subpoena.
4) Hasn't brought sedition charges against anyone.

1/18
And finally:

5) He's not telling us what he's doing.

Let's look at all of these areas.

First, be aware, for any major indictment, a grand jury must be empanelled, and all the evidence that has been gathered must be presented to them.

2/18
A grand jury can request more evidence and more testimony in addition to what has already been accumulated. Any indictments come out of their deliberations.

This means that nothing that has come before can be simply picked up and used to put handcuffs on someone tomorrow.

3/18
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12 Nov
Living as I now do in the Colorado mountains--

nearly every night is clear.

I watch the Moon change phase and position among the stars--every night.

The Big Dipper is in a different place in the sky--every night.

Venus and Jupiter and Saturn keep moving.

1/4
Familiar constellations--Orion, Canis Major, Andromeda--rotate around the pole, every night.

Every morning, the Sun rises in a slightly different spot against the mountain peaks. And it sets in a different place in the evening.

2/4
Intellectually, I knew all this, because I love science and I studied astronomy in school. Yeah, I'm a geek, and a little nerdy, and I always have been.

I knew all this. But now, I'm living it.

I couldn't see all this in the city.

3/4
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11 Nov
The dark truth y'all need to know:

Republicans aren't going to stop trying to overthrow America.

After the above sentence, there's no "... unless ..."
They simply aren't going to stop.

Locking up everyone involved--for life--won't stop them. It won't even slow them down.

1/12
Y'all who want "justice" and "accountability" and who WANT IT NOW--you need to know:

That won't stop them.

It won't be deterrent. It won't prevent the next assault.

It will instead enrage them and create a class of martyrs who will further invigorate their cause.

2/12
I'm not saying "Don't do it!" I'm NOT saying that.

We absolutely =must= prosecute all the insurrectionists to the fullest extent of the law.

I'm instead saying, all the rhetoric about them being emboldened by how long it's taking to hold them accountable--is bullshit.

3/12
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11 Nov
Impatience for show trials, calls to fire Garland if he doesn't quickly satisfy our bloodlust, the thirst for shattering announcements--this is unhealthy nostalgia for the chaos and excitement of the defunct Trump Reich, rather than a refreshing return to rational process.

1/7
The desperate panic and cynical insistence that nOtHiNg Is hApPeNiNg! (which none of the critics can possibly know to be true) play into the hands of authoritarians who want you to be exhausted, bitter, frightened and disheartened.

All that rhetoric helps Trumpian fascism.

2/7
Spreading distrust of the Biden Administration and the Department of Justice strengthens Republicans. They want you to suspect Something Is Wrong, even in the midst of an expanding economy and immense legislative victories and no evidence.

Show trials haven't yet happened.

3/7
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10 Nov
Yes, the legislative and justice systems are painfully slow and clumsy. They have to be. If they weren't, the four years of the Trump Reich would have converted America into a dictatorship. They couldn't do it, because the legislative and justice system are slow and clumsy.
Exactly this. ⬇️

If you want "justice" to happen fast, if you want laws enacted quick, join an autocracy, where the Dear Leader can order things to happen.

Democracy =must= be slow, and the result is never certain. Only dictatorships are fast and sure.
The House gave DOJ a criminal referral for Bannon. DOJ has to convene a grand jury to consider charges. That takes a while.

Some imagine things can happen fast, and if they don't, it must be because 1) someone is corrupt, or 2) they don't want to.
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10 Nov
On Congress invoking Inherent Contempt--

1) Congress doesn't have a jail to throw people into.
2) They don't have enough bailiffs to chase people around the country to arrest them.
3) The purpose of DOJ and the courts is to enforce the laws. Let them do their job first.

1/6
I get both the impatience and the desire to go full-on authoritarian in a desire to fight authoritarianism. But it never works to burn down the village in order to save it.

Inherent Contempt must be a final resort. We're not there yet.

As for Bannon--

2/6
The 1/6 Committee most likely already has copies of all the documents they want from Bannon, and Bannon's testimony would be useless. He'd either lie or plead the Fifth anyway. Let the legal system deal with him while the Committee gets on with its work.

3/6
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