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1 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
In case you're wondering when today was "lost," it was in 2016 when Mitch McConnell decided to steal a Supreme Court seat and people let him get away with it.
A: Yes, obviously, "let him get away with it" includes "not supporting HRC in 2016" (along with not punishing every other Republican at the polls).
B: Why do people who only started noticing me when I grew my hair out think I wasn't on team HRC in 2016? You must not know about me
C-Kiss my Omega Ass: I literally endorsed HRC on @Morning_Joe, DURING THE PRIMARY, pretty much on the West Wing Amy Gardner line of "The next Supreme Court justice could overturn Roe and you don't mess around with that."
Anyway, yes, you can always go back and back and find some other inflection point (surprised Bush v. Gore hasn't made more of an appearance today).
But when I say today was lost I mean specifically that Mississippi GOP say they passed this law BECAUSE of Gorsuch and Kav.

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1 Dec
Sotomayor is going hard “will this institution survive the stench that this creates that the constitution and its readings are just political acts?”
Interesting that both Breyer and Sotomayor are going on this idea that Mississippi promoting the fact that Gorsuch and Kavanagh are the reason it can ban abortion is a reason Gorsuch and Kav (and ACB) shouldn’t.
It proceeds from the premise these people have shame.
Every forced birth person: “the science has changed on viability.”
Sotomayor: HOW???
Forced birth lawyer: [spouts pseudoscience]
Sotomayor: That’s pseudoscience
Forced birth lawyer: Uhhh… my objection to viability isn’t about the science, it’s about the constitution.
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22 Nov
Jonathan Chait wrote over 6,000 words complaining that progressives (like me) make things too hard for Biden while Columbusing black moderates and begging Manchin to give them what they want.
And yet he somehow matters to NEVER MENTION voting rights.
But, this is what these people do. They want to marginalize the calls for justice and fairness, paint reform as some progressive hobgoblin, but claim they're tacking towards a (non-existent) center where Black people don't get to vote but are QUIET and happy about it.
The full list of my big, scary, UNCOMPROMISING position are:
* A world where cops CANNOT shoot my Black children and get away with it
* AT LEAST 1965 LEVELS OF VOTING RIGHTS
* NO BEATINGS or other inhumane treatment of immigrants
* AT LEAST 1973 LEVELS OF ABORTION RIGHTS
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20 Nov
I’m not sure what people want Biden to say. We’re on the “not” vigilante justice team.
Besides, Biden has his chance to address this with his pick for AG, he picked Garland, Garland didn’t do bugger all about *the cop* who shot the dude in the back.
That’s the problem.
Meanwhile, half of the people out here gave Harris blowback for being a prosecutor, what the hell do people want now, for her to be MORE prosecutorial and say “screw this double jeopardy, we ride at dawn.”???
Sometimes, the bad guys win. If you’re mad about that, FIX THE SYSTEM.
But to do that folks need to hold the thought in their head for MORE THAN TWO WEEKS.
I could write about fixing the courts a month from now and most people will tell me to go get f***ed w/o Machinema.
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19 Nov
I am now listening to white people Columbus the right of self-defense... as if it's EVER BEEN A QUESTION whether violent white people have the right to shoot people they don't like.
FUCKING HOBBES defends the right of self-defense EVEN WHEN THE STATE TRIES TO KILL YOU
The question was never "do white people have a right to self defense" the question was always "do white people have the right to self defense after they show up with a gun looking to shoot someone."

And, not surprisingly, a bunch of white people are like "sure, why not?"
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18 Nov
If more people in mainstream media or financial media played video games, @Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick would be under so much pressure to resign there'd be a countdown clock on @CNBC.
This man:
* Lied about what he knew about sexual harassment at his company, *to his board*, about things that would result in massive lawsuits against the company.
* Left a voice mail threatening to have his female assistant killed (which he's admitted to)
* Promoted a woman to "co-leader" of Blizzard, only to have her leave *3 months* later citing "tokenism" and unfair pay.
* Made a different woman at the company send out an email defending the company, *that he wrote* and then said the email was in bad taste once it went bad
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16 Nov
The extent to which Democrats have lost the midterms before the midterms have even started, because Democrats did not restore the Voting Rights Act, fix the Census, or do anything about gerrymandering, is underreported somehow.

nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/…
Like, we can "debate" on stupid Twitter about "Shor-ism" or CRT or whatever the hell else floats people's boats for a week. But this battle has largely been fought AND LOST without Democrats ever really taking the field.
What's wild is that people, otherwise serious and knowledgeable people, will be gearing up to have "takes" on how the midterms were a "referendum" on some thing or another.
IT'S A REFERENDUM ON MAP MAKING. And the GOP WON. A WHILE AGO.
The rest is shouting.
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