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Jan 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Nearly all of the 147 Republican lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election + spread the lie that fueled the Jan. 6 Capitol attack spent MLK Day hailing MLK's legacy of peace, justice and sacrifice for the greater good. 🇺🇸huffpost.com/entry/republic…
Several hailed Martin Luther King’s efforts to make America “a more perfect union.” They posted picture of King and his shared quotes.

None mentioned that just over a year ago, they all voted to reject a democratically elected president + spread a deadly lie to justify doing so.
None of these dozens of Republican lawmakers mentioned that they all oppose current voting rights legislation, either.

#MLKDay
The hypocrisy was not lost on @SenatorWarnock.

“You cannot remember Martin Luther King Jr. and dismember his legacy at the same time," he told reporters today. huffpost.com/entry/republic…

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Jan 19
Morning!

Remember how 147 Republicans tried to reject a democratically elected president right after an insurrection at the Capitol?

Nearly all spent MLK Day associating themselves with MLK's legacy of peace, justice + sacrifice for the greater good. 🇺🇸
huffpost.com/entry/republic…
A little sampling of the messages of "unity" and "justice" that Republican lawmakers advocated on MLK Day to honor Martin Luther King -- despite the fact that they *all* oppose voting rights legislation + dozens voted to overturn the presidential election based on a lie:
"I believe that unarmed truth & unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

-Sen. John Kennedy*, quoting MLK

*He's blocking voting rights bills + tried to overturn the presidential election
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Jan 15
Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM), has died.

Bellecourt was the group's last living original founder. npr.org/2022/01/12/107…
The American Indian Movement (AIM), founded in 1968, is a grassroots group of activists who were initially focused on drawing attention to federal treaty rights violations, discrimination and police brutality targeting Native Americans.
Naturally, the FBI ran a covert campaign in the late 1960s-70s aimed at suppressing the activities of AIM.

Much like the Black Panthers, AIM was subversive and challenged the shitty status quo for people of color. That made it ripe for infiltration by the FBI.
Read 9 tweets
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Jan 13
It didn't get much attention yesterday, but Senate Democrats -- for the first time -- made a decision to move forward with one of Biden's U.S. appeals court nominees over the objections of that nominee's home-state GOP senators.

Payback time. huffpost.com/entry/dick-dur…
It was a longstanding tradition in the Senate Judiciary Committee: If a judicial nominee's home-state senators didn't turn in "blue slips" signaling they were ready to proceed, that nominee didn't move.

It was a bipartisan courtesy.
But Republicans ignored that committee tradition for appeals court nominees when Trump was president and when the GOP controlled the Senate.

18 times, to be exact.
Read 10 tweets
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Jan 12
GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn goes after one of Biden's Black judicial nominees for having "a rap sheet" of citations, which was actually just three speeding tickets from 10+ years ago.

One was for going 5 miles over the speed limit. huffpost.com/entry/marsha-b…
A rap sheet = a criminal record.

Andre Mathis, Biden's nominee to a lifetime seat on a U.S. appeals court, does not have a criminal record.

He once got a ticket for going 5 miles over the speed limit, though. Why, I wonder?
Blackburn: "If Mr. Mathis thought he was above the law before, imagine how he’ll conduct himself if he’s confirmed as a federal judge.”

Also remember that time Blackburn got outta the car and flashed her congressional pin to a cop after being pulled over? huffpost.com/entry/marsha-b…
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Jan 12
Dick Durbin opens this morning's Judiciary Committee hearing by saying he's moving forward with an appeals court nominee from Tennessee without a blue slip from his state's two GOP senators.

"Republicans chose to abandon this senatorial courtesy."
After some back and forth with Dem and GOP senators, Durbin says the next few years will be Dems "trying to balance the books" with blue slip rules, but perhaps they can agree to a standard for after 2024 that everyone is happy with.
Marsha Blackburn says one of her concerns with this TN appeals court nominee, Andre Mathis, is his "rap sheet" including 3 speeding tickets 10+ years ago.

One was for 5mph over the speed limit.

Durbin: "If speeding tickets are a rap sheet, I've got one too."
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Jan 10
Local Alaska interviewer: We're doing ranked choice voting now. It's very different. People might get confused by the ballot. What's your campaign strategy gonna be?

Lisa Murkowski, who won Senate reelection in 2010 via a fuckin write-in campaign: Hold my beer.
"This is going to look a little bit different," Murkowski says of ranked choice voting ballots. "Just looking different shouldn't intimidate anybody."

"Our effort needs to be to make it more familiar to people, to be there to answer the questions they have."
Murkowski talks a bit about her 2010 write-in campaign, which remains one of the most incredible political comebacks I've ever seen.

The two-step strategy was to get people to 1) spell her name right and 2) fill in the oval.

"Our campaign motto was 'fill it in, write it in.'"
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