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Jan 28 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
Sarah Burris: I'm going to take Neil Young's side in this because...Neil Young. Wouldn't it be cool if other artists like Beyonce or Taylor Swift did the same thing?
@SarahBurris @RawStory
Sarah Burris: Trump didn't want to wear a mask because he wouldn't look tough in it, but it's hard to look tough when you're dying from COVID, too.
@SarahBurris @RawStory
Sarah Burris: I feel like we fought tooth & nail for a year telling people, "For the love of God, wear a mask. Get vaccinated." At this point, if you don't follow those things, it's your fault. We should have the right to say, "I told you so!"
@SarahBurris @RawStory
Sarah Burris: One thing former cops talk about is community policing. They cover large areas and don't get to know people as well as they used to. People need to have a relationship with their community. It's hard to shoot someone if you know their mom.
@SarahBurris @RawStory
Sarah Burris: Obviously the more people who have difficult lives, the more drastic choices they'll make. If we make abortions illegal, women who can't afford children will be having more children, which creates more problems.
@SarahBurris @RawStory
Sarah Burris: In San Jose, they're going to make gun owners buy gun insurance.
@SarahBurris @RawStory
Sarah Burris: Why hasn't Kyle Rittenhouse's mom been charged with taking her son across state lines with a gun? Why hasn't his buddy been charged with giving him a gun? We should follow that trail back. It's a start & will help some.
@SarahBurris @RawStory
Sarah Burris: Doug Mastriano threatened Fulton County, PA, with a subpoena if they didn't do an election audit. I look forward to seeing all the documents b/c there will be a lot of them.
rawstory.com/doug-mastriano…
@SarahBurris @RawStory
Rick: Mastriano doesn't have a problem abusing power. I think he'll look good in orange.
#RickShow
Sarah Burris: If you're not dedicated to The Big Lie, if you're not in on COVID being the latest conspiracy theory du jour, you're not welcome in the Republican party any more.
@SarahBurris @RawStory

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Jan 29
Rick: There's been Secret Service protection outside John Bolton's house, & black bags were seen being removed from his house.
Bob Ney: I've tried to find out what's going on. I don't know why Sec. Srvc is there since Bolton isn't in WH any more.
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Bob Ney: Remember, the Secret Service is a semi-arm of the Treasury.
Rick: Ohhhhh. Wonder what that could bring us.
Bob: There are other agencies to provide protection. I don't know why it's the Secret Service.
Rick: I could be like Fox: Are those bags of laundered $$?
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Bob Ney: Because it is the Secret Service, it could be Bolton has some kind of intelligence-sensitive material they want to have. Bolton had been an NSA guy. It's not a protection factor--it can't be since he's not WH personnel.
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Jan 29
Max Burns: This is foot-stomping by China. They're looking at Russia & Ukraine & seeing what they can get away with, using money laundering & illicit finance.
@themaxburns @thedailybeast
Max Burns: Using the Magnitsky Act is how you take down China or Russia, not via war but via banks.
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Max: The Repubs used to make it a priority till Trump, who had numerous deals w/ shady regimes.
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Max Burns: I think the America COMPETES Act will pass. We do have a bipartisan vote for this when it comes out of committee to the Senate.
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José Vilson: Those of us who've been activist teachers for a while get the occasional phone call to the central office saying, "Oh, that teacher's saying liberal things on Twitter--you should fire them." I have a union that bargains for my rights.
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José:It isn't even about critical race theory--it's about teaching the truth. If you lean one way or the other after getting the info from your teacher, then okay. But teachers try to give the whole picture of how we got to where we are, esp. in soc. studies
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José Vilson:CRT is taught in law school; a lot of politicians have taken these classes. Our curriculum is Common Core State Standards--that's what we're teaching & we've been pretty clear about it. The scare tactics have more to do w/ politics than education
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Reyna Walters-Morgan: We want to make sure that every voter has the ability to vote in an equal & fair way. One way to do that is to make sure the vote is not diluted & that the maps are fair. We support PA's governor's vetoing Repub voting maps.
@reyna_simone @DNC
Reyna Walters-Morgan: In addition to redistricting, we can get involved in civic engagement to help get people registered to vote & to make sure they get out to vote.
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Reyna Walters-Morgan: This cycle as opposed to other cycles, we've invested heavily in the right to vote. In Apr 2021, the DNC invested $20 in midterms--the earliest we've ever made that announcement. It allowed us to get a head start.
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Nicholas Ferroni: I wish these parents brought this same energy to the board meetings when they saw their kids' teachers working 2 or 3 jobs, or when they see teachers trying to teach 30 kids in a class instead of 15.
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Nicholas Ferroni: Teachers & parents are in this together. Politicians try to make it seem like we want different things. It's frustrating.
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Nicholas: People don't know what critical race theory is, so everything becomes CRT. If I mention Black History Month, it's CRT. Do I teach inclusivity? Yes. Do I teach systemic racism? Yes. CRT is used to politicize something that isn't even used in schools.
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Kirsten Heffron: There has been a perception among Dems that it's all about the turnout, going into neighborhoods to get people out to vote. The Senate, the way it's structured, heavily favors rural areas.
@NoDemLeftBehind @KirstenHeffron
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Kirsten Heffron: We've seen what happened in VA when rural areas are ignored. McAuliffe ignored the rural areas & now we have a Repub governor who's outlawed mask mandates in schools, for ex.
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