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Jan 29 12 tweets 7 min read
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.
Rick: Repubs don't want the Biden admin to do well with cyber warfare.
Max: The Repubs used to make it a priority till Trump, who had numerous deals w/ shady regimes.
@themaxburns
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.
@themaxburns @thedailybeast
Max Burns: In Russia, you see the Putin gov't say how can the US gov't lecture us on stable democracies--their people stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
@themaxburns @thedailybeast
Max Burns: There's a $50 billion investment to build domestic semiconductors. We've seen prices on everything that has semiconductors, incl cars, computers, & even toasters, b/c we depend on China for those semiconductors.
@themaxburns @thedailybeast
Max Burns: It's a nat'l security concern as we can't even build our own war items w/o semiconductors.
@themaxburns @thedailybeast
Max Burns: This is the end result of globalization. We want the cheapest goods possible with no regard for slave labor, fair labor practices, etc.
@themaxburns @thedailybeast
Max Burns: The decline of unions has led to the really weak position we're in.
@themaxburns @thedailybeast #1u #UnionYes
Max Burns: There's a broad & belated push to look at energy as a national security issue. Do you want your military to have the fuel, vehicles, & capacity to respond in an emergency without worrying about the supply chain?
@themaxburns @thedailybeast
Max Burns: Our enemies have been thinking about this much more than we have, and for decades.
@themaxburns @thedailybeast
Max Burns: There are 100,000 Russian troops on the border with Ukraine. The Repubs won't let the US take any action.
Rick: I fully believe Putin wants to get the whole gang back together again. If Ukraine falls, the others will prob fall, too.
@themaxburns @thedailybeast
Max Burns: This is a result of a Repub party that used to be a very foreign policy-focused Repub party before Trump drained the place of career diplomats.
@themaxburns @thedailybeast

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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.
@bobney
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 $$?
@bobney
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.
@bobney
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Jan 28
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.
@TheJLV @educolormvmt
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
@TheJLV @educolormvmt
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
@TheJLV @educolormvmt
Read 9 tweets
Jan 28
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
Read 10 tweets
Jan 28
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.
@reyna_simone @DNC
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.
@reyna_simone @DNC
Read 14 tweets
Jan 27
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.
@NicholasFerroni
Nicholas Ferroni: Teachers & parents are in this together. Politicians try to make it seem like we want different things. It's frustrating.
@NicholasFerroni
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.
@NicholasFerroni
Read 12 tweets
Jan 27
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
Kirsten Heffron: Our country is ripe for a Labor movement. People are ready for change, for more worker protections, for unions. There's a lot to be done there.
@NoDemLeftBehind @KirstenHeffron #UnionYes #1u #UnionStrong
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.
@NoDemLeftBehind @KirstenHeffron
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