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Mar 23 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Answer to the the question posed of @SenTedCruz @SenMikeLee @RandPaul @SenRonJohnson @MarcoRubio @SenTomCotton @SenShelby @SteveDaines @SenJohnKennedy @SenJohnThune and @JerryMoran 5 years ago:

"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"
(Profiles in Treason) 1/x
8 of these prostrate, propaganda-spewing parrots spent July 4, 2018 in Moscow on a PR junket Russia arranged to distract from their poisoning of people in the UK and the Senate report that Putin interfered in our election to install Trump.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight…
Rand ("My Drapes Look Like Transplanted Carpet") Paul was famously labeled by Senator John McCain as now working "for Vladimir Putin."
Paul carried secret messages between Trump and Putin to avoid the Presidential Records Act. 3/x
Tom Cotton (GOP-AL-KKK) was unknowingly recruited by the GRU into their scheme to divide NATO and make the U.S. look ridiculous when they faked a letter to him from a "Foreign Minister" inviting the U.S. to "buy Greenland." 4/x
highnorthnews.com/en/fake-minist…
Ted (Khrushchev) Cruz notoriously attacked our military as "emasculated" and retweeted Russian propaganda about how theirs was better: 5/x

Coincidentally, in 2016 when Russia funneled $5 million through the NRA to U.S. politicians, Ted (#TedCoup) Cruz was the #1 recipient of the cash in Congress. 6/x
Speaking of Kremlin Cash, Marco Rubio got lots from Russian oligarchs and their close associates, to the point that he's known on Twitter as #marcorubles. Coincidentally, Rubio live tweeted screenshots of Zelensky's location during a Zoom call. 7/x
bostonglobe.com/2022/03/06/nat…
Senator Mike Lee (GOP-UT-GRU) along with only Paul, voted against sanctioning Russia in 2018 and regularly attacks our democracy in favor of authoritarianism. (Although he failed to correctly translate "prosperity" from the Russian talking points.) 8/9
Putin is a corrupt, kleptocratic, murderous, anti-democracy sociopath.

One way to fight him is to never vote for any of his GOP supporters.

Vote.
And vote blue. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

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Mar 25
Perhaps, instead of calling in sick next Monday, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas should call in "completely corrupt."

He failed to recuse himself on the issue of whether communications about insurrection with WH staff were privileged, which covered his own wife's 29 texts.1/2 Image
When the Court ruled against former President Trump, and held that privilege couldn't hide communications with WH staff--like Ginni Thomas's messages--Justice Thomas dissented, making in an 8-1 ruling.

He. Had. An. Interest. In. The. Outcome.

Inexcusable. Corrupt. 2/2 Image
Judicial Canon of Ethics 2: A judge should avoid...the appearance of impropriety in all activities.

Canon 3: A judge should perform the duties of the office fairly, impartially, and diligently. 3/4 Image
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Mar 18
Former law clerk to 2 Supreme Court Justices here.

The NYT ed. board is out of its collective mind this morning. There's no right--anywhere--not to be shamed or shunned because you say vile racist, fascist, repulsive things.

1st Amendment prohibits gov't punishing speech. 1/3 Image
Neither the 1st Amendment--or any other right--prevents private individuals from appropriately recoiling in horror when someone says vile racist things or parrots murderous Russian fascist talking points or spews debunked lies and conspiracy theories about horse de-wormer. 2/x Image
In fact, the First Amendment assumes that the government doesn't need to punish vile speech, because the rest of us will respond to it. We will tell the speaker (1) You are wrong, and (2) there are social consequences to your not just wrong but vile point of view. 3/3
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Mar 8
About the butterfly mines the Russians dropped outside Mariupol to kill and injure fleeing civilians. A thread. 🧵
Once in 1986 in Peshawar, near the border of Afghanistan, when I was an alleged freelance journalist, a guy tossed a (deactivated) butterfly mine at my chest. 1/x
He was one of two rival “Afghan Information Institute directors.” (It was Afghanistan. Of course there were two rival information institution directors. He was the goofy one who flung mines at visiting journalists. I wrote about it here: 2/x yaoutsidethelines.blogspot.com/2017/09/crushi…
I never reached out to grab the butterfly mine, because I’d been warned by no fewer than 3 other people to expect that greeting--journalists in war zones look out for each other, even (or especially) for clueless newbies like I was. 3/x
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Jul 3, 2021
What to do when you say something badly wrong on Twitter. (A short contemporary subtweet thread.)

On Twitter, you may eventually say something thoughtless, wrongheaded, not nuanced, or harmful.

It happens. By definition, you're not aware of your blind spots. 1/x Image
If you say something offensive, you may be criticized for that.

Pause. The criticism is probably correct. Think about it. Then, instead of justifying the self, apologize.

Tweet "I messed up. I'm deleting that tweet, because [reason] and will try to be more thoughtful." 2/x Image
That's different than just midnight secret deletion of the tweet. You're acknowledging your mistake, owning it, trying to correct it, and you're being transparent about having made that mistake. People often cut you slack, especially because it's the right thing to do. 3/x Image
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Feb 16, 2021
A short thread on why Texas has no power:
1. Climate change and the moving polar vortex.
2. Gas, coal, and atomic powerplants offline in the cold.
3. Texas decided to have a grid separate from the rest of the country.
(You know, GOP.) 1/4
First, perhaps because of climate change, the polar vortex, a vast low pressure area that usually stays over the arctic, has split and wandered recently, leading to wandering extremely low temperatures. 2/4
livescience.com/polar-vortex-d…
Second, although some wind turbines have frozen, the main problem in Texas is that their gas, coal, and atomic plants shut down for various reasons in the extreme cold. 3/4
texastribune.org/2021/02/15/rol…
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Jul 8, 2020
It might be the night before "Turn Over the Tax Return" order, and--honestly--I _am_ having trouble falling asleep.

If Donny Dollhands' accountants have to turn over his returns, he is finished. Why? First, massive tax fraud. 1/x
You may recall, after his atty Michael Cohen paid Stormy Daniels $130,000, Trump LLC paid _more_ money to Cohen--grossing him up, so Cohen got $130,000 after paying taxes on the income--and so the LLC could fraudulently claim it as a deductible business expense. (It wasn't) 2/x
That deal came to light before Trump LLC filed its return for the year, so they presumably didn't commit fraud then--but it's clear that's the way they did business. So a close look at the return would show tax fraud--not just federal, but NY state. 3/x
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