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May 23 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
" House GOP leadership is playing footsie with a rancid and racist conspiracy theory with a history of inciting mass murder...

Is there a way — any way at all — to make the Republican Party pay a political price for any of it?"
~@ThePlumLineGS

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"Rep. Elise Stefanik, the House Republican chairman who previously endorsed a version of that “great replacement theory,” recently doubled down on it, even after Buffalo. So apparently... the answer to that question is no."

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"The [@ProjectLincoln] ad singles out three major companies — PricewaterhouseCoopers @PwC, Home Depot @HomeDepot and the Altria Group @AltriaNews — and rips them for donating to Stefanik.

Watch it here:"

"Rick Wilson, a senior adviser to @ProjectLincoln , says this campaign will soon target other Republicans who have endorsed great replacement theory — such as Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin — and the broader set of corporate donors who back them."

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"many corporations announced a halt in donations to them [GOP politicians who participated in #Jan6thInsurrection]

But... once the events of #Jan6 receded in public memory, a sizable number of those corporations backslid or violated the original pledge"

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"GOP leaders have gone to extreme lengths to threaten corporations to keep them from speaking out on topics like voting access and LGBT rights, and to get them to refuse cooperation with the congressional investigation into the insurrection attempt."

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May 24
"If the court overturns Roe...

It will also signal the dramatic expansion of religious authority into far-flung corners of American life, as conservative Christians impose their moral ideas on the general public."

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"Part of [Christians'] objection to the legalization of abortion was the way the court simply assumed that the US was a secular, civic republic.

Roe marked the culmination of a 10-year interrogation of the role of religious groups within American society"
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"Through these cases, the court rejected the stance of Christian religious groups...

By the time the court took up the question of abortion, religious conservatives had grown outraged that their moral positions received no consideration."

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May 17
"Elected Republicans haven’t merely inspired far-right extremists. They have become far-right extremists.

A new report shows just how extensively the two groups have intertwined."

#GOPDomesticTerrorists
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"The study, released on Friday by ... a decades-old group that tracks right-wing extremism, found that more than 1 in 5 Republican state legislators in the United States were affiliated with far-right groups."

#GOPDomesticTerrorists
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“The ideas of the far right have moved pretty substantially into the mainstream...

... not only as the BASIS FOR ACTS OF VIOLENCE [emphasis mine] but as the basis for [GOP] public policy.”

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May 16
"And as the scale of what happened comes into sharper focus, the disaster appears to be breaking through the Kremlin’s tightly controlled information bubble."

#Russia
#Ukraine

nytimes.com/2022/05/15/wor…
"Russian battlefield failure is resonating w/ a stable of pro-Russian war bloggers...

“The commentary by these widely read milbloggers may fuel burgeoning doubts in Russia about Russia’s prospects in this war & the competence of Russia’s military leaders”
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"Russian command reportedly sent about 550 troops... to cross the Donets River at Bilohorivka...

Satellite images reveal that Ukrainian artillery destroyed several Russian pontoon bridges and laid waste to a tight concentration of Russian troops and equipment around the river." Image
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May 16
Democracy is at stake in the midterms. The media must convey that.

We journalists have to try harder and find new ways to convey to voters how badly things could turn out

Good article about journalistic responsibility by @Sulliview

washingtonpost.com/media/2022/05/…
"thanks to a paranoid, delusional and potentially violent new strain in our nation’s politics, Americans may not be able to count on future elections being conducted fairly — or the results of fair elections being accepted."

#DemocracyInDanger
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"most of the Republican Party publicly touts the LIE that Donald Trump won the 2020 election but that the vote was rigged and victory stolen from him.

The Republican elected officials who won’t back Trump are being driven out of office by his faithful."

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Apr 1
What Trump Is Hiding

Seven hours and 37 minutes of missing phone records on January 6 suggest consciousness of guilt.
~@davidfrum

#Jan6
#Jan6thCommitee
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"Journalists often quote his incendiary language from the speech: “Fight like hell”; “We will not take it anymore.” But Trump also laid out a precise plan of action for the crowd:"

#Jan6
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"Trump promised the crowd that if they did as he urged—if they marched on Congress, if they showed strength—they could force a change of the election result."

#Jan6
#Jan6thCommitee
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Apr 1
Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls

The House select committee is investigating whether it has the full record and whether Trump communicated that day through backchannels, phones of aides or personal disposable phones

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"Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the US Capitol... show a gap in Trump’s phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes, including the period when the building was being violently assaulted"

#Jan6th
#Jan6thCommitee
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"The seven-hour gap also stands in stark contrast to the extensive public reporting about phone conversations he [Trump] had with allies during the attack..."

#Jan6
#Jan6th
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