🚨Let's understand what's happening. Republicans have gamed our democracy to move a radical right-wing agenda. They couldn't do it by winning elections, so installed a Supreme Court to do—or rather undo—everything—civil rights, separation of church & state, regulation by experts.
💯🚨 This Supreme Court could make Eastman's unconstitutional coup a legal reality next year! 4 are already open to the fringe GOP "independent state legislature” theory, which gives UNCHECKED power over federal elections to state legislatures—limiting even state courts to check.
Ukrainians are laying their lives on the line every day to save their democracy. What are we doing to save ours??
We can't be timid or paralyzed by anger. We must ACT to counter the threat
✅VOTE
✅End the Filibuster
✅Codify our Rights
✅Expand SCOTUS to secure rts & democracy
Charmaine Yoest is gaslighting hard on @CNN. She doesn't believe public opinion supports Roe. "They didn't ask the right question."🤨
These "Pro-life" propagandists disregard & distort facts b/c their views are religious beliefs—by definition not open to reason. Why debate them?
@CNN@FWhitfield "Pro-life" spox showing up on @CNN are propagandists who have honed their disinformation & delivery for years. Yoest is among others following the same propaganda playbook. @emilybazelon wrote a great piece on her & the "cheerful war" on abortion in 2012 nytimes.com/2012/11/04/mag…
@CNN@FWhitfield@emilybazelon “Unborn life” is an Orwellian oxymoron. A fetus is NOT a baby. Abortion is NOT "killing babies."
It's all disinformation. The "Pro-life” movement—like other GOP culture wars—is a propaganda campaign using highly emotional language & imagery to distort facts for political gain.
🔥🔥Reading Luttig's statement & I'm so grateful he doesn't tiptoe around the crisis. The conservative judge says #Jan6 was a battle in Trump & GOP's ongoing war on democracy & America. He uses "war" 21x on just p1 ! He says they lied knowingly, to cling to power. #Jan6thHearings
Luttig: A stake was driven through the heart of American democracy on January 6, 2021, & our democracy today is on a knife’s edge.
America was at war on that fateful day, but not against a foreign power. She was at war against herself. We Americans were at war with each other…
Luttig: "January 6 was…a war for America’s democracy, a war irresponsibly instigated and prosecuted by the former president, his political party allies, and his supporters…
only the party that instigated this war over our democracy can bring an end to that war." #Jan6thHearings
💥Federal Grand Jury INDICTS Peter NAVARRO, Former Trump Adviser, on Criminal Contempt Charges
Peter NAVARRO Indictment for Criminal Contempt of Congress was returned y'day—unsealed today—on 2 counts of defaulting on House Subpoena investigating #January6th insurrection/coup. He made specious exec privilege claims, then kept talking to @AriMelber 🤷🏻♀️justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/pet…
Watching President @ZelenskyyUa address @FSIStanford right now. He's talking about a special room in Kyiv used to greet visiting heads of state, now used to honor the heroes who have given their lives to defend #Ukraine's freedom & independence on day 93 of Russia's (8 year) war.
@ZelenskyyUa@FSIStanford Pres Zelensky expressed condolences for Uvalde killing, saying it's hard to understand how 18-year-old boys can kill & commit atrocities against innocent people & children. He said 18yo Russian soldiers have been committing incomprehensible slaughter in #Ukraine for 3 months now.
@ZelenskyyUa@FSIStanford Pres. Zelensky is taking questions from Stanford students, many from #Ukraine, taking the time to answer them deeply & thoughtfully. He is so personable with each student, even joking, telling one student she looks Ukrainian (she's German), and should thank her parents for that.
‼️OMG 14 elementary school students—children— and 1 teacher are dead after a mass shooting by an 19yo gunman in Texas.
Damn you @GovAbbott and every Republican who with the gun lobby have perverted our laws & society into this daily hellscape of massacres, trauma and grief.
@GovAbbott The 18yo (or 19yo) gunman is dead. He drove to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 14 children & 1 teacher with 2 guns. Kids were 2nd, 3rd, 4th graders.
It's an 80% Hispanic school district, with large immigrant community. So could be a Buffalo style hate crime.
@GovAbbott Senator @ChrisMurphyCT: WHAT ARE WE DOING?? Why are you here? I'm begging my Republican colleagues, DO SOMETHING. It will not solve everything. But by doing something, we at least stop sending the quiet message of endorsement of gun massacres.
"Those who conceived this war want only one thing—to remain in power forever, live in…palaces, sail on yachts…, enjoying unlimited power and complete impunity."
Talking about Putin's war as an ideological mission for Soviet or Russian glory makes for a good story. But it's not true. Worse, it feeds Putin's propaganda myths.
Let's stop using Russia's self-serving framing. Putin's war on Ukraine is genocide w/ ONE aim—kleptocratic power.