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Aug 20 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
"The searing takeaway was not [KKK klansman David] Duke himself, but nearly 700,000 Louisianans who, knowing what he stood for, voted for him anyway."

#Racism #USA
#elections
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"On Election Day 2016, nearly 63 million Americans voted for Trump, giving him more than 300 electoral votes and the White House.
The takeaway?
They, too, knew where he stood and voted for him anyway."

#Racism #USA
#elections
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"Four years later, the impeached, scandal-scarred president went before the American people once again.

By then, Trump was known all too well.

In his losing bid for reelection, Trump attracted 74.2 million votes."
[HE STILL LOST.]

#Racism #USA
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"This is not a recital of complaints about Donald Trump.

It’s about people by the millions who know where Trump stands and slavishly side with him anyway."

#USA
#MAGA
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"Concentrate on where the battle belongs, not in debates about noxious Trump and his legions of worshipers, but where political conflicts and engagements get decided — at the ballot box."

#VoteBlue2022
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Jul 29
SCOTUS "agreement to hear Moore v. Harper... isn’t just bad news for efforts to control gerrymandering.

The Court’s right-wing supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers overturn voters’ choice in presidential elections."

#SCOTUSIsCorrupt
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"Trump then tried and failed, lawlessly, to muscle the GOP state legislators into discarding Biden’s victory and appointing Trump electors instead.

The Moore case... could give Republicans legal cover in 2024 to do as Trump demanded in 2020."

#ISLtheory
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"That is a genuinely radical proposition...

The idea that legislatures stand unbound by any limit from their own founding documents is a fringe debating point invented for Republican political advantage."

#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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Jul 29
"The OIG Joseph V. Cuffari did not press the dept leadership at that time to explain why they did not preserve these records...

Cuffari also failed to alert Congress to the potential destruction of government records."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"In a nearly identical scenario to that of the DHS leaders’ texts, the Secret Service alerted Cuffari’s office seven months ago, in December 2021, that the agency had deleted thousands of agents’ and employees’ text messages."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"In the weeks before the attack on the Capitol, Trump had been pressuring both men to help him claim the 2020 election results were rigged and even to seize voting machines in key swing states to try to “re-run” the election."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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Jul 28
"The charging document cited a speech that Kara-Murza... had given weeks earlier...

His remarks accused Russian forces of dropping cluster bombs on residential areas in Ukraine & staging airstrikes on maternity wards, hospitals & schools."

#WarCrimes
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"The atrocities Kara-Murza described have been verified ...

But Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin couldn’t bear the spectacle of a Russian citizen airing these uncomfortable facts — so it locked him up for telling the truth."

#RussianWarCrimesInUkraine
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Kara-Murza "has continued to campaign for human rights & liberal democracy...

Meanwhile, many politicians in the West have abandoned these values, whether by appeasing dictators such as Putin or by eroding democratic principles in their own societies."

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Jul 28
"one lawyer involved in the detailed discussions repeatedly used the word “fake” to refer to the so-called electors, who were intended to provide ... a rationale for derailing the congressional process of certifying the outcome."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/…
“We would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the ‘fake’ votes should be counted”

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"The emails show that participants in the discussions reported details of their activities to Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, and in at least one case to Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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Jul 28
"an update to that study with 2020 data, which shows even worse numbers:

A national [abortion] ban would result in a 24% increase in deaths for all women and a 39% for non-Hispanic Black women."

#AbortionIsHealthcare
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"Moreover, the states that seek to ban abortion are the same that rank among the worst in a slew of health indicators...

In other words, states looking to force women to have birth have the sickest women and worst health outcomes."

#AbortionIsHealthcare
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"Even among women not seeking abortions, the risk of death will increase."

#AbortionIsHealthcare
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
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Jul 27
"The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results"

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses... have asked in recent days about conversations w/ Trump, his lawyers, & others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won"

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 & January 2021; his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers & advisers about fake electors"

#Jan6
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