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Jun 25 • 16 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
A THREAD. This woman was born in 1972. Two years later the President of the United States was compelled to resign from office after revelations about his abuse of power and corruption. His VP resigned b/c of unrelated illegal conduct.
In the year she was born, white supremacists burned the Springfiekd Baptist Church in Greenville, SC, the site of many civil rights meetings and gatherings.
In 1979 when NikkiHaley was 7, the poverty rate in South Carolina was 20%. Yes, 20%! The U.S. poverty rate that year was 11.6%.

irp.wisc.edu/publications/f…
In 1979, the country confronted a crippling energy crisis. Ordinary Americans waited hours on line for gasoline. npr.org/sections/pictu…
Faith, family, and country. How about feminism? The 1970s saw the largest marches, activism and transformation inspired by the Women’s Movement. We were not all just praying & saluting the flag. cnn.com/2015/07/22/liv…
Beginning in the 1970s after the Soweto uprising in 1976, but mostly especially in the 80s, the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S. grew to became a powerful force. Some praying. Mostly marching, demanding disinvestmebt and getting arrested. geneva.usmission.gov/2013/12/17/pre…
And yes, the anti-apartheid movement was alive and kicking in South Carolina with widespread student activism. SC Sen Ernest Hollings was an ally. Sen. Strom Thurmond…. not so much. thestate.com/opinion/opn-co…
In 1979 52 Americans were taken hostage in Iran. The following the Supreme Court issued a blow to affirmative action in the Bakke decision. Both these issues gripped the nation and were a powerful part of political discourse.
Indeed affirmative action was an even more contentious oublic issue and debate in the 70s and 80s than today. facebook.com/HenryLouisGate…
When Nikki Haley was 9, the President of the United States was almost assasinated. politico.com/story/2017/03/…
The year before, John Lennon was assasinated. Those years began to develop a sense that guns were too readily available to mentally ill people.
When Nikki Haley was 13 until she was 15, the nation was gripped by the Iran-Contra scandal. The tentacles reached all the way to the President, and wall to wall congressional hearings brought this crisis into every home. pbs.org/wgbh/americane…
I could go on - the failed SCOTUS nomination of Robert Bork, serial killer Ted Bundy, Summer of Sam, Atlanta child murders, Abscam, and so much more.
This silly bid for nostalgia is transparent and embarassing. Leave it To Beaver wasn’t even on when she was a kid. What was? Welcome Back Kotter. Room 222, One Day at a Time, Police Woman, Kolchak:The Night Stalker. Stop playing. Please. America has always been fraught.
If you missed that it’s because you were privileged. In which case her parents - who knew better - should have told her the real deal.
@Dartemus @DonnaMgraduates Excellent point.

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Jun 21
On Justice Alito’s “response” to the ProPublica piece. Whatever one might say abt its merits, Alito’s piece could work as a decision denying a motion to recuse. That’s why we need full financial disclosure. So that recusal motions/challenges can be made BEFORE THE CASE IS HEARD.
This should be happening in real time in the litigation. Not years later w/a Justice framing it as a fight w/a media outlet.The process of disclosure & recusal should ferret this all out. Why would responsible justices resist this? B/c they don’t want us to know. Not acceptable.
This has to be cleaned up. And the Chief should welcome the opportunity to do it voluntarily. But it has to be done. Glad to see the Senate prepared to act.
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Jun 19
Important read. Besides the depressingly slow pace & early timidity at DOJ in investigating coordination at the top, I’m struck by several issues confirmed here as particularly important for how we go forward:
-First, we should not underestimate how the slow pace of confirmations delays urgently-needed departmental action
-Second, as I and others recognized, the public hearings of the House @January6thCmte were critical to spurring (shaming?) DOJ to speed up investigation at the top;
-Third, the reporting of @maddow on the fake electors scheme also played a role in speeding up DOJ action.
-Fourth, we’ve lost a great deal of time, but it’s clear there’s direction & momentum now. That Trump is a candidate shld underscore the urgency, not justify suspending it.
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Jun 17
Utterly irresponsible and ignorant. Another super wealthy guy uninterested in facts, reading, or accuracy. Genius.
1) Biden did not “arrest” anyone. A soecial counsel appted by the AG made the charges…
2) What are “the crimes” which you claim are the same Trump & Biden. Trump is charged with “willful retention of Natl Defense Info; Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice; Corruptly Concealing Docs; Scheming to Conceal; Making False Statements & Representations.
For a year DOJ sought the return of these docs. Trump is alleged to have lied about them & moved them multiple tomes to avoid detection by federal agents. There is NO evidence that Pres Biden has engaged in similar acts. Your charge is baseless & irresponsible.
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Jun 16
When people ask me why I’ve given up on the #USMNT, this is why.I was a rabid fan through the 90s & early aughts.But at some point the league became captured by a commitment to mediocrity, a jingoistic USA! mentality that ended the remarkable progress we were making in the sport.
Lack of accountability for catastrophic losses, recycling the same mediocre coaches, the lack of speed in our game, xenophobia, pretense that there is an “American style of play” to be preserved, & satisfaction w/mediocre performances. Having Lalas as a commentator & booster.
The rehiring of Berhalter is embarrassing. As was the repeated rehiring of Bob Bradley. Even the reporters (Goff) are “Team USA.” We had a promising, competitive program & we are going in reverse. If you’ve only been watching the last 10 yrs, you don’t know what’s been lost.
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Jun 8
Have to depart with my sister @ProfMMurray on this. When you’re being pushed over the cliff and you are thrown a lifeline, you don’t lament the absence of a fence around the edge. At least not the first day! Seriously, I am frankly stunned to read 5 members of this Court make a…
…clear and unequivocal affirmation that race consciousness is necessarily part of redistricting. And the clear anger from the dissent let’s me know this was hard fought. It’s not Section 5 to be sure. Or even Section 2. But it ain’t nothing, esp when you think of what racial….
…gerrymandering have wrought. Applied to Alabama, Louisiana and South Carolina’s redistricting maps, would return the House to the Dems in 2024. Game changing in a variety of ways.
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May 27
As Musk joins the “targeting” of Target (just asking questions), it’s worth remembering that in the last two months the AG of Maryland & the AG of Illinois each released rpts documenting decades of ACTUAL abuse against thousands of children perpetrated..1/
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by priests & other adult leaders in the Catholic Church - abetted & covered up by the church, police & even judges. Yet those who are most rabid about “grooming” & abuse have made no outcry, asked no “is this true?” questions, proposed no legislation. 2/ cnn.com/2023/04/05/us/…
Instead they choose to focus on Pride displays in Target, which have nothing to do w/grooming or abuse. And this is the right wing today-neither equipped nor interested in solving real problems affecting real live ppl. It’s always fetuses, imaginary caravans, store displays. 3/
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