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Symone D. Sanders Townsend Profile picture
@SymoneDSanders
Mar 1 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This has been a week! I want to take a moment and speak on the news we all have heard by now.🧵:

Monday Joy Reid had her final show on MSNBC. Joy is a trailblazer, a beloved colleague and someone we will all be following for years to come. She’s someone I’ve personally looked up to and it was an honor to work with her.

With that news also came the announcement of a revamped lineup on MSNBC…
The new MSNBC lineup sees @CapehartJ and @AymanMSNBC take up the mantle of @TheWeekendMSNBC. Capehart will serve as one of the cohosts for the morning and Ayman will serve as one of the cohosts in the evening. Michael, Alicia and I are excited to pass the mug to not only colleagues but our friends. We are so excited for them! 🙌🏾
This means our days with a handover to the brilliant and hilarious @AliVelshi are numbered. Ali will now hold down 3 hours on the weekend Saturday and Sunday. I know Ali will miss our 9:59am shenanigans as much as we will, but I know Jonathan and crew will hold it down.
These changes also mean our dear friend @KatiePhang will no longer host a show, but you will still be able to get her legal analysis all over the network. Katie was one of the first people I met when I came to MSNBC and I am glad she isn’t going anywhere ❤️…
I have loved every minute of sitting at the table with @MichaelSteele and @AliciaMenendez over the past year. When they put us together, no one knew if we were going to work (😅) but look at us now friends!!

I am proud of what our team has built and I am elated we are launching a new show at 7pm in primetime come April! We earned this and we are going to kill it 🙏🏾.
Also coming in April our fellow weekend warrior @jrpsaki will become a 4 day a week primetime resident at 9pm Tuesdays through Fridays!

Jen - I am proud of you and we will all be watching.
These changes also mean Alex Wagner who is currently traveling the country documenting Trump’s first 100 days will serve as an MSNBC correspondent. Alex is the queen of context and breaking things down. We need her insight now more than ever before. 🙏🏾
I’m sure you all have thoughts (I’ve read many of them over the past few days 😬).

I know these are precarious times that require truth tellers who are committed to honest dialogue. Frankly, everyday seems like a dumpster fire and our democracy is very wobbly right now. But to quote an old boss of mine: “we’ve been here before and we know what to do.”

For me and my colleagues, we are going to continue to do our jobs. Without fear or favor and (especially for me) unapologetically ✊🏾

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Feb 20
🧵 Hi everyone. This is not business as usual. So the elected Democrats in Congress cannot “negotiate” like it is. Trauma (again I’m going to keep using Russell Vought’s word) is being inflicted on the federal workforce daily. Chaos is setting in for lots of folks…
Programs and people who rely on funding from the government to function. Students who need the programs the government help funds etc. In no way should Democrats believe they can negotiate their way out of this “in good faith.” With people who have shown ZERO GOOD FAITH.
Ive been watching and talking to Dems. It would be comical if so many lives and livelihoods weren’t on the line. So what should they do? DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY VOTES. why? Dems are negotiating with Johnson meanwhile they need to be negotiating with Trump and Russell Vought.
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Jan 31
Let me tell you a story:

In 2015 I was working on a Presidential campaign and one night some of the staff go to dinner. While there, the person heading up our campaign research (let’s call him Research Guy) looked at me and said he wanted to give me some advice.

He said I will need to get some additional experience before I am able to make this much money again. 🧵
Research Guy suggested I try some state legislative races or a governors race because there are things I will learn there that will be necessary if I want to get hired on another presidential campaign. Taken aback , I asked what made him think I didn’t have experience?

(I worked on nearly 25 different races including a gubernatorial before 2015)…
You know what Research Guy said? In front of a handful of our colleagues at dinner he told me I only had my job because I was Black and if our candidate hadn’t had issues with Black people I wouldn’t have gotten the job.

The was the first time someone had ever so clearly said “it” to my face…
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Dec 2, 2024
Umm did folks forget that while Joe Biden was POTUS the BIDEN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT prosecuted his son? Let’s be serious people. lol. Joe Biden isn’t undermining the rule of law.

I personally thought it was a mistake for the President months ago to say he wouldn’t pardon his son. He should have said “idk” when asked if he would. Why? Because that was the truth! 🧵
Perhaps we have all forgotten: The republicans in the 118th congress opened an impeachment inquiry into the President that was BASELESS. Only 5 presidents have faced impeachment inquiries. Biden’s was the 6th. This inquiry was so baseless one of the only public hearings had witnesses who said there wasn’t any evidence of wrongdoing 😅 it’s not a game - yet Republicans on Capitol Hill have treated it as such.
So you’re telling me knowing all that Joe Biden is just supposed to sit back and let the President-elect’s administration make good on their promises to go after his son? With this congress? Why? President Biden has played by every rule and he still was too problematic for some “democratic insiders.” So again good for him! Sorry for the comms shop today, but good for the President.
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Sep 17, 2024
I will not be lectured by anyone who made light of the assassination attempt of Paul Pelosi or who has called those convicted of crimes for their participation in the events of January 6th a victim about taking the temperature down.
I will certainly not be taking advice about how to bring the temperature down from anyone who has spread racist conspiracy theories about Haitian people in America. Nope.
I am uninterested in think pieces or editorials that explore if saying Trump is a threat to democracy (which he is) contributes to the violence (it doesn’t). Do you need the definition of democracy?
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Jul 15, 2024
I know it’s easy to believe the analysis of our current times is full of hyperbole and unnecessarily dramatic musings, but it’s not. Mere weeks after Justice Clarence Thomas needlessly suggests Jack Smith’s appointment is unconstitutional in a concurring opinion, Judge Cannon uses that opinion to underscore her decision to dismiss the case before her in Florida.

Justice Thomas’ opinion was not a mere coincidence - and that is not my opinion. It is the only logical conclusion to draw.
Far too many people do not understand the “norms” are no longer the standard for those that wish to consolidate power within the executive branch for only a particular kind of executive.
The conservatives are changing the rules of the game and installing new players meanwhile good faith folks are still talking about regular process, order and protocol.

Yes regular order matters, but it might be time to acknowledge what we can all see: this is not business as usual.
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May 9, 2024
It’s so crazy b/c we all saw the United States lead the charge in rallying around Israel just a few weeks ago against Iran and the drone strikes. Now PM Netanyahu wants us to believe the U.S. has left his country high and dry b/c President Biden said out loud what he and other Admin officials have told Netanyahu for sometime now. /1
Netanyahu has sought to preserve his own standing among his right wing coalition in Israel at the expense of his relationship with the Biden Administration. At every turn, he has given the White House the proverbial finger by rebuffing U.S. counsel publicly. Meanwhile, Biden has stuck by his side. /2
Now, the Biden administration is telling Netanyahu that a large scale operation in Gaza is a bridge too far + they won’t be complicit. And instead of heading the warning. Netanyahu is again thumbing his nose at the President.

Meanwhile Israelis are in the streets of Tel Aviv demanding their PM accept the deal and prioritize the hostages. /3
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