The Republican Party is the biggest threat to American democracy today. It’s a radical, obstructionist faction that has become hostile to the most basic democratic norms.
How deep does the GOPs problem with democracy run? How did things get so bad? And is it likely to get worse? At every level, from the elite down to rank-and-file voters, the Republican party is permeated with anti-democratic political attitudes & agendas. And the prospects for rescuing the Republican Party, at least in the short term, look grim indeed.

Why would any US senator or member of Congress oppose an independent commission to investigate what led to a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol—one aimed squarely at undermining American democracy & the peaceful transfer of power?
The reasons are as cynical as they are obvious. Republicans lied about the election being stolen. That lie helped motivate a white supremacist mob of Trump supporters to smash their way into the Capitol—some with plans to kill Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi—to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s electoral win.
#TheBigLie

@tatereeves
These recommendations for Mississippi match the guidelines set by the White House Coronavirus Task Force &the CDC. Based on new cases per 100k in the last 7 days (114.4) &positive test rate (7.1%), people in Mississippi are advised to adhere to these recommendations. @tatereeves Yes hospitalizations & cases are down but not plummeted. While vaccinations seem to be going well it would be a big mistake to stop doing the things that are making us better. We will just recede back to worse numbers again which means more deaths, hospitalizations...

March is Women’s History Month, a time when we can educate ourselves on historic moments women fought for &our progress so far along with celebrating women as a whole. What better way to do that than reading books about women by women?

#WomensHistoryMonth
cnn.com/2021/03/01/cnn… The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women by Elena Favilli
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Voter suppression has long been a GOP interest. Ken Cuccinelli has formed a group called the Election Transparency Initiative. Its goal: to make sure election laws aren’t changed to make it easier for people to vote especially people who might vote for Democrats
#VoterSuppression Its initial focus is on defeating H.R.1, the voting rights bill Democrats hope to pass. The legislation they oppose would create automatic voter registration nationwide, expand early voting, & make it easier to vote by mail. It is the exact opposite of what conservatives want.

Former Guy profoundly altered our system of government. Though he was no Washington or Lincoln, Trump, with the help of #GOPComplicitTraitors amended the “informal” Constitution in at least 5 significant ways.

#TrumpIsGuilty
#GOPBetrayedAmerica

apple.news/AkqwAh8-ySBmsd… Amendment 1. No president shall be removed from office for treason, bribery or any crime or misdemeanor should a partisan minority of the Senate choose to protect him. Impeachment was intended to be a check on presidential misbehavior;it’s now more like a partisan permission slip

Facebook’s rules to combat misinformation & hate speech are subject to the whims & political considerations of its CEO &his policy team leader. Mark Zuckerberg personally didn’t like the punishment so he changed the rules & called for a more nuanced policy & enforcement strategy. Zuckerberg’s more nuanced policy set off a cascading effect which delayed the company’s efforts to remove right wing militant organizations such as the Oath Keepers. It is a case study in Facebook’s willingness to change its rules to placate the right & avoid political backlash.

The majority of Republicans rejected democracy.Americans ought to remember the names of these members who objected to the outcome of a free &fair election, the reps. who stuck by Trump in the impeachment vote &the senators who acquitted him after his trial
apple.news/A8-u2DIK-QbKfh… First they hid behind obscure interpretations of the Constitution & false claims of voter fraud. Then, even after a violent mob came for them, they chose a pathological liar & would-be authoritarian over the rule of law. This group was willing to delay democracy & obstruct...

Research shows that Kamala Harris may be the most targeted American politician on the internet, one who checks every box for the haters of the fever swamps: She's a woman, she's a person of color and she holds power.
#WomenInPolitics
#TargetedHarrassment
latimes.com/politics/story… Abuse directed at women is often personalized,attacking them based on their appearance &denigrating their intelligence. President Biden gets his share of smears but they tend to focus on his age; Those directed at Harris tend to reference sex, violence or misogynistic accusations

The US cannot sit idle in the face of such aggression. A STRONG RESPONSE IS LONG OVERDUE.
While Russia appears to be implementing a plan to establish a stronger foothold in Central Asia, the US does not appear to have any coherent strategy in Afghanistan. missoulacurrent.com/opinion/2020/0… We should stop giving gifts to Putin such as the trump’s June announcement to withdraw 9,500 American soldiers from Germany & its efforts to assist Russia in rejoining the G7. Instead, waivers granted to Russians under the existing U.S. sanctions regime should be revoked.

He has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour &no grace, all qualities with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed
takeadeeperbreathblog.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/def… Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

I believe in full equality for women and that means we should be treated as valid targets for criticism. By that standard, how many men throughout history have run hard for office or actively lobbied for a job without being called difficult for doing so?

thedailybeast.com/kamala-harris-… If we want to get anywhere we have to be ambitious enough to want to get there but strategic enough so that a man either doesn’t know we want to get there or doesn’t feel threatened by our desire to go somewhere he may not have the talent or tenacity to go himself.
#WomenWarriors

Fox “News” specializes in fearmongering & unrelenting alarmism, does not observe basic standards of journalistic practice, was a welcoming haven for “birtherism” (the racist lies about Obama’s birthplace)& has unfairly & inaccurately bashed Hillary Clinton
washingtonpost.com/amphtml/lifest… Given First Amendment protections, Fox News can do pretty much what it wants on the air. It can shrug at Hannity’s excesses. It can allow Tucker Carson’s misleading rants on immigrants and crime. It can constantly undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump.

trump is the last person who should be setting standards on matters sexual. He’s on the record as having embraced “you can do anything” to them, reinforced recently during the Kavanaugh hearings. He conceded that Dr. Ford was “credible” but that didn’t...

thedailybeast.com/trump-educatio… ...keep him from shaming her at a rally or believing a “good man” not only be spared punishment but awarded a prestigious job.
For coeds, seeing Dr. Ford turned into the villain is proof that the most perfect complainants can be destroyed by coming forward.

Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference are being dramatically downsized according to 3 current & former DHS officials who fear the department won’t prepare adequately for election threats in 2020.

thedailybeast.com/trumps-dhs-gut… “The clear assessment from the intelligence community is that 2020 is going to be the perfect storm. We know Russia is going to be engaged. Other state actors have seen the success of Russia & realize the value of disinformation operations.

America became a kidnapper in late 2017 & early 2018 when the government began quietly separating families-asylum seekers & migrantswho entered illegally-at our southern border, a test run for a soon-to-be-open policy of taking children from their parents.
chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/h… America broke up families at such a pace that children pulled from the arms of their mothers and fathers were dispersed to refugee sites across the country with no consistent tracking process in place.
This started with former attorney general Jeff Sessions.
#WhereAreTheChildren

Richard Painter chief ethics counsel for George W. Bush &psychologist Leanne Watt argue that using political & psychological insights as well as Occam's razor you can make an evidence-based case against some of the foremost Republican members of Congress.

expo.oregonlive.com/news/g66l-2019… Here are the U.S. reps & senators who Painter & Watt fear are compromised:
Lindsey Graham
The South Carolina senator had a long public track record as a principled, independent conservative & a Trump critic calling him a "kook," "crazy" & a "race-baiting xenophobic bigot."