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Oct 21 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 Rachel Maddow: "I have a question for business people, or for business-minded people, or even just for people who say that business issues and economic issues are their main concern. That's what's driving them as they think about this election." (1/10)
For people who consider their vote to be a business decision, do they mean, "Who will do a better job handling the economy?" Because... (2/10)
Dec 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"At least five attacks at electricity substations in Washington and Oregon, including two at Puget Sound Energy substations, have been reported to the FBI in recent weeks." seattletimes.com/seattle-news/l…
"An individual opened fire near a Duke Energy facility at Wateree Hydro Station in Ridgeway, South Carolina, on Wednesday, CBS News has learned." cbsnews.com/news/shooting-…
Jul 29, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
. @jonstewart decries the way right-wing media insulates Republican viewers to keep Republican politicians from accountability. "There's an information silo."
"Y'know they keep talking about, boy, there's a recruitment problem in the Army because of the pronouns they're using. It's not the pronouns. It's that young people see that this government doesn't live up to its obligations to its fighters. It's as simple as that." @jonstewart
Jul 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: May 25, 2022 Merrick Garland memo to DOJ on "election year sensitivities" doubles down on Barr's policy against investigating candidates without approval.
We've posted the memo here: documentcloud.org/documents/2208…
(With a link on MaddowBlog.com if you lose track of this tweet)
Jun 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Make your Monday plan:
The next January 6th hearing is at 10 a.m. ET on Monday.
MSNBC will have extensive coverage Monday morning and afternoon.
And our prime time panel will also be back from 8-10pm ET.
Reminder:
If you missed last night's hearing and coverage, you can catch up with The Rachel Maddow Show podcast feed.
"We don't know what he's going to do when he finds out the full scope of his military's failures inside Ukraine." @PentagonPresSec on concerns that Vladimir Putin is not being well informed on the situation in Ukraine.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby talks about what the U.S. is seeing in Russian troop movements around Kyiv:"What we don't believe is that he's planning to send them home." @PentagonPresSec
Jan 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"As Trump's team pushed its discredited voter fraud narrative, the National Archives received forged certificates of ascertainment declaring him and then-Vice President Mike Pence the winners of both Michigan and Arizona and their electors... " politico.com/news/2022/01/1…
The forged Michigan electors letter: politico.com/f/?id=0000017e…
Dec 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Dr. Fauci explains that a PCR test can tell you if you're infected but can't tell you whether you're transmissible. "The only way you can tell if it's transmissible is if you can show that there' really is live replication virus in you. And the tests don't measure that."
"We're trying to prevent people from getting sick." Dr. Fauci notes that even though case numbers can be a useful predictor, when illness from the virus is less severe (as appears to be the case with Omicron), hospitalizations becomes a more important metric than infections.
Oct 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on questions about whether someone else was behind Jeffrey Clark, former acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Division, advocating for Trump's Big Lie:
"It's a little hard to imagine that he cooked this up on his own."
@SenWhitehouse
"They would have these contentious conversations with him and then come back wondering who was helping him in these efforts and where are these legal theories coming from?" NYT's Katie Benner on the sense from interview transcripts that Jeff Clark was not acting independently.
Sep 25, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"The reality of it is, Texas is being run from Mar-a-Lago. And that is dangerous. And it's not appropriate." - Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo @LinaHidalgoTX
"The state just passed legislation that creates this veil of criminality around the election. Basically it sets traps so that innocent mistakes that routinely happen and routinely are dealt with ... are pegged as purposeful fraud and prosecuted as such." - Judge Lina Hidalgo
Aug 12, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“...Within the next five to seven to 10 days, I think we’re going to see failure of the hospital system in Mississippi,”
- Dr. Alan Jones, UMMC Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs
"If there was a bus wreck of kids, we would not be able to take care of all of those kids at this hospital. We are in a pretty serious situation."
Jul 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"In the administration's discussions on the issue, some officials at the [DHS] and the State Department have voiced misgivings about evacuating Afghan partners to Guam or other U.S. territory where their visa applications would be reviewed..." nbcnews.com/politics/natio…
"If an Afghan's visa request were denied on U.S. territory, legal experts said, the applicant would have recourse to appeal the decision under American immigration law, possibly opening up a legal process that could take months to resolve."
Jul 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The tax dodge scheme described in today's Weisselberg indictment as benefitting "Trump Organization executives, including but not limited to Weisselberg" is just like the scheme described in NYTimes reporting about payments made to Ivanka Trump.
Here is that New York Times reporting from last fall: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Jun 25, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Despite the hoopla about the bipartisan compromise infrastructure bill reaching an agreed upon framework, it's a bigger deal that all elements of the Democratic side are united on the two-bill plan for moving forward on infrastructure.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal, chair of the House Progressive Caucus, points out that a simultaneous, dual bill solution is what progressives were advocating for for weeks.
Jun 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"We have a culture problem in the Republican Party."
"Rather than solving the problems of their citizenry ... they are using their precious time in state legislature after state legislature to pass voting restriction laws targeting Black, brown, and young voters." @marceelias
"If we can buy time for our democracy and maybe have some shift in the [GOP] that it stops viewing people voting as an existential threat to the party, rather they start to see the participation of all Americans as a goal we should aspire to, then maybe we succeed." @marceelias
May 14, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
That was a really helpful, useful interview Rachel did with @CDCDirector tonight. You can watch the whole thing here: on.msnbc.com/2QkKYcu
But also, for ease of consumption and sharing, we're going to post it in pieces in a thread below.
(text for reference, not verbatim)
Maddow: How sure are you about this new guidance?
CDC Director Dr. Walensky: We're sure.
Jun 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"Today has been one of the worst days by far."
"One of the things that I've really be struggling with in processing is how quickly these patients deteriorate. How they go from walking and talking to being intubated to being pronounced dead within a matter of hours."
Jun 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"The units are full with critically-ill COVID patients," Saliski said. About 90% of them are Black. He said hospitals are able to manage for now, but it's not sustainable. montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/202…
"This mask slows that down, 95% protection from something as easy as cloth. ... If this continues the way it's going, we will be overrun."
May 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"When someone is calling out for help, it is our obligation to help them. Especially if you're an officer that is charged with protecting and serving the public. That didn't happen, and that's a failure." -Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey
Minneapolis Mayor: "We need peace."
May 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Major development in the story we covered in yesterday's A block:
Fox News and Donald Trump promoted hydroxychloroquine despite zero clinical trials and next to no evidence of its effectiveness, but boy, were they insistent.
"A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care" apnews.com/a5077c7227b8eb…
