This Veterans Day, let's recall some of the many ways Trump has denigrated our service members. 🧵 Trump referred to fallen U.S. service members as “losers” and “suckers.” This has been confirmed by multiple sources, including Trump’s former chief of staff, retired Gen. John Kelly.

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The stakes of this election could not be higher.

For the past year, I’ve been making videos highlighting things you should know.

If you’re undecided, or know someone who is undecided, please take a look at these videos. 🧵 Let’s start by looking back at Trump’s first term in the White House.

People seem to have forgotten why he left office with the lowest approval rating of any president ever.

Let me jog your memory about what life was like under Trump.

Trump’s desecration of Arlington Cemetery should come as no surprise. He thinks the heroes buried there are “losers” and “suckers.”

Trump has a long history of denigrating service members, veterans, and their families. 🧵1/19 Just last night, Trump doubled down on saying the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom (which he gave to Rush Limbaugh) is superior to the military Medal of Honor, because the heroes who receive that are likely to have been wounded. 2/19

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Tim Walz is the one who started the "MAGA Republicans are weird" refrain, but let's be clear: What makes them weird isn't that they're awkward, unfunny, and unpleasant (although that's true), it's that they want to impose their weird ideas on everyone else. 🧵 Trying to control when and how Americans can start a family is weird. Trying to restrict abortion, IVF, adoption, and even birth control is weird.

Trying to micromanage where children can go to the bathroom is weird.

It was 12 years ago this month that Joe Biden (whether by design or accident) pushed the nation one big step closer to marriage equality. 🧵1/12 In the early 2000s, most Americans still saw same-sex marriage as radical. Politicians who came out in favor of it (as I did running for MA governor in 2002) did not fare well. 2/12

Trump sure is busy! Yesterday he was in court as his lawyers argued a president can have immunity even for assassinating political rivals.

Tomorrow closing arguments start in his civil fraud trial in NY, where he could face a $370 million penalty.

And then... On Monday Trump faces both the Iowa caucuses and his 2nd trial for allegedly defaming the woman that a jury has already found that he raped.



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Trump ordered a crowd he knew was armed to march on the Capitol & "fight like hell." 7 people died in & after the attack. 114 Capitol Police were injured.

He watched the violence on TV but did nothing to stop it for hours.

That day was just one part of his coup attempt. 🧵1/14 Trump privately admitted he lost & knew his claim that the election was stolen was a lie.

His family, campaign manager, White House lawyers, & his Justice Dept agreed with his hand-picked attorney general that "the claims of fraud were bulls***." 2/14

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Here's why the Colorado ruling that Trump can appear on the ballot despite engaging in an insurrection contains more bad news for Trump than good news.

🧵1/8 On Friday, Denver District Judge Sarah B. Wallace ruled that Trump “acted with the specific intent to disrupt the Electoral College certification of President Biden’s electoral victory through unlawful means; specifically, by using unlawful force and violence.” 2/8

It pains me to say it, but RFK Jr is a dangerous, right-wing nutcase.

While his father was a fierce advocate for racial justice, Junior has gone down a dark, racist rabbit hole to become a proponent of hateful and bigoted conspiracy theories. 🧵 1/10 RFK Jr pushed a racist, antisemitic conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was an “ethnic bioweapon… targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,” but spare “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” 2/10

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The Supreme Court is back in session this week, hearing a handful of incredibly important cases.

But there’s one in particular that’s flown under the radar and could have devastating consequences:

CFPB v. Community Financial Services Association of America 🧵 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was created in the wake of the 2008 crash.

It serves as America's financial watchdog, protecting us from financial hucksters.

The agency has recovered $16 billion in relief for about 190 million Americans who have been defrauded.

Hot Labor Summer is turning into Hotter Labor Fall.

It seems likely that the @UAW will go on strike against the Big Three automakers, starting tonight.

A strike against all three companies at once has never happened before. Here’s what you should know.

🧵1/10 Why are United Auto Workers likely to strike?

Like so many other workers organizing across the country, auto workers want a bigger piece of the economic pie they are generating for their employers.

They have good reason to want more.

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On Truth Social, Trump pledged to "never forget" 9/11.

He's probably hoping you'll forget the lies he's told about 9/11 and the ways he's tried to capitalize off of the horror of that day.

Here's what is true about Trump and 9/11 🧵

1/8 Trump's immediate reaction to the horror of 9/11 was to brag about the size of one of his buildings, phoning into WWOR to say “40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan… And now it’s the tallest.”

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Let’s get some things straight about Donald Trump’s Jan 6 indictment and the crimes he’s charged with

🧵1/24 Once again, President Biden DID NOT indict Trump.

Trump was indicted by a grand jury of ordinary people who found the evidence against him strong enough to charge him with four felonies.

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Could Trump run for office or serve as president from prison?

Theoretically yes. The Constitution doesn't bar criminals from holding the highest office in the land.

But one there's one specific crime that does disqualify him, and we watched him commit it. 🧵 1/8 Yesterday's new charges in the Mar-a-Lago docs case allege Trump and two staffers sought to destroy surveillance footage.

Trying to destroy evidence of a crime is a crime in itself.

Plotting with others to commit a crime is the crime of conspiracy. 2/8 nytimes.com/2023/07/27/us/…

Amazon allegedly got caught in more shady shenanigans.

The FTC is expected to file a major antitrust lawsuit alleging that Amazon abuses its market power to reward third-party merchants who use its logistics services and punish those who don’t.

This is a big deal. These third-party merchants account for half of Amazon's online sales.

Merchants pay Amazon a commission for each marketplace sale, with Amazon’s average cut surpassing 50% in 2022.

Third-party companies can also pay Amazon for optional services, like shipping and advertising.

Let me get this straight. SCOTUS says colleges can't take race into consideration during admission....

But they can give preference to "legacies."

Since non-white students were barred from most colleges for 200+ years, legacy students are by definition most likely white. In fact, as the Washington Post has reported, legacy policies are a relic of Jim Crow, designed specifically "to limit the number of non-white students admitted each year."

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We are on the brink of the biggest labor strike in America since the 1950s.

340,000 UPS workers just voted to authorize a strike if they can’t come to terms on a new contract with the company by July 31.

This is a huge deal. 🧵 The UPS workers, represented by @Teamsters, are fighting for better pay, ending the use of subcontracting, and eliminating forced overtime.

The union just won major concessions that would finally equip many UPS trucks with air conditioning and fans. npr.org/2023/06/14/118…

MAGA Republicans and the right-wing media are spewing lies and making false equivalencies about Trump’s latest indictment.

I want to clear a few things up. 🧵 MAGA Lie #1: "Biden indicted Trump."

That's not how it works. A grand jury (made up of ordinary Florida citizens) indicted Trump after deciding there was sufficient evidence for him to be criminally charged.

Today is an international day of solidarity for the thousands of @WGAEast and @WGAWest members who are on strike.

This strike is not only important for the writers in the entertainment industry, but for the entire labor movement across every industry. 🧵 Writers are up against the same challenges as workers throughout many other parts of our economy: the growing consolidation of wealth and power into the hands of a few billionaires and corporations.

It's all too common, and it's driving inequality in this country.

Republican leaders have mastered the art of manufacturing crises to divert the public’s attention from the real crisis of our era — the siphoning off of income, wealth, and power by a small group at the top.

Consider the fake fears they’ve been whipping up lately over… Anything they deem “woke.”

Although they struggle to define what the term even means to them, they’re using it as a weapon to combat anything that seeks to foster tolerance and acceptance.

Facts on the proposed debt ceiling deal:

THE GOOD...

- It would lift the debt ceiling until 2025, avoiding another standoff before the elections

- It would reject the most extreme cuts the GOP sought THE BAD...

- Expanded work requirements would make it harder for American families who need help to get it

- It would establish the precedent that taking the economy hostage is an effective way to pass unpopular policies that could never get through otherwise.