President Joe Biden today unveiled a new $2 trillion infrastructure proposal titled The American Jobs Plan. The statement introducing the plan notes that the United States currently ranks 13th in the world
for the quality of our infrastructure, and that our public domestic investment as a share of the economy has fallen more than 40% since the 1960s. It calls attention to the fact that our roads and bridges are crumbling and that our electrical grid keeps failing.
Feb 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Just to be clear:
In January, Texas Republicans introduced a bill to secede from the United States.
Yesterday, the Texas governor and both senators (including .@tedcruz) asked Biden for an emergency declaration because their private electrical grid failed.
Texas created a privatized grid to avoid any federal regulations. (Maybe instead of building a wall they should have built a better grid... just a thought.)
Several years ago, Cruz voted against federal relief for New England states affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Feb 15, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
For everyone upset because the Dems did not call witnesses (I was) here's some clarification from several sources, including Del. Stacey Plaskett:
1) We would not have seen witnesses testify in the Senate, the way we saw them testify in the House during the first impeachment.
The Senate rules do not allow for that. The witnesses would have given depositions, which would have been entered into the record.
2) It was not certain that the possible witnesses were willing to testify. If they were unwilling, subpoenas would have to be fought out
Dec 14, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Posted by a poll worker:
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It was only a small thing, but it was important to me.
I worked to help make sure that every vote, EVERY VOTE, was properly cast and counted. I trained for and worked the Voter Protection lines for ALL voters.
I answered questions and logged issues and looked up regulations and doubled checked registrations and ballot acceptance without prejudice for party affiliation.
I did the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons.
Dec 12, 2020 • 4 tweets • 15 min read
The are the 126 #Republicans who need to be reminded that they swore an oath to uphold the #Constitution.
This great post is from #RebeccaSolnit, all her words, not mine:
"The middle ground is not halfway between Nazis and antiracists. The reasonable position is not a compromise between rapists and feminists, slaveowners and abolitionists, Natives and General Crook.
The truth is not midway between the liar and the truthteller. That has to be a factor in all those calls for reaching out and unity.
"The murderer and his intended victim don't have to agree on what's right.
Nov 7, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Thread on White House Transition process:
On March 4th 1801 the second president of the United States - John Adams - refused to hand over office to his main rival at the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson.
The rule of "midday January 20" had not yet been written.
Despite his stubbornness, THE OFFICE SIMPLY LEFT HIM!
Adams was the first president to reside at the new official residence
After Jefferson's swearing in - which the incumbent refused to attend - White House staff began removing Adam’s belongings from the WH.
- She's a done deal. Dems shouldn't waste time attacking her character, or her religion, or on how she will vote on hypothetical cases.
The #PeopleofPraise isn't a cult. I've had half a dozen of their kids in my classes... these have been among the best students I've ever had. Extremely bright. Careful critical thinkers. Wonderful writers. I loved having them in class. So don't go after the People of Praise.
Sep 27, 2020 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
It's disheartening to see the "Pro-life" response to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. It's very clear that the folks who think RBG was a vehement "baby killer" have never heard of the name Susan Struck. #RBG#NotoriousRBG
In the 1960s & 1970s, before Roe vs Wade, abortion was not only legal on US military bases, it was actively ENCOURAGED and basically mandated. Yes, really. #RBG#NotoriousRBG
Sep 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
While #Absentee/#VoteByMail is perfectly safe, it DOES
have a weak link: matching signatures. As our signature changes as we age, the one we have on record may no longer match the one you have now. So you must update it. PLEASE share. usa.gov/change-voter-r…
Your current signature on file must match your signature on a mail ballot certificate envelope in order to count your ballot. This signature on file is also used to verify your signature on a candidate or initiative petition. usa.gov/change-voter-r…
Sep 12, 2020 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
For those of you who have family and friends opposed to abortion, voted for #Twitler in 2016 and now are struggling to justify a #Biden vote, the following is from a #prolife post explaining WHY she is changing her vote in 2020. You may find this helpful.
“I have felt a heaviness in my soul lately.
For the past couple weeks, I’ve felt it. A weight. The heaviness. So this morning I closed myself in my room, read some of John’s gospel, opened my journal and prayed, “OK, God. What is it? My heart feels heavy. What is this feeling?”
Sep 7, 2020 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
Words from a military paralegal. #kenoshashooting
I'm seeing a lot of ignorance and misinformation flying around about what happened in Kenosha, and I'm going to set the record straight from a professional legal position... as well as from a former military position.
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I'm going to explain some things from a more technical angle derived from my many years as a paralegal and from my experience working in federal criminal justice and prosecution.
Legally, if you are in the process of a commission of a crime, it negates your ability to claim
Aug 13, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
🚨 IMPORTANT REMINDER🚨
Now that the Democratic President-Vice President ticket is set, and Vice President Biden with Senator Harris are going to be the Democratic ticket on the November ballot, I figured now is a good time to remind everyone that:
1. You're not just voting for President.
2. You're voting to prevent a 7-2 dangerous conservative SCOTUS majority. Note: 87 year old Justice RBG is single-handedly fighting off all 10 plagues until we get rid of 45. This alone should be enough for historic turnout!
Mar 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Thread from a friend who is a coroner in Detroit. This is what a friend at the NYC medical examiner's office sent him yesterday:
We have dismantled our pathology service almost completely to preserve PPE
and to shift all of our service to our city mortuary side—body pickup and storage. Doing a fraction of the autopsies we would have (no more drug autopsies for the foreseeable future, many views. Already have 8 refrigerated tractor trailers parked at hospitals around cities
Dec 7, 2019 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
I asked @blakesmustache for permission to share this thread. It's fascinating and fact-filled, with a very sharp legal mind behind his opinions. I encourage you to read it. Every tweet below in this thread was written by him, but I thought it important enough to share.
Thread: Event Horizon
Trump’s fate is and always has been in the hands of the US Supreme Court. He knows it. His legal team knows it. And the House Dems and their legal team know it too.
The only ones who don’t know it are the general public. But you’re going to know it soon.
Oct 24, 2019 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
Ok tweeps, you want to know who REALLY can "beat" * in 2020?
Are you ready for this?
Read this statistical research from Adam Berliant, based on LIKELY VOTERS.
(Data sources at the end)
The latest PRRI.org report is freakin' amazing. It’s also really long. I’ve been digging into it for days now, cross-referencing with other data, asking myself: What/who has the best chance to defeat Trump in 2020?
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Mar 9, 2019 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
.@senatemajldr
I am writing to express my profound disappointment in you. Not as a person because I have never met you, but as a so-called elected “representative” of #WeThePeople. Your recent assault and mockery of #ForThePeople HR-1 Bill finally prompted me to write.
.@senatemajldr
You swore an oath to uphold the #Constitution, which states in the 15th Amendment:
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote SHALL NOT BE DENIED OR ABRIDGED by the U.S. or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Aug 15, 2018 • 28 tweets • 47 min read
Get ready to change the world in 3 simple steps:
Follow
Support
Vote
Below is a list of candidates that will be on the Nov. 6th ballot. Please follow their social media accounts, promote their tweets and say their names.
Some may not have been your primary favorite. But these candidates might be the only path to take back our democracy. Please support them by making sure everyone knows these names.
If you have more Dems candidates Nov 6 ballot, please post below.
Jun 20, 2018 • 37 tweets • 8 min read
trump would LIKE you to believe that his concentration camps on the border are policy that existed under Obama and Clinton.
GET INFORMED. TRUMP'S EXCUSES ARE DISGUSTING LIES.
Myth-busting thread ahead:
The catastrophe unfolding at the border is ENTIRELY on TRUMP's shoulders. He has demonized the poor, the uneducated, the desperate, the foreign, the brown, the black. To the point that his supporters are able to defend crimes of humanity against them and say THEY DESERVE IT.
