A lot of people don’t understand what physical abuse actually looks like.

It doesn’t have to be a punch, slap, hit, or backhand.

Blocking someone from leaving is abuse.
Cornering someone against a wall is abuse.
Confining someone in a room is abuse.
Yanking someone out of a car is abuse.
Grabbing someone hard enough to leave bruises is abuse.

And physical abuse is almost always paired with emotional and psychological abuse.

I dated someone like this in college. He was jealous and controlling. One night, he tried to block me from leaving my dorm room and backed me against a wall. A friend knocked on the door, and I called out that I was coming.

That witness changed the outcome of the situation.

He moved and let me go because someone was there. Someone could hear me. Someone could get help.

He never hit me, but make no mistake: it came really cost close. That kind of physical domination is a direct path to worse abuse.

I called campus police. He was banned from my dorm.

After that, I didn’t go anywhere alone if I could avoid it. I watched shadows. I listened for footsteps. I looked for groups of people to walk near and doorways I could duck into if I needed help.

And I kept my pepper spray close.

Once, he parked outside my dorm for no reason except to scare me. That’s what abusers do. They intimidate. They control. They make sure you know they can still get to you.

So yes - showing up drunk and uninvited isn’t “nothing.”

Talking about rape as “domination” isn’t “nothing.”

Using your body to trap, threaten, grab, restrain, or intimidate someone isn’t “nothing.”

It is dangerous. It is abuse. It is a massive red flag.

When you dismiss it, you are telling women - your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, granddaughters, and friends - that this is normal. That it’s acceptable. That they should tolerate it.

Either you have morals and stand by them, or you don’t.

I wish someone had explained this to me before college. I had to learn through experience, and I was lucky. Many women are not.

Know what abuse looks like.

Don’t minimize it.
Don’t excuse it.
Don’t look away. Resources about domestic abuse:

thehotline.org

Remember all the times Heritage Foundation & Trump administration staff talked about repealing the 19th amendment, which gave (white) women the right to vote?

That's the SAVE Act.

They weren't joking. 🧵1 The SAVE Act will make it much more difficult to REGISTER to vote.

Everyone would have to prove citizenship, not just identity.

Accepted documents:
- valid US passport / passport card
- certified birth certificate showing birth in US with a government-issued photo ID
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The problem isn’t divisiveness - it’s dishonesty.

You say you “never thought about” your tattoo as a Nazi symbol and covered it the moment it was pointed out.

But you call yourself a military history buff.

And CNN found Reddit posts from 2019–2020 where you participated in a discussion of the Totenkopf and its SS origins. You knew.

You kept that tattoo for 18 years until the internet noticed.

Any competent candidate would’ve cleaned this up long before running for Senate.

The Democratic Party didn’t make you:

-get that tattoo

- keep it for nearly two decades

- discuss the Totenkopf online in 2019–2020

- write “white people actually are [racist]” in 2020

- post homophobic slurs and anti-LGBTQ+ jokes (2016–2021)

- blame drunk rape victims in a 2013 thread re: sexual assault in the military

Those were your choices.

Now you’re claiming Democrats are “destroying your life” by highlighting actions you took - the same actions you said others should “take responsibility” for.

If you keep lying about what you knew and when

and keep blaming everyone but yourself

you’re not going to convince me, or other marginalized people who are already under attack, that you’ve changed.

You want trust? Start with the truth. Source for Totenkopf discussions
- refers to what's in CNN Kfile report
wgme.com/news/local/con…

- CNN Kfile article posted on Reddit due to paywall
reddit.com/r/behindthebas…

I’m done pretending Bernie is some moral hero.

He’s propping up a deeply flawed candidate, parroting GOP border lies, and helping Republicans attack Democrats. That’s not “unity.”

That’s desperation to stay relevant. He’s become a bitter old man who can’t accept it’s time to retire. Here's how Republicans are celebrating Bernie repeating their lies about the border, while ignoring the fact that Republicans blocked MULTIPLE bipartisan border bills under Biden so they could continue running on... how Biden didn't secure the border. 😒🤬

BERNIE IS HELPING REPUBLICANS

Graham Platner knew in 2018, SEVEN YEARS AGO, that his tattoo was used by Nazis because he participated in discussions about that topic on Reddit.

P Hustle was his Reddit handle, per every news article that talks about his Reddit comments.

But he lied and said he only learned recently that is was a Nazi symbol, them blamed "establishment Dems" for the fact that the tattoo came up. 😒

Enough lies and red flags. He's a terrible candidate and it's obvious that Bernie and David Hogg did ZERO vetting, just like with Fetterman and Tulsi.

We can't afford another Fetterman in the Senate.

This guy isn't it.

https://x.com/TheSWPrincess/status/1981252218260189674

In addition, Platner's former coworkers from his time working as a bartender in DC confirm that he talked about the tattoo and called it a Totenkopf.

You don't call it that without knowing what it means

dailykos.com/stories/2025/1…

The right is using Charlie Kirk’s horrific death to make him a martyr.

Yes - it’s tragic that a young husband and father was killed.

The hate Charlie spent his career spreading was tragic too.

This thread shares his own words. People should know who he really was. If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

Here's a rundown of Daniel Dale's fact checks on the first day of the House's circus, uh, impeachment inquiry.

𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗻𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆🤡



𝗝𝗶𝗺 𝗝𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱🤥

Remember in November these Republican members of Congress had their PPP loans forgiven, but were against student loan relief.

The estimated net worth of each member is shown below. Marjorie Taylor Greene -
an Apri 2023 interview with Leslie Stahl on “60 Minutes” showed her total wealth to be $11 million.

All other estimates are from .

Greg Pence had an estimated net worth of $12,605,504 in 2018.OpenSecrets.com

Pride month is needed because only 7 years ago, a gunman with an AR 15 style weapon killed 49 people & wounded 53 others at #Pulse nightclub.

And LGBTQ+ rights are under constant attack from Republican extremists, who demonize them to scare their base into voting Republican. The names and ages of those we lost that night:

STANLEY ALMODOVAR III, 23

AMANDA ALVEAR, 25

OSCAR A. ARACENA-MONTERO, 26

RODOLFO AYALA-AYALA, 33

ALEJANDRO BARRIOS MARTINEZ, 21

MARTIN BENITEZ TORRES, 33

ANTONIO D. BROWN, 30

DARRYL R. BURT II, 29

Over the next few days, I'll tweet excerpts from the 2nd indictment (politi.co/3J7rsrY)

People who have read the main points are less likely to fall for GOP disinformation.

Introduction, # 3 - an overview of the types of info in the boxes. Introduction, # 4 & 5: Trump left office, and took classified documents to Mar a Lago without authorization.

He kept the documents there in various rooms despite it not being an authorized location for classified documents.

There are different ways to reduce the national debt:

Republican plan: slash everything other than defense by 22% - Social Security, veterans' benefits, Medicaid, etc.

Democrats' plan: make the rich and large corporations pay their fair share. Don't cut benefits working people… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… bit.ly/3OAr211

Mississippi Governor @tatereeves has a pattern of appointing wealthy donors to well paying, influential positions in the state government.
#SaveMississippi

Gulfport Memorial Hospital CEO Kent Nicaud wrote Reeves a $25,000 campaign check 3 weeks before Reeves appointed him to the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Kent’s wife Jenny Field Nicaud, an attorney, got a Reeves appointment in 2021 as an administrative law judge for the Mississippi Workers Compensation Commission. In that role, Jenny earns $120,768 per year.

People are talking about the price of produce going up due to Florida's new immigration law that requires employers to check worker status via E-Verify, bans undocumented people from getting IDs / drivers licenses & requires hospitals to report costs of care of undocumented… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Per the Center for Migration Studies, Hispanic undocumented immigrants have high labor force participation and employment rates, especially in essential occupations.

𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝟵𝟲% 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 of working age have jobs.

The mayor of El Paso said Friday that "we have not seen any big numbers" as compared to last week.

Migrants seeking asylum say a "whisper network" warned of possible punishments under Title 8, the law that was in place before Title 42 and is now being enforced again in its… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Under Title 8, people who repeatedly attempt to enter the U.S. illegally face penalties, including a potential five-year ban and criminal prosecution.

Title 42 had suspended those penalties, which led to an increase in the number of people who repeatedly crossed the border… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

In 1890, delegates at Mississippi's constitutional convention chose crimes that would cause a permanent loss of voting rights: bribery, burglary, theft, arson, perjury, forgery, embezzlement and bigamy.
#SaveMississippi

The delegates chose crimes they thought Black people were… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 𝟭𝟲% of Black MS residents of voting age can't vote due to these laws.

This was part of a larger plan to stop freed slaves (who outnumbered white men of voting age) from voting after the passage of the 15th amendment.

The process of getting the right to vote back is so… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Last night, @CNN & #ChrisLicht gave Trump a free prime time campaign rally in New Hampshire, with 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 his supporters in the audience.

Did they recruit at Trump's NH rally last month?

Licht is says CNN "got answers" - from an all white, Trump supporting audience. This was a strategy on CNN's part to generate talk, buzz, and outrage headlines for CNN.

They miss the traction they got when Trump was in office.

It's a ratings game for them.

About the House hearing on #fentanyl on Tuesday, Feb 29th...

This woman is VERY angry that the Trump admin provided COVID aid and didn't watch her sons.

It's the government's fault for helping people during an economic crisis?

The GOP is wasting taxpayer money. Source for info about Ms. Kiessling's sons:
detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…

Why is it important to avoid transphobic comments?

They hurt trans people, 𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 trans youth.

🔹Data indicate that 𝟴𝟮% of transgender people have considered killing themselves
#TransRightsAreHumanRights 🔹𝟰𝟬% of trans people have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth

🔹𝟱𝟲% of trans youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 𝟴𝟲% reported suicidality

A list of #GunControl bills Democrats introduced after shootings, which Republicans blocked:

#SandyHook, 2012. 21 killed.

Congress proposed bipartisan bill expanding background checks, a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity gun magazines.

Blocked by Republicans.
1/9 Charleston, South Carolina, Dylan Roof kills 9 people in a Black church.

Democrats tried to eliminate what became known as the "Charleston loophole," which allows people with incomplete background checks to purchase guns after three days.

Blocked by Republicans.
2/9

Me trying to get all the info from my parents to schedule their COVID booster shots "Do you have a separate insurance card? Yes? Okay, I need pics of the front and back of that too. Right now, I'm in the middle of scheduling you right now."

The #FreedomToVoteAct was introduced earlier this week.

This is an original bill that address damage done by GOP voter suppression laws passed after the 2020 election.

Supporters of this bill:
Sen. Manchin
Stacey Abrams
Sen. Warnock
Barack Obama
Sen. Klobuchar
Marc Elias
🧵 Democracy Docket
Vice President Harris
Fair Fight
Indivisible Guide
Sen. Merkley
Sen. Padilla