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Oct 6, 2022 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
"A majority of Republican nominees on the ballot this November for the House, Senate and key statewide offices — 299 in all — have denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election"
#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10…
"most of the election deniers nominated are likely to win: Of the nearly 300 on the ballot, 173 are running for safely Republican seats. Another 52 will appear on the ballot in tightly contested races."
"Donald Trump on Friday issued what can only be described as a threat against Mitch McConnell, declaring that the Senate minority leader’s support for bipartisan bills amounts to a “DEATH WISH.”"
News orgs fail to ask GOP pols about this threat by Trump.
"Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatyev spent more than a month fighting in Ukraine after his poorly equipped unit was ordered to march from its base in Crimea for what commanders called a routine exercise."
Over the next 5 weeks, deeply troubled by the devastation caused by ... Putin’s bloody invasion, he wrote down his recollections in hopes that telling his country the truth about the war could help stop it."
"The searing takeaway was not [KKK klansman David] Duke himself, but nearly 700,000 Louisianans who, knowing what he stood for, voted for him anyway."
#Racism#USA #elections washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"On Election Day 2016, nearly 63 million Americans voted for Trump, giving him more than 300 electoral votes and the White House.
The takeaway?
They, too, knew where he stood and voted for him anyway."
SCOTUS "agreement to hear Moore v. Harper... isn’t just bad news for efforts to control gerrymandering.
The Court’s right-wing supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers overturn voters’ choice in presidential elections."
#SCOTUSIsCorrupt theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Trump then tried and failed, lawlessly, to muscle the GOP state legislators into discarding Biden’s victory and appointing Trump electors instead.
The Moore case... could give Republicans legal cover in 2024 to do as Trump demanded in 2020."
"The OIG Joseph V. Cuffari did not press the dept leadership at that time to explain why they did not preserve these records...
Cuffari also failed to alert Congress to the potential destruction of government records."
#Jan6 #TrumpCoupAttempt washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07…
"In a nearly identical scenario to that of the DHS leaders’ texts, the Secret Service alerted Cuffari’s office seven months ago, in December 2021, that the agency had deleted thousands of agents’ and employees’ text messages."
"The charging document cited a speech that Kara-Murza... had given weeks earlier...
His remarks accused Russian forces of dropping cluster bombs on residential areas in Ukraine & staging airstrikes on maternity wards, hospitals & schools."
But Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin couldn’t bear the spectacle of a Russian citizen airing these uncomfortable facts — so it locked him up for telling the truth."
"one lawyer involved in the detailed discussions repeatedly used the word “fake” to refer to the so-called electors, who were intended to provide ... a rationale for derailing the congressional process of certifying the outcome."
#TrumpCoupAttempt nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/…
“We would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the ‘fake’ votes should be counted”
"The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results"
#Jan6 #TrumpCoupAttempt washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
"Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses... have asked in recent days about conversations w/ Trump, his lawyers, & others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won"
"the right-wing editorial pages of the New York Post and Wall Street Journal, both Rupert Murdoch publications, have broken sharply with Trump.
Trump of all people should understand how the aura of being a “loser” turns people off."
#TrumpCoupAttempt washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"emails that show one lawyer involved in the scheme “repeatedly used the word ‘fake’ to refer to the so-called electors, who were intended to provide VP Mike Pence & Trump’s allies in Congress a rationale for derailing the congressional process of certifying the outcome.”"
Jul 2, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
"By “threats to democracy,” they mean ... the spread of baseless claims about rampant election fraud to state legislatures’ efforts to make it more difficult to vote & easier for partisans to overturn legitimate voting results."
~@Sulliview
#Journalism washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/…
The result is a 28-page publication called “The Authoritarian Playbook: A Media Guide,” an effort to give reporters and editors some tools in recognizing what’s happening and in covering it effectively.
"Creating a false equivalence between detailed testimony under oath and an anonymous source vouching for Trump is misleading at best and at worse serves the Trump camp’s disinformation machine."
~@JRubinBlogger
"Neutrality helps the oppressor,
never the victim."
~Elie Wiesel, about Nazi Germany
SCOTUS is helping GOP states to oppress a woman's right to bodily autonomy - the FREEDOM to choose what happens to your own body.
Jun 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
"The clear and present danger to our democracy now is that former President Donald Trump & his political allies appear prepared to... seize the presidency in 2024 if Trump or his anointed candidate is not elected by the American people."
~@judgeluttig
nytimes.com/2022/02/14/opi…
"Republican senators like Ted Cruz of Texas & Josh Hawley of Missouri tried to capitalize on those ambiguities in the law to do Trump’s bidding, mounting a case for overturning the results in some Biden-won states on little more than a wish."
"he told Eastman that the plan violated the Electoral Count Act and that “Mr. Eastman acknowledged that that was the case.”
...
Knowledge of the plot being illegal is significant when it comes to whether the Jan. 6 plotters committed a crime."
Proud Boys Led Major Breaches of Capitol on Jan. 6, Video Investigation Finds
A months long Times investigation using court documents, text messages and videos reveals how teams of Proud Boys instigated critical breaches of the Capitol on Jan. 6.
#Jan6 nytimes.com/2022/06/17/us/…
"More than 40 members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, have been indicted in connection with the assault, among them several of its leaders who are now facing charges of seditious conspiracy."
"Never mind that the same factions who have argued that mask-wearing and books about Tommy’s two mommies are unacceptably traumatizing for young children are now implying that kindergartners should be kitted out with makeshift body armor."
~@crampell
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"Perhaps, with unlimited funds and an indifference to child psychology, every school could be converted to something akin to a maximum-security prison.
Perhaps a moat and a round-the-clock occupying army ..."
