Beyond politicians pushing crime and fear to get elected, I’ve often wondered how much responsibility media has had with its coverage of crime leading to Americans to purchase weapons for “personal safety” and thus support of the 2nd Amendment? (1)

americanprogress.org/article/danger… The Michael Moore film “Bowling for Columbine” (2002), in which he “explores the circumstances that lead to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and, more broadly, the proliferation of guns and the high homicide rate in America” should have (2)

Dear #TexansDeserveBetter Texans: Your reactionary white nationalist Trumper @GovAbbott can't ban books and other media so in response to his banning the teaching of racism and current affairs in Texan public schools I thought I'd start a chain of resources for your children. 1/n I hope others can join in providing resources they believe are relevant to the 400 years of slavery and racism in this country. I start with the NYT #1619Project that the former guy thought he could sweep away with a White House whitewash, quickly removed by @POTUS Biden. 2/n

Defeated in over 60 lawsuits across the country including SCOTUS, the former guy is now pushing Big Lie “audits” (shall we say “fraudits”) in select states with corrupt politicians, and conducted by his cult members with the goal of shoring up the Big Lie with these fraudits. 1/ Having been personally through scores of financial audits conducted by professional independent public accounting firms who are bound by professional auditing standards and engaged by the appropriate governing board of the entity being audited, I can categorically say

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It's amazing how @GOPLeader @LeaderMcConnell @marcorubio, vast majority in the @HouseGOP and @SenateGOP, rely on what the late Gore Vidal called the "United States of Amnesia". They believe most Americans are dim and don't remember the multilayered Benghazi investigations:

(1/n) Many of these investigations --particularly the @GOP-led ones-- were designed to rough up Secretary @HillaryClinton since she was considered the presumptive presidential candidate for the Democrats. Secretary Clinton had to testify for 11 hours before one committee while (2/n)