@EladNehorai My grandparents were born in Poland. Miraculously they escaped the Nazis and survived.

When they went back after the war their oldest child, my uncle, was shot in the face.

They left.

I tried to get Polish citizenship last year. I was refused because I’m Jewish. @EladNehorai Because I was told I needed to prove paternity. But Poland at the time of my grandparents marriage did not view Jewish marriages as legal.

I should be granted citizenship and entrance into the EU. But because Poland has antisemitic laws. I can’t.

That’s legacy antisemitism.

America feels like it is totally disintegrating.

Something is fundamentally shifting.

It feels horrifically uneasy but I actually think it could end up being a good thing.

This country has always been built on a lie, by a lie.

As the lie disintegrates the country does too How can the land of the free have been built upon slavery, racism, genocide and environmental destruction?

No freedom is possible under such circumstances. Not for anyone- master or slave, serf or landlord.

And so this fundamental lie, this deep ingrained lie has led us here.

What is happening in Israel is horrifying.

As a Jew, grandson of Holocaust survivors I say this:

It is the cycle of violence manifest. Jews, once the victims of ethnic cleansing, have become the ethnic cleansers.

It is always this way.

Peace can’t be built on nationalism. I say this as the son and grandson of Holocaust survivors.

Don’t call me antisemitic.

Don’t use my words for hate.

Identity should not divide us.

We are all human.

We must defeat the cycle of violence and heal. The only way we do this is dismantling all nationalism.

This is me getting arrested in the Capitol in 2012 for legally documenting a hearing on #fracking.

I was charged with “unlawful entry”.

There were two dozen cops present. I was arrested within 15 mins.

Never doubt what happened today.

Capitol police were complicit today. Actually there’s a really nice jail in the Capitol.

The cleanest emptiest jail I’ve ever been in.

I always tell folks- if you want to get arrested, do it in the Capitol because it’s so cush.

All day I thought about that clean empty jail where I was handcuffed to the wall.

It’s clear that Trump and the @GOP’s lawsuits are not aimed at courts- they are frivolous and they get thrown out every time.

They are aimed at creating a sense of outrage among their delusional constituents.

The GOP is trying to create a total loss of faith in our democracy. They want to create a subset of the American population that believe in a total lie.

In fanning the flames and stoking the ire of these people they are creating a political weapon- a racist, authoritarian, anti-science bullying force that can be used to bludgeon the country.

Trump not conceding is much more dangerous than it appears.

After WWI a group of German soldiers never conceded defeat after Versailles. They became an armed militia - the Frei Corps- for 20 years and eventually became Hitler’s SS.

Trumps armed militia supporters are very... similar. They pose a huge threat to the future and to democracy.

These people are racist, authoritarian, violent and they don’t care about what is true and what is not.

Bu the most dangerous thing about them is that they feel wronged. They feel cheated. They, like their...

We’re having champagne and oysters for breakfast in New Orleans.

@realDonaldTrump is gone and a new era is here!!!!

1) I voted for @HillaryClinton in 2016, and campaigned for her.

I loathed her campaign and many of her positions.

I voted for her because the movement I am a part of helped shape the Democratic Platform and because I knew we could apply pressure.

But mostly I voted bc... I wanted to own some small piece of responsibility for what came next.

I voted for her so that she would have been MY President and MY responsibility-to push her, protest her, goad her and move her at every stage.

Democracy is a responsibility. My vote for her was one small..

People stuck in traffic are witnessing NYPD beat up folks on their way home. This was sent to me by a friend of the women in the car, @tommiesunshine. Stuck in traffic for nearly an hour on 50th street and third Ave.

1) I just received notice that the distributor of Michael Moore's #PlanetoftheHumans is taking the film down due to misinformation in the film.

Thank you to @FilmsForAction for responding to our demand for a retraction and an apology from @mmflint.
See below. And thank you to... 2)Thank you to the early co-signers of the letter demanding an apology from @MMFlint:

@MichaelEMann, @Frances_Fisher, @ayanaeliza, @mzjacobson, @leahstokes, @Liptay, @tommiesunshine and many others...

We will continue to fight for truth,#RenewableEnergy and a #GreenNewDeal

I just had the unfortunate displeasure of watching PLANET OF THE HUMANS the #Earthday freebie irresponsibly put out by Michael Moore @MMFlint.

The film is an unsubstantiated, unscientific, poorly made piece of yellow journalism which attacks proven renewable energy and science.. I can't believe that @MMFlint would put his name on this.

The film attacks climate heroes like
@billmckibben and disparages the known benefits of renewable energy.

The film is amateurish and puerile, trades in the most propagandistic techniques, roping the audience into...

There’s a lot of talk about @BernieSanders decision to stay in the race.

I think he needs to stay in and I’m going to outline why in this thread.

As a people’s movement, so many of our positions are overwhelmingly supported by the majority (cont.) Medicare For All
15 dollar min wage
Green New Deal
Marijuana legalization and criminal justice reform
Ban on #Fracking
Billionaires and corporations paying their fair share of taxes.

Americans support these ideas and they need to be fought for.

Especially in this pandemic.

Let’s talk about @ewarren-
1) deciding to call herself a Native American - when she was actually a descendent of colonialists is a huge self-inflicted mistake. It is also deeply hypocritical.
2) So is meeting with @HillaryClinton
3) So is accepting corporate $$$
See a pattern? I’m not saying that @ewarren doesn’t have some really bold and gutsy policy positions that I agree with. I love that she’s for a ban on fracking for example- I would definitely vote for her over Trump and her over Biden. And I’d campaign for her if she won the nomination- but...

What if we were clamoring to build a table along the border instead of a wall? We could all come to dinner every night, from each side. Can you imagine the incredible happiness of that potluck? Can you imagine the human celebration? All the delicious freely given food and love? All the kids running underneath it, happy and playing? All the recipes exchanged?