Don't tell me the South has changed. Not a single white contractor would take down Richmond's monuments to the Confederacy. Not a single one!

So a Black contractor stepped up and took them all down. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/… "Henry..has endured death threats, seen employees walk away and been told by others in the industry that his future is ruined. He started wearing a bulletproof vest on job sites and got a permit to carry a concealed firearm for protection."

Is this the future of Twitter under @elonmusk? @ncri_io reports that use of the N----- word has exploded since his takeover of the company. New: GM reportedly pulling its advertising from Twitter.

One of the most damning consequences of Trump's rise is the normalization of violence.

You see it everywhere. Here's @DineshDSouza running a poll in which 3/4 said they would celebrate if China shot down Nancy Pelosi's plane. The tweet is still up, btw.

Fun fact: In 2019, @Sen_JoeManchin was one of 46 co-sponsors of the For the People Act. We have the receipt Joe.

.@tedcruz's hometown paper, the @HoustonChron, calls on him to resign. houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editor… "A brilliant and frequent advocate before the U.S. Supreme Court and a former Texas solicitor general, Cruz knew exactly what he was doing, what he was risking and who he was inciting as he stood on the Senate floor Wednesday and passionately fed the farce of election fraud..."

120 countries require testing of UK passengers to avoid new virulent COVID strain. But not the U.S., as six flights a day land at JFK. nypost.com/2020/12/20/cuo… "So far, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Bulgaria have all announced bans or strict restrictions on UK travelers since Johnson announced London’s lockdown on Saturday."

.@anniegowen on how COVID has ravaged Mitchell, SD.

"Restaurants were packed. Big weddings and funerals went on as planned.

Then people started dying. The wife of the former bank president. A state legislator. The guy whose family owned the bike shop." washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12… "The anti-mask forces sat with naked faces, defying the mayor’s order. One by one, they got up to air their grievances. They wept. They swore. They cited junk science: Positivity defeats the virus. So does a healthy lifestyle, eating wild-caught sardines,..

Holy shit ⁦@BrianKempGA⁩ stole the damn election.

Of the more than 300,000 names that were purged from the rolls, the study discovered that 198,351 Georgia voters were wrongly purged, a 63.3% error rate. hillreporter.com/the-georgia-ac… * @BrianKempGA beat @staceyabrams by about 55,000 votes.

Holy crap. Three years ago Kushner's stake in Cadre was worth $5 million. He just sold it for $25-50 million after it benefitted from Opportunity Zone tax breaks that Kushner pushed for. syracuse.com/us-news/2020/0… A short thread on Kushner's sale of Cadre:
"In selling his stake, Mr. Kushner also took advantage of a special federal program that would allow him to defer paying income taxes on any gain on his investment in Cadre, which he helped found in 2014." nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/…

Yesterday, Trump pardoned Edward Gallagher over Pentagon objections:
- He shot a girl in a flower-print hijab who was walking with other girls.
- Stabbed a wounded teen to death as he was being treated by medics.
- Shot an unarmed man in a white robe.
nytimes.com/2019/04/23/us/… Gallagher "routinely parked an armored truck on a Tigris River bridge and emptied the truck’s heavy machine gun into neighborhoods on the other side with no discernible targets."

DNI Dan Coats was abruptly fired three days after the Zelensky call.
Why? The WH knew the Zelensky call immediately raised red flags among intelligence professionals.

This is just going to keep getting worse for Trump folks.
theguardian.com/us-news/2019/s… Trump tried to replace Coats with a Republican congressman, John Ratcliffe, who had minimal national security credentials but had been a fierce defender of the president in Congress.