I wrote and produced a film set in 1933 directed by Agnieszka Holland called
@MrJones_Film
, about Russia's attack on Ukraine and propaganda warfare aided by Western corruption, including leading journalists. History is a mirror we're forced to look into:
Let this sink in:
Greta Gerwig directed her lead actor to a Golden Globe win
Greta Gerwig directed the film that won best picture
Greta Gerwig was not dominated for best director - all men were.
#TIMESUP
#GoldenGlobes
#LadyBird
"Barack Obama’s efforts to replenish America’s stockpile of protective equipment for healthcare workers were repeatedly blocked by Republican lawmakers, an investigation has found"
Every single woman running for president in 2020 should announce by saying: "My name is [
@KamalaHarris
/
@SenWarren
/
@amyklobuchar
], and I'm not here to be likable. I'm here to fix this sh*t."
URGENT call to action to protect
#NetNeutrality
. The FCC is about to announce a vote to slash net neutrality rules, allowing ISPs like Verizon to block apps, slow websites, and charge fees to control what you see & do online. Here's how to help stop it:
Peter Thiel brought down Gawker. This is 100% Peter Thiel working through Musk to destroy Twitter. We had too much power, too much fun. The fascist couldn't stand it.
Manchin is going to run out the clock on voting rights, too.
@JoeBiden
must start passing executive orders now to protect our elections. While he's at it, pass aggressive climate change EOs to force industry-wide changes over the coming years that will be difficult to reverse
My mother-in-law planned to visit us at Easter to spend time with her first grandchild. Then Covid19 happened. My husband's entire family got it. When he called his mother today, who's recovering, and showed our 9-month-old over video, our daughter right then took her first steps
Kushner's January 6 defense is that he was busy overseeing pardons. They included his dad, one man Kremlin goon squad Manafort, Stone, Bannon who advised Trump while publicly praising Ivanka apparently to secure his pardon. So Kushner ran the impunity arm of an attempted coup.
Elizabeth Warren has the endorsements of the experts who gave us the Green New Deal, the Blue New Deal, and Intersectionality. Her campaign should become a think tank to turn her plans into policies, state by state. I am a
#WarrenDemocrat
.
My sister and I grew up in California watching Saturday morning cartoons, fighting over who got to be She-Ra Princess of Power. (She often won because she was bigger than me). Stop weaponizing our proud Ukrainian heritage against us,
@DevinNunes
Anyone claiming the US is fighting a proxy war against Russia is trying to deny Ukrainians agency. This is not a proxy war. It's a war against total annihilation of a country. In a word, genocide. So cut it out with that Kremlin talking point.
For those planning to escape abroad, there's nowhere to escape to. If America goes full authoritarian under a dictatorship Supreme Court that rules based on anger and ignorance, this will have dangerous repercussions for the world. We all need to fight this wherever we are
Who will flip next? My money is on Pence. Though a chronic liar, he can easily get caught given all that Mueller knows. Pence has a career & evangelical armageddon to think about. Plus Mother hates Trump and may convince her husband to protect himself by following Flynn's example
Any member of Congress and White House officials who call for moving on, no investigations, no arrests, no sweeping changes to protect us from white supremacist terrorism is a traitor as dangerous as the traitors that attempted a violent coup.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
--Margaret Mead
Welcome to 2018!!!
We are coming for all of you,
@GOP
.
Digging into Speaker Johnson--a staunch evangelical, and the other MAGA Christian nationalists blocking aid to Ukraine in the House, I discovered that Ukraine plays a role in their demented "end times" world view 🧵
.
@JohnKingCNN
must retract the false information he spread on
@CNN
claiming my sister
@AlexandraChalup
went to Ukraine to dig up dirt on Manafort. My sister has never been to Ukraine. All she knew about Manafort was in the public domain. Do your jobs!
Jared Kushner ran the digital operation for the Trump campaign, which was supported by sophisticated targeting in Facebook ads purchased by a Kremlin-linked propaganda farm. And now he's hiding his emails.
#KushnerMustGo
You're going to see people from the West resigning from their Russian propaganda jobs and major corporations. It's not that they didn't know any better: they got caught. Putin's war has been a PR disaster for his useful idiots.
A war of attrition is not a good case scenario by any means. The longer Russia is in Ukraine, the more war crimes they will commit. Russia wants Ukraine without Ukrainians. This is genocide. Give Ukraine all the jets, air defense, and more to expel Russia. Embargo oil and gas.
Thread: Since 2004, I've worked on a screenplay about Gareth Jones, the young Welsh journalist who risked his life to expose Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine, which was covered up by the Kremlin's info war with the help of Western journalists. 1/6
Just before the blue wave midterm election that ushered in a historic number of women into Congress, I found out I was pregnant, and it's a girl!
Meet Alice, born July 13, 2019 in midtown Manhattan, ushering in the NYC blackout
Firtash, Ukrainian gas oligarch, wanted by USG, is linked to Russian mafia.
Firtash funded Lev Parnas.
Lev Parnas worked with
@realDonaldTrump
, Giuliani, & Attorney General Barr to extort Ukraine to invent a scandal to hurt Biden in 2020 election.
This is how the mafia works.
The best part? Roger Stone, who was just arrested for his traitorous corruption in the 2016 election, was the one who gave
@realDonaldTrump
the big con to build a wall.
Something broke in America this week. We have been spiraling downward since Trump's election, but this week, we crossed a line. The President and his men began asserting that they were above the law--and effectively no one in our system did anything to stop them.
We need to end this pattern of Republicans burning everything down, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and Democrats getting elected as the clean up crew.
If
@SpeakerPelosi
and
@RepJerryNadler
refuse to impeach
@realDonaldTrump
then he will always point to the fact that the House could have impeached but didn't as "proof" of his innocence. Even long-term this serves the Trump family and hurts everyone else.
On
@gaslitnation
,
@AndreaChalupa
dedicated two episodes to our argument that impeachment hearings must begin ASAP.
"Impeach Normalization" (3/14/19)
"Impeach the Nazi-in-Chief" (4/10/19)
Listen up. It's time.
I have too much rage to fully express how I'm feeling. Everyone who downplayed Putin's terrorism, who rationalized his mass-murdering mafia state, you enabled Putin's war as much as the governments finally passing sanctions needed years ago.
It's February 22nd in Donbas. Putin launched the escalation of his invasion on the eight-year anniversary of the end of EuroMaidan, Ukraine's revolution of Dignity, the popular uprising that ousted his puppet, first brought to power by Paul Manafort.
Johnson will always be remembered as the Kremlin's useful idiot who delayed Ukraine aid by several critical months. As one member of Congress points out in this piece: it should have been wrapped up by Christmas, not by the summer
What's life like in Orban's Hungary, the most corrupt country in the EU? Miserable, especially if you're a child (high malnutrition rates), a young adult, a woman, LGBTQ+ person and ally, a refugee, and anyone with an open mind🧵
The
@GOP
is the party of kleptocracy, blood money, white supremacy, misogyny, homophobia, voter suppression, mass extinction, climate change, and genocide. The
@GOP
is the party of death.
#KurdsBetrayedByTrump
Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, the rest of the insurrectionists tried to violently overthrow our democracy. They should never have been allowed to stay in Congress. They should have been arrested. Our system is broken.
Trump is betting on Iran doing something so horrific to Americans that we rally around the flag, and the 2020 election becomes a mindless debate of who's "patriotic" vs. who's anti-war ("weak" on Iran).
It's easy for people to insist what Russia is doing in Ukraine is not a genocide. Because then they might have to do something about. Instead, they deny genocide, deny a no-fly zone, deny planes. Let's be clear on what's happening: the world watches another genocide.
#ImVotingForJoe
because he's a decent human being. The more I learn about
@JoeBiden
the more I like him. And most importantly Joe Biden has an aggressive plan to address climate change:
"Warren is comprehensively treating Trump both as a severe threat to the rule of law in his own right, and as inextricably linked to a deeper pathology — the GOP’s drift into comfort with authoritarianism."
@ThePlumLineGS
, with a smart read of the field.
I see we're back at "they’re not technically Nazis unless they come from 1933 Germany" phase of underestimating how far-right Trump’s Republican Party has gone. They recently attempted a violent overthrow of our democracy wearing Nazi t-shirts. They keep telling us they're Nazis.
.
@IvankaTrump
needs to resign. She is totally unqualified to serve in the White House and this gross display of nepotism hurts the U.S. Our allies will never take
@realDonaldTrump
's oligarch princess seriously and neither will the American people.
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg don't know how to use power responsibly. They're actively, willingly helping dismantle our democracy.
#BreakUpFacebook
Ukrainians overwhelmingly elected Zelensky to fight corruption. He won in an historic landslide.
@realDonaldTrump
tried to force Zelensky into massive corruption.
I don't have words to express how furious this makes me. People gave their lives in Kyiv to overthrow a mafia state
Putin and his oligarchs are dependent on each other. It was set up this way to ensure mafia loyalty. Right now in their negotiations with the West, Putin is playing the bad cop (nuclear threats), the oligarchs are playing good cop (no war!). Clearly, don't trust the oligarchs.
AG Bill Barr: "Immediately after President Trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they call 'The Resistance' and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool and maneuver to sabotage the functioning of the executive branch."