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David Hemond

@david_hemond

7 years

I call on FCC to review Fox license to broadcast in light of intentional broadcasting of fake news to influence election and policy

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@david_hemond

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Murdoch was brought to the US by Roy Cohn and Reagan. About when they killed the Fairness Doctrine. If anyone thinks the rise of Fox and Rightwing propaganda is a coincidence, I’ve got a bridge to sell.

Patti Kutz Stoll

@PattiStoll

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Been making noise about this for years. Those people that blindly use its self-proclaimed genre keep the myth going. FOX has never been a news channel; it's always been a verbal version of the National Enquirer. Then it got political. FOX Entertainment, FOX Propaganda. Not news.

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I second Horatio. Great letter nailing the Post and much of media six ways to Sunday.

Horatio McFlabbergasted

@HMcdoolittle

3 months

Great letter to the Washington Post criticizing their Trump coverage.

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@david_hemond

2 years

Mitt Romney is in denial - wants to both sides it when it is his GOP that is attacking our democratic institutions, our voting rights + women’s rights, that is denying efforts to address climate change, that fostered the gun nuts based on an erroneous reading of 2nd. See Big Lie.

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Let’s be clear. Trump’s attack on the integrity of NATO was not an inadvertent slip up, not a gaff. It was a dangerous ploy motivating Putin’s support and undermining the current US administration. De facto treason. Disqualifying as a candidate. A taint on any who support him.

Liz Cheney

@Liz_Cheney

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NATO is the most successful military alliance in history. It’s essential to deterring war & defending American security. No sane American President would encourage Putin to attack our NATO allies. No honorable American leaders would excuse or endorse this.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

4 years

Trump and Miller and Sessions and ICE and everyone else who enabled these atrocities against children, these crimes against humanity, are guilty of staining the honor of our country and its people. You cannot, you cannot do this in our name. And they did.

Don Winslow

@donwinslow

4 years

Please send this video to @jimmykimmel and ask him to retweet. It will have a massive impact if he does because of his following. He follows me but I don't know if he looks at DMs. Thank you.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

2 years

This! Do Americans really support a coup in plain view? Let’s put it to them. You want fascists? Or democracy? I say push the fascists back under their rocks. This is our country.

Malcolm Nance

@MalcolmNance

2 years

Don’t just “Defend the House”. Let’s “Counterattack the Coup.” Lets take 40 Red Seats and Expand the Senate!

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@david_hemond

7 years

Given that it's really Romney care, Republican proposal from MA to provide full care but make insurers and providers rich, rascism is clear

Scott Dworkin

@funder

7 years

Let's be real. GOP hates Obamacare because Obama is black & they are a bunch of bigots.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

4 years

My recommendation to our next President? Empower Glenn with the necessary prosecutorial authority - point out Mr. Trump and his lackeys, and tell Glenn to have at them. Trump’s crimes alone are worthy of Nuremberg style prosecution and punishment.

Glenn Kirschner

@glennkirschner2

4 years

His lies go unaddressed. He abandons yesterday’s lies in favor of today’s lies. The only reason to keep listening to him is to catalogue the evidence of his crimes against the people, crimes that will need to be prosecuted beginning in January 2021. #TrumpCrimesCommission

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@david_hemond

3 months

Because we like to see homeless sick old people wandering the streets. Or is that what his camps will be for? Or “deportations/solutions”?

DNC War Room

@DNCWarRoom

3 months

GOP Sen. Rand Paul: We have to talk about cutting Social Security and Medicare

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

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The GOP strategy is literally to “break” the government, then turn around and say “look it’s broken, only we can fix it”. What the Nazi party did in Germany in the early 30s paving the way for Hitler. If you don’t see the hand here of the Bannon/Miller cabal, I’ve got a bridge.

Nola

@nola_geurl

4 months

@david_hemond ➡️Wt happens to House members who bring*false charges*against someone? ➡️Who handles this abuse? ➡️Why should ’WeThePeople’ accept corrupt abuse of power in our name?Wn didn’t meet criteria? ➡️Why must we accept? @RepJeffries @RepRaskin @TimothyDSnyder @ruthbenghiat @jenmercieca

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David Hemond

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3 months

Elias has the record to back this up.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

7 years

If Republicans revered the Constitution, Trump would have been impeached by now.

Evan McMullin 🇺🇸

@EvanMcMullin

7 years

Enforcing the Constitution is critical, but if that were the real motivation, leaders would have legislated a solution to this years ago.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

3 years

The Russian sanctions confirm what Reality Winner warned us about. Since when do we jail whistle blowers who risk everything to warn us?

Jill Wine-Banks (now on Threads as jillwinebanks)

@JillWineBanks

3 years

Collusion proved. Treasury shows Tr#*p campaign chair and convicted felon Manafort (remember him?) gave campaign data to his Ukrainian/Russian associate Kilimnik who gave it to Russian Intelligence while they were interfering in 2016 election. They interfered in 2020 too. Indict!

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David Hemond

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4 years

Hurts to watch. I have no sympathy for him, given what he’s done, who he is. But this is clearly a medical or neurological issue the American people and Congress should take seriously. It’s not normal and combined with other evidence, indicates we are at risk with him at the helm

Claude Taylor

@TrueFactsStated

4 years

The tongue end of Trump’s remarks about Impeachment and trial.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

4 years

It is inappropriate and also unsustainable for our highest court to be captive of the extremist rightwing views of the Federalist Society and their sponsoring dark money oligarchs. Alito and Thomas, for starters, have disqualified themselves.

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@david_hemond

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On the contrary, of course they “vetted” him. His record of “evangelical” nuttiness was online. He was an “intellectual” leader of the insurrection, chosen precisely because of the institutional threat he represents. See Bannon. They are saying it out loud and they are serious.

Teddypasketty

@teddipasketty

7 months

Serious people would never have elected Mike Johnson as Speaker knowing every thing he ever said would be culled and displayed by the press and in every ad by Dems in 2024. No one vetted him. The GOP was desperate and it will lose them the House.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

4 years

Okay, interesting NBC News. Have you explored why there have been no prosecutions? I think you’ll find your viewers even more interested.

NBC News

@NBCNews

4 years

Senate Intel Cmte. made criminal referrals of Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Erik Prince and Sam Clovis to federal prosecutors in 2019, passing along their suspicions that the men may have misled the cmte. during their testimony.

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@david_hemond

7 months

Offends me too. Shameful.

David Cay Johnston

@DavidCayJ

7 months

. @HouseGOP members praying on the House floor offends both our Constitution and the New Testament, which denounces public displays of devotion. The blasphemy of the new Speaker, who says God ordained him, is just as disgusting.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

4 years

Maybe the guy with the nuclear football should be able to tell Ukraine from Burma, Kansas from Missouri, heal from heel, reality from fantasy. Eh?

Sucker Carlson ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ

@SuckerCarlson

4 years

IVANKA: "My father might not be able to find the Ukraine on a map and he doesn't throw around a lot of Catcher in the Rye References. But the people around him can feel his firm leadership. He has a touch that America's elites will never understand."

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

3 years

And follow Robert. This stuff, the looting of America in plain view, is undeniable, inexcusable, and with support from Congress remedied in a nanosecond. Enough already.

Robert Reich

@RBReich

3 years

The richest 1% of Americans dodge $175,000,000,000 in taxes every year. Fund the IRS and stop enabling the real looting in America:

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

2 months

As I’ve noted ad nauseum, Trump was a friend of and mentored by Roy Cohn whose talent for gaming the system and the media was legendary. Of course Trump’s going to play it to the hilt. Optimists might note Cohn was ultimately disbarred and died friendless.

Steve Sawyer #GloryToUkraine

@SawyerSteve

2 months

This is not true. It isn’t DJT that gets special treatment. It’s the wealthy that can afford unlimited legal blocking & tackling. DJT just shoves that fact in our faces. Anyone claiming otherwise is just not paying attention.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

2 months

Can you say way over the f*cking line? Intervention please.

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

@NoLieWithBTC

2 months

Trump just posted a video of a pickup truck on Truth Social that has a giant image of President Biden bound with rope and laying, apparently kidnapped. This is the MAGA violence he is promoting.

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David Hemond

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3 years

If Sheldon is still waiting, what does that tell you? I think it tells you everything.

Sheldon Whitehouse

@SenWhitehouse

3 years

I am still waiting for a sign the FBI is investigating anyone not in the building — funders, organizers, conspirators, aiders and abetters.

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David Hemond

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2 years

Now do Mar-a-Lago.

Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

2 years

At Al Capone’s luxurious mansion in South Florida, law enforcement arrives, 1930:

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David Hemond

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Sort of like “I don’t think he’d actually try to overturn a legitimate election”. Or “I don’t think he’d actually compromise US security by stealing, selling classified documents.” Or how about “I don’t think he’d actually try to extort Ukraine by withholding assistance”? Yep.

Sheldon Whitehouse

@SenWhitehouse

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Oh, that’s reassuring: “I don’t think he would actually go and kill political rivals and things like that,” Barr claimed.

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2 years

If you are my age, you know the picture without having to see it.

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@david_hemond

6 months

How about this? Because their rightwing corporate masters, particularly those in agriculture, heavily rely on immigrant labor, often illegally entered, to do the hard work that domestic labor doesn’t want. They don’t want it fixed. Exploitive, hypocritical all in the same breath.

Nathan

@Gig4Nathan

6 months

Why didn't Republicans resolve the border problems while they had the House, the Senate, and the presidency during Trump?

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

7 months

Kudos to Anna. 👏👍🥂

Leslie Tate (he/she/Leslie)✍️🌈'*•.¸♡ ♡¸.•*'⧖☮🙏

@LSTateAuthor

7 months

Chess Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk, on refusing to play in Saudi Arabia. 'In a few days, I'll lose two world titles, one after another. Because I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. I refuse to play by special rules, wear abaya, be accompanied by a man so I can get out of the hotel."

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David Hemond

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I find it an ongoing frustration that what is going on is right there in plain view. Take Sheldon’s scheme speeches - on YouTube - for example. Sheldon nails the GOP/RW plot to capture SCOTUS and make it a mini legislature. Read Dark Money. Listen to Raskin. Please catch on. Thnx

Sheldon Whitehouse

@SenWhitehouse

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The Supreme Court wasn’t captured by accident. It was the result of a years-long scheme.

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David Hemond

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The logistics of Noah’s Ark alone are all you need to know. How big would it have to be? Food and water? Lions eating the sheep. Termites eating the boat? Santa Claus is more plausible and reindeer don’t fly. What’s wrong with people?

David Cay Johnston

@DavidCayJ

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Speaker Johnson isn’t just a misogynist bigot, he’s also a delusional, anti-science moron:

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

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What is happening in Ukraine while we stand by watching dishonors all of us.

Timothy Snyder

@TimothyDSnyder

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Ukraine is the only country in the world facing ballistic missile attacks. It can be defended by Patriot systems unused or in storage elsewhere. This needs to happen now.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

5 years

Former President Jimmy Carter Just Made a Solar Farm to Power Half His City

Former President Jimmy Carter Just Made a Solar Farm to Power Half His City

Jimmy Carter leased 10 acres of land to build a solar farm with the capacity to meet more than 50 percent of the energy needs of his hometown.

futurism.com

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

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You process this if you understand the coopting of the Republican Party has been a decades long oligarch effort - targeting weak points, laying groundwork. Citizens United, evisceration of Fairness Doctrine, Fox, Sinclair, ALEC, SCOTUS, gerrymandering, exploitation of rules, etc.

Phillips P. OBrien

@PhillipsPOBrien

4 months

I’m still dumbfounded how easy it was for Putin to coopt the Republican Party through Trump. This is extraordinary. One of the two ruling parties of the most powerful country in the world, doing the bidding of a genocidal dictator. Don’t really know how to process this.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

3 months

Seems like the public deserves an explanation.

Paul Morrison

@chessclubgringo

3 months

@mefletcher54 Here’s that Jan 4, 2021 memo from Acting Defense Sec Chris Miller which drastically limited the deployment options of DC National Guard.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

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Tuberville’s block of promotions has the feel of McConnell’s block of Garland’s SCOTUS nomination - it preserves vacancies, top military, for rightwing appts later. Ask “why would the Right want that when Milley thwarted Trump on 1/6?” These guys plan ahead and have no bottom.

Richard 🦅Lionheart 👑

@MajorTwit2

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@david_hemond It’s up to the Senate to put enough leverage on Tumorville to make the SOB move. Maybe a visit behind the gym when school is out.

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

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A friend of mine died in Kissinger’s “incursion into Cambodia”. A really good kid who had no business landing in a helicopter in a killing field. One of those things that “stays with you”.

djconn

@djconn

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@emptywheel Every time I see or hear Henry Kissinger's name in any media ... I think of Anthony Bourdain and his quote:

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West Side Story?

jonathan Slater

@slater_paul

3 months

Album Name ?

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

1 year

Listen to Jamie Raskin on this thread. An incredible abuse of DOJ by Barr and the Trump administration to silence Michael Cohen re the Daniels hush money. Amazed I’m just hearing it. Mainstream media? What say you?

Julie B(rooklyn) BABY WOKE AF❌

@JMeanypants

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I’m gonna scream this from the rooftops…THIS!!!! This my friends is true weaponization of the DOJ. Not by Biden BUT BY TRUMP. We are living in the upside down.

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@david_hemond

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In 1827, Thomas Fourier postulated the greenhouse effect. In 1896, Svante Arrhenius, the first Swedish Nobel laureate, calculated it. Anyone who wanted to know, has known since then. What we see is the effect of power in the hands of people willing to destroy the environment.

Andrew Freedman

@afreedma

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"In essence, Exxon didn’t just know, they knew precisely" how much the Earth would warm in the 20th and 21st centuries, decades ago. Interesting new study out today:

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@david_hemond

1 year

A Republican? Who woulda guessed?

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@dwallacewells

1 year

“Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, the marquee Wall Street firms on Mr. Santos’s campaign biography, told The Times they had no record of his ever working there. Officials at Baruch College could find no record of anyone matching his name and date of birth.”

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@david_hemond

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Whatever “entitlement” the NYT may have earned over the years, they long ago forfeited by “her emails” and Maggie’s “access journalism” legitimizing that which could not be legitimized.

ndweiss (ND). Jezebel. Brokedown palace.

@11tulips

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On the @nytimes game-playing. “Every modern president since FDR has done an interview with the Times. That, however, is an argument deemed uncompelling by Biden aides and one that, to some White House officials, smacks of entitlement…+

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@david_hemond

1 year

Ed Murrow established CBS as a world leader in news, famously confronted Joe McCarthy before a national audience with the shame of McCarthy’s lies. Today’s CBS takes one of McCarthy’s heirs, gives her a national platform to disseminate lies. We can draw appropriate conclusions.

Bryan Behar

@bryanbehar

1 year

Sorry @60Minutes . Being a “virulent anti-semite who wants to violently destroy our Union” isn’t the same thing as being “opinionated.”

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David Hemond

@david_hemond

5 years

What do Khashoggi, Epstein, and dead children in US concentration camps have in common? A cover up and the collective shrug of mass media over crimes in plain sight.

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@david_hemond

4 months

Oh? Such funny “coincidences”.

atthebeach345 🌻🖤

@thebeach345

4 months

Fun fact: Mike Johnson campaign donor was Maria Butina's handler. Who Is Konstantin Nikolaev? Putin Ally Behind Mike Johnson Campaign Donation

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@david_hemond

4 years

Unbelievable disaster. What a metaphor for Trump. And that’s ignoring the bigger disaster that he last night he spread covid to what? Another 100? 200? Perhaps 10 dying directly - more dying because the virus will spread further, last longer. Trump is Typhoid Mary on the stump.

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Disaster in Omaha: Trump leaves supporters stranded in the cold after rally logistics fall apart. A dispatch from the ground on the chaotic scene before and after

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@david_hemond

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This lead is dead wrong. Trump knew moving the embassy would lead to violence, indeed he was warned. The truth is that he moved the embassy knowing there would be violence, in part because that violence, distracting from his now self evident treason, served his purpose.

MSNBC

@MSNBC

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. @MaddowBlog : Donald Trump assumed his decision to move the US embassy in Israel wouldn't lead to violence. He assumed wrong.

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@david_hemond

4 years

Ask: if a person was deliberately installed to destroy our country, the integrity of elections, the independent press, govt infrastructure, our alliances, natl security/healthcare, environment, would he do anything, anything different from Trump? Bannon said it was his intent.

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@david_hemond

3 years

Follow thread down. Because it’s a critical detail in the rightwing oligarch scheme against America. Then follow Jenn. Read Jane Mayer’s Dark Money. Watch Sheldon Whitehouse speeches to Senate on the Scheme. It doesn’t just seem like people are after us to destroy what is good.

[email protected] ✍🏻 📢

@jennycohn1

3 years

OMG I KNEW this critical race theory fake moral outrage reeked of Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute. Turns out I was right. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. But I didn’t know it for sure until this. 1/

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@david_hemond

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Once again, it’s somehow Sheldon who has to take the lead on the toxic brew at SCOTUS. Dems? The rest of you, all of you, need to step up. Applies to any Republican still harboring a conscience and iota of integrity, too.

Sheldon Whitehouse

@SenWhitehouse

1 year

After being seated on the Court, Justice Thomas made a friend who donated huge sums of money to his spouse’s activist group, renovated a home for his mother to live in rent-free, and funded lavish, undisclosed vacations. You know, as friends do.

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@david_hemond

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Exactly so. There’s never been such a contrast as between the high level professionalism and competence with which Biden surrounds himself and the intellectual nihilistic void of Trump’s cabal. I find it extraordinary that our media is incapable of recognizing the obvious.

Harry Godwyn

@harrygod

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@NastyOldWomyn @RickPetree @chantler_jaki @TepiZep @SecBlinken When people talk Biden v Trump it glosses over the reality that a "Presidency" is an administration. What kind of team will get on the same page for a President to accomplish something and to handle the unforeseen. Trump's kakistocracy was a disaster. Biden succeeded 🏆

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@david_hemond

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Pretty direct link of FOX to Russian disinformation. Do we really have to be stupid about this?

Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈

@jimstewartson

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Rupert Murdoch’s new fiancée—Elena Zhukov—is a Russian-American scientist who was married to a Russian billionaire. Her daughter was married to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. Rupert met her at a party hosted by his ex-wife Wendi Deng, who used to be Putin’s girlfriend.

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Kavanaugh shows no particular intelligence, insight, legal skill. Never practiced law a day. So how to explain his remarkable journey, Georgetown Prep to Yale, Deke to Rove/George W fixer, fixer to federal judge, judge to Supremes? It’s hidden rocket ship of privileged white boy.

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@david_hemond

4 years

George Carlin lit it up and it’s still burning. You’re not in the club.

MB 🌻☮️💪🇺🇸 🌊 🌈

@mrose1965

4 years

Pick one stand up comedian, past or present, who would take the 2020 story and light it up.

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@david_hemond

4 years

The State of the Union address this year is a nonevent. It merely provides a platform for a vulgar, disgraced, illegitimate, impeached executive to spew slurs, disinformation, lies. We can use that time for something entertaining or at least useful. Suggest we ignore.

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@david_hemond

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I openly call for the impeachment of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States and for his conviction for high crimes and misdemeanors including Treasonous collusion with a hostile foreign power and obstruction of justice. No time like the present.

Ryan Lizza

@RyanLizza

6 years

The President openly declares he is above the law. This statement alone would have led to calls for impeachment in a previous era.

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@david_hemond

6 years

Barack Obama, the last legitimately elected President of the United States of America.

John Lundin 🌊

@johnlundin

6 years

'We can never repay the debt': President Obama tweets moving #MemorialDay tribute after Trump praises himself on Twitter - #MondayMotivation

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@david_hemond

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Does being investigated by FBI for being a foreign asset ordinarily disqualify one from access to sensitive top secret information? To handling nuclear codes? US government has not only been shut down by this monster but our national security is absolutely compromised. Impeach.

Michael S. Schmidt

@nytmike

5 years

EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s actions so alarmed FBI after Comey firing that it began investigating if he was working for Russia @adamgoldmanNYT @npfandos

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@david_hemond

5 years

We don’t need Trump’s “state of the union”. How abt: Federal govt shut down, moribund, federal deficit up by a trillion dollars and rising, historic alliances in ruins, climate change accelerating dangerously, historic enemies enabled and advancing, racism and fascism enabled.

Scott Dworkin

@funder

5 years

BREAKING: Speaker Pelosi just told Trump in a letter that he needs to reschedule his State of the Union address, unless the government reopens this week. Main issue is security concerns due to the shutdown. Speaker Pelosi also gave Trump the option of delivering it in writing.

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As should be self-evident, the rightwing cartel looked for and identified each and every systemic weakness in our governance and set out to systematically exploit them. Why do you think they pay millions for think tanks and operatives? Why they are there at each pressure point.

Lindy Li

@lindyli

11 months

Cuz of Tommy Tuberville, military appointments are BLOCKED & the Marines face no confirmed commandant for the 1st time in 164 yrs Cuz of JD Vance DOJ appointments are BLOCKED Cuz of Ted Cruz ambassadors were BLOCKED Republicans aren’t here to govern They’re here to raise hell

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@david_hemond

7 years

Mr Gaetz, you are now on record as supporting obstruction of an investigation into treason against the United States. Have you really thought about this?

Rep. Matt Gaetz

@RepMattGaetz

7 years

"I'm calling for Mr. Mueller's resignation or his firing"

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@david_hemond

9 months

Lawrence Spivak is turning over in his grave. This was not what he created Meet the Press for. The point, as he saw it, was to use follow up questions - as long as necessary - to dig down to the truth. And Spivak was relentless and ruthless in doing so. This? It’s a mockery.

Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱

@AdamKinzinger

9 months

Allowing Trump to lie on @MeetThePress and leaving “fact checking” to the website is not how we should be treating a man who launched an insurrection. It’s 2023, we should have learned this lesson over 7 years. Ratings aren’t worth our democracy

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4 months

What is not so often stated is that it is also critically important that Dems win both houses by big margins. Which is the only way to sufficiently suppress the extremists now in control of the Republican Party. We have to say “enough, no more”.

Chloe Brooks

@BrooksChloe732

4 months

@david_hemond Trump is not going to win, and we will go thru another insurrection and years of fussing snd whining from the MAGATS.

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@david_hemond

1 year

I’m unwilling to view Thomas’ actions as “lapses” or in any way unintentional. There is no greater obligation for a judge than to remain impartial on matters that come before him. Even if we ignore “Ginni”, and Crow, and Anita Hill, Thomas simply decided he could ignore that duty

Glenn Kirschner

@glennkirschner2

1 year

Justice Clarence Thomas's ethical lapses are likely also crimes. Time for an investigation. Because #JusticeMatters

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@david_hemond

4 months

The $64,000 question, elephant in the room, is why - why doesn’t, can’t, won’t mainstream media “go there”? You know what I mean. Is it simply the rightwing bias of the rich? Their consolidation of media? Their advertisers? Threats? Phone calls to editors? The “word” went forth.

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@david_hemond

3 months

Robert’s concern isn’t hypothetical. See Cambridge Analytica campaign financed by Robert Mercer led by Steve Bannon targeting social media. Carole Cadwalladr disclosed, then was herself targeted by suppression suits. Thus reason to believe social media manipulation is ongoing.

Robert Reich

@RBReich

3 months

I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about how China might be using TikTok to steal our data and manipulate us... But why aren't we at least as worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps stealing our data and trying to manipulate us?

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@david_hemond

4 years

Trump tells Americans his Scottish golf courses are worth more than $100 million. He tells British authorities they are $65 million in the red.

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@david_hemond

7 years

Trump attacks on black men and women, Obama, Kaepernick, etc are blatant, disgusting appeals to the lowest racism. An embarrassment to all

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@david_hemond

3 years

Hope you follow Jenn - there’s no more critical issue than voting security and Jenn has been keeping us informed since forever.

[email protected] ✍🏻 📢

@jennycohn1

3 years

“That Democrats have managed to land on defense rather than offense re: election security demonstrates a catastrophic failure of Democratic leadership and messaging.” - Me

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@david_hemond

7 years

Same team that managed the collusion? Know where the bones are buried? What was Bannon doing with Cambridge Analytica and Breitbart?

Scott Dworkin

@funder

7 years

Bannon setup a team in the White House to obstruct the #TrumpRussia investigation. That's what this REALLY is. "War room" is BS. #TrumpLeaks

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@david_hemond

7 years

Mocking disabled reporter, unwarranted attack on Obama inc Birther, wiretapping lies, targeting Moslems in violat. of Const, threat nuke war

Jon Cooper

@joncoopertweets

7 years

What do you think is Donald Trump's most evil and despicable act to date? #ImpeachTrump

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@david_hemond

4 years

That’s $193 thousand. Insane. Unjust. Immoral. Unnecessary. We can fix this because it only happens here. Enough. Get mad. Take a stand.

Sam Stein

@samstein

4 years

Got the bill for my kids four week stay in the NICU. Let's just say: I'm extremely grateful for the health insurance our family has and far more fearful and frightened for those who don't have these benefits

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@david_hemond

1 year

One of life’s harsher lessons is that actions cannot be undone. My view of Stahl’s career will now always be filtered through the knowledge that she enabled mtg - providing a dangerous national platform for a fascist. That our national media has gone Fox deserves close scrutiny.

Anne

@SparksMom53

1 year

@KevinMKruse @DocJaniceL Ouch. That one stings. Is this CBS flexing its RW muscle, somehow strong-arming Stahl into a puff piece? What I can’t figure is why a journalist of Stahl’s caliber would go along w/that when, at 81, she could assert herself &, if need be, walk away. She’ll regret not doing that.

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@david_hemond

3 months

Reich 101 on antitrust. Worth a few minutes if you’re unfamiliar with this stuff.

Robert Reich

@RBReich

3 months

It's my old boss's birthday. Here's why I'm not celebrating.

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@david_hemond

2 years

Another term for Teri’s hierarchy is classism. The US remains infused with classism even as we mouth ideals of “created equal”. I was once introduced to a prominent politician who’s first question was “where did you prep.” Deeply ingrained, largely unspoken, reactionary core.

Democracy matters ☮️

@SunhouseCLG

2 years

Best thread ever.

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@david_hemond

1 year

Removing Fox, a rightwing propaganda channel, from military bases is long overdue. Nor is it any longer appropriate or safe to ignore the intent of the Fox ownership to poison political discourse. Time for FCC hearings into the abuse of public airwaves and electronic forums.

CALL TO ACTIVISM

@CalltoActivism

1 year

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: After a Fox News chyron called President Biden a "wannabe dictator", Alex Vindman DEMANDS Fox News be REMOVED from military bases! This is so good! “It is absolutely unacceptable for American Forces Network to carry programming that directly (spuriously)

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@david_hemond

7 months

While Trump doesn’t appear to be especially smart - and is oblivious of his limitations - what’s undeniable is that his 3rd - 5th grade shtick “resonates” with a critical mass of his backers. It’s at once a condemnation of the adequacy of our public education and a major red flag

The Shallow State

@OurShallowState

7 months

(1/3) Trump is unique among malignant narcissists in being of below average intelligence, inarticulate, and poorly read. Many non-political malignant narcissists (Ted Bundy) had high IQ's. And even "cult of personality" malignant narcissists (Jim Jones) were literate and sharp.

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@david_hemond

6 years

Did someone say Mar a Lago? As if Trump didn’t know what was going on? Part of what sticks in my craw is that we all know there must be only one law that applies equally to rich and poor. Trump and his cronies in crime have totally subverted and mocked that foundation. Enough.

Olga Lautman 🇺🇦

@OlgaNYC1211

6 years

This article is a must read Trump’s labor secretary was involved in this Jeffery Epstein deal that virtually let him get away after being accused of sexually assaulting dozens of teen girls. One of the girls sued Trump for rape before election but dropped the case.

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@david_hemond

9 months

This all reflects Reagan “privatization” gone amuck. The concept that government should delegate control over public policy to the corporate profit sector was always flawed. Inevitably money becomes substituted for good judgment in the public interest. We already knew this.

David Frum

@davidfrum

9 months

The US government also uses Starlink facilities for national security purposes, under a slightly different contract regime. But how confident can Americans be that Elon Musk wouldn't sabotage or betray US defense operations for his own ego or political purposes?

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@david_hemond

3 years

Congressional staff, in a nanosecond, could draft procedures according due process in their enforcement of subpoenas. Not actually rocket science. And any procedure they devised would receive substantial deference. They don’t want the hot potato. But let’s see it for what it is.

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@david_hemond

8 months

Helsinki? Oval Office? Who are we kidding? US intelligence was totally compromised from the day Trump took office. Which surely most of them knew or quickly surmised. Since the Russians know, and our intelligence agencies know, the only ones in the dark are the US public.

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@david_hemond

4 years

Social Security? Post Office? Medicare? EPA? NATO? Hey guys, what else can I destroy? Show me how this nuclear football thingy works.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

4 years

Yes. Trump is best understood as a floundering and diminished figure who is in catastrophically over his head and is clinging to whatever last pieces of driftwood he can find.

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@david_hemond

2 months

Anita did tell us. Republicans were intent on their cynical nihilistic nomination of Clarence Thomas, an African American who opposes state action to ensure equal rights for African Americans, to replace Thurgood Marshall, a powerful human rights advocate. They ignored her.

wendy wilson

@wendywi43632298

2 months

#AnitaHill was Right.

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@david_hemond

4 years

Remember when Trump told Leslie Stahl that he used the term “fake news” to discredit journalists so that people wouldn’t believe negative coverage of him? He was telling the truth. And that was news - it was just shrugged off. It’s still news.

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@david_hemond

4 years

Is this not incredible? Suppose a foreign army was on our shores, attacking our cities and McConnell sent the Senate home? This is no less heinous. We are talking about a deadly virus poised to expand exponentially - one that might still be limited if, big if. McConnell? Who me?

TrumpisTreason 🇺🇸✈️⚓ 🌊🇺🇦

@CraigCo62

4 years

Schumer rips McConnell as ‘remarkably irresponsible’ for sending Senate home without passing Coronavirus Response Act

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@david_hemond

4 months

If social security is an “enforced savings/insurance plan”, you paid taxes on the original income in your fica tax. So taxing the distribution is a double tax. Logically there’d no cap on the original tax - it should be progressive not regressive - and no tax when paid out.

Piyush Mittal 🇺🇸🇺🇦🟧🌊🌈

@piyushmittal

4 months

House Democrats reintroduce bill to drop federal taxes on Social Security benefits, extend solvency

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@david_hemond

4 years

You know the cigarette warning labels? Any commentary by a GOP shill must include a comparable warning: WARNING! Commentary by this Republican shill is generally false and may prove hazardous to your health and wellbeing. (See Kudlow, Kellyanne, Nunes, Graham, Trump, himself.)

Paul van der Meer

@Paul_VanDerMeer

4 years

Spokeswoman Kellyanne of the WH says on the 6th. of March that the Coronavirus outbreak in America is contained. 25 days later, America has almost 200,000 infected people and 4,000 deaths. Find the Fake News!

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@david_hemond

2 years

Lindsey Graham tried to strong arm the Georgia Secretary of State. Like Trump. So he didn’t just know, he “participated”.

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@david_hemond

6 months

The 1965 Voting Rights Act. 58 years later, a rightwing panel of judges rules that the dispossessed for whom it was written have no right to evoke it? Absurd on its face and not a judicial but a legislative act rewriting the law. Spiraling down a worm hole. Fascism in plain sight

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@david_hemond

2 months

There are a number of possible take aways. One is the contempt Leo is publicly displaying for the Senate. But another is to recognize that refusal to testify is an admission of the improper conduct vis a vis the Supreme Court of which he is suspected. Or why not clear his name?

Amee Vanderpool

@girlsreallyrule

2 months

Conservative activist Leonard Leo says he will not comply with a Senate Judiciary subpoena re: undisclosed travel and gifts to Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. It's cool. I hear Navarro has room in his cell for a bunkmate....

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@david_hemond

5 months

See canaries dying in coal mines. When the atmosphere becomes too toxic for life. Or in this case, for integrity.

Christopher, Esq. 🇺🇸🇺🇦

@ChrisAlbertoLaw

5 months

@GregTSargent @MSNBC @mehdirhasan Mehdi's departure from MSNBC is a huge loss. His incisive interviewing skills, as displayed in his unmasking of Erik Prince's attempts to hide collusion between Saudis, Russia, and Trump's 2016 campaign, are irreplaceable. He's an exceptional journalist.

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@david_hemond

3 years

We don’t need a “bipartisan” committee. We need a Grand Jury.

Renato Mariotti

@renato_mariotti

3 years

This begs the question: Why haven’t we created a bipartisan commission to investigate what happened, just as we did for the September 11th attacks?

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@david_hemond

2 months

Chet Huntley wrote an interesting memoir, The Generous Years, about growing up in Montana. One vibe he gives is on the importance of courage and personal integrity. Let me put it this way: “Good night Chet, good night David, and good bye NBC News.”

Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️

@tribelaw

2 months

I boycotted NBC’s “Meet the Press” today and will do so until Insurrectionist lowlife Ronna McDaniel is no longer a so-called “analyst” at NBC.

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@david_hemond

4 years

Friendly advice from one who appreciates conservative opponents to Trump. You should recognize need for structural changes once Trump and the fascists are sent packing. See Electoral College, Citizens United, Fox News, other key components to fascist takeover. Return smart debate

Bill Kristol

@BillKristol

4 years

Friendly advice from a 2020 ally to Democrats: You need to make sure Trump and the GOP own the failure of the coronavirus legislation. As jobs don't come back, schools don't open, and testing remains inadequate--that needs to be, as it should be, put squarely on the GOP's back.

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@david_hemond

2 months

The US aid, assuming it is provided, has been withheld a half year - too late for Ukrainians killed or injured in the interim - and may yet prove inadequate to the cause of saving democratic Ukraine. We have no “high moral ground here” and Johnson doesn’t get a pass in my book.😡

David Frum

@davidfrum

2 months

Nobody has ever found a reliable original source for the saying attributed to Winston Churchill, "Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else." Whatever its origin, it just proved true again today in the House of Representatives.

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@david_hemond

4 years

What better time to transition to solar? Let the Saudis eat their oil. Create domestic jobs in carbon free infrastructure, solar, wind, hydro, and efficient mass transit. Are we allowed to be intelligent for a nanosecond here?

Chris Murphy 🟧

@ChrisMurphyCT

4 years

FYI the Saudi price war is all about killing American shale. If they succeed, could be bad in places like North Dakota and Texas. But the big U.S. companies are hedged; the workers who will lose jobs aren't. Our focus needs to be on bailing out the workers, not the companies.

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@david_hemond

3 months

Since media can’t actually report on Trump’s innumerable disqualifications and loutish behavior, can it back in? I suggest the following ledes for this week: Is something wrong with Donald? Is Trump mentally fit? Did Trump conspire with Putin? Is Trump using Evangelicals?

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@david_hemond

3 months

To be clear, asking the GOP why they traffic in Russian propaganda is necessary but not sufficient. Preserving our nation requires that they be permanently removed from public office. Their aid to a geopolitical enemy - Putin - demands consequences. See Navalny. See Ukraine.

The Editorial Board

@johnastoehr

3 months

It's not enough to say that the GOP's impeachment inquiry is falling apart. It's not enough to say that they keep peddling debunked conspiracy theories. We should say clearly that the root of the lies is the Kremlin, then ask why the GOP is trafficking in Russian disinfo.

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@david_hemond

4 years

I’m sure many of you, like me, are tired and frustrated at playing the Cassandra roll - I’ve sounded the alarm since Trump was nominated, for all the good that has done. What Trump wants most now is his Krystallnacht - legitimizing violence against opponents. See Adolf playbook.

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@david_hemond

6 months

Bannon. Still walking free. Self declared Leninist. Lenin took down the Tsar. Our inability to recognize and address this poison could prove fatal. Call me “perplexed”. Or “alarmist” if you prefer.

Mutter 🌊🇺🇸 🙏🇵🇷🌊🐎

@NutterMutter

6 months

The Bannon Tape : incriminating much?

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