For those who leave and those we leave behind.
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These are some of my pictures from Afghanistan.
The children in this thread didn’t work with us. They will not get out but Afghans are resilient. They will survive.
To me these kids symbolize hope in the face of fear.
@KatiePhang
Everyone involved with legislating that sadistic law and then violating her privacy by selling her out and prosecuting her should be deeply ashamed of themselves. There is nothing pro-life about any of that. It’s just sick racist classist cruelty cosplaying as moral high ground.
@Acyn
It’s a hoodless Klan rally. I can’t get over how creepy that scene is. The hive minded crowd of white identity politicians makes perfect Halloween nightmare material.
Just think, the
@SenateGOP
could have prevented Trump’s theft of TS/SCI material at least twice when he was impeached. They knew who he was. They knew what he was capable of. Then, they just chose to acquit him, and leave him in office. They should all resign in shame.
@meiselasb
I agree. It’s the type of thing that can take a candidate down a peg even if it weee just a nasty Roger Stone style dirty trick rumor. But this has witnesses, on record witnesses, witnesses willing to describe the noxious odor that emanates from Trump. That stank ain’t going away
@TheRickWilson
Why is it that the biggest douche nozzles on this platform always have “Christian” as the first thing in their bios? Are they actively trying to destroy that brand?
This creeps me out on another level - why focus on Kavanaugh when he appointed two more as well? Does he have a current count of where the justices stand on various issues he has before the court? If so, how? Or, does he have something on Kavanaugh specifically?
#CorruptSCOTUS
Habba: I think it should be a slam dunk in the supreme court. I have faith in them. You know, people like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place. He'll step up.
Queen Elizabeth was, for me, a symbol of the fighting spirit of the greatest generation and a bright light among the world’s historical figures. I feel more sad than I expected to that she’s passed.
Watch closely what the Trump family does to the RNC. This is what they’ll do to America as well. They’ll break us up, install family in key positions, pocket every bit of cash they can, then sell what remains for parts and pocket that cash too. If you’re still a Republican, quit.
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After a hostile Trump takeover, the RNC is backtracking on its plans to open 40 new outreach centers in Latino, Black, Asian American, Native American, Jewish, and veteran communities in key battleground states.
EXCLUSIVE: Recordings and emails obtained by CNN show how Trump campaign operatives realized the fake elector certificates from MI & WI were stuck in the mail, and how they scrambled to fly them to DC in time for Jan. 6. w/
@ZcohenCNN
@kpolantz
@jeremyherb
It’s really quite astonishing that we went from the most inexperienced inauthentic sociopathic and irreligious president in US history straight to arguably the most experienced, authentic, empathetic and deeply devout president in US history. We’re extremely lucky to have Biden.
Biden: I get criticized sometimes by my staff when I go and stay for three or four hours and answer all their questions because it matters. It matters a lot. People are looking something that gives them some sense of hope. If I can give a little bit of that, that's worth doing.
.
@POTUS
’ speech really was phenomenal. It was delivered at the right time, in the right place, for the right reason, in support of democratic values and democracy. Historians will look at that speech as the point when the rising tide of MAGA fascism ebbed and democracy shined
For all those who are alone today, or grieving today, or suffering through abusive families and relationships, or sorting past holiday trauma, you are beautiful human beings and I see you. Not everyone’s holiday experience is a Normal Rockwell painting. You are loved.
Bots don’t vote. Iranian troll farms don’t vote. Poll numbers don’t vote. Only people vote, and when Democrats vote, Democrats win. Don’t sweat the mouth pieces of billionaires and mafiosi who want one of their own back in power. We will vote and we will win. Again and again.
Our Wedding Photographer
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My partner and I are getting married soon. We initially planned to wed last summer until Covid coughed all over our dreams.
Though we’ve been engaged for two years we decided to do an engagement shoot with
@AimeeCustis
our wedding photographer
The GOP's star witness -- and the source for hundreds of FOX stories about the "Biden crime family" -- was an agent of Russian intelligence. Are we shocked? The Republican leadership serves as Putin's useful idiots.
@lawofruby
That’s the sound bite. And with that
@RealDonaldTrump
lost another attempt to derail his criminal trials. Trump really is surrounded by hacks and losers.
Jared Moskowitz: Then the only folks that are afraid to hear from the witness (Hunter Biden) with the American people watching are my friends on the other side of the aisle.
The problem for Trump is that he has no ability personally or organizationally to win new voters. As folks leave the cult they aren’t going to be replaced.
It’s worse for the Republican party though. When he’s gone, disgust at their irrational destructive fealty will remain.
BIG: In this Quinnipiac poll, President Biden is leading Donald Trump by 12 points amongst Independents. This is an indicator of two things, Independents don’t like Trump and Independents appreciate Biden’s economic leadership.
This is a big deal. With this,
@POTUS
isn’t just delivering on a promise, he’s making sure veterans of all political backgrounds are taken care of. He is now, and will be again, a fantastic president for All Americans.
Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding VA health care to millions more Veterans—years earlier than called for by the PACT Act.
President Biden kept his promise to my fellow veterans and their families.
He delivers.
I bet the Trump team is desperately trying to walk away from all the demands for debates after they saw what Biden did to the entire Republican congressional caucus last night. Biden would destroy Trump with a global audience watching and he’d do it with glee. They know it.
I’m gonna need to see an apology from
@hannity
,
@RepJamesComer
@Jim_Jordan
@RepBoebert
@RepMTG
and so many others to the 51 Intel officers who have just been proven correct when they claimed there was a Russian disinformation campaign involving Hunter Biden.
Biden loves this job. He loves interacting with folks on both sides of the aisle. He was made for this moment and he knows it. He’s one of America’s great presidents. I’m glad I voted for him. I’m looking forward to doing so again!
My holds are not affecting national security, no matter what national pundits are saying.
@SecAFOfficial
,
@SECNAV
, and
@SecArmy
would rather attack me in a newspaper than have an actual conversation.
Just another example of woke propaganda.
Your daily reminder: The evacuation is ongoing. No Americans have died. Four Afghans died when they stormed the Karzai airport in Kabul a few days ago. This is NOT a disaster. The initial plan failed and a contingency plan successfully went into effect. DoD and State have this
@MeidasTouch
McCarthy is really gonna want to censure Schiff now. The Democrats successfully took over the hearing and destroyed both Durham and the Republicans. How embarrassing for the
@HouseGOP
.
The ONLY reason Trump
is coming to New York on Thursday is to talk to our cameras. And I fall for it every single time. He will play the air accordion and say exactly the same thing
@nycsouthpaw
No but they are mostly NGO workers. They didn’t respond in part because they are committed to their mission and in part because they didn’t believe the Afghan government would fail. Many may still remain to work even with the Taliban in charge again because they are committed.
That was an amazing speech, against the backdrop of a belligerent, rude, and anti-democratic GOP gaggle of cowards. That was the beginning of the fight of our lives over the next 240 days. That was the leader I will follow in this fight.
#BidenHarris2024
The only reason he’s even running is to try to stay out of jail. He hates America and he hates his own cult disciples even more. He’s a quickly fading embittered old crab on the verge of losing everything. Watching his assets seized will be the most intense schadenfreude ever.
@jefftimmer
Maybe their needs to be additional work requirements for red state elected officials and paid party personnel before they get federal money.
The Texas abortion ban is a missile aimed at Supreme Court precedent. The Court tied itself knots to let it take effect. If the Court won’t honor their own precedent, whose agenda are they honoring? It’s time for Congress to codify a woman’s right to choose into law.
@CharlesPPierce
It’s an inference that seems to call out to be made. If even a handful of sources who were killed are found in or even related to the documents Trump climbed on to, then then he should be under investigation for a lot more than he appears to be right now.
In the dead of night our cowardly and illegitimate SCOTUS quietly decimated women’s reproductive rights. This is a tragic day for free people across the world and a sickening end to the promise of equality in America.
I spent all day making 300 New Orleans style pralines. Why? Because my partner is from NOLA and our upcoming wedding incorporates a lot of NOLA food and hurricane Ida destroyed the NOLA vendors we we’re working with. As if Covid hadn’t already messed with us enough. SMDH. DIY FTW
It’s the four year grift. She shows up, bilks folks out of money, damages Democrats, then pockets the cash and goes away until Russia needs her again in four years.
"It's the abandon Biden movement."
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is campaigning in Wisconsin tonight: "We feel it is entirely misleading to say Greens are taking votes away. No, we are giving people an opportunity to vote..."
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The bulk of the indictment -- nearly 50 0f the 98 pages--consists of the enumeration of 161 acts of racketeering activity in furtherance of the conspiracy.
I want to share these to put faces to the abstract debates about whether we should welcome refugees. And to give a sense of who those who will one day themselves lead Afghanistan.
Trump salutes while playing an alternative national anthem at his rally, featuring violent January 6 insurrectionists: Please rise for the unfairly treated January 6 hostages
Judge Scott McAfee had written his order on Willis and Wade early last week, according to NBC News, but because he had been receiving threats, he waited until today to make it public in order to allow for proper security to be in place for him and his family.
@MSNBC
It’s not just Florida either. The racist misogynist MAGA GOP, given the power, would institute national book bans and seek to encourage book bans globally with their authoritarian counterparts around the world.
This is taking off: A Florida county's ugly decision to ban Nora Roberts books from schools is making national news. Here's Roberts on "Good Morning America."
"Taking books off the shelves because you personally have an objection is not right," she says:
My brain willing, this is my last post, like, or RT about the non-issue of Biden’s age. The only reason it’s trending is because Biden supporters keep responding to MAGA provocations.
Let’s get back to democracy v. autocracy, reproductive freedom, and funding for 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 and 🇹🇼
Like American kids, Afghan kids are curious and rambunctious, thoughtful and generous. They dream about who and what they will be and do when they grow up.
@nytopinion
@DouthatNYT
Roberts is an absolute disgrace. Far from being farsighted, he’s creating the illegitimacy grounds to have every major matter his court has decided overturned quickly by the next less bigoted generation.
MAJOR BREAKING:
Democrat Marilyn Lands has defeated Republican Teddy Powell in a special election for Alabama House District 10 by a whopping 25 points, flipping the district from red to blue.
Lands ran on a platform that emphasized protecting abortion rights and IVF.
The Turkish Government has reportedly ordered for the Leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh and the other Senior Officials with the Terrorist Group to Immediately Leave the Country.
Bloomberg: Afghan and Taliban negotiators reached a deal for a 2-week ceasefire in exchange for President Ashraf Ghani’s resignation and the start of talks on setting up a transitional government. But it collapsed when Ghani fled the country, sources say
One of my favorite thing about President Biden is how much he clearly loves the job. He loves people too. His smiles are genuine, his enthusiasm contagious.
@Acyn
Thank you,
@RepMoskowitz
. She’s spouting Kremlin propaganda, and revolting Kremlin propaganda at that. She needs to be called out like that every time she opens her Putin loving mouth.
As if Covid, The Afghanistan withdrawal, Hurricane Ida, and suicidal horse goo swilling Republicans weren’t enough, we still have fires out west. The
#CaldoFire
had it’s eyes set on the Lake Tahoe area, one of the most beautiful areas in America. Grateful for a competent
@POTUS
.
A party of people who oppose vaccines and eat horse goo are now in charge of women’s health in America. We are no longer a serious country. It’s not safe to raise children here.
I’m completely confident that Biden will win in November. But, I hope by then the margin of his win is so decisive and brutal that Trumpism is quashed forever. He’s definitely trending down. Let’s let him go out under a blue wave the likes of which have never been seen.
Our biggest terrorist threat is domestic. If the neocons want to spend trillions promoting democracy let’s do it at home. Let’s spend two trillion dollars and two decades routing out domestic terrorists and on civics education teaching the value of democracy over autocracy.
If you’ve let your mask discipline slide, or you stopped washing your hands after touching high traffic things, mebbe rethink it a little. Vaccines keep Covid from being lethal but trust. You don’t want this.
There won’t be. No one rioted when his debt ridden home was raided. No one cares that much about any of you,
@LindseyGrahamSC
You’re a bad vaudeville act.
I feel anger but also a sense of helplessness knowing that because Trump committed this crime and has to be prosecuted Republicans will do everything in their power to destroy the prosecutors, not the criminal, and there is nothing at the moment I can do to stop their treachery.
She’s vile. This is a complete lie. She does not deserve to wear the uniform and
@DeptofDefense
should do something about that. Her disinformation is unbecoming, it jeopardizes unit cohesion, and puts our forces at risk. Is Putin her CinC?
Tulsi on NATO: They expect us to put up the lives of my brothers and sisters in uniform to protect them when they are not even willing to do that for themselves.
@MollyJongFast
@Reggiebub
The part that gets me is the propaganda they put out. They act like they’re these independent thinkers that are compelled to arrive at these unpopular conclusions by the text of the constitution. They’re martyrs to textualism when in reality they’re paid political operatives.
@soledadobrien
The interesting thing about how Twitter is feeding me information about the apparent CNN debacle - I didn’t watch it - is that I’m seeing very little of what Trump said, and a whole lot about CNN. CNN seems not to have reported or participated, but instead became the focal point.
Afghan girls love vibrant color clothes. Women have close to no rights in Afghanistan. Once these girls reach adolescence they will be hidden away from the world behind closed doors or under Burkas. But as children they play out in the open.
The Biden family dog was a bit more of a problem pooch than the White House initially acknowledged, according to Secret Service emails obtained by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch.
We lost 12 US service members today. We’re losing one US citizen per minute to Covid right now. We need to finish the evacuation in Afghanistan as soon as possible in order to focus on the bigger threat here in America. There’s been far too much needless death over the last year.
Pashtun Afghans follow a code of honor called Pashtunwali. They welcome guests into their homes and treat them like family as long as they stay. They are duty bound to protect guests with their lives if asked. They learn this form of hospitality from birth.
@ananavarro
@ememess
@Univision
The same thing that went on at Sinclair et al in 2016. Jared is using his media experience and board of directors work contacts to rig the media ecosystem for Trump. Folks should be very concerned about this. Democrats should fight back on the same turf with the same tools.