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Not 1 segment tonight on #lastword about the arrested former FBI agent who was behind the threat to leak the 2nd investigation into #butheremails which forced Comey to go public w the 2nd investigation right before the 2016 election. Same guy who said there was no collusion…
2/he was also working on the #muellerinvestigation
After his retirement, he worked w 🇷🇺 oligarch Oleg Deripaska, Sergey Shestakov, & a 3rd person to investigate a rival Russian oligarch in return for payments from Deripaska,& then tried to conceal Deripaska’s involvement…
After his retirement, he worked w 🇷🇺 oligarch Oleg Deripaska, Sergey Shestakov, & a 3rd person to investigate a rival Russian oligarch in return for payments from Deripaska,& then tried to conceal Deripaska’s involvement…
This article is way too long to repeat here, but the breadth of her knowledge & expertise on 🇷🇺& Putin is fascinating— its a must read! Give her ALL the jobs!
Pertinent parts follow. I use abbreviations & emojis when poss to save character space.
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Pertinent parts follow. I use abbreviations & emojis when poss to save character space.
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2/…If Putin wants Ukrainian territory so badly, why is he raining down such destruction on civilian areas & committing so many human rights abuses in occupied areas?
Hill: This is punishment, but also perverse redevelopment.
Hill: This is punishment, but also perverse redevelopment.
3/You cow ppl into submission, destroy what they had & all their links to their past & their old lives, & then make them into something new &, thus, yours. Destroy 🇺🇦 & Ukrainians. Build New 🇷🇺 & create Russians. Its brutal but also a hallmark of imperial conquest.
So where is Durham’s final report? Y’all know he quietly ended his “investigation” after nearly 4 yrs & several million 💵 without 1 arrest of a Democrat from President Obama’s admin & he lost the case he brought against an HRC atty for lying to FBI?
2/purportedly Bill Barr tasked Durham to investigate whether any fed official, employee, or any other person or entity violated the law in connection w the intel, counter-intel, or law-enforcement activities directed at the 2016 presidential campaigns, individuals associated w…
3/those campaigns, & individuals associated with TFG’s admin, including but not limited to Crossfire Hurricane & the investigation of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III.
#TheMoreYouKnow #DeadlineWH #thebeat #TheReidOut #maddow #LastWord
Hilla fuckin hilarious
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Hilla fuckin hilarious
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2/warrant that shows he is reportedly under investigation for possible identity theft, conspiring to damage a protected computer connected to a suspected voting equipment security breach, & conspiracy to defraud the United States.
3/Plaintiffs," Judge Tostrud wrote, "have not served Defendants [Garland and Wray] with the Complaint, or at least Plaintiffs have not yet filed any proof of service."
That was just the first slap.
That was just the first slap.
“WE COULDN’T BELIEVE there were enough people to walk alongside them. One morning we woke up from an uneasy sleep and there was no more laughter…It mustn’t happen again. We can’t let it. We simply can’t let it happen again.”
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
“California [will] make our own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to all…
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.”
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.”
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
“Freedom is under attack in [Florida]… In California [we] still believe in #freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom to choose. Freedom from hate. And the freedom to love. Don’t let them take your freedom.”
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022
@GavinNewsom:
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022
@GavinNewsom:
Pat Cipollone: The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark.
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Liz Cheney: The night before #January6th, President* Trump instructed Mark Meadows to contact both Roger Stone and Michael Flynn regarding what would play out the next day.
#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
Cheney: Did Rudy Giuliani [seek a] pardon related to January 6?
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
“That could be their vehicle to impose a NATIONWIDE BAN on abortion—on the order of the U.S. Supreme Court… They will now wield [power] however they want…to change the country however they want without restriction, and you must do what they say.”@maddow
“What makes people think that this radical conservative Supreme Court…would allow Congressional law protecting #RoeVWade? I’ll tell you the answer: THEY WON’T…as long as we let these 6 conservative theocrats control our country…”
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
“[Ben Wattenberg 1987 book says] ‘60% of fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that 60% alive, that would solve our birth dearth.’ Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesn’t, I want to know why it doesn’t.”
Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott
Just 3 minutes after President* Trump’s #January6th tweet at 2:24pm about Mike Pence lacking “courage,” a mob of his supporters quickly filled the Capitol.
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
“Dr. Eastman and President* Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was…a coup in search of a legal theory.”
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
“I've lost my name [and] sense of security—all because a group of people…scapegoat[ed] me and my daughter Shaye, to push their lies about how the Presidential election was stolen.”
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
“President* Trump…followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani—to just claim he won and insist the vote counting stop. To falsely claim that everything was fraudulent… Millions of Americans believed him.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“The Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false; yet, they continued to barrage small dollar donors, encouraging them to donate to ‘The Official Election Defense Fund.’ @January6thCmte discovered NO SUCH FUND EXISTED.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“I said to him: ‘Are you out of your f—ing mind?’ I said, ‘I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: ORDERLY TRANSITION.’”
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen…which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshit… The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.” Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: “Did that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?”
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
“Any legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States — all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.”
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
It was easier for a 13-year-old boy to buy a rifle from a private seller at a gun show than to buy beer, cigarettes, porn, and lottery tickets. (🎥:#RealSports 2014)
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
“We are at a point [where] we are going to have to mobilize a greater movement… Until the redemptive power of the love for all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns and money, [nothing] is gonna change.”@CoryBooker
“Women and mothers have political power… We need to use our voices and our votes [to] demand change, and if our lawmakers don’t act, hold them accountable— [the] unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism.”
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
“Justice Roberts has said that the Supreme Court can self regulate. That’s simply not true. We’ve got one sitting Justice whose wife has been shown to have been planning the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.”
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
“Justice Clarence Thomas [at AEI 5/13/22] bemoaned the leak of the SCOTUS opinion that will likely overturn Roe v Wade, [claiming] that when you lose trust in an institution, it changes that institution fundamentally.”
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
“Out of 75+ scholar citations, only 4 are women. Out of 90+ judge/justice citations, 5 are women. ‘Justice’ Samuel Alito cites HIMSELF 6 times. And this [SCOTUS opinion] would effectively govern the bodies of millions.”
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
Dear MSM:
I want to know how purportedly the DEMS are facing more pressure over the conservative Judges who 🤥 to get their stolen seats on SCOTUS overturning #RoeVWade than the #rethuglicans who by🪝or by crook put them there? This some straight up BS! #11thHour #bodyautonomy
I want to know how purportedly the DEMS are facing more pressure over the conservative Judges who 🤥 to get their stolen seats on SCOTUS overturning #RoeVWade than the #rethuglicans who by🪝or by crook put them there? This some straight up BS! #11thHour #bodyautonomy
2/ #MoscowMitch & his gang of thugs stole those seats right out from under us & the so-called protest voters in 2016 started this ball rolling along w #TraitorTrump & 🇷🇺 who interfered not only in 2016 but also in 2020 elections. TFG sycophants downplayed Russian involvement
3/in both elections. They purposefully withheld info, changed intel reporting & watered down election info & the IG found DHS altered reports on Russian interference in 2020 election in part because of politics.
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“We now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.” Jamie Raskin
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what “is being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on board… to take the next election regardless of who wins.”
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
“In America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortable… If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.”
@Trevornoah #WHCD
@Trevornoah #WHCD
We'll never know how many would've benefited if the TFG’s administration hadn't undermined the U.S. pandemic response, putting politics over policy. #Maddow #TheReidOut #inners #thebeat #LastWord #DeadlineWH @maddow @NicolleDWallace @JoyAnnReid @Lawrence
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2/TFG’s administration engaged in "deliberate efforts" to undermine the US response to the coronavirus pandemic for political purposes. Report, prepared by the House select subcommittee investigating the nation's Covid response, says the WH repeatedly overruled public health…
3/& testing guidance by the nation's top infectious disease experts & silenced officials in order to promote TFG's political agenda.
#Maddow #DeadlineWH #TheReidOut #theSundayShow #crossconnection #velshi #inners #LastWord #thebeat @maddow @JoyAnnReid @NicolleDWallace @Lawrence
#Maddow #DeadlineWH #TheReidOut #theSundayShow #crossconnection #velshi #inners #LastWord #thebeat @maddow @JoyAnnReid @NicolleDWallace @Lawrence
Watching @AOC's live Instagram feed right now and she's relaying how she was hiding in her office bathroom as the Insurrectionists were elsewhere in her office screaming "WHERE IS SHE?! WHERE IS SHE?!"
She was mere moments - and yards - away from losing her life.
She was mere moments - and yards - away from losing her life.
Okay the story just gets weirder. The man who was yelling that with so much hostility was actually Capitol Police Officer. So hostile that she wasn't sure whose side this officer was on.
The Capitol Police Officer told her and her staff member to go to a certain area in the building. But it only brought them closer to ground level where a lot of the chaos was.
She was truly fearful for her life during all of this.
She was truly fearful for her life during all of this.
GOOD!
MORE OF THIS!
Trump's insurrection is costing the GOP voters.
"In Miami-Dade...more than 7X as many Republicans as Democrats changed their party registrations in the aftermath of the violence. The ratio was almost as high in Palm Beach County."
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MORE OF THIS!
Trump's insurrection is costing the GOP voters.
"In Miami-Dade...more than 7X as many Republicans as Democrats changed their party registrations in the aftermath of the violence. The ratio was almost as high in Palm Beach County."
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A *2nd* data point to show that the GOP is hemorrhaging voters.
In Orange County, CA, they "lost 8x more voters than it gained after the violence in D.C., with 600 GOP voters lost from Wednesday to Friday".
They *gained* voters the month prior.
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In Orange County, CA, they "lost 8x more voters than it gained after the violence in D.C., with 600 GOP voters lost from Wednesday to Friday".
They *gained* voters the month prior.
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And now a 3rd instance of reporting from Pennsylvania:
"Staff reported a spike in phone inquiries after Wednesday’s riots, and 'virtually all the people calling were people saying ‘I no longer want to be a Republican, how I do change it.’”
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"Staff reported a spike in phone inquiries after Wednesday’s riots, and 'virtually all the people calling were people saying ‘I no longer want to be a Republican, how I do change it.’”
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“When I read things like that I want to talk to @MalcolmNance
@Lawrence on #WaPo CIA Assessment of “Putin probably directing influence operation to denigrate Biden” @TheLastWord
@Lawrence on #WaPo CIA Assessment of “Putin probably directing influence operation to denigrate Biden” @TheLastWord
“...the KGB, for 70 years used all of its deep academic studies & analysis of the United States to determine how they would move forward in propaganda & political warfare...”
@MalcolmNance @TheLastWord
@MalcolmNance @TheLastWord
On Friday, September 18, 2020, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a women's rights icon, died at 87.
💔😥🌹🙏🏼🇺🇸💙💪🏼🌈
#HonorRBG's #LastWish❗️ #MoscowMitch
💔😥🌹🙏🏼🇺🇸💙💪🏼🌈
#HonorRBG's #LastWish❗️ #MoscowMitch
Her storied 27-year tenure as the 2nd woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court followed a lifelong dedication to advancing the rights of women. In particular, her work to protect, defend, and advance abortion rights and access.
💔😥🌹🙏🏼🇺🇸💙💪🏼🌈
#HonorRBG and her last wish❗️
💔😥🌹🙏🏼🇺🇸💙💪🏼🌈
#HonorRBG and her last wish❗️
She saved the lives of countless individuals who were previously forced to seek unsafe abortion care.
Days before her death, Justice Ginsburg told her granddaughter, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed.”
💔😥🌹🙏🏼🇺🇸💙💪🏼🌈
Days before her death, Justice Ginsburg told her granddaughter, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed.”
💔😥🌹🙏🏼🇺🇸💙💪🏼🌈
They are asking for #FairHearing. What happened to #FairHearing when he:
1. evicted state civil servants from their Government quarters against a court order
2. demolished the house of my classmate, Inuwa Abdulkadir, #LifeBencher, against a court crder
#ElRufai2020Cancelled
1. evicted state civil servants from their Government quarters against a court order
2. demolished the house of my classmate, Inuwa Abdulkadir, #LifeBencher, against a court crder
#ElRufai2020Cancelled
3. demolished Durbar Hotel Kaduna against a court order.
4. demolished ‘Kasuwan Barci’ against a ourt order.
5. demolished the House of Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi against a court order.
#ElRufai2020Cancelled
4. demolished ‘Kasuwan Barci’ against a ourt order.
5. demolished the House of Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi against a court order.
#ElRufai2020Cancelled
6. sacked thousands of Kaduna teachers against a court order.
7. disregarded a court order to conduct LG election at a stipulated time & did it at his time.
8. Disregards fines imposed by the courts against his govt
#ElRufai2020Cancelled
7. disregarded a court order to conduct LG election at a stipulated time & did it at his time.
8. Disregards fines imposed by the courts against his govt
#ElRufai2020Cancelled
JFC
How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air” | Vanity Fair vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/h…
How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air” | Vanity Fair vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/h…
2/On March 31, 3 wks aft @WHO designated #coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, a DHL truck rattled up to the gray stone embassy of United Arab Emirates n D.C., delivering precious cargo: 1M Chinese-made diagnostic tests for COVID-19, ordered at the behest of the Trump admin.
3/Normally, fed gov purchases come w detailed contracts, replete w acronyms & identifying codes. They require sign-off from an authorized contract officer & are typically made public in a U.S. gov procurement database, under a sys intended as a hedge against waste, fraud &abuse
Pt 1. Psychiatrist on Trump’s ‘dangerous’ response to #coronavirus crisis.
#2020election #BernieSanders
#ElizabethWarren #AmyKlobuchar #JoeBiden #PeteButtigieg #AndrewYang #FreedomDividend #MedicareForAll
#DonaldTrump #LastWord
#2020election #BernieSanders
#ElizabethWarren #AmyKlobuchar #JoeBiden #PeteButtigieg #AndrewYang #FreedomDividend #MedicareForAll
#DonaldTrump #LastWord
Pt 2. Psychiatrist on Trump’s ‘dangerous’ response to #coronavirus crisis.
#2020election #BernieSanders
#ElizabethWarren #AmyKlobuchar #JoeBiden #PeteButtigieg #AndrewYang #FreedomDividend #MedicareForAll
#DonaldTrump #LastWord
#2020election #BernieSanders
#ElizabethWarren #AmyKlobuchar #JoeBiden #PeteButtigieg #AndrewYang #FreedomDividend #MedicareForAll
#DonaldTrump #LastWord
Pt 3. Psychiatrist on Trump’s ‘dangerous’ response to #coronavirus crisis.
#2020election #BernieSanders
#ElizabethWarren #AmyKlobuchar #JoeBiden #PeteButtigieg #AndrewYang #FreedomDividend #MedicareForAll
#DonaldTrump #LastWord
#2020election #BernieSanders
#ElizabethWarren #AmyKlobuchar #JoeBiden #PeteButtigieg #AndrewYang #FreedomDividend #MedicareForAll
#DonaldTrump #LastWord
🚨'I think I’d take it”—Trump says he’d take help from a foreign govt offering dirt on 2020 election opponents. This is an admission he was in 2016 & continues to be aligned w/ adversaries like Russia who criminally attack our country. abcn.ws/2WIvZef #ImpeachTrumpNOW‼️
‼️“I’ve never called the FBI in my whole life. That’s not what you do.” Trump says he wouldn’t even call FBI if Russia or any hostile foreign power called offering dirt.
Sorry. This isn’t “norm-busting.” This is a criminal screwing his country. #Maddow
Sorry. This isn’t “norm-busting.” This is a criminal screwing his country. #Maddow
‼️Trump is so lawless, he just openly admits collusion! Accepting help from Russia now is clearly willful & thus criminal. WORSE, he just INVITED Putin—who works to subvert democratic elections around the world—to subvert ours—AGAIN! And look at his pathetic excuses. JFC #Maddow
The square bracket might be the most consequential #punctuation mark in US history. #Barr's [T] shows he OMITTED the opening portion of this KEY #Mueller sentence in his summary. Something came before "[T]he investigation did not establish..." #ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport thread 
Why did #Barr shorten the most exculpatory quotation in his summary? It's not as if he had a tight word count. If #Mueller completely cleared Trump & others, why not include the full sentence?
And why did #Barr the quote the sentence in such a way that he needed to show he'd changed a lower-case to upper-case T? He could've written: The report states that "the investigation ... " and avoided the fussy [T].
