Annette

Designer and writer. Midwesterner.

[Annette @4nnette_]

@mattdpearce

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

What is the evidence that it would be prudent to prepare in this administration for a tsunami of plunder and corruption?

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[Annette @4nnette_]

@RadioFreeTom Yay! I’ll see you there :)

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Trump is Musk’s client. Musk is Putin’s client. Putin is Xi’s client.

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

All my former Republicans clients who get teary eyed over Reagan at Berlin Wall, if you supported Trump, you are helping give Putin Ukraine.

You lied and your kids and grandkids will study you as the generation of politicians who forgot what it meant to be an American.

[Adam Bennett @adambnz]

@igorsushko On Trumps phone call with Putin, he asked him not to escalate in Ukraine. Putin responded by having his media show naked photos of Trumps wife and the next day launches a massive attack on Ukraine.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Russia has assembled 50,000 russian and North Korean soldiers for an offensive in the Kursk region. The attack is expected in the coming days.

I still cannot believe that the West is just watching how these two criminal regimes kill Ukrainians.

As a kid, I remember reading a history book about how Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia in 1938 as the rest of the World just watched. I remember thinking that this would never be allowed in our time.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Any chance that the deportations are going to start with migrant employees working for Trump donors?

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

I've been involved in winning presidential races and races that lost. One common thread is that everyone seems to have a reason why you won or lost which usually reflects a personal perspective or agenda.

So here's mine: I think VP Harris ran a very good campaign that operated at a high level. She had a great convention, crushed Trump in a debate, and put on a series of big event rallies that were the best I'd ever seen.

As a Republican operative, I spent years pointing out flaws in the Democratic Party and I'm not here to say it doesn't need to go through a period of questioning and self-reflection. Those are much larger questions than one election and one campaign. But the Republican party is an anti-democratic movement, attacking the pillars of American democracy from elections to the judicial system.

I understand those who say that if there had been a "normal" Democratic primary, the results would have been better. Maybe. But think about it. In modern political history, every time a sitting VP has run for the nomination, that VP has won. Perhaps it would have been different this time and the eventual nominee would have emerged stronger for the process. But more likely there would have been a bloody primary fight that left the nominee broke and trying to patch together a fractured party to face a Republican party that has become Donald Trump's party. In all probability, VP Harris would have won that primary and been in a weakened and vulnerable position when it was finally resolved in May or June.

I would say to my Democratic friends to go through this post-election process with open minds and hearts but never doubt that the Democratic party is the only pro-democracy party in America. No one will have a position in Trump's administration who is not an election denier adhering to the Big Lie. That's toxic to a country's sense of self and the damage will take a generation to repair, if it is possible to heal.

Losing an election does not mean that you were wrong and they were right. It means you lost an election. I grew up in Mississippi watching my parents back candidates opposed to segregation. When those candidates lost, and they did for a long time, my parents didn't question if they were on the right side. They didn't ask themselves if the majority who supported segregation had proven the justness of their cause by winning.

The mid-terms start after the Super Bowl. It will likely be a good election for Democrats and then the 2028 presidential race will be upon us. After a loss, the days seem long but the months will pass quickly. Reflect, rest up, but come back prepared to fight. Fight not because victory is assured but fight because not to fight is to give up. And if we do that, we no longer deserve to call ourselves Americans.

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[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Tuskegee University announced it will no longer be an open campus and will require all guests to wear badges following a shooting during its homecoming weekend.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

If someone with felonies can be President, those with felonies should be able to vote, to secure housing, employment, and student loans.

[Gary Koepnick @garykoepnick]

Grok knows.

https://t.co/g7ihWVV507

[Megan O'Matz @MegsNewz]

If you are a federal employee, is there unfinished business — a sensitive project, a little-known but key policy, a lawsuit — you worry will be quashed? Are there records, research or databases that should be preserved? / Tips? Contact ⁦@propublica⁩ https://t.co/7hX0ZtxZJW

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

A 1.5% popular vote win--or as it'd be called anywhere else, a win--will put his margin at #50 among all 55 presidential elections in which the popular vote winner became president.

And his electoral college margin is #43 among all 60 presidential elections.

Not a landslide.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

"The people who watched Trump’s television ads... had not been harmed by a transgender person, or by an immigrant, or by a woman of color. The magic lies in the daring it takes to declare a weaker group to be part of an overwhelming conspiracy."
https://t.co/13V5qdSgKW

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Because Trump diverted scarce resources away from real public safety threats, Trump’s immigration agency ending up releasing **more** convicted criminals into the United States than the Biden administration did
https://t.co/fAintzGEVa

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

In 2020 I was one of 7 dems that won a district that Trump won, so I held a series of listening sessions with people who voted for Trump and voted for me to understand their actions. I reread the transcripts yesterday and much of it felt like it could have been said today. THREAD

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

There is too much hubris in our politics. Too many people who think they have all the answers. Let’s go out and have deep and thoughtful conversations with people. Listen to them. And then earnestly work to address their concerns and rebuild trust. 10/12

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Plans to create a vast privately-owned network of concentration camps – what could go wrong?
https://t.co/BD8HdUE6MG

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Funny how watching Russian television better helps you predict Trump’s staffing decisions than watching American television does. If in doubt follow @JuliaDavisNews

[Jess @MeetJess]

Idaho health department blocks COVID-19 vaccines

And so it begins ….. https://t.co/RWBUZyx0iv