Former SDNY US Attorney Berman’s opening statement for his closed-door House Judiciary Committee testimony: Barr told him to resign or he’d be fired. Berman told the AG he would not resign. The next day, Barr lied to the American people, saying Berman had decided to step down.
hard not to think about how Trump was acquitted of impeachment charges just a month before all of this started. it was as if the universe was explicitly giving us a chance to get this guy out of here before it was too late.
So ICE, which POTUS has tried to groom as a personal police force and given more expansive mandates, is now TRAINING MILITIAS for the execution of xenophobic LARPing.
This is madness and cannot be constitutional.
Never forget that the local authorities who voted to paint “Black Lives Matter” on city streets could’ve just voted to reform their police departments.
"While some ask what religion has to do with American racism, attending to its conquest and colonization seriously compels us to ask a different question: Is it even possible to decouple religion from American racism?" asks @SikhProf.
https://t.co/KLeXMhgcTx
"We will continue our work, confident that we can accomplish more together than any of us could alone": Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation & Seminole Nation are presenting united front with #Oklahoma on #McGirt.
https://t.co/q80aD59zra
🚨BREAKING: #Florida’s reports 8,935 new #coronavirus cases for a total of 232,718—more than ALL countries, except the US.
#Florida also reports 120 new #COVID19 deaths—the most that #FL has confirmed within a 24-hour period.😰
#WearAMask@thespybrief
https://t.co/vTkOxoqnPF
Bangladesh authorities say hundreds of Rohingya refugees on a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal will not be allowed to leave unless they agree to return home
https://t.co/KiwyLV80in
Jacksonville attorneys file a lawsuit to block the city from hosting the Republican National Convention amid the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/bsVnjoyHut
They’re saying we can’t have...
-universal healthcare
-adequate testing for COVID
-proper funding for schools even under normal circumstances
-digital infrastructure to make remote learning possible for every child
But instead we must sacrifice our lives for their profit.
I have PCOS. One of the treatments for that is hormonal birth control. And I just woke up to find it’s now possible for my employer to decide if it’s immoral for me to have it.
Warning - Long tweet thread coming. I'm summing up the Harvard v. DHS complaint challenging ICE in its attempt to force F-1 students to leave the US if their courses are being offered online this fall. They lawyers did a superb job. I think you'll find this interesting.