Anne Hawes

Be nice, it’s not hard 🤷🏻‍♀️ #FBPE 🇪🇺 EU ☮️♻️ 🇩🇰🇪🇺 Suffolk

[Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek]

It was a great week to be Labour.

Votes at 16 rightly grabbed the headlines, but there was plenty more good news for progressives.

7 things to celebrate: 🧵

[Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek]

Labour racked up the wins this week.

Lots of new initiatives to build a fairer, greener country. (Though much of it didn’t make the papers.)

7 announcements you might have missed:

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

You deserve better than the last government's deal. It wasn’t working for anyone. 

Here’s 10 ways today’s deal with the EU will benefit Britain ⬇️

[Anne Hawes @AnneBHawes]

@SydesJokes @adrianstaffor16 @TheMooseOfTruth @peterogden77 @radiotaxis_boss @carolinep0 @jenreeve190 @tesladaveb @kopite1963 @JennyFergusson1 @Bonkhead_actual @QuellaLi72 @NafoAwYeah @LisaSinNYC 🙏🏻 thanks Colin!

[OneWomanStrong @tinyhandspb]

Big #HandsOff2025 in Palm Beach Gardens right near where Trump was playing golf.
At 1,000 or more! We had all four corners lined!

[Douglas Karr @douglaskarr]

Any parent who has struggled with societal pressures on their child will be brought to their knees by #Adolescence on Netflix. It’s a masterpiece.

[Lord Sydes #NAFO #FBPE 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇸🇬🇫🇮🇪🇺 @SydesJokes]

@LesBonner2+ @sashkavp* @Martin8Mostly+ @DancesWithGits+ @OndaCivica_EU+ @SebinhoP* @paulmould1+ @GloryBS+ @anastasiascarr+ @EmyrPhillips1+ @jasmina_fella* @llttfa21+ @bub011130+ @AnneBHawes+ @Libdem__Mc+ @ludlowmortimer+ @mlaczek77* #TeslaTakeDown

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

LA protest shutting down the freeway

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

(📢) NATSEC COMMUNITY NOTE: Musk is confessing to beginning to blame Ukraine for a war Putin started—thus working to aid Putin—at exactly the moment he began having clandestine business and geopolitical negotiations with Putin.

He should be arrested.

🔗: https://t.co/eGOtD62pbB

[Anne Hawes @AnneBHawes]

@ukrainiansquad @xxxVeraGeexxx Denmark 🇩🇰

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

I am embarrassed today to be an American. As long as the useful idiot remains in the White House, I suspect that feeling will persist.

[Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek]

Labour’s had a stellar week.

While Trump and Musk embarrassed themselves more than we thought possible, there was plenty of good news for progressives.

7 things to celebrate:

[Anne Hawes @AnneBHawes]

@SydesJokes @ChrisFinlan @bretonbanquet @GraceAndersllb @40percentmayfly @JMilnerSmyth @mjmcd17 @Finbarr40 @woolner_jane @C_ClareHogan @JohannaSaunders @anrah @sebubbs69s @StephGeraghty2 @Martin16FR @LouBuchanan17 @sociomediapath @ofwcff @GoneTub @AndyGJBurge Thank you Colin- agreed 😖

[Cleophus Alexander🇺🇸 @bktexas83]

@BErickson_BIO Here is what I will do instead of all of this woe is me crap:

[Anne Hawes @AnneBHawes]

😱

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

(🧵) ELECTION THREAD: I’ve been waiting all night to say anything substantive about what’s happened, as I felt—I still do—that I might say something I’d regret.

I hope you’ll consider following along as I try to process this with you all, and try to do it responsibly. Please RT.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein.

When I was a 20 year old college student in 2000, I voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore. I loved the progressive message Nader offered, and Bush and Gore seemed kinda the same to someone who was paying peripheral attention.

I've regretted that vote for my entire adult life.

Ultimately, George Bush won by a margin of 500+ votes in the state of Florida over Gore. And that was the ballgame. Ralph Nader peeled 97,000+ votes away from Gore. If only 600 of those 90,000 had voted for the major party candidate that more aligned with their values, things would have been very different.

When I was in my senior year of college, 9/11 happened. The country and western world rallied around Bush's resolute response to the traumatizing terror attacks. I was in NY at the time, and it was a terrifying moment for the nation.

But the consequences of Bush being in office at that moment were immense.

Bush's disdain for his dad's nemesis, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, led him to invent a rationale to invade a country that literally had nothing to do with 9/11. End result? He killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, thousands of American troops, and spent over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money in the process.

Beyond the completely immoral and indefensible Iraq War, Bush was a complete disaster as a president. His "No Child Left Behind" effort turned public schools into standardized testing centers. He tripled down on fossil fuels and ignored climate change. His tax cuts for the rich helped contribute to the 2008 economic downturn that led to the Great Recession.

He was a terrible president.

In an alternate reality, Al Gore would have been president in 2001 when terrorists attacked America. Would he have gone into Iraq? Absolutely not. Would he have ignored global warming? 100% no! Gore was perhaps the preeminent proponent of fighting climate change at that time. Would he have passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy? No way.

This is a sliding doors scenario. What would have happened? We can't be sure. But one thing is for sure: those votes for Ralph Nader (in Florida in particular) were EXCEPTIONALLY consequential for the lives of millions around the world. Gore would have offered a more forward-facing, environmentally conscious & peaceful presidency that wasn't so rooted in grievance and privilege.

My point is:

Either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will win the election. That is a fact. You might feel the need to submit a "protest vote" as I did in 2000.

Just be ready to wear it when Donald Trump wins, strips away reproductive rights from all Americans, implements an economy-destroying tariff, dismantles the entire federal government, eliminates the Department of Education, prosecutes his perceived enemies, and devolves America into chaos.

There are no perfect choices. But rest assured, there are only two.

Trust me - I've been wearing my vote for a quarter century.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Gov. Walz: Tomorrow, women all across America are going to send a loud and clear message to Donald Trump. Whether he likes it or not

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

Trump says there’s no empty seats and the cameraman goes rogue

Live fact checks at trump rallies now

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Okay, the people have spoken—I will donate to @KamalaHarris and downballot Democrats $.10 for every like on this tweet, $0.50 for every retweet, and $1 for every follow. 💙

I will focus my donations on local Democrats in close races where the money can do the most good. I will cut folks off around $2,500 again.

And yes, I told my wife in advance this time 😂

(91,980 followers at the start)