Cathy Thom

Writer, historian, policy geek, & former school board member. Musings and interesting tweets regarding politics, society, education, and life in general.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Hear me out…

Since we’re having such a hard time finding male candidates without a history of abuse, sexual assault, or rape maybe it’s time we started electing more women.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

I’m sorry, what?!

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

New: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” https://t.co/Abll3dfrMo

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

The idea that a president would send troops to polling places to intimidate voters is un-American and illegal. I introduced legislation to make sure Trump can’t get around that.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

.@SenMikeLee and Fox News host @IngrahamAngle both claimed the Patriot Affront march through DC on the Fourth of July was really an Antifa rouse.

That’s interesting. So Antifa dressed up in Patriot Affront uniforms and tricked the founder of Patriot Front, Thomas Rousseau, to lead their march. Now that’s some next level Antifaing!

Rousseau founded Patriot Front in 2017 following the rally in Charlottesville VA that resulted in the murder of Heather Heyer. He told Capital News Service in 2020 that “he believes Trump is a white supremacist who uses the same rhetoric as his group.” He added “It’s encouraging to hear him [Trump] call African countries ‘shitholes’ and say now and then that Mexican illegals are criminals and rapists, and sometimes he even utters some truth about the Jew.”

So, Senator Lee and Fox News host Ingraham say that the march yesterday (complete with confederate flags) that Rosseau led was Antifa disguised as Patriot Front. Hmmm? Perhaps it’s the other way around and it’s Patriot Affront that pretends to be Antifa (see article below).

If Lee and Ingraham had any integrity they’d tell the truth . . . the marchers in face diapers with confederate flags spewing hate and division are part of their own klan.

https://t.co/UgvHb83xUl

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

17 Republicans voted NO ON WHAT???

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

I don't care what cause you're fighting for. If you have to hide your face in broad daylight to accomplish it, you should probably rethink what you're doing.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump is using the government’s power to take ownership in private companies. It’s what Putin did.

Trump is the closest we’ve ever come to communism

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

“Socialism is the Republican word for anything that helps the people.”

~Harry Truman

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

The astounding level of racism he's casually bragging about will get little attention. It should get lots of attention.

[Cathy Thom @CathleenThom]

@DougWahl1 He’s been dead inside for decades.

[Cathy Thom @CathleenThom]

@CalltoActivism He doesn’t just think it, he knows it. Especially the ones actually there.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

They say it’s “routine maintenance” and that they’re painting the columns.

I’m betting they’re going to demo them and swap to the “orante” style Trump likes.

They haven’t followed any of the other rules, why start now?

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

when you're so embarrassed by your own team that you have to pretend it's the other team

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Jack Smith spent two years building the most serious federal cases against a president in American history. He indicted on classified documents and January 6. Both were dismissed when Trump took office. A federal judge has since permanently blocked the release of his classified documents report.

He said Thursday that the United States is facing an attack on the rule of law different in kind and scope from anything he has seen in his lifetime. He said judges can no longer trust the Justice Department as currently constituted. He said prosecutors in Minnesota refused retribution orders against families of people ICE shot earlier this year. And he said the pardons for January 6 participants send one message to those pardoned and a second, equally troubling message to every federal law enforcement officer watching.

Smith doesn't have political ambitions. He has no book to sell. He resigned, saw his work buried, and is doing press on the eve of the 250th to say what he believes the record requires.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! SAY IT LOUDER: Pastor Loran Livingston just said what your MAGA uncle's pastor is too scared to say: "There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be."

A Christian nation doesn't kill 20 million Native Americans, steal their land, and leave their descendants in poverty.

A Christian nation doesn't fight a Civil War—losing 500,000 of its own people—just to keep owning human beings.

That's not Christianity. That's conquest with a Bible in one hand and a LIE in the other.

Stop calling it what it never was. HEAT CHECK!!!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Corruption in plain sight.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

When the president gets away with raping kids, stealing thousands of classified documents, and mounting a deadly coup attempt, but an Olympian gets brought up on federal charges for pulling paint chips out of a pool, you’ve got yourself a shithole country.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: You’ve reviewed many presidential financial disclosures. What did you make of this monstrosity of 900 pages from Trump? 

Norm Eisen: “We’ve NEVER seen corruption like this in American history…Donald Trump is MONETIZING the presidency for himself, for his family, his cronies in and outside of the government, and the American people are the losers because these massive crypto deals, people have lost hundreds of millions of dollars when the value of these Trump-associated crypto currencies bottom out. Some of these companies have cratered, like ALT5 Sigma, associated with Trump’s family, with Witkoff’s family, massive losses in the value of that. You shouldn’t have a president who is regulating, or in Donald Trump’s case, failing to regulate crypto companies, or any other industry, while doing enormous profit taking…”