Lisa Rogers (also on Threads) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱

Writer of The Fearless Moderate. Believer in fairness, the rule of law, and the beauty of diversity. Christian (LDS) but not CN. #PrinciplesFirst #FearlessMods

[Lisa Rogers (also on Threads) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @FearlessMod150]

"This week’s historic sacking of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has raised critical questions about the sustainability of today’s Republican party."

Read: Is the GOP finally about to splinter?

https://t.co/nG9vL2XxiR

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

The Colorado judge created a wall of findings too high for anyone to scale and then tossed Trump a lifeline too weak and frayed for anyone to use.

She found him guilty of trying to terminate the Constitution he swore as president to defend and held that would bar anyone else from running for president.

But she then held the Framers left a loophole in the wall they built to protect our republic by naming the president as the one officer who could engage in insurrection against the Constitution without losing the chance to run again!

[Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec]

It's kind of sickening to see people on Twitter reveling in the fact that Ukrainians are having a tough time pushing more powerful invaders out of their country.

My support for the Ukrainians was never based on it being easy. This isn't some football match.

[Lisa Rogers (also on Threads) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @FearlessMod150]

@DecodingFoxNews Being arrested is part of protest culture. It's a way of going on public record with your grievance. You pay a fine and you go home. That's how it usually works.

[Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec]

"I can't admit I'm wrong about anything because that would hurt my argument and my argument is right" is one of the worst ways we can think.

[Josh Margolin @JoshMargolin]

BREAKING: #Maine shooting suspect found dead of self-inflicted gunshot. Presser tk @AaronKatersky @SashaPezenik

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

After hearing about the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, the city where he teaches, “I felt, for the first time ... that I was part of the reason America is a country where [public spaces] are all too often shooting galleries” @Tyler_A_Harper writes: https://t.co/HtHh4CUgBm

[Lisa Rogers (also on Threads) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @FearlessMod150]

Good. We'll see where it goes.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING:

Republican Congressman Anthony D'Esposito introduced a resolution to expel George Santos from Congress.

Let's go!

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

The top 5 corporate donors to the Sedition Caucus:

1. Koch Industries: $1,374,500

2. Boeing: $936,500

3. Valero Energy: $827,500

4. Home Depot: $790,000

5. AT&T: $786,900

*January 6, 2023 @CREWcrew
https://t.co/hGEjkTtqvQ

[Lisa Rogers (also on Threads) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @FearlessMod150]

Yep.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

I come from the right, and I spend most of my time on this site going after the right for how anti-democracy/pro-authoritarian they’ve become. But the past two weeks have been a real reckoning for the left. The left has an “antisemitism/terrorism is sometimes justified/Palestinian resistance from the river to the sea" problem in their house. The left has some stuff to clean up too.

[Lisa Rogers (also on Threads) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @FearlessMod150]

@jleeannis His religion is himself.

[Lisa Rogers (also on Threads) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @FearlessMod150]

Good thread.

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

This afternoon I had a conversation w/ a very savvy Jewish journalist. We were talking about the films we’ve both seen of Hamas atrocities.

The horrific murders, the beheadings, child rapes, burning of bound mothers & children…all filmed on GoPro cameras & distributed. 1/11

[Lisa Rogers (also on Threads) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @FearlessMod150]

@WomenInTheBurbs @GeriLake2 @HouseGOP I totally agree. Policies come and go. But we only have one U.S. Constitution.

[Fara Kaufman @justfara]

So, I spoke to people getting food at a food bank and here are some things I learned from those in need:
1. Everyone donates Kraft Mac and Cheese in the box. They can rarely use it because it needs milk and butter which is hard to get from regular food banks.
2. Boxed milk is a treasure, as kids need it for cereal which they also get a lot of.
3. Everyone donates pasta sauce and spaghetti noodles.
4. They cannot eat all the awesome canned veggies and soup unless you put a can opener in too or buy pop tops.
5. Oil is a luxury but needed for Rice a-Roni which they also get a lot of.
6. Spices or salt and pepper would be a real Christmas gift.
7. Tea bags and coffee make them feel like you care.
8. Sugar and flour are treats.
9. They fawn over fresh produce donated by farmers and grocery stores.
10. Seeds are cool in Spring and Summer because growing can be easy for some.
11. They rarely get fresh meat.
12. Tuna and crackers make a good lunch.
13. Hamburger Helper goes nowhere without ground beef.
14. They get lots of peanut butter and jelly but usually not sandwich bread.
15. Butter or margarine is nice too.
16. Eggs are a real commodity.
17. Cake mix and frosting makes it possible to make a child’s birthday cake.
18. Dishwashing detergent is very expensive and is always appreciated.
19. Feminine hygiene products are a luxury and women will cry over that.
20. Everyone loves Stove Top Stuffing.

In all the years I have donated food at the Holidays, I bought what I thought they wanted, but have never asked. I am glad I did. If you are helping a Family this Christmas, maybe this can help you tailor it more. It does for me!

[Heath Mayo @HeathMayo]

The House GOP is an embarrassment to the country. Now vetoing the majority’s pick because he supports same-sex marriage? Absurd.

This is not a conference that wants to govern the United States. Would a few serious people please end this train wreck for the good of the country?

[Lisa Rogers (also on Threads) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @FearlessMod150]

@BarbaraComstock @MarkMeadows @Jim_Jordan Definitely the latter. The former would be unthinkable to them.

[The Hill @thehill]

A coalition of thousands of scientists say the earth is entering “uncharted territory” with its capacity to support life “under siege.”

https://t.co/SMzJqPvpsE

[Lisa Rogers (also on Threads) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @FearlessMod150]

Hypothetically, if the House GOP were to formally fracture into two parties, would Congress be able to function? It seems like a lot of rules are based on one party having a majority, not a plurality, of seats.

Majority = >50%
Plurality = the most, whether more than half or not

[Lisa Rogers (also on Threads) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @FearlessMod150]

At what point is it fair to say the GOP is no longer the majority party in the House? Whatever they are at this point, it's not a party.

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

Tears. This is incredible. Must watch.

[Lisa Rogers (also on Threads) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @FearlessMod150]

This is excellent.

[@judgeluttig @judgeluttig]

Former Republican Administration officials from five Republican Administrations argue in this amicus brief filed yesterday in United States v. Donald Trump that the former president is not entitled to absolute immunity from prosecution for his alleged crimes