NEW: 47 states have introduced over 360 bills this year to make voting harder - that’s 109 more restrictive bills since we last reported on February 19.
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I sought a nominee for the Supreme Court with exceptional credentials, unimpeachable character, and an unwavering dedication to the rule of law. Meet my nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Find all the lawyers who violated their professional responsibilities in the wake of the election and ensure they face discipline, including possible disbarment.
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a for-profit health care system is when you and your employer pay $20,000 a year for a family plan then have a 50% chance of going into medical debt anyway.
All so some middle-man insurance exec can get a third yacht
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Kudos to @LastWeekTonight for getting to the nitty gritty of how this panic over CRT is an old trick out of a very old racist playbook.
Here’s the gist of it (1/5):
Walgreens said it would pause donations to Sedition Caucus members after the insurrection. So why have they donated to 11 of them now?
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If you view the current Republican Party as a continuation of the anti-democratic forces that have been at work in this nation since before the founding, you realize they'll never give up.
Slavery was anti-democratic.
Racial segregation was anti-democratic.
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We’ve got to stop adopting the right wing’s terminology. The issue isn’t “CRT”; it’s whether we teach real history or lie to our kids. When the right invents bogeymen and we spend all our time talking about them, we’re playing their game. We’re legitimizing their insanity.
Actually, no.
Reality is reality.
Perception based on false information is not reality.
This is what the right-wing did with voter "fraud." They created the illusion of a problem and then demanded a solution (change the laws).
The DOJ's obligation is to follow the law.
Yesterday’s votes were a BFD not only because we passed Infrastructure, but also because we passed the rule that allows #BuildBackBetter to be voted on by Nov 15. Passage of the rule was critical. That would not have happened without the extraordinary leadership of @RepJayapal.
19/ When forced to stop jailing so many of its own children, Rutherford County ramped up its pitch to detain kids from other places.
The county charges $175 a day for each kid they jail.
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14/ One commissioner, who used to work in a post office, came up with the charge of “criminal responsibility for conduct of another.”
The problem? There’s no such charge.
These kids were charged with a crime that doesn’t exist.
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Three police officers went to an *elementary* school in Tennessee & arrested four Black girls.
One girl fell to her knees. Another threw up. Police handcuffed the youngest, an 8 yo with pigtails.
Their supposed crime? Watching some boys fight — and not stopping them. (THREAD)
NEW: Facebook refused to identify the Proud Boys as a hate organization "out of concern that the Proud Boys had backing in the Republican Party."
- a data scientist tells @lizzadwoskin