From start to finish (or more likely just pause), @PeteButtigieg has been the classiest of acts. Smart, calm, unifying, kind and thoughtful. Ever a leader, he was wise and generous today in his decision to step aside when the time was right. I can’t wait for him to become POTUS.
Pete Buttigieg's answer on structural reform is far and away the most important answer of the night. If you want to get *any* of this stuff done, you have to start with structural reform so that popular majorities can make policy. Otherwise it's all going to die in the Senate.
"I just want to say there are three women up here that have fought pretty hard for a women's right to choose," Amy Klobuchar says at the #DemDebate https://t.co/C5PNJwMD9R
Asara Night, 38 years old, District Councillor for Arua Hill Division, mother of three. Violently arrested, a senior police officer kicked, stomped and used the gun butt of an assault rifle to repeatedly hit her multiple times in the torso.
#FreeBobiWine#FreeArua33
I choose to highlight stories of these women because while ordinary people's stories get lost, women at or caught in political contestations easily vanish from our tale of the day's events. #FreeBobiWine
"Some journalists have been forced to delete footage from their cameras and phones of soldiers responding to or beating protesters. Some media houses have also been forced not to show images of the political violence unraveling in different parts of the country," @ACME_Uganda
In last 2 weeks Trump has invited Russia to join G7, denied Russian interference in 2016 election, hinted at recognizing Crimean annexation, pulling out of Syria & reducing US troops in Germany. In return for these monumental concessions Trump has asked Putin to do...? #Artofdeal
Those comparing RedHen’s “Principles & patriotism over profit” stance to the bakery case miss that the Constitution’s equal protection jurisprudence applies to groups facing discrimination. White House Press Secretaries are not an historically or structurally disempowered group.