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Living and loving in LA

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

1. Does anyone believe for one minute that McCarthy would help elect a Dem speaker “for the institution”?

2. McCarthy’s hubris is a theme. He loudly stated he wouldn’t negotiate w/Dems, called virtually none, trashed those who helped w/CR, and then expected Dem votes for free?

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

A new poll just found that a MAJORITY of Americans believe that Donald Trump should be disqualified from running for president under the 14th Amendment.

Are YOU a part of that majority?

YES or NO?

[Mattia Nelles @mattia_n]

.@TimothyDSnyder was asked why Russia chose a genocidal war against #Ukraine and provides this sharp answer 👇

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Mitt Romney sent this text to Mitch McConnell on Jan. 2, 2021:

"In case you have not heard this, I just got a call from Angus King, who said that he had spoken with a senior official at the Pentagon who reports that they are seeing very disturbing social media traffic regarding the protests planned on the 6th. There are calls to burn down your home, Mitch; to smuggle guns into DC, and to storm the Capitol. I hope that sufficient security plans are in place, but I am concerned that the instigator—the President—is the one who commands the reinforcements the DC and Capitol police might require."

McConnell never responded.
https://t.co/zrnnHuZzjS

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

If you want to make America BETTER, you vote for Biden. If you want to make America WORSE, you vote for Trump. It’s that simple.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

No doctor, no White House aide, no foreign leader, no person who has worked with Biden, NO CREDIBLE SOURCE, has ever said Biden isn’t fit to serve and that his age is a problem. The only people saying he’s “sleepy” are Republicans.

They made this issue up. Don’t fall for it.

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

People get arrested on golf courses all the time.

Just saying.

[General Putnam @GeneralPutnam2]

Kushner's phone call to Erdogan the night before Khashoggi's brutal butchering. Our abrupt withdrawal from Syria, giving airbase & Kurds' oil shale to Putin, & hapless Kurds to Erdogan.
Then Kush gets $2 billion. Tidy, eh?

[HornetFez🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧⚽🏉🎯🏍🍺🤘🦅⚛️ @Hornet_Fez]

@RpsAgainstTrump

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

This is an incredible takedown that shows just how much of a fake grifter Vivek Ramaswamy is.

It’s even crazier than you think.

(@/DrivenProgressive on TikTok)

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

A growing number of legal scholars say Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from holding public office again due to his role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and encouraging his insurrectionist supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol.

Raise your hand if you agree! ✋

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

WHO thinks there's something VERY satisfying when karma strikes? 🙋‍♂️

[David F. @NJGuitarBoy]

When SIXTY judges, including numerous Trump appointees, tell you the election was not rigged, and you still think it’s rigged, that’s how you know you’re in a cult.

[rick @LAlivingRW]

@joncoopertweets At least double that plus an extra year for that ridiculous hair of his.
So that would be 44yrs + 1yr = 45 years.
Yep, sounds fitting.

[rick @LAlivingRW]

@latimes Only a prick would stoop to human trafficking to score political points.

This is kidnapping and Bigot Abbott should be arrested.

[Ontja Huscarlnäherin @OntjaH]

@ActionDemocrat Like it has always been...

[Caleb @CalebJustinFL]

@nickreeves9876 @RpsAgainstTrump It's because birds of a feather flock together.
Both are Billionaire scammers.
Both took products others invent, overhype that product and make a killing.
Watch and learn.👇👇👇https://t.co/qNXRlEFSWN

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

A Ukrainian boy is giving the flag that draped his father’s casket at a military funeral.

The boy is clearly in pain.

Never forget that Russia is a terrorist state!

Via @Lyla_lilas

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Vote for the guy who’s never had his mug shot taken, never been indicted, never been arrested and never had to post bond.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

"Putin, having accidentally received great power into his hands, has used it with catastrophic consequences for Russia. And I don't love him because he doesn't love people. He cannot stand us. He despises us. He thinks we're the means for him, that's all. The means to reach his own goals in power. And so he's allowed to do anything to us - play as he sees fit. That he can destroy us however he wants. That we're nobodies. And he, although he climbed on top accidentally, but now a tsar and a god, whom we should worship and fear." - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and human rights activist.
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She would have been 65 today.

Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the entrance of her own building on 7 October, 2006 - on Putin's birthday.

The persons who ordered her murder have not been found to this day.