Lisa M. Gerry

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[Senator Tim Kaine @SenTimKaine]

Thune should immediately call the Senate back into session. Trump’s unhinged threats to commit massive war crimes against Iranian civilian targets show an increasing mental and moral instability we can’t ignore.

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

Children do not start wars, but they pay an unacceptably high price.

The military escalation across the Middle East has already had a devastating impact on children.

Over 190 children have been reported killed in the region since the weekend’s military escalations. This includes 181 children in Iran, seven in Lebanon, three in Israel, and one child in Kuwait.

Children in the region must be protected.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The evidence is becoming overwhelming, even dispositive, showing that it was a US airstrike -- quite possibly guided and governed by Anthropic's AI -- that blew up an Iranian school filled with school girls, liberating 150 of them (from life).

https://t.co/K0gxybEZ5M

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Hundreds of people are dead. Little girls are dead. Six Americans are dead. Others are risking their lives. Millions across the Middle East are terrified.

It's not a video game. It's not a meme. It's not another chance to troll the libs. It's fucking war.

[Congressman Shri Thanedar @RepShriThanedar]

They don’t kill you for being a domestic terrorist.

They call you a domestic terrorist so they can kill you.

[Lisa M. Gerry @LisaMGerry]

@JDVance You’re a liar, and something is deeply wrong with you. You are unwell and not fit to serve.

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus.

It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her.

ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her.

Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable.

I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Renee Good was trying to drive away.

The ICE agent shot her twice through her side window.

The ICE agent walked away uninjured.

We all saw this on video. They all know we saw this on video.

They're lying about it for the same reason they lie about everything: they think they can get away with anything, even murder.

They are despicable, garbage human beings.

[Lisa M. Gerry @LisaMGerry]

@tedcruz Normal, healthy humans don't find the suffering of others funny. You've debased the office you hold. You are sick and need help.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump is mobilizing the National Guard against Americans in DC to distract you his administration's massive Epstein Files cover-up.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

This is the President using the IRS to punish people for free speech

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Times journalists have covered authoritarians all around the world despite threats. In Marty Baron's phrasing, we're not at war but at work. I've been banned from a number of countries "for life," but it always turns out not to be my life. Autocrats often don't have the shelf life they expect.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

The issue is not the deportations. The issue is that the government is disappearing people to a foreign concentration camp that no one has ever left - a life sentence without a conviction.

It's telling that none of you are even trying to defend that part.

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

Trump’s defiance of the Supreme Court threatens all of our rights. I will continue to press for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real.

The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error."

They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence.

The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release.

But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more.

The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border.

But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit.

Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The world’s richest man has decided that the world’s richest country shouldn't help some of the world’s poorest people.

This is blatantly illegal. An unelected billionaire cannot simply shut down federal agencies authorized by Congress at will.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This is Trump’s first major loss.
When we fight, we win.

We may not have majorities in the House and the Senate, but we DO have the power to loudly educate and mobilize against the mass looting the Trump admin is attempting against our veterans, healthcare, education, and more.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Less than 2 years ago. Trump bragging that he tried to ban TikTok 3 years before but Democrats stopped him.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we reflect on the fact that the journey of our democracy is difficult and ongoing – and the distance is short between peril and possibility.

But we must keep it going.

Our march toward a more perfect union continues.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

For real oligarchy (the richest handful of citizens running the country for their personal enrichment) to survive, the billionaire ruling class needs state controlled media.

Here's the first no apologies play - Trump wants to use government $$ to give him control of TikTok.