Paul Crist

Deep dives on US & international policy. Uncovering facts & history to explain policy. Former Senate staff, economist, journalist. DC native, Mexico resident.

[Paul Crist @PaulDCrist]

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These protests matter. Here’s why. https://t.co/reKkz5PbJi

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Another dark side to Guantanamo: Its history of unlawful abuse of migrants... and it's going to be much worse under Trump
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@CalltoActivism 🙋‍♀️🙋🙋‍♂️🙋🙋‍♀️✋🤚🤚👍

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Sick. Just sick. And the next say, he pkayed golf instead of calling the wife of tje firefighter who died protecting his family.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Sometimes it’s hard to believe this shit is real.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Can we get 500 retweets on this as quickly as possible?

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@FlGrownPatriot @simonateba @AOC Fact Check: your claim is baseless. She has at most $60,000 in bank and still has $40,000 in student debt

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

Justice Barrett told us what “message Americans should take home” from today’s ruling that, even if Trump’s role in the insurrection we just barely survived disqualifies him under the Constitution from ever holding office again, only congressional legislation under Sec 5 of the 14th Amendment can implement that absolutely vital ban.

The message Barrett tells us to “take home” from that fiat is that we should just chill because all 9 justices agreed that Colorado overstepped what any one state should’ve been able to do.

I’ll discuss that point later, but for now I’d stress what Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson rightly reminded Justice Barrett and Chief Justice Roberts about: as Roberts rightly wrote in Dobbs, the Court should avoid deciding any more than it needs to decide when ruling on a case.

To reach out and resolve in advance all sorts of issues that might arise in the future is to take on the role of a super-legislature, not a court of law.

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@EvansWefixbikes @lsferguson Many cases heard by Republican judges.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

COPIED FROM JOE BECIGNEUL: THIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO TICK SOME PEOPLE OFF, AND I HOPE IT DOES. BUT I’M GOING TO KEEP ON SHARING IT AND SAYING IT. AND ONCE AGAIN, I AM NOT A SWIFTIE, BUT I AM A HUMAN BEING, A DAD AND, A MONSTROUS FOOTBALL FAN.
I am extremely disappointed in so many of you who think that "not being a fan" of someone means you're entitled to shit all over them.
I want to remind you of something.
Your children are watching you complain about Taylor Swift sitting at a football game, being happy, and cheering for a man she loves in what appears to be a very loving, respectful relationship.
Your Children are watching you judge a woman for literally just EXISTING and taking up space happily.
And you know what? Ms. Swift has won 324 awards? How many do you have?
She brought $5 BILLION dollars in consumer spending and boosted the U. S. economy so significantly, that leaders from other countries actually beg for her to play there?
Did you know that there are over 20 college courses about her skills as an artist, lyricist, and musician - including at places like Harvard, Stanford & UC Berkeley?
Did you know that Taylor Swift quietly donates mass amounts of money to local food banks in every city she performs in?
AND DID YOU KNOW …
That Taylor Swift was sexually assaulted by a radio DJ, and she got him fired? When he sued HER for over $3 million for defamation, she counter sued for a symbolic $1 in a court case that took 2 YEARS for her to win. And, she did that just to show women that fighting for what's right has no price tag & to never be silent in the face of oppression.
WELL IF YOU DON’T CARE BY NOW, YOU SHOULD.
Because your daughters, nieces, and your nephews are watching you run your mouth. And they are seeing the world hate a woman who does so much good, simply because she exists in their line of sight.
DO BETTER PEOPLE.
Teach your boys to respect women. Teach your girls that as women - they are ALLOWED to take up space.
Fix it. Become aware of your words. Because we all have the ability and the obligation to fight for the future of our children with simple moments. And we need to consciously choose to be better for them.

[Paul Crist @PaulDCrist]

@CarolinaGomezA @SETACVALLARTA Carolina soy Paul Crist dueño del Hotel Mercurio. Hay un grupo de empresarios organizando para seguir inmediatamente la provisión de PrEP para las personas inscrito en el (ahora ex) programa de SETAC. Me puedes contactar WhatsApp [phone]. Hablamos

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@RebeccaAVelo @Timcast If it’s a white middle class thing, how do you explain all the trans people of color?

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@YourPunkMom @KellyScaletta It does take a certain amount of mental gymnastics to claim with a straight face that they don’t see a difference. They know.

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@KC73646807 @KellyScaletta And one could say that “it’s the Capitol, people have to work there.” But given all the congressional retirements, maybe it is the case nobody wants to work there anymore either

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@KC73646807 @KellyScaletta No, the J6 insurrection it’s didn’t burn a police precinct (there wasn’t one located between the Mall and the Capitol). The broke into and trashed the Capitol trying to obstruct a legitimate government act. People were injured and killed.

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

For the people who struggle with thinking skills, the difference between the BLM protests and Jan 6 is the objective.

The former wanted cops to stop killing unarmed Black people, and the latter wanted to overturn the results of an election.

That's why only the latter is an insurrection.

It's really not that hard if you're not a white supremacist.

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@18dixiedean78 @ActionDemocrat But I bet you took that check!

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@eTickerNews @swd2 Oh he does have a coping skill: “where’s my gun?”

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@RonFilipkowski I’m sure the only “god” he believes in is in himself… I do think he believes he is a god

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@wagner_ste17435 @GenoVeno73 Pity that no matter how deeply they look, and how many times they re-look, they just can’t find any evidence of this massive election fraud you speak of.