Dr. Renee McDonald (she/her)

IFO Democracy, human & civil rights, gun legislation. COVID isn't over. @[email protected]

[Victoria Brownworth @VABVOX]

From January 6 to an assassination attempt to intensifying rhetoric, where is political violence leading us? My latest. Gift 🎁 link. Please RT/QT.

The threat of political violence is changing our society https://t.co/JKQYjMH2EH

[Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) @froomkin]

.@ddale8: "No major presidential candidate before Donald Trump has ever lied with this kind of frequency. A remarkably large chunk of what he said tonight was just not true. This wasn't little exaggerations, political spin. A lot of his false claims were untethered to reality."

[Ted Corcoran (RedTRaccoon) @RedTRaccoon]

People are taking about the National Guard response to the George Floyd protests in Minnesota under Gov. Tim Walz.

This is how they reacted. This type of leadership comes from the top.

Listen to the way that Lt. Col. Sam Andrews handled this situation.

[Joe Jaworski @JaworskiForTX]

Absolute garbage talk in this press release. And how rich it is coming from Ken Paxton, the GURU of Texas ethics. Here’s Paxton again abusing his office to target Democrats’ campaign finance platform. No discussion of Winred and whether the leading Republican contribution platform requires a CID to ensure compliance with the law. Paxton has fully weaponized the OAG for partisan gain. That’s illegal as hell, and his attitude is “who’s gonna stop me?”

[Forrest Wilder @Forrest4Trees]

One of the most important charts for Texas: Attendance in public schools is holding steady while funding continues to drop. What we're witnessing is an historic disinvestment from public education.

[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

Wow, I'm the most dangerous little old lady of 84 you've ever heard of! Was it the blue XXXs? Too hot to read? Adult entertainment only? I wonder which satirists of ancient Rome would be banned there? And I'm banned from Russia, too! Oh alas, whatever will I do? Hit Utah with my cane?

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

UNBELIEVABLE: A Texas Ranger who did nothing while children were shot to death inside a Uvalde school has been reinstated. During the shooting, Christopher Ryan Kindell stood in a hallway and talked on the phone, telling someone, “He’s still shooting." https://t.co/2bVhgUZdDq

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

The ACLU of Texas said Wednesday it found 51 school districts in violation of the Texas CROWN Act, which bans race-based hair discrimination. https://t.co/UbmmuEri6g

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Got all the way through the Constitution and did not find the provision whereby the South African oligarchs select the vice-presidential nominees on behalf of the Russian dictator.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

If you think the media can’t be complicit with fascism, you’re in for a surprise. When I was a boy, the papers consistently amplified those politicians calling for forcible removal of all Japanese Americans from the West Coast.

We were U.S. citizens, but they didn’t care.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

A reminder that next week—because of Wisconsin’s preemption laws—local officials are allowed to ban tennis balls and hard water bottles from being allowed in the perimeter of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, but not guns. https://t.co/5lLqHpKKsL

[Dr. Renee McDonald (she/her) @RMcDonaldPsy]

@JDVance1 Ah, trying to stoke the flames at this horrific moment? Trump IS a danger to democracy & must be stopped. But Biden & reasonable people believe he must be stopped NOT “at all costs”, but at the ballot box. In a fair, democratic electoral process. Your post is shameful.

[David Corn @DavidCornDC]

Biden: Made a gaffe about Putin.

Trump: Told Putin he could do what he wants.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

I mean, at a core level, listening to us lawyers is of no more use here. We are beyond "law." We are beyond principles we studied or researched.

We can only tell you what they've done. Experts on fascism and authoritarianism can tell you how to stop the Court.

[Troy Mooney @TroyMooney]

I need a list of all of the taxes I pay in which the money I pay is still mine and only for me and my personal needs as is argued here.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Same feeling about the disinformation promoted here about the Ukraine war too

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

How significant is their influence?

Every Republican State Senator and over half of Republican House members in Texas have taken money from Dunn & Wilks.

For some Republicans, nearly HALF of their total campaign contributions are from these two billionaires.

[Dr. Renee McDonald (she/her) @RMcDonaldPsy]

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[Krus & Stern @krus_stern]

Nobel prize winner donates prize money to #Ukraine
This year's #NobelPrize in Physics winner, @MPI_Quantum Director Krausz, has announced to @Dlf_Forschung that he will donate the prize money to #Science4People. The association renovates e.g. schools in Ukraine.
#StandWithUkraine

[David Corn @DavidCornDC]

Republicans tell @alivitali that they are dejected and embarrassed by what happened today. But they were not embarrassed by the January 6 riot or Trump’s efforts to subvert American democracy and debase the national discourse? Cry me a river. #CrocodileTears