Andrea Perry Lerner 🌻

Relentlessly Useful Unitarian Universalist, connecting you with all sorts of resources, speaking for myself.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump suggests January 6 was an inside job: "The FBI said, 'Go in, Go in!'"

(Trump in fact was president during January 6 and he hand-picked the leader of the FBI.)

[Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn @JonathanCohn]

Two of my favorite German words are schadenfreude ("pleasure in the misfortune of others") and fremdscham ("vicarious embarrassment").

If you combined them, you'd have a word to say "I'm embarrassed for you right now, but I'm loving every minute of it."

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

In the eyes of a man like Trump, that’s what women are supposed to do-just smile and look pretty and tell him how great he is. No surprise coming from a serial sexual abuser, but grotesque to watch, all the same. He makes my skin crawl.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Metro Atlanta district attorneys sued to block a new Georgia law that strips party labels from district attorney and other local races in five Democratic-leaning counties, arguing the measure is an unconstitutional attack on Black and Democratic voters. https://t.co/jeUyfcPzFD

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

“ hatred in her eyes”

The president is not an emotionally stable person

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The new leadership at CBS News told 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley "to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.”

Democracy Docket's only bias is being pro-democracy. Support its work and expand its reach by subscribing now. https://t.co/QNEWjNnxKD

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

President Trump signed an executive order reclassifying about 8,000 senior federal workers and making it easier to fire them for any reason, despite criticism that the move would politicize the civil service. https://t.co/DCuIRVEv6d

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Even if crooked Trumpsters try to weasel their way back out of their rotten ‘cop-beaters slush fund’ deal, they still have to deal with the equally rotten Trump family business-and-personal tax/crimes amnesty. This ain’t over until ALL of it goes away.

But wait, there’s more! 🧵

[James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis]

"We have a vaccine that prevents shingles, a vaccine that markedly lowers the risk of dementia, and a vaccine that might even slow aging itself. Conveniently, these three vaccines are actually just one: the shingles vaccine. But fewer than half of eligible Americans have received the vaccine." https://t.co/VKyZMDHJdj

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

If Big Brother doesn’t like your science topic you won’t be funded and if Big Brother doesn’t like your results you will be defunded. A recipe for backwardness that seems to be designed by people who want America to humiliate itself and collapse.
https://t.co/jkrWZcTZL9

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: A convicted Jan. 6 rioter who later said that he regretted his participation in the U.S. Capitol attack has been hired by the Trump administration to work inside a Pentagon office that manages highly classified military operations. https://t.co/3OtllgCSWP

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

Jesus, Mike @MikeRogersForMI. Does it hurt? Having this much pathetic vanity, I mean.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Sen. Merkley: You've expressed that no one died as a result of the sudden shutdown of USAID. Experts estimate that over 500,000 children have died from that sudden shutdown. If you were to walk across this country, you'd see one dead child every 30 feet. That's the level of carnage.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

BLANCHE: The president chooses to pardon is not a problem, period

IVEY: What's the legal basis for that?

BLANCHE: The Constitution

IVEY: The Constitution does not give him the authority to pardon in exchange for payments. It does not permit bribery

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The Trump administration is DISMANTLING the network of buoys that help California monitor for major tsunamis and earthquakes.

Cool.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

PETERS: Yes or no, do you think it's right for a president to approve disaster aid based on whether a state voted for him instead of the amount of damage in the state? This chart behind me is pretty dramatic

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: That's not my experience of the president

PETERS: This chart speaks volumes

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Appointing Pulte, who has criminally targeted Trump's opponents and has zero experience, to be Director of National Intelligence, shows we have a mafia government.

The naked corruption is crazy and frightening.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @ChrisMurphyCT: When Trump came into office, ICE's budget was $10B. Today, with the obscene cash infusion this Republican Congress has given your agency, ICE's budget is now 11 times that. $115B. Taxpayers entrust their money to us to spend it wisely. We swear an oath when we arrive here to assure that their money is not used to fund unconstitutional or illegal behavior. Every single day ICE is violating the Constitution and the law.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Booker to Rubio: We are the strongest nation on the planet and we're in a stalemate with Iran, and now we're begging to get back into a deal that you all trashed in the first place.