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[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

Liz Cheney on Donald Trump: “While the attack was happening, he was handed a note. The note said…a civilian had been shot…He put it on the table in front of him, and he continued to watch the attack…That’s depravity. And that person can never be near the Oval Office again.”

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: After Trump made fun of President Biden for stuttering, the Biden campaign released this video of Biden working with a young boy who has a stutter. Retweet to show the entire world the difference between Biden’s kindness and Trump’s indignity. https://t.co/CfrijUtWzM

[Conspiratorial Templates @mynamehear]

Obama should walk up to Trump and slap the shit out of him while calmly repeating "presidential immunity," just to see how committed Trump is to this charade.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

MAGA cultists are morons. Absolute morons.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

C-Span caller: “I registered as Republican because I’m conservative, and I’m going to vote for Joe Biden because I’m a Christian.”

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Oddly, Hur’s report didn’t mention the president’s quick wit.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

This is so true, it's BRILLIANT. 👏🏽

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

At a campaign rally in Georgia, Trump mocked President Biden’s stutter. Again.

While Trump gives a new meaning to the term “bully pulpit,” the dim glow of the newsroom has taught this reporter that there are things the media can do when a candidate’s speech turns to vitriol:

Hold up a mirror to every instance of Donald Trump’s bullying, to his “Truth Social” posts, his rally tirades, his late-night rants. They should all be divulged to the public for scrutiny.

To combat the difficulty of covering Trump’s absurdities when they become too repetitive, here are a couple of thoughts:

The media should examine the effects the taunts have on members of groups Trump has targeted.

Think of the people who might be harassed because a bully who is also a presidential candidate says it’s ok.

The media could also highlight data that shows how bullying negatively impacts society as a whole, much like hate speech.

Most importantly, don’t allow any candidate to normalize bullying tactics. Call them out on it. Right away. Every time. 

Meantime, let us hope that the gentle forces of kindness and empathy — or at least civility — may prevail.

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[John Bonifaz @JohnBonifaz]

BREAKING: Tonight, Illinois became the third state, alongside Colorado + Maine, to find that Donald Trump is disqualified under Sect. 3 of the 14th Amendment. Every court and state official that has ruled on the merits on this question has found that Trump is ineligible. @FSFP

[D. Earl Stephens @EarlOfEnough]

📌LISTEN TO ME, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, AND LISTEN GOOD:

-You are to STOP embarrassing yourselves, and all of us who worked in the press IMMEDIATELY.

-You are to START covering Donald Trump the way he should be covered IMMEDIATELY.

-You are to frame what is at stake in this election IMMEDIATELY.

-You are to point out in EVERY STORY YOU REPORT WHO TRUMP IS AND WHAT HE HAS DONE IMMEDIATELY.

📌This is the BARE MINIMUM your newsroom managers should be asking of you before you file any story about him and this election. The context is EVERYTHING.

📌The man means America harm.

📌You are to say in EVERY STORY, that despite losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden by more than seven million votes, Trump lies about the results every chance he gets. This lie and his refusal to concede the election have ripped America apart, and resulted in the worst attack on our Capitol since 1812. Federal and state charges are pending in the attack that resulted in the deaths and beatings of law enforcement officers, and sent lawmakers running for their lives. 

📌Listen to me, dammit: You CANNOT write a story about a man who is running for president, without mentioning he is openly hostile to America and her Democracy, and sympathetic to dictators.

📌This would be like writing a story about a person who is buying a bank, but failing to tell your readers/viewers that the person is a known bank robber.

📌You are failing in your jobs so completely right now, I wish I could fire all of you. I would clean out your pathetic newsrooms, fumigate them, and the first thing I would do when I opened them back up would be to fill them with REAL journalists, and assemble Democracy Desks, that did nothing but report the threats to America if God forbid this unhinged, racist maniac was elected.

📌If you think I went too far with that description, I can back it up as absolutely verifiably true.

📌These stories would be ongoing and get top-line play.

📌I went through the lead stories on both The Washington Post and The New York Times about the South Carolina primary this morning and NONE of the above was mentioned. NOT ONE WORD.

📌Knock it off NOW. We are NOT putting up with this anymore. 

📌YOU ARE FAILING THIS COUNTRY.

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

When they said just move the egg to the uterus during an ectopic pregnancy.

When they said a woman can’t get pregnant if raped because her body shuts down.

When they said IVF can only happen one embryo at a time.

When Republicans reject science, it’s women who get punished.

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

Hey, Jon? Jon Stewart?

This is how you do it.

Maybe have a coffee with your good friend Stephen Colbert and get your head on straight.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

BREAKING: Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas will be grilled about the hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts he received from billionaire donors who were having cases brought before the court!

Just kidding -- DA Fani Willis was grilled about gifts exceeding $100, SMDH.

Justice Thomas remains untroubled by ANY questions about anything, of course.

[🌻Jaylee 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🌎🌻🏳️‍🌈 @Jaylee2076]

Thanks @cathymcmorris smh You voted to impeach the guy who has done absolutely nothing wrong. Impeaching for not doing more for border security yet your @GOP party is the one who's declining any package that the Democrats have put forward to handle the border issue. Could this be why you've decided not to run for reelection? Washington district 5. We have the chance to make this seat turn blue for the first time since 2006. It's gotten too hot in the kitchen and Cathy is getting out.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Member of the homophobic, ultra-conservative, Westboro Baptist Church in KS were holding a protest of the upcoming Foo Fighters concert (devil’s music), so Dave Grohl decided to roll out an epic troll by singing, “You Should be Dancin” to them the bed of a truck.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Boom

[Lori Smith martini6016 @Lori14115051560]

@realsandibachom I'd just turned this on a few minutes & was shocked by the anger & vitriol coming from these reporters! trump has 91 counts against him, is a convicted sexual assaulted & convicted of fraud - yet he NEVER receives anything like this! Unbelievable.

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

Yes, the Tracy Chapman / Luke Combs performance mattered because it was a connection across supposed divides, but it also mattered because Combs embodied unbridled joy, admiration,and respect for Chapman, something we see FAR too rarely when these sorts of bridges are celebrated.