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[Ann @ak_reed1012]

@HQNewsNow And that's not counting the inevitable cost of undoing or fixing their shoddy work.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

[Ann @ak_reed1012]

@tmc0470 @JacobMagid @yashar @TimesofIsrael 86 (would have been 87 in April) but yes.

[Ann @ak_reed1012]

@SkinnerPm @Timodc I.e., today with Amanda Carpenter: https://t.co/YyJLiBoOhp (at 41:58 if the time stamp didn't carry over).

[Ann @ak_reed1012]

@SkinnerPm On the other hand, I am amused when @Timodc mocks them by calling it the Dept of WAARRRR!

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump reversed decades of national security objections to selling advanced AI chips to UAE. National security experts were alarmed.

But there was a secret. Before the deal, UAE had sent $187M to the Trumps and $31M to the Witkoffs in secret payments.

Mind blowing corruption.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Filming the police is not only a constitutional right, it’s a societal obligation.

Signed,
a police officer.

[Jay Inslee @JayInslee]

In the midst of ICE horror, the Senate needs to prohibit Trump from using ICE as a voter suppression tool. Senate Dems need to put into the approps bill a prohibition on ICE agents being near polling places. This is a must have. Last chance to do this.

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

Okay so,

1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution

2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents

3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen

4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement

You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets.

They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

If there was ever a moment for libertarians and conservatives to step up and join the rest of us, we’re in it.

Americans have to unite and stop this descent from a freedom-loving nation into the kind of place where masked, militarized government agents are sent to politically noncompliant areas to roam the streets, terrorize civilians, and deploy violence with impunity.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

[Ann @ak_reed1012]

@Timodc Or they'll just use this footage & say Minneapolis is out of control - never mind that they're the ones creating the chaos.

[Ann @ak_reed1012]

@CarlBovisNature Thanks for the lovely series of Christmastime photos!

[Ann @ak_reed1012]

@IAPonomarenko Merry Christmas to everyone in Ukraine, & Slava Ukraini! (from California)

[Ann @ak_reed1012]

@Gerashchenko_en So, is the point to demonstrate to Trump that Russia, not Ukraine, is the obstacle to peace?

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

The Uyghur camps were hidden in plain sight—until someone drove into Xinjiang and filmed them. That person is now begging the U.S. not to deport him.

“If he gets sent back, he’s really dead.”

Give him asylum.

[Ann @ak_reed1012]

Bookmarking this, along with a reminder to myself to reread Federalist Nos. 69 & 70.

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. https://t.co/VBJs6rkEZg

[Ann @ak_reed1012]

@Wileywench1 @panyiszabolcs Perhaps, but then the other authoritarians would hang on to power all the more tenaciously.

[Ann @ak_reed1012]

@ArmandoMema You're a fool.