Amy Coplan

Philosophy Prof at CSUF-personal acct; all views my own; pro-democracy, science,&humanities; lover of books,movies,music, &tv; devoted to my dog & a few others

[Amy Coplan @amycoplan]

From Kool & me—with gratitude, admiration, & solidarity ✊🔥💗🗽🌈⚖️

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

ALERT: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) files court brief urging judge to HALT Trump slush fund

Cassidy & Sen. Cory Booker argue the case "is a question of whether the machinery of democratic government may be turned, by design and with explicit intent, against the democratic foundations it exists to serve"

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[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Good to see the Israel supreme court ordering Red Cross visits to the 9,000-plus Palestinians held as security prisoners. If Netanyahu thinks that reports of rape of prisoners are false, he should welcome investigation and exoneration by the RedCross. https://t.co/LsrmomsR73

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of.

And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test.

His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.”

Not whether it works.

Not whether Congress authorized it.

Whether it pleases Trump.

This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.
To my Republican colleagues: where are you?

Congress passed this funding. You voted for it.

Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend.

Grow a spine.

This is not about left or right.

It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.

History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
https://t.co/2yHKBTNLbj

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

One of those monitoring programs the dummies who took over last year thought was "wasteful"

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: National park entry fees are going towards the Trump administration's $1.6 million July Fourth fireworks display and towards a D.C. beautification project, while donations will fund a $5 million helipad at the White House.

Read more: https://t.co/OrBMzhTw9L

[Amy Coplan @amycoplan]

@SenJeffMerkley Indeed. Other than slavish devotion to the President, what qualifications does he possess??

[Amy Coplan @amycoplan]

@rickygervais You're pretty great--but don't worry. I won't tell anyone...

[Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander @RepGoodlander]

America needs a Director of National Intelligence with the experience and judgment to lead our intelligence community with competence and professionalism. That is NOT Bill Pulte. You deserve better.

[Lloyd Doggett @RepLloydDoggett]

Republicans called a hearing to consider fraud legislation, but most bills did nothing to address it and others offered non-solutions.

Meanwhile, they remain silent as Trump pardons one health care fraudster and denies defrauded victims millions in restitution.

My remarks on their hypocrisy.

[LateNighter @latenightercom]

Same Joke, Three Ways: ‘Dumocrats’ Edition—Featuring Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart, and Seth Meyers

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

A planned luxury resort in Albania linked to Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is under an anti-corruption investigation over changes to protected coastal land, amid growing protests.

Al Jazeera's Cara Legg reports.

[Reuters @Reuters]

US Homeland Security cancels most pending Noem-era contracts after review https://t.co/bZsaLE6VvX https://t.co/bZsaLE6VvX

[Reuters @Reuters]

Thousands of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana protesting ‌a development planned by a company linked with Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast https://t.co/U0oPD226aW

[Senator Angus King @SenAngusKing]

Intelligence only works when analysts evaluate the facts and tell the truth.

After a nominee spoke about the importance of independent analysis and the willingness to tell policymakers what they don't want to hear, his response to my follow-up question was disappointing.

[Dr. Daniel Grossman @DrDGrossman]

Ectopic pregnancies (i.e., when an embryo implants somewhere other than the uterine lining) are never viable & can be life-threatening.

Despite this, doctors in Arkansas & Oklahoma tried to discharge a patient with an ectopic pregnancy without treatment. https://t.co/t5IsdNOaf9

[ABC7 News @abc7newsbayarea]

The retired San Francisco firefighter at the center of a bitter insurance fight has lost his battle against stage 4 lung cancer, after pleading with Blue Shield to reverse their decision to deny treatment. He also spent his final months unsuccessfully appealing to San Francisco's Health Service Board to intervene.

Read the story here: https://t.co/aNqtQM0YtW

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

It's pretty cut and dry: Trump’s corruption hurts small businesses and harms the economy.

CREW's Donald Sherman testified before the Senate Small Business Committee to lay out the harms of Trump's corruption.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

David Lynch reflecting on life and the idea of death is every bit as thoughtful, curious, and profound as you’d expect.

[Senate Finance Cmte @SenateFinance]

WYDEN: "Todd Blanche let Trump off the hook for potentially $100 million in back taxes.

Then he let the ENTIRE Trump family...off the hook for any tax crimes.

As of right now, everybody in America is subject to audit, except the Trump family."

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Trump's attempt to destroy the Presidential Records Act: just another crooked scheme to convert public assets to private wealth. My latest in @TheAtlantic https://t.co/z2L6aUkQiV