Hal Holway

Bon Vivant. Carnivorous Buddhist. Writer, academic, film buff, full-time dad. Go Big Green!

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Ben Meiselas: In any other normal democracy, which we're not at this point, when you would have a shellacking in the election like this, the governing party would be wiped out. They'd be done. There would be forced resignations. You would have snap elections, and then you would basically have a whole new executive. And that's what the American people want. This regime needs to go away.

Impeachment needs to be on the table, of course, but beyond it. Impeachment's the least we can do.

We need to send these people to The Hague. These people are war criminals. Trump, Hegseth, Bessent, Lutnick, Rubio — they're war criminals. They need to go to war tribunals.

[Hal Holway @DocBendrix]

@FloppingAces Sweetie, tldr.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it."
-- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (#1)

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Crime without accountability is practice. Justice is not vengeance. When the Soviet Union collapsed, we let euphoria blind us to the need for the hard work of investigation and responsibility. Do not forgive, do not forget, and clean house.

[John Barrowman MBE @JohnBarrowman]

America has spoken.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

The worst people you know are having the worst night of their lives.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

When Democrats take power again, we need to take a two-pronged approach to cleaning up our institutions and communicating about it. This will rely on investigations, single-issue bills, and an aggressive social media presence from our strongest Democratic communicators.

First, Democrats need to launch investigations into the insider trading, pay-for-play, and pardon economy that Donald Trump has created. We need answers to some very serious questions. Did Trump ACTUALLY remove tariffs on Vietnam and then get a golf course announcement just weeks later?

But these investigations can't happen in isolation. They need to be paired with single-issue bill after single-issue bill that directly addresses whatever corruption is being uncovered.

For example, if Democrats uncover 28,000 insider trades coming from the oval office, we introduce a bill banning executive branch officials from trading individual stocks. Force Republicans to vote on it. If they vote against it, make them explain why.

Then, it's necessary to have our strongest communicators flooding the zone about the corruption, and what we're doing. Flipping Steve Bannon's strategy back on him.

Imagine if we had Jon Ossoff, AOC, James Talarico, Abdul El-Sayed, and our strongest Democratic communicators making face-to-camera videos every single day explaining exactly what's happening. "Here's the corruption we're investigating. Here's the evidence. Here's how we're going to stop it."

I think this is how you connect the dots in voters' minds between the way they vote and having a responsive government that's actually trying to address corruption and rewire the system.

Then we move to gerrymandering, affordability, paid family leave, and other reforms. Single-issue bill after single-issue bill, forcing Republicans to take public positions on these issues while Democrats communicate directly with the American people.

I know this might sound idealistic, but we already have the tools at our disposal. I see people like Talarico, AOC, and Ossoff pulling insane numbers on social media. There's no reason that same infrastructure can't be used to explain congressional investigations, proposed legislation, and exactly what Democrats are doing with the power voters gave them.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

More prominent people saying this so plainly can only help. But action is still required to stop this catastrophic and treasonous turn.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Enjoy the coming disbarment.

[Hal Holway @DocBendrix]

@brivael LOL

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Should be evidence for any congressional inquiries into what happened with Starshield. If Musk is throttling a Pentagon-run defense network, which was commissioned to work in a partner nation as a matter of U.S. policy, because of his own political bias or desire to sway the midterms he’s heavily invested in (see his subsequent tweet), then he represents a national security risk. I’d argue he represents that anyway.

[Patterico @Patterico]

The whole administration acts very strangely about this whole episode. They are palpably nervous. Trump keeps answering questions by saying things like "I don't want to answer that" or "why would I tell you?"

They are really scared of investigations. This one needs to happen.

[Hal Holway @DocBendrix]

@SenWhitehouse It’s just about power. Once they stopped paying semi-reasonable taxes after Reagan, they all swore they’d act like they were being assaulted if someone thought to bring fair taxation back.

[CharlieAnnFFS 🌻 @ChuckieFFS]

You’re a billionaire oligarch terrified of a democracy you can’t control. You bought a social media platform, turned it into a propaganda sewer, and now have the audacity to lecture Americans about democracy while attacking the idea of giving millions of citizens equal representation. You don’t fear the end of democracy. You fear a democracy you can’t buy, manipulate, or control. Democracy isn’t dying because more Americans might get a voice. It’s threatened by arrogant billionaires who think their bank accounts entitle them to a louder one. The hypocrisy is fucking staggering.

[AffirmedAlydar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @WollastonWntr63]

This is good stuff right here.
She's absolutely right.
I wish more people could see it because they're being bamboozled by creeps into aligning against their own interests and their own futures.
These billionaire tech oligarchs aren't anyone's friend whose name isn't Putin or Trump.

[Hal Holway @DocBendrix]

@2020erase @CheriJacobus “Removed.”

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband.

Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Don't remain silent.
Yell.
Scream.
Rally the world against the slaughter of innocent people.

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

Elon Musk has mistaken America for another company he bought.

FDR warned us about economic royalists who sought to control the government itself.

The oligarchs are back. So is the fight.

My latest: https://t.co/g4dSYv6JYI

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"So there it is, the morbid phenomenon of late Trumpism on full display: Smearing a survivor of child sexual abuse; running an ad featuring a primary enabler of the abuse; and complaining that some decent people in his party are offended by this."

https://t.co/o8NP4lGzP9