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[Dustin Basil @dustinbasil]

Not hard to do more than nothing but this is a solid showing by an underrated celebrity.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Guy Fieri has raised $21.5 million for unemployed restaurant workers, which means Guy Fieri has done more for unemployed restaurant workers than Congress has in the last 8 months.
https://t.co/Y8APlt5jah

[Mr. Newberger @jeremynewberger]

This Kemp call almost makes all that Quid Pro Quo Ukraine call stuff seem real, like it happened, like it should have ended his Presidency.

[Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert]

Dems House passed $3T Covid relief in May. GOP balked. what’s being negotiated now is $900B relief and McConnell still doesn’t have votes.

mind boggling press all yr refused to run this headline: GOP Opposes Covid Relief, Insists Aid Not Needed

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Donald Trump has raised more than $200 million in the 30 days *AFTER* the election. He gets to keep 75% of that.

That is why he is going to Georgia. Period.

Television coverage -> speech -> fraud claims -> raises $$$

By Jan 20 Trump will be close to paying off his $400m debt.

[Joe Nocera @opinion_joe]

I talked to a scientist recently who spent her career working on bioterrorism and pandemic responses. “What I never imagined is that Americans would shrug their shoulders at 250,000 deaths,” she told me. “I’m just astounded.”

[Lillie E. Franks, on her bad content arc @onyxaminedlife]

Replacing the words "the economy" with "rich people's yacht money"

-How can we respond to COVID without sacrificing rich people's yacht money?
-Saving the environment sounds nice but what about rich people's yacht money?
-Medicare for all would destroy rich people's yacht money

[Dustin Basil @dustinbasil]

Holy shit, don't think I have ever heard us explained so well...

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

If the Republican Party will just continue to look the other way for another month while Trump tries to overthrow a free and fair election, he'll be able to make a good dent in the $421 million of loans he guaranteed that are coming due. That is the plan right?

[Pam Keith, Esq. @PamKeithFL]

Don’t know about you, but the last four years have been excruciating, watching my government do heinous, illogical, immoral, stupid, indecent, racist, unconstitutional & homicidal CRAP, without any ability to stop it. They got away with SO MUCH CRIME!

It’s been hell to watch.

[Dustin Basil @dustinbasil]

Good thread

[Brittani James, MD @DrBrittaniJ]

Let’s be honest.

Many Black person will refuse to take this COVID vaccine bc most of us don’t trust that white people or the government mean us any good.

And when that happens, know that the hesitance is not some baseless paranoia. It is completely rational.

Let me explain.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

9 months.

One $1200 stimulus check.

If that doesn't convince you we need to flip the Senate, I don't know what will.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Student debt: $1.7 trillion

GOP tax cut for the rich: $1.9 trillion

I’d like to live in a country where we bail out students who need it instead of CEOs who don’t.

[Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @KeeangaYamahtta]

What Obama always fails to grasp is that people did it his way. they sat at his big table & listened. & then we all sat there & watched that cop snuff the life out of George Floyd. So he no longer gets to advise this movement on how to achieve its goals of ending police terror.

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

REPUBLICANS: Wearing masks is fascism. Health care is fascism. Sensible gun laws are fascism.

"What about declaring martial law to invalidate an election which is, you know, ACTUAL fascism?"

REPUBLICANS: Yeah no, that's fine.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

I appreciate the clarity and force of this man's words so much. We have been living under a culture of threat for so long and it is rare when any public official stands strongly against it. So heart-breakingly rare.

[Dustin Basil @dustinbasil]

About time

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

In an @NPR newscast just now, @KorvaColemanNPR gave a simple fact, in her calm newscaster's voice: "President Trump continues to lie, saying he won the election." Not a criticism; just a fact. Which is one thing you do in journalism. Just report what people are doing.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

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