Mary Berkey ☮️🌻🟦🏳️‍🌈ally🏳️‍⚧️ally

Retired; Educator; Leader; She/her; Proscience; Proeducation; all opinions are my own; Retweets to make you laugh, cause you to consider, or show support

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Oligarchy is America's billionaires now being worth a record $5.2 trillion while the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009. Hello?

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

I have spent an enormous amount of my own money fighting Donald Trump for almost a decade now.

I have never asked or accepted a single penny in donations and never will.

All I ask is for you to please watch this 4 minute video and RETWEET IT.

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

Here is something that is mind boggling to me.
I ask myself, I say, "Self, how can anyone still support and defend Donald Trump?"

Here's why I ask myself this question.
> after nearly 700 former federal prosecutors argued in an open letter that Trump would have been indicted for obstruction of justice in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation if he weren't President (at that time)

> after both current and former military leaders have SPOKEN out against Trump
1) Former Defense Secretary James Mattis
2) Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen
3) Retired Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis
4) Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey
5) Former Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller
6) Former U.S. Special Operations Command Gen. Raymond A. Thomas
7) Former U.S. Forces-Afghanistan commander Gen. John Allen
8) Retired Navy Adm. William McRaven
9) Army Chief of Staff Gen. James C. McConville
10) Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday
11) Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein
12) National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Joseph Lengyel
13) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley

> after a few current and former Republican officials have broke ranks with the rest of their party, saying in public and private conversations that they will not support Donald Trump. Some even said they'd rather vote for Joe Biden

> after the REPUBLICAN Senate Intelligence Community Report regarding Russia's election interference and Trump's involvement, saying, and I quote: "The Committee's Report clearly shows that Trump and his Campaign WERE NOT mere bystanders in this attack - they were ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS."

> after several Republican admirals and generals have publicly announced they will NOT SUPPORT Trump. In an interview with The New York Times, William H. McRaven, retired four-star Navy admiral, who directed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, said, “it’s time for new leadership in this country — Republican, Democrat or independent. President Trump has shown he doesn’t have the qualities necessary to be a good commander in chief.”

> after people that have been lifelong Republicans and once proud of Republican beliefs and platforms, now regret voting for Trump in 2016, and 2020. They have vowed to never again vote or support Trump and are now voting for Joe Biden

> after two Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have turned their back on Trump and endorsed Joe Biden
1) Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration
2) Elizabeth Neumann, another former senior DHS official who served in Trump's administration
They even formed a new group called the Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform (REPAIR), which include people who have worked for Donald Trump but want to elect Biden and reform the Republican Party.
Miles Taylor said in a statement to POLITICO, “The President has demonstrated he’s unfit for office. And those of us who witnessed the chaos of his Administration firsthand from the inside are coming together to ensure that Trump is not re-elected."

> then, in late 2019, several current and former Republicans formed an action committee called The Lincoln Project. The goal of the committee was to prevent the re-election of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election and defeat his supporters in the United States Senate. The Lincoln Project is STILL fighting Trumpism today.

THE POINT I'M TRYING TO MAKE IS THIS.....

Even after all these different people made up of Republicans, former/current military officials, and former/current Trump administration officials — even after all these people have spoken out against Trump about how he is unfit, unqualified, and unable to run this country with presidential qualities, modesty, and decorum....

How can anyone still support, defend, and vote for Donald Trump?

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

.@TheDemocrats here's your new ad...

"Any [GOP] candidate that tells you they’re not going to go after Social Security and Medicare is not being serious." - Nikki Haley

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

I remember Mike Johnson lobbying me to support this lawsuit claiming election stolen. Every reporter needs to remember this

Trump ally lobbying fellow House Republicans to support Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the election - CNNPolitics https://t.co/PXYPJrYO7Q

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

holy fucking shit, Donald Trump's tax cuts for the obscenely wealthy are responsible for a QUARTER OF OUR NATION'S ENTIRE DEBT and Republicans want to cut YOUR social security to pay for it, and that's what this debt ceiling bullshit is all about. fucking unacceptable

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Viz Trump's unhinged speech from last night. After eight years as an observer and critic, nothing should shock me.

But the utter depravity, the barking lunacy, and the void of sense, reason, and empathy set records.

Even so, utter obedience from even the "Good Republicans."

[Dash Dobrofsky @DashDobrofsky]

The son of an insurrectionist calling on his supporters to arm up with “30 round magazines” should be a bigger story

[I Smoked A Predilection For Nipples @BlackKnight10k]

Republicans held their first impeachment hearing of President Biden 7 days ago. Since then, we've learned:

• Trump Org is the Enron of real estate

• Trump disseminated nuclear secrets to a guy who built an empire out of cardboard boxes

• Rudy Giuliani owes 5x more to the IRS than Hunter Biden did and Hunter paid his off

• Bernie Kerik wants immunity to testify against Trump and Giuliani in Georgia

• John Kelly confirmed Trump hates our military

• George Santos's campaign treasurer pleaded guilty and is cooperating with the feds

• Matt Gaetz snorts viagra and chases it with red bull while House Ethics is trying to having him expelled

• The leading candidates for replacing Kevin McCarthy are David Duke without the baggage and a guy who covered up child sex trafficking.

The media: Here's how Biden's amazing job numbers and great economy are bad for you...

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

If the government shuts down, members of our military will be on duty but not get paid.

It’s time for these extreme Republicans in the House to start doing the job America elected them to do. Let’s get it done.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

I would urge EVERY American to take some time to watch Pete Buttigieg in action during the 6 hours of hearings he endured this week.

Without exception, every Republican who attacked him (and some were visceral), he politely dismantled every argument and took each and every one of them out for a walk.

The level of understanding he has of his brief is phenomenal and his intellectual engagement on the substance of the issues is second to none. Every time I listen to him, he reaffirms that good guys really do win, because I’ve yet to hear an argument he’s lost.

I have said it many many times, this is the gold standard for future leadership. He remains one of the few politicians I would get on a plane to come and knock on doors for.

#DemsAct #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #ONEV1 #FAM46

#TikTok https://t.co/ekNTsshtIg

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

Your government is shutting down b/c @SpeakerMcCarthy only cares about keeping his own job. So to stay employed he’s cutting off paychecks for millions of other jobs. He has plenty of Democratic votes to keep government open but he’s a failure. Time to choose country over chaos.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Democratic star Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez brutally torches Fox News for ignoring the Lauren Boebert Beetlejuice sexual misconduct scandal.

“All I gotta say is I can’t go out to lunch in Florida in my free time, not doing anything, just eating outside and it’s wall-to-wall Fox News coverage,” said AOC in an Instagram video.

"And then you have a member of Congress engaging in sexually lewd acts in a public theater and they got nothing to say," she added.

To hammer home the hypocrisy of Fox, AOC compared their lack of Boebert coverage to their deranged coverage of a video of her dancing in college on a rooftop.

"I danced to Phoenix once in college and it was like all over the place. But them putting on a whole show of their own at ‘Beetlejuice’ … and there’s nothin’?” she said. "I’m just saying be consistent."

AOC is absolutely right. Instead of covering Boebert's disgusting behavior, the Republican media bubble is fixated entirely on the Senate dress code right now, particularly John Fetterman's clothes.

Conservatives are not serious people and cannot be trusted to govern.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that AOC nailed it — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a “woke” new Twitter competitor that is exploding in popularity because it banned Trump for life and because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: https://t.co/HnJzSKjCwX

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

KY Gov Andy Beshear’s new ad on abortion. Democrats, this is the way.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Inflation is down and our economy is making strides. President Biden is a leader who puts action behind his words and our country is healing because of it. #BackingBiden

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Wow.

As the dad of a teen girl, this ad cuts to the bone.

America needs to wake up. Republicans are BEYOND extreme. #MAGAIsWatchingYou https://t.co/MQJSSGSgas