See @tedlieu. In March 2017 he's Very Concerned about Trump's proposed military budget, commenting, of course, on a "lack of strategy" (a meaningless pseudo-objection popular w/ liberals).
Then 6 months later he votes for a military budget $37B MORE than what Trump asked for
note: MSNBC does this sad partisan dance where they'll cover the DoD budget when Trump makes his initial budget proposal (https://t.co/gC7h46njj8) but go radio silent when Congress (incl. 60% of democrats) ends up giving him WAY more than he asked for. (https://t.co/AxdOR5WI47)
So @AdyBarkan, with his dying strength, leads a protest today inside the Capitol against Kavanaugh, 70 people get arrested.
Schumer responds by giving consent to 6 new Trump judges in exchange for two days off. One of the judges was even deemed by the ABA “unqualified.”
Jordan Peterson sharing a really lazy, easily debunked climate change denial video from Prager U while mocking environmentalists. Peterson is just another anti-science right winger and if you believed otherwise you have been fooled https://t.co/lqBVXSvQ8K
the 'No Unite the Right' counter action in DC was 100% real and here it is serving as the image for a half dozen reports on fake Russian facebook events.
reading this article from May about someone facing 12 years in prison for shoplifting $39.57 in goods from Walmart I’m reminded Walmart has paid out over $1,400,000,000 in stolen wages since 2000 & not one of its execs or managers ever faced a day in jail. https://t.co/hpYTCOfiKz
Ronald Kitchen survived the Chicago Police Dept's decades-long torture
regime and has written a book on it––an excerpt of which can be read
here. This is the institution Rahm wants to funnel even more money into. #NoCopAcademy
https://t.co/DgRnS4FBzm
Even researchers with funding from the Koch brothers agree that Medicare for All would:
1) Allow the government to negotiate lower rates.
2) Reduce administrative costs.
3) Lower overall health expenditure by $2 trillion.
OMG.
Amazing idea! How do we legally lock Bernie in a box? If Democrats don't, 2020 is all his. We've already got most social media platforms in agreement that political speak we don't like should be censored, but I'm worried it's not enough.
#BernieLockBox#StillWithering🥀
2/ Putting aside the question of whether tweets & hashtags had any meaningful impact on anything, we learn that just like those $100,000 worth of Facebook ads, most of the "Russian"-linked tweets came AFTER THE ELECTION:
The spread of the anti-semitism smear to discredit Corbyn should be taken as a sign that his opponents are increasingly spooked https://t.co/lqk3z6F1Ql
"Crown Prince of UAE has an Army of Private Military Contractors." Just one story produced by the great independent journalist @antloewenstein. FYI, South Korea is training UAE's Special Forces. https://t.co/d8s62sHAvM
The way the world's safest people have these constant weird fantasies of persecution — by The Left, or MS-13, or The Terrorists, or all of them working together — makes more sense when you see them as ghost stories, ie, the chance to feel a pleasurable little frisson of fear
Israeli MP explains Netanyahu's policy on African refugees: "those people that came from the black lands... now they're getting married, they bring kids [into the world]. We'll stop this... They don't even have a culture... You need to destroy the problem when it's still small."
This is what happens when you search for Cemex, a Mexican cement company, on Youtube.
Qanon people have decided this company, which is an $18 billion business, is really just a child sex trafficking operation. If you went to YouTube, you'd believe it.
130 Yemeni children died every day in 2017 from hunger & disease. 18 million ppl are at risk of starving to death by end of 2018. US doesn't only back this criminal war with weapons, it provides intelligence & even refuels jets between bombing https://t.co/Y1coQpNS3I