Matt O'Connor

[Matt O'Connor @mattoconnor711]

@RonBrownstein @JacksonBrowne @Janefonda @TheNormanLear This book was very good! Read it this year

[Matt O'Connor @mattoconnor711]

@jbarro @Noahpinion This is a great column you wrote on this topic several years ago that I have shared many times

[Matt O'Connor @mattoconnor711]

@robertmays This speech was a masterpiece and easy to love if you like the Knicks, NYC, or even sports in general, even a little

[Matt O'Connor @mattoconnor711]

@vermilionpixie This aged well

[Matt O'Connor @mattoconnor711]

@robertmays @robertmays love how public you are about this. Huge congrats! I have 11 years this year and I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment

[Matt O'Connor @mattoconnor711]

@KyleAMadson Bold pre-game claim you should be a talking head on tv!

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

Fire Elon Musk.

Use every legislative, judicial, and public pressure tactic at our disposal until we get it done.

[Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) @BrendanNyhan]

Trump is openly violating the law on an unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about a rare shrew. NYT says he's neglecting "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening?

In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control.

Call it what it is.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

The President has now made it clear that it’s ok to beat the shit out of police officers so long as you’re one of his supporters.

Finding it hard to focus on any of the other news from day one

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Trump’s remarks in the Capitol Visitor Center today were a reminder that neither lies nor the liar who tells them get better with age. The Select Committee evidence is available on multiple websites and, as a criminal defendant, Donald Trump has had access to all the transcripts for years. Remember Trump’s character: He sat in his dining room watching on television as his supporters attacked our Capitol and brutally assaulted law enforcement. For hours, he refused to instruct the mob to leave. The truth will never change.

[Matt O'Connor @mattoconnor711]

@Timodc Fuck these fucking fascist fucks

[Matt O'Connor @mattoconnor711]

@MeghanMcCain Republicans have nothing approaching a super majority

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@SarahLongwell25 Also fuck all MAGAs

[Matt O'Connor @mattoconnor711]

@TVietor08 In the running already for tweet of the year

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@ChrisCillizza You’re truly an absurd hack

[Bill Scher @billscher]

Democrats after losing by 2 points: Our brand is in ashes. We need a complete overhaul.

Republicans after losing by 4.5 points: Let's run the same guy again.

[Matt O'Connor @mattoconnor711]

@BillKristol Also they had won every election since 2016 until this one. You can’t have a functioning political system that requires the one party that believes in democracy to win every election

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Listen, I'm all in for the messaging/strategy biopsy. Need to build a bigger tent; use economic populism as the tentpole; be less judgmental and exclusionary.

But folks, he might not be lying about the round ups and political prosecutions. Job one is to get ready for that.