Melanie Bryson

Just the piano player. Hope to contribute where help most needed—#ClimateChange imo most crucial issue of our time.🌍 #Indivisible #TheResistance No lists, plz

[Melanie Bryson @MelJBry]

E pluribus unum
#MyChristmasWishIn3Words

[Melanie Bryson @MelJBry]

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[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Weeks of testing of more than 600 wells across the state revealed pockets of contamination, where chemicals widely used for decades in manufacturing and household goods have leached into the public’s water supply.
https://t.co/epO2LPfcHZ

[The Hoarse Whisperer @TheRealHoarse]

The reason Steele ran straight to the FBI?

He was worried Trump might be being blackmailed.

He wasn't trying to nail Trump. He thought Trump was the potential victim.

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[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

Damning thread about a NYT reporter's cover-up of the Russia story made even more damning by the Fusion GPS testimony https://t.co/adrT72kkKO

[Senator Dianne Feinstein @SenFeinstein]

The American people deserve the opportunity to see the transcript of the Judiciary Committee’s interview with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson. Read it for yourself: https://t.co/yEaJLHpGdG

[Danielle Lang @DaniLang_Votes]

And the court hits the nail on the head here: "A legislature that is itself insulated by virtue of an invidious gerrymander can enact add'l legislation to restrict voting rights & thereby further cement its unjustified control" (p.50)

[Danielle Lang @DaniLang_Votes]

But our founding fathers believed it was "essential" that our Congressional reps "derive [their] powers from the great body of society, not from ... a favored class of it." In other words, in a democracy, every vote has to count equally.

[Danielle Lang @DaniLang_Votes]

The court eloquently explains why partisan gerrymandering cannot be reconciled with a democracy: It writes that partisan gerrymandering "amounts to a legislative efforts to give some voters a greater voice in choosing."

[Danielle Lang @DaniLang_Votes]

And the court has some ?s we share about how partisan gerrymandering can possibly comply with the 1st A. The answer is it cannot.

[Danielle Lang @DaniLang_Votes]

Another tidbit: Republicans currently hold 76.9% of the congressional seats for North Carolina whereas NC voters case only 53.22% of their votes for Republican congressional candidates. That math just doesn't add up to democracy.

[Danielle Lang @DaniLang_Votes]

Breaking: We won! Three-judge-court in North Carolina strikes down congressional partisan gerrymander. Much more to come after we digest this 200+page opinion. #voting #northcarolina #fairmaps

[Melanie Bryson @MelJBry]

@rajmathai Agree, seemed awfully long for a M4.5, but ... back yard.
#HaywardFault #earthquake

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

On the to-do list for this month: Disaster aid funding. Passing the Dream Act. Long-term funding for CHIP and funding for community health centers. We have a lot of fights ahead. It’s critical you stay engaged. Keep calling Congress: [phone].

[Melanie Bryson @MelJBry]

Trump turns to DHS to carry on the tasks of a failed fraud commission.
Our elections are designated as critical infrastructure -- do we need to be concerned about Voter ID laws coming from DHS?
https://t.co/rln46CEABT

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

How Trump admin planning to rig 2020 Census:

1. Appoint GOP gerrymandering expert to run it

2. Massively suppress immigrant participation

3. Deny representation to Dems & minorities

https://t.co/5xmKsNWyUL

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

1. THREAD. Here is a 2014 directory of CNP, a radical right wing group, that the SPLC obtained and published. https://t.co/2SqjvSTx9A

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

I just published “America’s Taliban, the Council for National Policy (to which Kellyanne, Bannon, the DeVos family…” https://t.co/M4IM67YWlc