Mary Lou Vercellotti, PhD

Professor of linguistics, applied linguistics, TESOL. Interested in language performance, assessment, and English pedagogy. she/her

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

Trump and Mike Rogers are one and the same. They want you to doubt our elections. Whether it was Trump's effort to overturn our results or convince you your vote doesn't matter, the goal is the same. They want to keep you from participating.

In Michigan, every time they come for our rights, we fight back. We've been preparing for this moment. Vote with confidence. Your vote is the strongest power you have.

https://t.co/IpNiWHEnqj

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Unsurprising, but still absolutely demonic, that this administration’s only reason for not pardoning convicted underage sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is that it would create a huge PR problem.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

So there you have it: President Trump loves that you’re paying higher prices.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Inflation is growing worse, and the president is fixated on all the wrong things - building a ballroom, making himself immune from audits, and waging a war he started without a plan to end it.

Where is the Republican plan to make life more affordable in America?

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Reminder: both of their fathers are convicted felons.

[Senator Alex Padilla @SenAlexPadilla]

What was that about waste, fraud, and abuse?

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

Because of President Trump’s sloppy tariffs, the Senate has had to approve $35 billion in what is essentially welfare for farmers, and farmers hate getting welfare.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Normally you wouldn’t increase the likelihood of US casualties by announcing something like this ahead of time, unless you are bluffing to use it as a negotiating ploy, you are stupid, you don’t really care about the troops, or all three.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Donald Trump's former economic advisor just admitted on Fox News that inflation is being driven nearly exclusively by bad decisions that Donald Trump has made. Wow.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLUMENTHAL: Who won the 2020 election?

JUDGE TRAYNOR: This issue has become a question of political controversy. Justice Jackson--

BLUMENTHAL: It's 'political controversy' only because the president refuses to accept the results. I'm asking you as a matter of fact. Who won?

TRAYNOR: As Justice Jackson stated, it is not appropriate to engage in discussion regarding that

BLUMENTHAL: So you're going to use the same script that other nominees have used before this panel to avoid the question?

TRAYNOR: I think the precedent established by Justice Jackson ...

BLUMENTHAL: As a matter of fact, which presidential candidate got more votes in 2020?

TRAYNOR: As I stated before, this is an issue that Justice Jackson--

BLUMENTHAL: You're adopting a script that has been dictated to you by the White House

[Michael Bennet @SenatorBennet]

Coloradans deserve to know why Trump is stealing $90 million from our national parks and blowing it on firework shows and fountains.

Robbing parks to pay for Trump's pet projects puts our iconic public lands at risk.

https://t.co/S5b7hguaqw

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

He fucking receives free healthcare, but his constituents don't? This is MAGA in a nutshell.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

After ignoring repeated warnings a DHS Border Wall Contractor just bulldozed a 1000 year intaglio (giant figure carved into the ground) that was an archeological wonder and one of the oldest surviving in the SW

[Reed Galen @reedgalen]

You stealing $1.5 billion didn't help

[Joe Black 🇿🇼 @joeblackzw]

Incorrect. He had a visa. From the US Embassy in Nairobi. It was valid. They vetted him there, and gave him a visa.

Then he landed in Miami, was detained for 11 hours, and deported to Istanbul.

THEN they branded him a terrorist.

A FIFA referee, simply because he’s Somali.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

this is a weird thing to say unless you don't care at all about regular people and only care about super rich people who find a way to benefit from inflation...

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

In all seriousness though, this will (or at least should) go down as one of the biggest media failures in modern history.

The political media absolutely HOUNDED the previous president and made his age/health THE ONLY issue that mattered of his presidency.

And then they helped elect a guy who was just a few years younger (aka still old as shit) with a litany of unexplained health issues, a brain that is visibly detoriating and who brags about taking his dementia test 3x a week.

And then....they just haven't talked about it. At all. You can barely even get them to acknowledge it.

They alleged a big coverup of Biden's health, but they are literally complicit in covering up the current president, Donald Trump's health...which we can all see, right in front of our very eyes.

Just can't put into words how much of a disgrace the political media is...

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

SYKES: Are you aware the US was taking millions of barrels of oil from Iran?

WRIGHT: We are preventing the flow of Iranian oil

SYKES: That is not what I asked you. Can I play some audio?

*plays audio of Trump admitting the US is stealing Iranian oil*

WRIGHT: I think the president is talking casually

SYKES: Do you think that it's appropriate to 'talk casually' about war?

WRIGHT: I think you talk to all different audiences and you talk in all different styles

SYKES: There are 13 service members who are dead

WRIGHT: He treats this war deadly serious

SYKES: You just said he was speaking casually

WRIGHT: He speaks 20 hours a day

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Every Texas House Republican voted against funding for screwworm monitoring.

There are now multiple cases of screwworm in Texas.