“It is no accident that the insurrectionists of Jan 6, 2021, carried the Confederate battle flag.
We are today in a struggle no less dangerous to our democracy than that of the 1860s, though it is fought with Facebook memes and cable tv rather than artillery” — @HC_Richardson
@NBCNews Manafort worked for Deripaska. Manafort was brought on as campaign manager just BEFORE the GOP convention 7/19/16. Manafort introduced Pence to Trump. 3 days before the convention, Trump announced Pence as his VP
JUST IN: FBI agents swarm Washington D.C. home of Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire oil tycoon with close ties to Russian President Putin, FBI spokesperson tells @NBCNews.
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#FreedomFlu is when you die gasping for your last raggedy breath in an overcrowded ICU because right wing influencers told you not to get the vaccine that they already got months ago.
Is that how you play this hashtag game?
Colin Kaepernick peacefully took a knee to protest police brutality & racism. Jon Gruden openly professed grotesque racism, bigotry, & misogyny for decades.
NFL ousted Kaepernick, but promoted Gruden. This is what institutional racism looks like.
This repeats much we've already heard, but it can't be said too often: We are at the brink of losing our democracy. Imperfect though it is, it sure beats one-man rule, which is what the Trumpsters seek to install and are busy setting up for 2024.
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Trump-era Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is...
(1) reportedly under federal criminal investigation
https://t.co/yyyC0U6926
and
(2) still in his job
and
(3) doing this to the post office:
https://t.co/M9ChmI3Dnv