Pamela Klem 🗽

Struggling day by day to hold on to the promise of a more perfect union.

[Luke Barr @LukeLBarr]

Perhaps the strongest moment of the hearing - Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland chokes up when he talks about his motivations for taking the AG job. “The country took us in and protected us and I feel an obligation to the country to pay back.”

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

“Dominion Voting Systems sued Mike Lindell, chief executive of Minnesota-based MyPillow Inc., and his company in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeking more than $1.3 billion in damages.” https://t.co/wUwv4UKvxH

[Jameel Jaffer @JameelJaffer]

For what would have been Nina Simone's eighty-eighth birthday, I give you the most amazing version of one of her greatest songs. https://t.co/jEuMLTU5kD

[David P Gelles @gelles]

Covid-19 deaths since the pandemic began

South Korea (pop 51M) : 1,557

South Carolina (pop 5.1M): 8,324

[Carrie Johnson @johnson_carrie]

A deeply personal look at the public service commitments and career of Merrick Garland, whose 44 years in the law span domestic terror threats and the aftermath of political scandals

https://t.co/oLgmtNeaqy

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

This is a perfect piece of content.

[max seddon @maxseddon]

Navalny: "This is the most important thing: all our system is trying to tell people like me that we're on our own. One of my favorite philosopher, Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter, said something great about this: 'Don't feel lonely. that's what Voldemort wants!"

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

How come @BetoORourke and @AOC work to raise money for struggling Texans, many of whom didn't vote for Beto and think AOC is a she-witch, doesn't count as a UNITY story?

How come the media isn't spinning it that way? How come "unity" can only mean "giving the GOP what it wants"?

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

Good companion tweet to keep in mind as you read the WaPo article on investigations of Roger Stone, Alex Jones, and Ali Alexander. (Not mentioned: Mike Flynn)

[Caroline de Gruyter @CarolineGruyter]

Garbage collectors in Ankara open a library with books rescued from the trash. "The only regret the men have, is that they didn't start collecting sooner."
https://t.co/wWpWAeFA2H

[Steve Vladeck @steve_vladeck]

Contrast what @BetoORourke and @AOC and others have done to help ameliorate the crisis that millions of Texans are (still) facing with what Texas's *actual* statewide elected officials have (not) done.

Governing isn't about "owning" your opponents; it's about helping everyone.

[David Leonhardt @DLeonhardt]

The evidence so far suggests that a full vaccine dose:

1. effectively eliminates the risk of Covid death
2. nearly eliminates the risk of hospitalization
3. drastically reduces the ability to infect somebody else.

All of that is also true about the virus variants.

(7/x)

[Beto O'Rourke @BetoORourke]

We made over 151,000 calls to senior citizens in Texas tonight. One of our vols talked to a man stranded at home w/out power in Killeen, hadn’t eaten in 2 days, got him a ride to a warming center and a hot meal. Help us reach more people, join us tomorrow: https://t.co/WOLn2HCrm1

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

A valiant effort from @jbarro but really impossible to parody these people.

[Pamela Klem 🗽 @PamKlem]

!!!!

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

Here’s the upgrade list for this afternoon’s flight from Cancun to Houston.

Looks like ⁦@tedcruz⁩ is on his way back, ⁦@danpfeiffer⁩. He’s just narrowly missing the upgrade list

That’s assuming that “cru, r” is him. And I do.

[Igor Bobic @igorbobic]

sigh, fine, I will do it. I will travel to Cancun to thoroughly investigate this Ted Cruz situation on every beach and hotel pool

[Pamela Klem 🗽 @PamKlem]

@scotttriggers @igorbobic props for your shadow work here, very nice

[Scott Triggers® Suzy Scott MSN, RN, WOC, CWOSB @scotttriggers]

@igorbobic Please no beach pics of cruz

[David S. Joachim @davidjoachim]

Politicians in Ted Cruz's native Canada have been forced to resign over their foreign travel

From January:

Snowbird Scandal Forces Out Sun-Seeking Canadian Politicians

https://t.co/tEJy3IqrSY @srastello @kbolongaro @business