Patrick Sullivan 👽

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[Nick Offerman @Nick_Offerman]

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States. 

🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.

•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.

•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks. 

•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Republicans just handed the Boundary Waters to a foreign corporation.

For the GOP, it’s foreign billionaires first, America last.

[Ali Vaez @AliVaez]

As it stands, a ceasefire that may or may not be in place based on terms that may or may not be commonly understood could lead to negotiations that may or may not actually happen based on proposals that may or may not be a starting point.

[Patrick Sullivan 👽 @patch103]

@tblazedeb @Acyn @AndrewFeinberg Thank you! 🙏

[Patrick Sullivan 👽 @patch103]

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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump: “I can do anything I want to do to them… I’m allowed to destroy the country.”

Let’s be clear.

No president is “allowed” to unilaterally destroy any other country.

If this isn’t impeachment-worthy, nothing is.

[marion¹ @pitlanelando]

We live in a world where this man is begging for 30M to cure cancer while Elon Musk makes that same amount in 1.5 hours

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Cynics and defeatists share the same story as authoritarians do: that nothing is worth trying, the conclusion is foregone, hope is naïve, and attempts to resist are too small or futile.

Don’t listen to them. Do not give up. Try. A better world is possible. We will win. We must.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: The Republican Party’s main principle is supporting Donald Trump. So when you have a party whose operating principle is organized around a personality, what happens is that the fissures become about personal dramas.

Sometimes those differences are ideological, but sometimes it’s just a bunch of people poking their fingers in each other’s eyes, and you don’t know what’s going on between them. That’s what happens when you have a political party that organizes around a cult of personality. It often devolves, becoming more and more separated from the lives of working people, and more about people trying to score points off one another.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Wow.

This article is a definitive example of that definition of journalism:

"If someone says it's raining, and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both.

Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

ICE just killed an American citizen

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

He was the vote that confirmed RFK jr

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

Copy. Paste. Post
Midterms are coming

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

ah yes another beautiful morning, time to decide if I want to be informed and frozen in panic, or willfully ignorant with a numbing background dread

[Patrick Sullivan 👽 @patch103]

@RonFilipkowski That would involve them being on the ball and only a handful of them are somehow capable. So frustrating.

[Patrick Sullivan 👽 @patch103]

@Acyn It just unfortunately leaves the question of why they didn't bring the press with them, which of course would've been useful. But also he probably wouldn't have taken the meeting at all if so.

[Patrick Sullivan 👽 @patch103]

@SarahEMcBride Does make me wonder why the Dems didn’t request for press because it would’ve been good to have him on display being useless… although he would’ve just likely refused the meeting altogether had they asked so.
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