Gary Hanes

A Blue needle in a very Red haystack; a skeptic & an iconoclast; committed to truth but have no forkin' idea what it is anymore; part of the working poor

[Gary Hanes @ragamuffdude]

@Olasejoe @PhysicistTx And where exactly in the Bible those "three types of law" defined? And how do they apply, or don't apply, to every specific situation. Aren't you adding to God's word without authorization?

[@GenJedi @gen_jedi]

@BeschlossDC U2

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

This is who is. Who he has always been. Age has eliminated any remaining filters

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @JoaquinCastrotx for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.

Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

As critical as I am of the media and of the Democrats in terms of their (not) standing up to
Trump enough, I will also concede that it’s not an easy job.

In the past 48 hours we have seen:

1) Trump in the Epstein files, with some crazy accusations in there
2) a massive corruption story involving Trump, crypto, and the Emiratis
3) Trump saying he’ll use the government he controls to pay himself a 10 billion dollar settlement

How is anyone supposed to cover all that with the coverage those scandals deserve? By Monday, they’ll be forgotten and there’ll be another three new scandals. Maybe five.

Any one of the stories I listed above would destroy a previous presidency. Those three together won’t even dent Trump’s.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Remember when Google dropped this Black History Month commercial in 2020?

That’s what honoring Black history looks like, telling the truth loudly, not sanitizing it when it makes people uncomfortable.

Happy Black History Month.

[Thomas E. Ricks @tomricks1]

My wife says, “it’s Selma time. Plan a national day of protest. Members of Congress, clergy, plan to get on a plane to Minneapolis for that day”

I think she’s right. What would John Lewis do?

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I really need Democratic lawmakers to understand that we're fed up with them simply posting on social media "this has to stop" without calling for specific actions to make it stop.

We know this needs to stop. We elected you. Tell us what needs to be done to make it stop.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts.

The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.

The videos don't lie. A man is dead, killed in cold blood. There is no conceivable justification for this intentional homicide. And make no mistake, that intentional, unjustified homicide was committed on behalf of Donald J. Trump.

Trump's militarization of Minneapolis and other parts of our nation isn't about illegal immigration. It's not about enhancing public safety. It's about destroying any sense of that safety—to intimidate political opponents, and to punish dissent. It's about a corrupt, out-of-control regime's effort to provoke citizens in order to justify the violence it desires to commit against them so that it can expand and retain its power.

That is fascism. It is tyranny. It is governmental criminality.

And the ultimate legal check the Framers of our Constitution provided to stop this kind of tyranny and criminality in the executive branch is impeachment and removal of the executive.

Congress needs to do its job.

Now.

Before it's too late.

[Gary Hanes @ragamuffdude]

@berrrrrrrrrrrrt @infodexx @UTAustin Not under Greg Abbott, unfortunately. 🙁

[Gary Hanes @ragamuffdude]

@MrPitbull07 This might be someone else's reality but it's not mine. And so all it does is profoundly hurt. 😞

[Gary Hanes @ragamuffdude]

@AnnieAgar I've been watching NFL football for nearly 55 years. That may have been the wildest 4th Quarter I've ever seen!

[Gary Hanes @ragamuffdude]

@BeschlossDC I really liked it. 👍👍👍

[Gary Hanes @ragamuffdude]

@Matt_Pinner The West Wing

[Gary Hanes @ragamuffdude]

@ATRightMovies Gone With The Wind 🤮🤮🤮

[Gary Hanes @ragamuffdude]

@Rainmaker1973 Trump. Third term.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Total command of the plate.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Greg Maddux won 4 straight Cy Young awards. During that time, he pitched more complete games (37) than he allowed HRs (33)

[Gary Hanes @ragamuffdude]

@allrockmusic Yes.

[Gary Hanes @ragamuffdude]

@ninaturner Until a politician is willing to commit to vote to make these numbers more equitable, I don't need to know anything else about them.