The flag of the brutal Islamic regime in Iran—sponsors of terrorism—is displayed at a massive anti-Israel march in Toronto.
This particular flag is never seen flown by the many peace-loving Iranian people who condemn hate—They wave the lion and sun.
This. Is. Not. Normal.
Republican congressmen are directing private corps to not comply w/ congressional investigations because they are literally putting the private companies’ stock prices above the interests of Americans.
That’s not democracy.
That’s Authoritarian.
“This Tuesday, it’s win or go home for Democracy.” —
@billmaher
This election is everything.
No excuses.
Imagine if we win it all but you weren’t a team player.
Imagine if we lose it all & your vote could have saved democracy
Show up on Tuesday and vote D for Democracy. 🇺🇸
"If Trump wins, he'll cast it as a complete endorsement of his most undemocratic behavior. If you're 18 and that happens, you stand a very real chance of not living in a Western-style democracy for part or all of your life." –
@BillMaher
#RealTime
Every lawyer knows that Mueller most definitely included some sort of an “Executive Summary” in his report.
Yet, Barr sent a letter full of his own legal conclusions instead of Mueller’s, & without including any factual evidence.
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A private company can’t deny service on the basis of race or gender - that would be unconstitutional- but they can deny service because someone is a jerk. Sorry, hateful people aren’t a protected class. Let’s keep giving them a taste of their own medicine.
THIS WEEK:
— Stephen Miller heckled & called a “FASCIST” while eating at a Mexican restaurant.
— Kirstjen Nielsen booed & heard chants of “SHAME” while eating at a Mexican restaurant.
— Sarah Sanders asked to “LEAVE” by the owner of The Red Hen.
WE THE PEOPLE ARE RISING UP.
1977 SCOTUS decision ruled that the 1st Amendment guarantees due process (i.e. notice, opportunity to rebut, etc) before a press correspondent can be be barred from the briefing room.
#1A
is essential to our democracy.
“Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office.” ~
@LindseyGrahamSC
Moving forward with impeachment has side benefits too. For ex., the hypocrisy of the GOP will be exposed while our integrity is reinforced.
#NeedToImpeach
@realDonaldTrump
Lindsey Graham on removing Bill Clinton from office: “You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic if this body determines your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role.”
Trump Told Governors to Buy Own Virus Supplies, Then Outbid Them
When called out for this by MA Governor Baker, Trump “chuckled.”
My Q: Do the Trump or Kushner family have financial interests in these supplies?
#COVID19
Late last night, Dems noticed language both parties had agreed to, limiting the $ Trump & his family would get from the stimulus, was missing from the final printed legislation.
Republicans claim it was a clerical error. 🙄 (1/2)
#COVID19
McGurk wrote to colleagues: “[Trump’s decision] left our coalition partners confused & our fighting partners bewildered. I worked this week to help manage some of the fallout but — I ultimately concluded that I could not carry out these new instructions & maintain my integrity.”
4.
@BrettMcGurk
was considered by many to be the glue holding together the sprawling, 79-nation coalition battling ISIS. A veteran of 3 administrations, he was a rare holdover from the Obama White House, a sign of the crucial role he played in helping mount the war against ISIS
Hey gun loving “originalists” who haven’t bothered to even read the 2nd amendment, here’s an excerpt of the SCOTUS decision in Heller-written by model originalist Justice Scalia.
SPOILER:
#2A
right is not unlimited
#Parkland
#NRA
#GunControlNow
#RBA
⚖️
Simply put, 18 U.S.C. §1621 requires knowingly making a false/misleading statement under oath that is material.
Rudy Giuliani’s claim that he won’t let Trump get “trapped into perjury” means Rudy knows Trump intends to lie to Mueller about obstruction & collusion.
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Apparently Judge Ellis doesn’t follow the law with respect to minimum sentences when the person before him is a privileged white Republican who showed 0 remorse.
#ManafortSentencing
FYI in 2018,
#JudgeEllis
sentenced Frederick Turner, 37, to a mandatory minimum of 40 years in prison for dealing methamphetamine: "I chafe a bit at that, but I follow the law. If I thought it was blatantly immoral, I'd have to resign. It's wrong, but not immoral."
#PaulManafort
Let me get this straight. The GOP has decided to ignore sexual assaults against women in order to install a judge with the principal aim to remove rights from women?
Vote D for Democracy
Vote R for Rapists
#CultureOfCorruption
#StopKavanaugh
@hunterw
“Two sources are communicating with House investigators and detailed a stunning series of allegations to ‘Rolling Stone,’ including a promise of a “blanket pardon” from the Oval Office.”
”The Docs show investigators have evidence Trump was in close contact w/ his lieutenants as they made outreach to both Russia & WikiLeaks -& that they tried to conceal the extent of their activities.”
In other words, Trump colluded with 🇷🇺 to attack 🇺🇸.
.....are so many opposing view (on Border and Safety) cases filed there, and why are a vast number of those cases overturned. Please study the numbers, they are shocking. We need protection and security - these rulings are making our country unsafe! Very dangerous and unwise!
“I was going to college in the heyday of Senator McCarthy, and our country was straying from its most basic values. But they were people, many of them lawyers, who helped bring us back to the way it should be.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#FridayFeeling
:
#LawyersResist
#RBA
⚖️
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince admits he met with Trump campaign, an Israeli, & a back channel to UAE & Saudi on August 3, 2016 to discuss “Iran policy.” When asked why he didn’t disclose the meeting to the House Intel Comm., he fumbled & said the transcript is wrong 🙄.
Trump tells his base this is their country, not ours in new email.
What he’s really telling them is that this country belongs to white Christians.
I’m not a white Christian but I’m a proud American who strongly believes we
#NeedToImpeach
.
OMG 🔥
Filing says Butina asked Russian official to “seek input of the Russian gov’t” of the person Trump was considering for Secretary of State & told the officials Russia’s input will be considered.
🔥Must read article...Just WOW.
"The dossier alludes to an estimated $500 million dollar quid pro quo deal between the Trump campaign and Russia to broker the sale of shares in state-owned Rosneft to a Qatar’s sovereign investment fund."
Who's ready for a major story about
#TrumpRussia
involving Qatar, the country who purchased nearly 1/5th of Russian state-run oil company Rosneft?
#TheResistance
The transactions “raise serious ethical questions that need to be investigated...[do the] actions by Mr. Kushner constitute a breach of his ethical obligations to the American people?” ~
@CongressmanRaja
in his letter to OGE.
Short answer: Yes they do.
NEW: White House attorneys are examining whether two loans totaling more than $500 million to Jared Kushner’s family business may have violated criminal law or federal ethics regulations.
Important reminder:
Erdogan implemented small changes over an 18 month period. Now Turkey is much closer to an autocracy than the democracy it once was.
We need to fight to
#KeepTheRepublic
before we become another Turkey.
#RuleOfLaw
⚖️
#L4GG
#Trump
is
#NotAboveTheLaw
Before destroying the remnants of democracy in Turkey, Erdogan purged judges, fired prosecutors who were investigating him, called to arrest his opponents, and demonized the press—going after their wallets or singling out critical media outlets. Sound familiar?
It comes down to this: we either need to revisit the impeachment inquiry or accept Barr’s redactions of all of the underlying grand jury evidence.
I think Congress & the public deserve to see the evidence so we
#NeedToImpeach
.
What do you think?
Resistance Call to Action:
Help get at least 1 young person registered to vote and make sure they vote in their primary, if applicable, as well as in November.
#FridayFeeling
Hey
@SenatorCollins
!
Nearly $1.1 MILLION raised & it won’t end here.
I’ll donate monthly to make sure you never win any election-& I’m not the only one.
Best to vote NO &
#StopKavanaugh
unless you want to end your career in disgrace.
ALL: donate here👇
🔥More bad news for Trump - his state sponsored propaganda will reach less homes.
Tribune withdraws from Sinclair’s $3.9 billion media merger plan following “serious concerns” raised by the FCC.
#FreePress
matters.
Remember how awful it was to find out we had tons of warnings before 9/11 that were ignored?
According to Dan Coats, our top intelligence officer, the persistent danger of Russian cyberattacks today is akin to the warnings we had ahead of 9/11 attacks.
Democracy cannot exist without the rule of law.
Russia colluded with Trump & his campaign to repeal the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, i.e. the
#MagnitskyAct
.
Trump hates the rule of law.
We can’t let him repeal the
#RuleOfLaw
in America. Join me👇
Pelosi: “[It’s] particularly painful to see [McConnell] kowtowing to [Trump]. & I said to him, ‘Do you just want to abolish the Congress or maybe just the U.S. Senate? B/c that’s effectively what you’re doing.’”
McConnell is helping Trump/Putin destroy 🇺🇸
I didn't realize elected officials can force non-disclosure agreements in employment contracts using public funds.🙄
Oh wait - Steve Bannon also has 1st Amendment rights here.
This cease and desist is meaningless.
OMG💔😡
7-year-old migrant girl dies of dehydration, exhaustion 8 hours after being taken into Border Patrol custody for seeking political asylum.
She reportedly had not eaten or consumed water for several days.
They didn’t even offer the child water?
Kavanaugh's recent court opinions & statements reveal he lacks even a basic understanding of the damage sexual assault/harassment has on its victims.
For this reason alone, he should not be confirmed.
#CourtsMatter
@qjurecic
's article 👇 is a must read.
“This administration isn’t just targeting the laws that protect us, they’re targeting the very idea that we R all worthy of protection.”
Thank you
@RepJoeKennedy
for reminding us that this is not right, this is not who we are. Your grandfather would be proud.
#SOTU
💜
#Kennedy
☠️🔥4th Circuit Court of Appeals holds law ruling that the “banned assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are not among those protected by the 2nd Amendment.”
Take that Dana Loesch! (1 of 2)
#NoRA
#Newtown
#RBA
⚖️
#StudentsStandUp
If there's one thing that disrupts Putin's plans for destroying western democracy, it's the
#MagnitskyAct
. The law allows freezing of offshore assets & bans visas for human rights abusers. The more countries pass the act, the less places Putin & his oligarchs can hide his $.
The best by-product of Putin attacking me in Helsinki is that it showed how rattled he is by the Magnitsky Act. His public outburst will significantly increase the chances of getting 8 other countries to pass Magnitsky Acts
NEW: Maryland says since Whitaker’s appointment is unconstitutional, Rosenstein (not Whitaker) can respond in lawsuit concerning ACA. The state argues that since the AG is a “principal officer”, senate must confirm them. Whitaker has not been confirmed.
He’s going to use taxpayer funds to renovate his property for this. Another impeachable offense,
@RepAdamSchiff
. It’s time for you to support an impeachment inquiry.
Trump makes official visits to his own properties and rents rooms to foreign governments.
Now, he even proposes a global summit at his Florida resort. And suggests that a “neutral” search identified it as the best venue.
There is no limit to his greed — or mendacity.
💯.
Nothing will please the Kremlin and their GOP stooges more than removal of
@NancyPelosi
.
Don’t fall for it.
If the Kremlin, Trump, & the GOP want something, it’s not in America’s best interest.
#WeAreThePatriots
🇺🇸
The anti-Pelosi stuff isn't you being a free-thinking, young, or middle-aged revolutionary. It's a Kremlin created talking point ("new blood vs establishment") that was subtly sold to you as progressive due to your conscious or unconscious sexism/ageism and you fell for it.
“Never again means never again,” shouted hundreds of protestors in Boston as they walked from the Holocaust Memorial to the ICE detention center in Dorchester last night.
The march lasted several hours & the crowd got bigger & bigger.
#CloseTheCamps
Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer presented a great offer to Trump. Trump refused, said he will be proud to have a
#TrumpShutdown
, & is now holding our country hostage. Last I checked, Americans don’t negotiate with hostage takers. Thank you
@NancyPelosi
&
@SenSchumer
for staying 🇺🇸.
Nancy Pelosi tell me it’s not true that while the President gave up his vacation because of the partial shutdown and is waiting for your counter offer, you are in Hawaii working on your tan. Nancy, HAWAII? Maybe time to return to obligations to serve the people first, you second.
New poll: 70% of Americans (including 52% of R’s) believe a sitting president should be subject to criminal charges while in office.
That’s more telling on how Americans would view an impeachment inquiry than flawed polls asking support for impeachment.
Founding Father James Madison: “If the President be connected in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds to believe he will shelter him,” he can be impeached.
Trump should be careful w/ his pardon power.
#KeepTheRepublic
#RuleOfLaw
#L4GG
H/t
@craigaroo
.
@RepKatiePorter
not only came out in favor of an impeachment inquiry, she's the first to provide a fantastic & concise listing of FAQs. THANK YOU CONGRESSWOMAN!
Kavanaugh's memory appears impeccable except he doesn't know if he's spoken about Mueller's investigation with anyone from Trump attorney Mike Kasowitz's law firm. In fact, it appears that Kavanaugh is intentionally avoiding answering the question &
@KamalaHarris
tells him so.
#VeteransDay
-45 praised Putin
18 USC §2381-Treason
“Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason”
America🇺🇸-Plz wake up
#RBA
⚖️
POTUS embraces Putin yet again telling world he believes former KGB agent’s denial of attack on our election over our own Intel public servants, calling them “political hacks.” Disturbing and shamelessly unpatriotic, on Veterans Day no less.
.
@RepKatiePorter
to Wells Fargo CEO: How many of your tellers are receiving public assistance in this country?
Wells Fargo CEO: I'm not aware
Katie Porter: It's one-third.
Here's Ivanka Trump earlier this month, saying that she and Jared Kushner absolutely did not get any special treatment during the security clearance process.
The depositions in
@Kaepernick7
’s collusion case reveal “just how much league owners were petrified of President Trump.”
That the President’s bullying helped force the
@NFL
to ruin Kaep’s career & silence him for exposing injustice towards is disgusting & shameful.
#TakeAKnee
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"[Trump] has no interest in uniting the country, really, & actually has an interest in doing the opposite & dividing us, which he does on an almost daily basis. So that's simply a crime against humanity, as far as I'm concerned.” -
@springsteen
Great energy here! The crowd chants:
“The people
United
Will never be divided”
but our chants are often drowned out by all of the supportive honking as cars drive by!
#ProtectMueller
#Hollywood
Destruction of evidence once a litigation hold is in place (as it would be here) carries serious criminal consequences.
@seanhannity
is even dumber than I thought.
So Trump sent a cease & desist claiming libel w/o identifying a single false statement in the entire book & relied on a law that doesn’t exist in his chosen jurisdiction.
#TuesdayThoughts
: Trump’s baseless claims’ only goal is to silence opponents
#TruthHasAVoice
#FireandFury
#ABC
Counsel for "Fire and Fury Book" responds to Trump's Legal Team. "My Client has no intentions to cease publication or retraction, and there's no need for any apology."
WOAH...Trump's attorneys Toensing & Sekulow also represented Hannity -against Debbie Schlussel's accusations of him.
Sekulow is the only known personal attorney for Trump who is working full time on Mueller's inquiry.
Thank you to the
#Republicans
who made and are in support of this ad! Very refreshing and inspiring to remember that most Americans support the
#RuleOfLaw
, as required by our constitution. 🇺🇸
Republicans are claiming that Trump won't fire Mueller so it's unnecessary to protect Mueller with legislation. I don't buy that. Do you?
Call your senators and demand they support the Special Counsel Integrity Act (S. 1741).
Details 👇
#CallToAction
:
Trump smears the DOJ/FBI, calls Mueller’s probe a witch hunt & is now attacking him via his preferred medium - Twitter.
Let your senators know that Congress has an obligation to pass legislation to
#ProtectMueller
's probe.
#SB1741
@Yamiche
It’s not stunning at all. It���s been blatantly obvious that Trump will declare victory tonight regardless of what happened. He also told us he picked Barrett to give him the win. None of this is stunning.
🔥NEW: Supreme Court refuses Trump Admin's request to delay the trial alleging improper political motive (by Sect. Ross and others in his admin) in decision to add citizenship question to census.
Trial begins 11/5
HUGE win for gov't transparency!
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Patriots owner & Trump pal Robert Kraft charged with 2
counts of soliciting prostitution at a massage parlor used for human trafficking.
There’s even video evidence of Kraft “involved in sexual acts.”
This was in Florida, not anywhere near our borders.