Personal account. Liberal, Indian American, feminist, mom, wife. Not in that order. Banned by Russia and proud of it. Views expressed are most definitely my own
After my parents were divorced when I was young, my mother relied on public food and housing programs to get by. Now, I’m being nominated to help ensure those programs are secure, and ensure families like mine can live with dignity. I am beyond honored.
I hope Barack Obama just shows up places in the public eye every couple of weeks through the next election just to remind people what it was like to have a decent, intelligent, compassionate president. So they know we can have that again.
You know what defeats the hatefulness of Trumpism? The largest electoral margin defeat since Goldwater. That is what he deserves. A humiliating, historic landslide loss. And that is actually possible.But it takes a bigger coalition than your twitter bubble. Build the army.
I have the coronavirus. I’ve been sick for a week, and really, really fatigued, with muscle pain. So far, thankfully, no fever and my oxygen levels are fine. But I was super careful, wore masks, carried hand sanitizer. Haven’t really socialized with friends.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Sure I’ll testify for 11 hours. No problem.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: I will hide behind my staff forever even though I lied to you all and was on the call with Ukraine.
On Earth 2, Pres Hillary Clinton has finished her Oval Office Address delineating how because of mass testing organized early by the gov't, universal paid leave she passed early in her Admin and her expansion of health care to all Americans, incidents of coronavirus are declining
I honestly worry that a lot of folks in the media have no idea how targeted people of color feel by this president and how angry we are at his enablers.
A bad day for Stephen Miller is a good day for America.
His whole strategy to use DACA as a negotiating chip has completely failed. What an epic policy disaster.
The fact that the
@GavinNewsom
’s margin was higher against the recall than his blowout vote for Governor in 2018 should tell folks that the GOP’s position on vaccine requirements is a losing one.
I saw focus groups of Trump voters in 2016. They thought the fact he was a hugely successful businessman would make him a successful president. The fact he was a loser in business will hurt him. And that is why he’s kept his taxes secret.
Reminder, we have very high unemployment numbers because we have to do radical social distancing. We have to do social distancing because we do not have enough tests to know where the virus is. We do not have enough tests because the Trump Admin bungled the tests.
Over 3100 people have died in the US from the coronavirus. More than died on 9/11. Only 158 in South Korea, though we both got our first positive case on the same day.
I worked in Clinton WH during impeachment; there’s a fundamental difference to today. During Clinton impeachment, the public perceived the events to be punishment for private behavior. Trump's obstruction is using power of the presidency to shield him from public accountability.
In 2016, for the first time, I was told by people on twitter to go back to India. They -all white nationalists-sent me images of poverty in India, told to return. I was born here. But they saw me as less American because I am brown. Now Trump parrots them. That is what we fight.
My family used food stamps when I was a child. I also went on to college and law school. Give all poor children a real chance and you will make this country the place it ought to be
Quite the ad from Nike: "I believe that ... a whole generation of girls and boys will go out and play and say things like, 'I want to be like Megan Rapinoe when I grow up.' And that they'll be inspired to talk and win."
I just need to say this:
I worked with
@HillaryClinton
on public policy or two decades.
I Know that if she was President, she would have ordered mass testing in January, stayed on it, devised a plan to contain the virus like S Korea, and countless lives would've been saved.
Arizona elected a Democrat for President and has Two Democratic Senators. You have to go back over 50 years for that.
We built that. And we can build on it.
Just a reminder for all reporters: Trump’s daughter has a stash of Chinese licenses. She’s doing business in China Right Now. You may want to check it out.
Been pretty wiped out by the virus, but I wanted to thank everyone for their well wishes. And I want to acknowledge the terrible loss of a 100,000 people dying from the virus. 100,000 holes in families, communities, our country. My thoughts are with everyone who has lost someone.
I am honestly shocked that Senate Republicans tanked a bill that helps veterans get the health care they need from exposure to toxic substances out of sheet pettiness that Democrats can pass another bill. Like how will that make sense to any veteran or anyone else?
Pretty amazing that a press corps that by their own admission failed so miserably in 2016 by asymmetrically holding one (woman) candidate to a high standard while holding Trump to a very low or no standard - are doing it all over again.
He literally owned up to election
Warren in Iowa declining to criticize Dems when pushed, Beto defending Mayor Pete against bigotry, Dems welcoming each other into the race. Lots of candidates get that in the face of Trump we have to support each other, not divide.
Where are the Second Amendment zealots who claim to worry about an overzeaolous federal government when Trump is threatening to send the military to attack and subdue American citizens on American soil?
I only went out for necessities and wore masks. And did nature walks. This is obviously a very transmissible virus. People need to take a lot of care and the idea we can just reopen is very scary.
Hi
A good thing to focus on today is the fact that Vance said yesterday their plan is to get rid of protections for preexisting conditions and charge older Americans more in insurance premiums
Do you know any of the 100 million people with pre existing conditions? Let ‘em know
Most Republican voters say Nancy Pelosi should not be House speaker next year: Just 11% support her candidacy, while 61% oppose it, according to our latest poll
A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.
In the aftermath of another school shooting,
@realDonaldTrump
stomped around a stage in Florida and condoned gun violence. This is whatreal leadership looks like
People are talking about Trump's presser all over my timeline. I can't really watch this, I will confess I can't stomach it. But I want to ask others -- is it really helpful to watch? I mean, this attention is what he craves. He's not really acting like a potus, why tune in?
Hope Hicks, one of the best-known but least visible former members of President Trump’s White House staff, is facing an existential question: whether to comply with a congressional subpoena
Such a shame. Two more lives needlessly lost because brilliant leaders decided to release a convicted terrorist “with links to Islamic extremist groups” back into civil society.
Political correctness will destroy western civilization.
If Joe Biden becomes president, the last 3 Dem presidents will be people who who grew up in working class families and who rose entirely from their own talents. The last 3 GOP presidents will be people born rich who used their access to power and privilege to advance.
That’s because the Sandy Hook mass shooter didn’t lay out guns that spelled Obama’s name, didn’t recite Obama’s words and didn’t target people Obama had likened to rats and criminals.
“Did George Bush ever condemn President Obama after Sandy Hook. President Obama had 32 mass shootings during his reign. Not many people said Obama is out of Control. Mass shootings were happening before the President even thought about running for Pres.”
@kilmeade
@foxandfriends
President Trump will not be tested for the coronavirus after coming into contact with a Brazilian official who tested positive for the virus just days after a Mar-a-Lago visit, the White House said on Thursday
The inability of the White House to understand that Trump has already been impeached and the issue before us is a verdict of guilt or not by the Senate and removal is really bizarre. He keeps saying he can’t be impeached. He already has been.
🚨PSA🚨: “Fox News has learned that the Pentagon, State Department, and National Security Council were ‘unanimous’ in supporting the aid to Ukraine, and that Trump acted alone in withholding the aid over the summer.”
So Trump is too afraid to face Kamala in a neutral setting he previously agreed to. He basically admits that to face her he’ll need to the assist of two Fox hosts and its whole network.
You know what that is?
It’s weak.
Exclu: Congressional records show Nunes, Derek Harvey, and two other staffers traveled to Europe in late 2018. Lev Parnas helped set up meetings for them there, per his lawyer
I’m old enough to remember the days long wingnut meltdown when Obama slightly bowed his head towards a Saudi royal out of respect. Now Trump grovels at them - putting our troops at the beck and call of an authoritarian king. Crickets.
Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked. There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!
A country where a president can avoid any accountability because his appointed AG neutralized a report and then hid it from the public is not a functioning democracy.
SEAN HANNITY: "Please take Covid seriously. I can't say it enough. Enough people have died. We don't need any more death. Research like crazy. Talk to your doctor... I believe in science. I believe in the science of vaccination."
Republicans lost Governorship of NC in 2016 and moved to strip the Dem of power. They just lost the Governorship of WI and MI & now seek to limit the power of the Gov. This is banana republic behavior. And it needs to be a national story. Friends please organize in WI and MI
Standing with people who simply want to live in a democracy and standing against a proto-fascist invader… many things are unclear in life. This is not.
A note to reporters: How is the mere fact that Trump talked to Comey by himself during the Russia investigation not far, far worse than Bill Clinton talking to Lynch? Someone explain that to me.
“To be the kind of human being who would seek to turn someone against his own son, who would seek to weaponize a son against his own father, is an unbelievably dishonorable thing.”
I’m deleting a tweet on
@PeteButtigieg
because he was inaccurately quoted.
@PeteButtigieg
did not say Obama in the quote. And I regret spreading the inaccuracy in the story, that has since been updated. Very sorry this went viral.
One more thought on
@ewarren
. Unless you’ve worked on a campaign for a woman pres candidate, you have no idea how hard it is. The constant double bind - can you criticize without being tagged as a bitch, etc. So much harder than for men.
@ewarren
ran a Great campaign. Full stop.
The GOP didn't attack Reagan, they built him up for decades. Dem Candidates who attack Obama are wrong and terrible. Obama wasn't perfect, but come on people, next to Trump, he kind of is.
This is my outrage of the day.
I skimmed the testimony of Ambassador Taylor earlier today; but I just read it word for word and honestly, I hope every American reads it. Chilling how Trump was willing to let Ukrainian soldiers die without US arms they were relying on in order to extort political retaliation.
As a kid, I went to a good public school outside Boston. I vividly remember being the only kid in line who used 10 cent vouchers for school lunches, from the Free Lunch Program.
Since childhood, I've understood what government can do to help struggling families get on their feet
People, if we crap on the Republicans who do a good thing, the message that is sent is that crossing Trump doesn’t get you anything but scorn. We need to create a permission structure for movement against Trump. Support the steps they take. Scorning them is counterproductive
Families all across our country are worried. Worried about paying bills, rent – too many of the most basic necessities have been placed out of reach.
Our government must invest in people to put an end to this worry, and revive our economy.
Just a reminder: the person sitting in the Oval Office lost the popular vote by 3 million, won the EC by 70k votes, and was aided by a Russian multi-million dollar disinfo campaign AND ALSO their hacking of Dems. Would he be Pres without the Russian help? Seems unlikely to me.
I realized
@sarahcpr
follows me and I'm honestly vklempt. When this disaster is over -- the pandemic And the Trump presidency -- I feel like we should give her a national medal for helping us all survive this dark moment.