Landscape matters,
#NoFracking
,
#NoKXL
,
#NoDAPL
, don't get me started bc I rant. Don’t DM unless you know I know you. Always look in the rear view mirror. 💙🌊
@KentuckyEntwife
Seriously: “Wearing a mask is sure as shit easier than wearing a ventilator,” and I’d add “bucko,” but I know that’s kind of inflammatory.
@NormOrnstein
Such a good heart you have. Your understanding of humanity & the frailties & sorrows that touch us all is a lovely thing, especially in this cruel time.
Another excellent piece frm Joyce Vance, who shares the legal sticky wicket Pence faces as explained by the esteemed conservative Judge Michael Luttig. These two legal experts are among those who help to keep me from going off the rails about this terrible mess. TY again, Joyce.
@OurShallowState
I like Cohen. His comment 2day, p’haps referring 2 an earlier comment, that he was “broken, broken,” struck me as bedrock truth frm a man who owns his crimes. His hubris brot him down, & he paid dearly. That Barr sent him 2 solitary after he ?ed signing a fake doc is obscene.
@OurShallowState
I admire decision 2 bring on disaffected Dent, Jolley etc. I admire M Steele a ton. Kasich speaks 2 a certain viewer, tho not me. But McDaniel as an election denier & trump sycophant is disastrous. “Both sides” does NOT include overthrowing US gov’t if 1 doesn’t like outcome.
@Lulubookseller
@MaddowBlog
Why not? Just look at the committees now fully appointed? Not hard to draw conclusions about
@GOP
hot button issues looking at committees not appointed.
@WordswithSteph
@NicolleDWallace
&
@FrankFigliuzzi1
had a segment a couple of days ago abt this & it scared the hell out of me. In this new uncharted landscape 4 all of us, I vacillate from 1 day 2 the next abt what 2 think. I do agree more indictments r coming & Fani is talking RICO. Holy cow!
This is so great. I love our kids, deeply.
@GretaThunberg
is going to Pine Ridge & Standing Rock at the invitation of
@ChaseIronEyes
’s daughter Tokata & I read about it in a letter from
@lakotalaw
. That’s Greta on the left and Tokata on the right, w/Jamie Margolin from
@amnesty
.
@glennkirschner2
I almost think that Gavin Newsome, traveling to other states, is beginning to show a new way of not necessarily campaigning, but attempting to educate, get the word out—whatever. I just saw an interview w him & I have not processed what he said yet, but we Ds must break out r msg
Thank you
@glennkirschner2
: ARREST DONALD TRUMP NOW; Mirandize him; interrogate him.
And my question: Can trump be indicted?
And another question I have: WHO WROTE CANNON’S OPINION? She did not write that opinion all by her little self.
@NCOIC_ROB_SCOTT
@TRUMP4FEDPRISON
Plus, 1-6 is looking at funding of insurrection in an upcoming hearing & my bet is they’ll be corralling that lil Nebraska gal which could create a bunch of chaos if she were involved in special mastery. Jesus Mary & Joseph, who’s writing this HBO script, again?
Good thread—we forget that the world watches & has questions. Seems 2 me that our insularity is crippling our action—you know, the bold action to punish the mobby sorts who intended 2 & still do intend 2 overthrow our democracy. In some ways we’re hung up on “can’t happen here.”
Imagine if you lived in another country and you heard that one of the spouses of the 9 people who make decisions in America was plotting to overthrow the government.
@janekleeb
@NebraskaDems
Good things coming from a heartland state, emphasis heart. We are not haters or extremists (the ex-Nebraskan says gratefully).
@sandibachom
Wait. Sandi, DoJ Homeland Security is conducting investigation. Am I maybe missing the point? Been in car all day, med shit, so just catching up the only way I can tolerate rn—HERE. How crazy is that? No more MSNBC shitshow, wh/had been important to me, especially r legal friends
@TheRickyDavila
I’m married to an historian of the 19th c south. We were gobsmacked by the incredibly dynamic, young, unknown Obama who gave the 2004 D keynote speech in Boston. We literally held our breaths, knowing we were witnessing something magnificent & transformative—that’s all we knew.
@JoyceWhiteVance
Well, let us understand that we are called to arms, and I do not mean about the 2nd amendment fights. We are called now, to defend our democracy, and it is not about the guns (we already know about GOP perversion). I do not have the answers; I only know what we must do.
@OurShallowState
@domainophile
We are - so many of us - terrified. Thank you. Don’t stop. This is not hyperbole, and it’s a more frightening scenario than Grisham or leCarré could have possibly penned (showing my age).
@RolandForTexas
@TxDPS
@ShimonPro
You are one honorable & passionate bright light in our horrendous national darkness, Senator Gutierrez. I’ve been listening to you and you give me hope.
@ImSpeaking13
I’m spending the day reading comments and reliving the fab and groovy event, even its catastrophes. Thank you Kate for your prodigious and clear-headed leadership into a new year, hopefully not too fraught, what with Flynn flummoxed and Lara in the Goodwill bin. Yay!
@AWeissmann_
I’m done reading comments here. This investigation in2 the worst crisis in American democracy is hydra-headed. It’s RICO on steroids. The universe of crimes committed by trump have yet 2 come 2 daylight. Yes it looks like he is above the law—but he’s not. “Oh ye of little faith.”
@sandibachom
@AVindman
@elonmusk
Me 2 Sandi. Blows up/trying 2 blow up a global crossroads, an e-town, call it what you will, but we learn, the big guys talk 2 us, help us understand the legal machinations; we meet like-minded folks & discover others we’d never have thought abt. 💥4 1 man’s extraordinary hubris.
@tribelaw
What she is saying should be considered “incitement to riot, violence,” whatever some statute says—because that is exactly what she is doing.
Republicans are not a serious political party. They are not policy, but rage driven. They have no foundational platform. They stand on no moral high ground. Their future is limited by how many majority voters they are can subjugate. They are not credible & must be made obsolete.
@BaddCompani
You’re not often wrong, if ever, so Merry Christmas and thank you for the gift 💝 of affirmation. We can swim, sail, and fly, only we need hope to do so.
#ProtectDemocracy
I’ve been posting or commenting with a history bent lately tho I don’t know why; seemed relevant. Here: Joe Biden, a splendid human being who served, suffered, lived his life with integrity. History will adjudge him as one of our finest presidents.
@POTUS
It's safe to say that all President Biden was expected to do was save us from Trump. But he didn't stop there.
America recovered faster than any G7 country. He saved NATO and Ukraine. He freed hostages. And at the pinnacle of his accomplishments, he passed the torch.
Hero.
💙
@BillKristol
@SaveRDemocrazy
Bill’s comment is 100% accurate. It won’t be easy and it won’t be pretty. But...WE WILL DO THIS. Turn this ship around. Right this ship of state. All these metaphors about rough seas ahead, all correct. But we are not as a people like that horrid Tang-colored shell of a human.
@FPWellman
@JayWeber3
Anyone who says “I’m sorry if I offended you” is duplicitous, disingenuous, meant to obfuscate a bullshitter. If I apologize, I do not say that ^^. I say “I’m sorry. What I said (or did) is offensive.”
@girlsreallyrule
This was astounding, and no one should ever underestimate the speaker. She has principles, nerves of steel, a brilliant strategic political mind, and love in her heart. She is in every way a true warrior for justice.
@K_Rosa17
@AOC
Katie, you bring up something troubling me for quite a long time. I know first-hand about some gross public behavior by a high-profile person but it doesn’t rise to anything prosecutable or legally actionable. But I’m so mad I am biting my tongue & trying to be an ethical person
@davidfrum
Every parent feels grief with you; some of us have experienced it, and some of us pray it doesn’t come. And I thank you for your profound, lovely articulate, and moving sharing. Love for Miranda, and you and her mother.
@JoyceWhiteVance
@maddow
I love how Washington Gov Inslee turned it right back to Idaho & other states by prohibiting Washington investigators from assisting or investigating other state LE attempting to enforce their barbaric laws on women traveling to WA-safe harbor for abortion.
@NormOrnstein
Thomas & his side-piece are off the charts arrogant. He, nor she, nor they do not give one shit about any of this horrific kerfuffle, bc that’s all it is to them: a bothersome kerfuffle, an annoying dust-up. He will have to be impeached; she must be prosecuted.
@JoyceWhiteVance
Shameless; no decent person of the cloth would harass election workers; no decent person at all would harass election workers. Sorry Steve; no sympathy for your pious gambit.
@juliemetzwriter
@JoyceWhiteVance
@Rosie
Miller’s lil wife, who is as odious as he is, is pregnant. And Kayleigh “I will never lie to the American people” whatever her name, also positive, has a baby daughter. These people love the orange madman and willing to sacrifice their littles? All of them make me sick. Literally
@MuellerSheWrote
And another drop in NV (WashieCty) ~ 10:00 and another drop in AZ (Maricopa) ~ 11:00. HANG ON GUYS!!!!!!!!!! We’re getting there!!!!!!
Whatever the reason
@petesouza
is gone, he has a gift for capturing the humanity of his subjects & if he did not leave this pit on his own, then petty lil elmo booted him. Petty lil elmo can’t boot all of us, tho.
📌The GREAT White House Photographer
@petesouza
has been suspended from this damn place. He was responsible for iconic shots like this one, while chronicling the Obama White House.
#FreePeteSouza
@NotHoodlum
So all this Bitcoin-crypto currency bullshit is way out of my old-lady zip code; all I see here are Melanie’s efforts to amass enough to get her back to Vlad and some dacha on the Black Sea…
@RosanneR429
@KentuckyEntwife
...&
@peter_gunther
- all y’all don’t live upstate, I guess. I will say it’s better now but there are still holdouts and it’s infuriating. They probably smoke 2 packs a day and don’t wear seatbelts either. They forget it’s about protecting others.
@harrylitman
Many thanks to you, Harry. Sometimes I feel as if I’ve just finished 1st year law school, as an avid consumer of your threads & those of several of your colleagues. I’m so grateful for the education you generously provide us in this extraordinarily fraught moment in our history.
@G8trz4ever
@NormOrnstein
It isn’t a form of treason, it is treason, especially when looking at decimation of exec agencies and systematic gaslighting of us by trump
@KaivanShroff
A bunch of random capitalizations, lack of capitalization, spacing issues—just eyeballing it quickly. There are probably more errors & typos. He’s a lying fraud. And Weaker McCarthy was lovin’ on him as far back as ‘20. WOW, this stinks. The lot of them stink, for that matter.
@BaddCompani
Des Moines is under a tornado watch :)
Severe Alerts Issued for Des Moines, IA
I still think you’re right, & he’s relieved that nature stepped in.
@BruceRFeldman
@MaddowBlog
My friend, stop with the when, why etc... AG MG, SDNY & so forth cannot afford to make one fricking mistake. If I didn’t believe they/we could/will get there, why be a G-D patriot? Why believe in democracy? If we don’t get there, we’re done. The important legal minds know this.
@McFaul
You’ve always been articulate & informative. Seems Navalny’s murder has ignited a righteous fire in you we need now in our civic, political, international discourse. Big ups; don’t stop. Your words & demeanor are compelling.
@PaulMayATL
Soooo, they were ready to go... and I swear, for some funny reason I have these words in no order rattling around in my head: Kennedy, son-in-law, trump, deal, DeutscheBank, retirement, appointment, Russia, loan, laundry, Putin, kompronat. Silly.
@smugbunny
@ECMcLaughlin
He’s breathing, isn’t he? Watching his favorite thing? Safer where he is while his momma helps in getting rid of those people and attitudes that mean our kids don’t have a sustainable future. Honey, he’s just fine. Have some wine now, if that’s your happy beverage.
@ImSpeaking13
Don’t worry too much Kate; if we all put on our secret decoder rings we can shift gears in a nimble minute & come over & put a protective ring around you, & by tomorrow those guys will be otherwise occupied. All will be well.
@WLD01
@QuancyClayborne
@supergeenie
Here’s the deal. Don’t invite anybody over unless they watch. Side conversations no. Keep mute handy. Keep the focus, this isn’t a party. Tweet some stuff, that’s good. We’ll be texting with our kids and fam. Don’t have to have convos, just get in our big circle & keep the faith.
@sandibachom
@maddow
I looked at this segment differently. Barr’s order stands and snares trump. Garland is protecting himself & his department by laying out how to behave per the May memo. Hell I can’t retain the dets, but let’s see how the talking heads roll this out.
@floruva
@george_capen
As soon as it’s clear we’ve won the House I think Mueller will act. He doesn’t have much time to do so before trump comes unhinged. trump may be under subpoena already; the grand jury may already have an indictment, & don’t forget the stuff Mueller has farmed out to SDNY & EDVA