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đ1. Hey @CNN @MSNBC @ABC @CBSNews @NPR @washingtonpost @nytimes et al, can we talk? Is one of these groups of people more important than the other? All of them were targeted with a deadly threat but most people donât know that because you didnât report it #MAGABomber 
2. This isnât an attack, itâs an attempt to help you understand why we chant âfake newsâ and maybe, just maybe if any of you read it, youâll admit you arenât really as fair as you think? @realDonaldTrump is right, we can all do better.
3. Not going to talk about the guys arrested because that really shouldnât be the focus but two men were both arrested and complaints were filed for five felony charges. Yup, and no one even knows the name of the guy that sent Ricin, why? #CesarSayoc will trend though.
Ahead of @SenatorCollins' speech on the Senate floor, protesters chant "believe women!" from the gallery
COLLINS is using her speech to criticize opponents of Kavanaugh as "frenzied," "spreading outright falsehoods," and representing "special interest groups."
COLLINS: "The president has broad discretion to consider a nominee's philosophy, whereas my duty as a senator is to focus on the nominee's qualifications as long as that nominee's philosophy is within the mainstream."
It sure sounds like she is going to announce a yes vote.
It sure sounds like she is going to announce a yes vote.
As @ChuckGrassley begins 2nd day of Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing by talking about yesterday's disruptions, loud protests immediately break out in back of the room
In response to Grassley's first question, Kavanaugh cites United States vs. Nixon as "one of the greatest moments in American judicial history." đ
KAVANAUGH: "No one is above the law in our constitutional system... under our system of government, the executive branch is subject to the law... We make decisions based on law, not based on political pressure, not based on identity of the parties, no matter who you are."
#WomeninSTEM get a lot of âReply Guysâ who repeat the same unhelpful comments.
@shrewshrew and I (a woman & a man in science) have attempted to catalog those replies, to save us all the trouble of writing new responses every time.
presenting THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS
(1/n)
@shrewshrew and I (a woman & a man in science) have attempted to catalog those replies, to save us all the trouble of writing new responses every time.
presenting THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS
(1/n)
We will post one Reply Guy a day, and we welcome your thoughts and feedback.
Starting with a very nice fella, full of helpful advice, with one big problem:
Reply Guy #1. THE LIFE COACH
Starting with a very nice fella, full of helpful advice, with one big problem:
Reply Guy #1. THE LIFE COACH
People who get annoying replies can tag the dude with the appropriate Reply Guy from this thread, and save themselves a pointless debate. Thatâs the idea anyway.
And some guys seem to take it to heart when you point out that theyâre being a clichĂ©.
#MeTooSTEM #MeTooPhD
And some guys seem to take it to heart when you point out that theyâre being a clichĂ©.
#MeTooSTEM #MeTooPhD
.@OMAROSA on Trump taking legal action to silence her: "What is he trying to hide or afraid of? If he has not said anything that's derogatory or demeaning to African Americans, why would he go to the extent to shut me down?"
She also confirms she's been interviewed by Mueller.
She also confirms she's been interviewed by Mueller.
WOW -- Omarosa claims Trump had foreknowledge of WikiLeaks' activities during 2016 campaign, including when stolen emails would be published.
Trump's own intelligence chiefs have accused WikiLeaks of serving as a Kremlin cutout.
Trump's own intelligence chiefs have accused WikiLeaks of serving as a Kremlin cutout.
Less than 24 hours after attacking LeBron James, Trump is set to deliver a speech at a rally in Bron's home state of Ohio at the bottom of the hour. Follow me for a video thread.
Trump presses some flesh before his speech at the @Troy_Balderson rally near Columbus
LOL -- immediately after Fox News reporter praises Trump Ohio rally attendees for being "friendly," the crowd breaks out in "CNN sucks!" chant. #civility
.@TuckerCarlson is airing his Helsinki interview with President Trump in just a few minutes. Follow me for a video thread.
Tucker characterizes Trump's walk-back of his defense of Putin as a "hostage tape."
"The people yelling loudest about how the Russians are our greatest enemy & Trump is a puppet happen to be the same people who have been mismanaging our foreign policy for the past few decades."
"The people yelling loudest about how the Russians are our greatest enemy & Trump is a puppet happen to be the same people who have been mismanaging our foreign policy for the past few decades."
Tucker is still skeptical that Russia interfered in the election.
"Shouldn't we see some actual evidence that it happened? Maybe a server or at least a clear explanation of what happened."
"Shouldn't we see some actual evidence that it happened? Maybe a server or at least a clear explanation of what happened."
ICE is training its deportation officers in the use of M4 assault rifles, âchemical agentsâ, stun grenades, and flash bangs, according to federal procurement records I found.
âSounds like theyâre getting ready for war,â a retired ICE agent told me.
tytnetwork.com/2018/07/03/iceâŠ
âSounds like theyâre getting ready for war,â a retired ICE agent told me.
tytnetwork.com/2018/07/03/iceâŠ
ICE *more than doubled* its supply of M4 assault rifles, according to federal procurement records I found.
ICE also signed a $15 million agreement with the M4's manufacturer, Colt firearms
tytnetwork.com/2018/07/03/iceâŠ
ICE also signed a $15 million agreement with the M4's manufacturer, Colt firearms
tytnetwork.com/2018/07/03/iceâŠ
1. Welp, so much for #civility: LET'S MAKE THIS GUY FAMOUS. Last night, at a French bistro in NYC, I got into it with this old white man in an American flag t-shirt who loudly "joked" to the waitress, "I'm going to tell Trump to deport you, hahaha, I'll tell Trump to deport you!"
2. I said (in a firm, calm voice), "Sir, that isn't funny and it's not ok. Don't joke about deporting people," that his waitress didn't deserve that treatment. He began screaming at me, "IT WAS A JOKE!" I said it wasn't funny but dangerous, that he shouldn't talk to ppl like that
3. Mr Civility, screaming, staring me down, irate: "DON'T TALK TO ME! YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO TALK TO ME! WHO TOLD YOU YOU COULD TALK TO ME!?"
Me: "Well, don't threaten to deport people and I wouldn't have to talk to you."
Woman with him tells him to stop it;he continues.
Me: "Well, don't threaten to deport people and I wouldn't have to talk to you."
Woman with him tells him to stop it;he continues.
A day away from Twitter to face down #cancer drama with medical folks.
Then dealing with the financial devastation wrought by this administration on sick people with a social worker assigned to me via my health insurance.
I am so angry, it's palpable.
Trump is a monster.
Then dealing with the financial devastation wrought by this administration on sick people with a social worker assigned to me via my health insurance.
I am so angry, it's palpable.
Trump is a monster.
My parents were Civil Rights workers. My father was a Freedom Rider. The calls for #civility were constant.
.@repjohnlewis, our Civil Rights icon, was nearly killed in non-violent actions.
#Civility has never been two-ways. Civility has never benefited the oppressed.
#Civility has never been two-ways. Civility has never benefited the oppressed.
A pretty pretty good take. nyti.ms/2MZPUx1
Lying Trump administration mouthpieces are not a protected class (except sort of in DC)
"breakdown of democracy" is a hyperbolic way to put it, but this isn't incorrect.
I'm one of a few million Americans awake when we should be sleeping because of the pain of #cancer or some other chronic illness.
Adding to our sleeplessness is knowing #healthcare is under threat. We may not be able to afford it due to the #GOP's actions.
It's terrorizing.
Adding to our sleeplessness is knowing #healthcare is under threat. We may not be able to afford it due to the #GOP's actions.
It's terrorizing.
My parents were Civil Rights workers. My father was a Freedom Rider. As a small child I was taught the legacy of #MLK.
I watched people invoking MLK on Monday. Not in defense of #votingrights or in outrage over how the #SCOTUS ruled on two pivotal cases on gerrymandering.
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I watched people invoking MLK on Monday. Not in defense of #votingrights or in outrage over how the #SCOTUS ruled on two pivotal cases on gerrymandering.
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MLK wasn't being invoked for #votingrights but for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who lies to America every day about policies that could very well kill me & others.
Policies that are hurting millions.
Policies that have kept me a citizen without equal rights in my own country.
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Policies that are hurting millions.
Policies that have kept me a citizen without equal rights in my own country.
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Here is a happy family enjoying play in the snow in 1940. Hard to imagine their idyls getting disrupted by protesters, and they never would have. #civility 1/
The father in the photo is Karl Otto Koch, shown here in uniform, commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp. When the previous photo was taken, at his comfortable home outside Buchenwald, the Nazis had stifled all dissent. #civility 2/
The luxury of arguing about #civility belongs to the privileged classes, not those at risk. We will never know if the Karl Otto Kochs could have been stopped before they got this comfortable, because "civility" at the time prevented making them uncomfortable first. fin/
@CNNnewsroom @David_Gergen This is such stupid and false MAGA bs. As if America used to be more civil. AS IF!
@CNNnewsroom @David_Gergen America is as civil as it's ever been. Maybe more so for some. Only if you have the historical white male privilege to have been uncivil without ever having to have uncivil done back to you does it seem like we're less civil.
Protest is as American as apple pie. You don't have to be nice to anyone & are under no requirement to practice #civility in the face of rampant incivility.
But my question to those fed up is: What's next? How will your opponent reply & how do you plan to counter that?
But my question to those fed up is: What's next? How will your opponent reply & how do you plan to counter that?
Over & over again I see anxious ruminations about whether or not right minded people who oppose Trump are supposed to be appealing to / converting Trump voters.
Why? The last election proved that you're in the majority.
Your goal should be settling differences on your OWN side.
Why? The last election proved that you're in the majority.
Your goal should be settling differences on your OWN side.
Trump's people are unified. Republicans give this ramshackle, incompetent President a 90% approval rating. Republicans in previous administrations would KILL to have that kind of rating.
So it's not about them, not about what they do, it's about what YOU do.
So it's not about them, not about what they do, it's about what YOU do.
I think we need to have a little talk about respectability politics - sometimes appearing as conversations about "civility"
There's a deep connection to civility and civilized, usually a meaning about how manners for treating others are defined by an oppressive group who claims the other is u civilized and needs to be dominated -- see history of colonialism and manifest destiny please
This is problematic in itself bcuz supposedly civilized colonists used human rights violations and European cultural values as their model for what was civilized as the conquered group after group
#RedHen has gotten more than 15k "reviews" since Trump and @PressSec Sanders attacked the tiny 26-seat restaurant on Twitter.
The "reviews" all rank the restaurant, but none of the people has been there.
RedHen is now closed for the 3rd day.
yelp.com/biz/the-red-heâŠ
The "reviews" all rank the restaurant, but none of the people has been there.
RedHen is now closed for the 3rd day.
yelp.com/biz/the-red-heâŠ
If you scroll the photos, you'll see actual posts of meals and interior #RedHen. The food looks good and the atmosphere sweet. Those reviews are all 4â.
There are also pics uploaded by Trump supporters of cross burnings, Obama as a devil and Hillary as a vampire eating babies.
There are also pics uploaded by Trump supporters of cross burnings, Obama as a devil and Hillary as a vampire eating babies.
(11) Trump supporters near Mar-a-lago on Presidents Day weekend.
(12) The First Family boarding Air Force One before heading back to DC on Monday.
(13) Leaving Florida and arriving at Joint Base Andrews Monday night.
#WhyWeResist (THREAD) Renowned spiritual leader John Neuhas once said:
"Genuine #tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences w/in a bond of #civility & #respect." #CampaignforCivility 1/
"Genuine #tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences w/in a bond of #civility & #respect." #CampaignforCivility 1/
Neuhas was not completely right. #Fascists, #WhiteSupremacists, Nazis, bigots, etc. lambast progressives for not tolerating their views. But hateful extremists use #tolerance merely as a tool to gain acceptance & obtain power. #CampaignforCivility #WhyWeResist 2/
Once fascists & bigots are in power, they vilify all who are different, all who dare to disagree. They only care about one thing: consolidating their power. #CampaignforCivility #WhyWeResist 3/
