Elizabeth Beavers| ☁️ElizabethRB | 🧵mynameiseliz Profile picture
VP of Public Affairs @QuincyInst | adjunct prof (remote) @UNHLaw | reality TV connoisseur | war bad, peace good, IMHO
May 15, 2018 44 tweets 18 min read
hello I am processing my outrage at @SenateDems over their failure to vote together and #BlockHaspel and I think I'm going to tweet one fact from the torture report for every Democrat who comes out in support of Haspel is anyone with me on this OK, here we go.
Feb 28, 2018 9 tweets 3 min read
I totally get that a thousand things are happening and it feels like there's a crisis happening every minute in the Trump era.

But PLEASE don't sleep on what's happening in the Senate right now to fight the #TrumpThreatLevel. It affects us all. In short: Trump is overseeing an illegal war in Yemen. Congress has never authorized it. It's causing the world's worst humanitarian crisis - people are starving and being slaughtered. And the U.S. is complicit.
Jan 29, 2018 13 tweets 3 min read
Yet another Monday in the Trump era - lots of nonsense floating around.

Nunes' fake #ReleaseTheMemo non-scandal is up there for Most Ridiculous Thing We Have to Pay Attention To Today.

In case you're wondering what "the memo" is, here's a quick recap. It's not a memo. It's a 4-page document created by Nunes and company, based on classified documents pertaining to the Trump/Russia investigation.

We're essentially talking about a short Word doc on which Nunes wrote his preferred talking points framing it all as a witch hunt.