#Congress

Nick Kapur

nick_kapur

I wish articles like this would also point out that the Republicans have actively been trying to destroy the Postal Service for decades, and directly caused its recent woes.A thread.

Mollie

MZHemingway

Tucker: "Bobulinski is an unusually credible witness." "Any honest person who watched the entire hour would conclude" Bobulinski is credible, Tucker says. Some pundits have said they don't find him

el gato malo

boriquagato

leaving aside all the censorship issues and partisan assclownery of "ideas so correct they must be protected from scrutiny and opposing viewpoints" i think we actually start to land on

Spry Guy

SpryGuy

Copied from a friend... To all my young social warriors and idealists who are disappointed with the two party system, please read:1. You're not just voting for President. 2. You're

Wendell Potter

wendellpotter

Over the last few days, I’ve been asked many times: If a new Supreme Court overturns Obamacare, what would that mean for most Americans? As a former health insurance executive,

ACLU

ACLU

The appalling new whistleblower complaint reporting the use of forced and coerced hysterectomies at Irwin County Detention Center is just the latest chapter in the chronicle of horrors that detained

Loose_Bull 🇮🇳

loosebool

#MahatmaInLove 1. In October of 1919 , Mohan Das fell in love. He was then fifty and the woman was forty-seven. She happened to be the niece of Rabindranath Tagore

Shon Hopwood

shonhopwood

THREAD: In reviewing Professor @RachelBarkow’s fabulous book, Prisoners of Politics, I analyzed hundreds of letters that @TheJusticeDept and the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys have written to federal policymakers

Omer Tene

omertene

China’s National People’s Congress has tabled a second draft of its data protection law, PIPL. Open for public comment until May 28. See English translation here: https://digichina.stanford.edu/news/translation-personal-information-prot

Sam Parker 🇺🇲

SamParkerSenate

*Thread*1. In 1953, Congress's Reece Committee investigated the great Tax-Exempt Foundations: the Carnegie Endowment & the Ford & Rockefeller Foundations. Norman Dodd, head investigator, discovered info that continues to be

Monica Venzke 🥁

monicavenzke

#WhyImVotingForJoe, a thread:•SCOTUS nominations•history of defeating the NRA (twice)•$15/hr minimum wage •universal childcare/ pre-K•tuition free college for in need families •student loan forgiveness •Medicare expansion• eliminate cash bail system

Fidato

tequieremos

“The US China War Games”War games are simulations of future wars and are regularly conducted by the US DoD. The Chinese know far more about the US military and its

Irkutyanin

Irkutyanin1

Going to be reading more McMeekin Probably the best construction of WW1 that I have yet heard. McMeekin’s take on Russian border insecurity and insecurity as imperial growth as new

Nic

nicdestevens

Since the very inception of the USA, black people and POC were treated as second class people at best, and often times not even human beings. Black people were not

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadWATCH THIS UNTIL THE END.Kudos to @PressSec Kayleigh McEnany.UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNBELIEVABLE.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWOtrCeV0Lc This was the most savage beating any White House press secretary has EVER administer

Rich Puchalsky Ⓐ

RichPuchalsky

A thread about the debate and the horribleness of the Presidential pardon exchange. Will be boring/ under documented to prison abolitionistshttps://twitter.com/RichPuchalsky/status/1319478480501940228 Here's a short explainer for libera