Bringing my pinned Tweet along with me as I migrate here because this still matters & because we cannot normalize what Trump intends to do to DOJ. Justice should never be a political tool for presidents & their pals.
Posts by Deb Taft
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What could possibly go wrong?
Trump taps Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of COVID lockdown, to be NIH director
Source: USA TODAY
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A graphic with a purple background that is an image of a grey sphere landing in a net. Beneath this is a chartreuse bar with black lettering: Five Theses on the Gravity of Platforms
Last year at the Institute for Advanced Study, I had the great pleasure of convening an amazing group of multidisciplinary scholars on the topic of the platform in society. One of our collective efforts was "5 Theses on the Gravity of Platforms" www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/fiv...
Useful and important. The AI Equity Project—a research initiative focused on AI and Data Equity in the U.S. Nonprofit Sector: mailchi.mp/namastedata/...
Good morning to everyone not hanging around public bathrooms trying to conjure up reasons to feel threatened.
Sarah McBride has used the bathroom in our home. She can return any time. She has also talked legislative policy and action to support families, health, housing, infrastructure, justice, liberation, and more. That's where good elected officials focus.
This is a safe account for the trans and non-binary community. 🤍
I have shared the same bathroom with Sarah McBride on several occasions, and she never once made me uncomfortable. She did however help me fix my makeup. That congresswoman knows how to blend her foundation, which is more than I can say about Donald Trump.
It’s not a Russian spy ring. It’s a Justice Department graphic showing Venmo payments to girls by Gaetz and Greenberg.
Brown University is transferring 255 acres of land in Bristol to a preservation trust set up by the Pokanoket Indian Tribe, marking one of the nation’s biggest victories in attempts by Indigenous people to reclaim ancestral lands.
Dana Goldberg post: I have shared the same bathroom with Sarah McBride on several occasions, and she never once made me uncomfortable. She did however help me fix my makeup. That congresswoman knows how to blend her foundation, which is more than I can say about Donald Trump.
They say the cover up is always worse.
Let us be clear. A man adjudicated as a sexual abuser wants to put multiple men credibly accused of sexual assault/crimes (which they deny) in position of extreme importance. This movement has violence and deep misogyny at its core. This is deeply sick
House Republicans actually voted today to block the US Senate from receiving their report containing sworn witness testimony and documentary evidence about the nominee for Attorney General of the United States paying a child $10,000 for sex.
That’s where we are at.
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
I hope that the people who are usually not politically engaged but worked really hard to get Harris elected wake up soon and realize that they are not the only ones who are tired of a struggle that is full of defeat & in fact they could learn about surviving from the leftists they mark as enemies
AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
I keep thinking about those congresspeople kneeling in the rotunda wearing kente cloth scarves, very performative. There has been no loud, visible, unified support for Sarah McBride from the democrats. It’s a real disgrace. That is your colleague! They are bullying her in your faces. And silence!
Breaking News: The Justice Department asked a federal court to force Google to sell Chrome, a move that could fundamentally alter the company’s business.
US Embassy in Kyiv Closes Amid Russian Threat — The U.S. closed its embassy in Kyiv after warning of a potential Russian airstrike, increasing tensions.
www.newsweek.com/us-embassy-kyiv-closes-a...
Kamala had 107 days to go from a VP most Americans weren’t familiar with to coming within a hair of defeating a virtual incumbent. What she did was nothing short of amazing.
The vote on H.R 9495 was moved up to TODAY in US House. Ostensibly combatting terrorism, it enables broad overreach to irreparably harm nonprofits. Contact your reps this AM. nonprofitquarterly.org/bill-threate...
Unusually, the Senate is still in session. After confirming one circuit judge, Chuck Schumer has kept the chamber in session to tee up votes on over a half-dozen more judges, against Republican opposition. This is the main Democratic project of the lame duck before they cede power.
Schumer at the lectern, hands gripping over the top of it. TEXT: MR. SCHUMER: I MOVE TO PROCEED TO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSIDER CALENDAR 711.
This is the shot of the night.
Chuck Schumer is filing cloture on several judicial nominations. The Republicans are forcing them to go into executive session separately for each nomination. Schumer and the Democrats are just pushing ahead. Here was Schumer before the 10th vote, by my count, began.
CNN: “Trump allies have also discussed how to use the Federal Vacancies Reform Act to put Gaetz in place, which would potentially allow him to temporarily make Gaetz head of the DOJ in an acting capacity for an extended period of time.”
How long can Trump make Matt Gaetz AG for by fiat?
420 days.
Pay attention to Oklahoma.
Bibles in classrooms isn't the big story.
The same legal teams behind the seeding of Dobbs are driving a case to create religious schools fully funded by the public & they've already petitioned the Supreme Court.
Understandably, everyone was focused on the election.