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— ContextFall (@ContextFall) June 8, 2021
\U0001f538DHS uses helicopter maneuvers on pipeline protesters
\U0001f538VP tells asylum seekers "Do not come"
\U0001f538DOJ says it will defend Trump in lawsuit against E. Jean Carroll
\U0001f538 State Dept says Palestinians don't need the ICC because they can seek justice in Israel
https://t.co/M6P65TF6g3
DHS/Border Patrol is using helicopter rotor wash to try to clear out activists out from an occupied #Line3 pump station north of Park Rapids. More than 24 activists are locked down to equipment inside. @MPRnews pic.twitter.com/ArTN6FAqwC
— Evan Frost (@efrostee) June 7, 2021
https://t.co/31SI1u3hsF
\u201cI want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come.\u201d
— The Recount (@therecount) June 7, 2021
\u2014 VP Kamala Harris during news conference with Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei pic.twitter.com/dYNwu7STbS
https://t.co/V0BeYi8UnH
New, with more to come: DOJ under Biden is keeping up the previous admin's effort to take over Trump's defense against a defamation lawsuit filed by writer E. Jean Carroll \u2014 an effort Biden criticized during the campaign.
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) June 8, 2021
First brief under new admin: https://t.co/JihPuNXxHj pic.twitter.com/H08cBLdbSZ
https://t.co/uC4UR67NgH
.@IlhanMN asked where Palestinians can seek justice if the US won\u2019t support ICC investigations.
— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) June 7, 2021
Blinken\u2019s response was they can seek justice in Israel, the state that occupies & carries out daily violence against them. Who wants to tell him Apartheid states are not democracies. pic.twitter.com/e49hpm2JAt
New, with more to come: DOJ under Biden is keeping up the previous admin's effort to take over Trump's defense against a defamation lawsuit filed by writer E. Jean Carroll \u2014 an effort Biden criticized during the campaign.
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) June 8, 2021
First brief under new admin: https://t.co/JihPuNXxHj pic.twitter.com/H08cBLdbSZ
For you people making the "institutionalist" argument, I had something for you 2 weeks
While they funnel millions into campaigns to influence our political system, they are simultaneously arguing that it would be a violation of their rights to force them to disclose where the money came from.
Worth noting here that the Koch network (Americans for Prosperity) lobbied against the For the People Act in the first quarter of 2021.
— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) June 6, 2021
The report says they engaged with House and Senate lawmakers.
Lobbying report: https://t.co/GRpqPj5tzg pic.twitter.com/kheUdCG8ld
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\U0001f6a8 Details:
— ClearingTheFog (@clearing_fog) January 18, 2021
Two days after the insurrection, SCOTUS quietly took up a case by Charles Koch\u2019s AFPF.
Suing former CA AG Xavier Becerra, AFPF claims that requiring anonymous shell companies to routinely disclose their donors is a violation of their rights.https://t.co/IYv7Qr59xZ
But contrary to what youâve been told, lifelong learners are built, not born.
THREAD: 20 lifelong learning habits you can start developing today.
Stimulate Dynamically
The mind is a muscle - it needs to be stimulated dynamically to continue to grow.
Donât rely on one âexerciseâ - develop a menu of options.
Write, read, listen, watch. Solve puzzles, play games. Enjoy it!
Stimulate dynamically, learn dynamically.
Build Learning Circles
The most powerful learning is communal, not individual.
Build learning circles with other intellectually curious minds.
Engage regularly with no set intention or goal.
Community is everything. Embrace it.
Keep Asking Why
âWhy?â is the most useful tool in our learning toolkit.
But somewhere along the line, we are told to stop asking why and just accept âfactsâ as we are told them.
Reject the norm.
If you want to understand the world, take a cue from our kids - keep asking why!
First principles thinking is a powerful mental model for driving non-linear outcomes. It also requires a willingness to ask difficult, uncomfortable questions.
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) March 14, 2021
Here are a few to help you get started: pic.twitter.com/KyuAr7IUf7
Adopt a Process Orientation
Prioritize process.
Learn for the sake of learning, not always for a specific goal.
When you prioritize process, you become flexible in where you are headed.
Life is a winding, confusing journey - forward progress is all that matters.
NEWS:
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 1, 2021
100 leading democracy scholars just issued a powerful new statement warning that our democracy is under dire threat, and that Democrats must pass sweeping federal voting rights protections, ending the filibuster to do so if necessary.
Details here:https://t.co/qnT5XTSEUX
Analysis: The alleged Fauci \u201csmoking gun\u201d emails https://t.co/DH0EOElMii
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 3, 2021
One thing that's occurred to me over the past few years is that there's a sense that the mere *existence* of emails is seen as evidence of wrongdoing, which is obviously nonsense.
It played out that way when it came to the DNC and Podesta emails in 2016, the Hunter Biden e-mails in 2020, these e-mails in 2021. It wasn't that there was much that was damning in, say, the DNC emails that helped sink Clinton's candidacy, but just their existence ...
... gave off a sense of corruption/scandal/etc., that weighed more heavily on people's perception of them as the result of them taking the form of a leak/data dump.
And it's kind of similar with the Fauci e-mails (which weren't leaked, but were FOIAed).
Anyway, again, @AaronBlake's post is a good and methodical breakdown of some of the bizarre claims being thrown about. If there's anything we didn't already know contained in those e-mails, I haven't seen it.
Wonder if @HouseJudiciary will ask Don McGahn why @JonesDay closed their Moscow office in 2019đ¤
Don McGahn @HouseJudiciary interview is tomorrow, June 4
— Mary Pat Flynn (@MaryPatFlynn1) June 3, 2021
IRONICALLY, my June 4, 2017 Memo of Law cites McGahn @JonesDay & 3 Russian oligarch \u201cclients\u201d (Fridman/Aven/Khan) mentioned in \u201cdossier\u201d for 2003 TNK-BP deal re: OIL/GAS in RUSSIA/UKRAINE
PUTIN WAS AT THE SIGNING CEREMONY https://t.co/LrQjtYDLeL pic.twitter.com/hvaPwF2Z7j
Wonder if @HouseJudiciary will ask McGahn (he & @JonesDay were @POTUS45 @VP45 @GOP CAMPAIGN counsel) why @Trump Org employees @alangarten @mattmaron @SergeyLysenko10 defended cancellation of CAMPAIGNâ˘ď¸ÂŽď¸ @uspto while McGahn was @WhiteHouse45 Counsel & @Reince was Chief of Staffđ¤
There\u2019s a reason former @FEC chair @NRA @WhiteHouse & @POTUS @VP CAMPAIGN counsel, Don McGahn @JonesDay was paid $2M by @GOPChairwoman when he refused @HouseJudiciary subpoena & former @GOP chair @Reince law firm @MichaelBestLaw defended @alangarten @Trump Org v. @HouseJudiciary pic.twitter.com/OnyneCiPzt
— Mary Pat Flynn (@MaryPatFlynn1) September 1, 2020
IRONICALLY, my June 4, 2017 Memo of Law cites McGahn @JonesDay & 3 Russian oligarch âclientsâ (Fridman/Aven/Khan) mentioned in âdossierâ for 2003 TNK-BP deal re: OIL/GAS in RUSSIA/UKRAINE
PUTIN WAS AT THE SIGNING CEREMONY https://t.co/LrQjtYDLeL
It's happening: On Friday, June 4, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a closed transcribed interview with former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 30, 2021
Trump has been telling a number of people he\u2019s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn\u2019t how it works but simply sharing the information). https://t.co/kaXSXKnpF0
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 1, 2021
1/ Journalists need to be very careful in how they discuss this breaking news. Individuals who have provided cover for Trump repeatedly in the pastâlike Maggie Habermanâare reporting evidence of a possible seditious conspiracy as mere loose talk from an addled man. Sorry, but no.
2/ There are efforts afoot now in GA, AZ, NV, and WI to delegitimize Biden's victories there. Meanwhile, Trump advisors Flynn and Powell are saying that once those victories are delegitimized, the military should move in. If Trump is in on the conversations, it's a coup attempt.
3/ As anyone who has ever read a book or watched a movie or taken a history course knows, the most important element of a coup is the agreement of the individual who'll be installed as a nation's new president to participate in the installation. Without that there can be no coup.
4/ What Trump is privately doing, according to the NYT, is the *opposite* of what Lyndon Johnson famously did in saying that even if nominated he wouldn't run for president. Trump is telling the coup conspirators that he *will accept a re-installation* if they can make it happen.
