Sen. Whitehouse grills Director Wray's about how the FBI handled its sham investigation into Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation process

"This is like last call at the factual corrections saloon with respect to the Kavanaugh supplemental BI" -- Whitehouse to Wray

10 psychological thriller movies that will make you think:

1. Arrival

2. Inception

3. Ex Machina

4. Parasite

5. Snowpiercer

Trump supporters have gathered outside Mar-a-Lago to stand up for treason

Not a single day should pass between now and November 8th without Republicans being asked why every single one of them in the House voted against an amendment to require all white supremacists, Nazi-sympathizers, and extremists to be removed from the U.S. military.

Here’s a recording of the 911 call from Lauren Boebert’s neighbor that shows what a menace her family is
#VoteHerOut

@GovHowardDean @dominique6138 Yep!!!… watch @SenWhitehouse explain The Scheme here…

Much to the chagrin of the original Puritan colonists (who did want a theocracy), these were the views of the founding fathers who saw not only the dangers of Christian nationalism in Europe, but in how it had tried to take shape in America already (see Massachusetts Bay Colony).

the "late-term abortion" rhetoric is and has always been stupid, intentionally misleading bullshit, but especially now for me. i work at a cemetery with a crematory, and we do cremations no charge for anyone cremating a stillbirth, nonviable pregnancy, or medical termination

we do a lot of them because, again, we do them for free, because these people are suffering enough already. and i can tell you, the parents of a baby that they had to terminate at 35 weeks aren't doing it because of laziness or convenience or immorality

sometimes they come in with full names, bc they were wanted and loved and something unimaginably terrible happened instead. sometimes they come in with just the first name of "Baby" or "Infant", bc their parents thought they would have plenty of time for that. and didn't.

i'm sorry if this thread is upsetting to anyone. but it's the reality, and it's my reality. when you lose an unborn child or have to terminate a pregnancy, i'm one of the people that gets the paperwork, the letters of notification from the hospital, the authorizations and permits

they list the age of gestation, the weight and size and the dates of the most horrible thing that has ever happened to the woman whose signature is at the bottom of the page. and every time I do this, I soak up a little bit of grief for them, and every few weeks I go home and cry

@jeff_thompson Retweet, by all means share your opinion now while it can make a difference.

@atrupar You know it was bad when the FBI didn't even return Kav's college roommate's phone calls.

Three Little Pigs 1/

So what about the Senators? We saw that at least 7 Republican House Members were so certain they had committed federal crimes, they begged for Presidential pardons from Trump

What about the Senators? Let's look at Trump's Three Little Pigs in a this Thread

Three Little Pigs 2/

First off is the Kentucky Swamp Creature, #MoscowMitch McTurtle. Many associate Mitch McConnell with Trump & Trumpism & connect many of Trump's horrors like SCOTUS as enabled by Mitch

The reality is quite different, however. It is Mitch who played Trump

Three Little Pigs 3/

Yes, Mitch is a monster & had caused irreparable damage to America, partly during Trump. But this is more like Hitler & Stalin. Both men were vile monsters, but sometimes allied, sometimes enemies

Mitch HATES Trump, always hated him, to this day

Three Little Pigs 4/

I would argue that the Teenage Mutant Mitch McTurtle has caused MORE lasting damage to America (through SCOTUS in particular) than Trump. But McConnell used Trump to his own ends, and importantly, DENIED Trump what Trump most wanted

Three Little Pigs 5/

The one thing Donald the Duck McTrump wanted more than anything in the whole wide world - was to have his silly little Wall. Which would not have cost much (compared to tax cuts etc)

And Mitch denied this to Trump. Trump even shut down his OWN government..

Pain is what happens to us, such as the death of a loved one.

Suffering is what we make (or don't make) of our pain.

Suffering leads to trauma- a kind of deep emotional wound we carry in our bodies.

#personalgrowth #trauma #writerslift #writingcommunity #writing

@jeff_thompson Here you go.

This is a thread on Republican messaging. The press doesn’t want to have a direct conversation with you about this. So as a former Republican who is now a consistent Democratic voter, I will. Thread.

Here is the Republican message on everything of importance:
1. They can tell people what to do.
2. You cannot tell them what to do.

This often gets mistaken for hypocrisy, there’s an additional layer of complexity to this (later in the thread), but this is the basic formula.

I wish people who were at the White House on J6 could swap their “emotionally drained” day with our injured, scarred and shattered lives…the lives y’all ruined. Unbelievable

THREAD. I was invited to give a lecture at Oxford last week about police and prisons in the United States. After my talk, a student from Europe asked me if there was any hope to avoid fascism in the U.S. given the state of U.S. police and corporate media. A few thoughts.

The student’s question is urgent, and I hope prominent journalists will at least think about it. The below image is from a New Yorker article this weekend. Things like this are happening all over the U.S., (and much of the world). The threat of fascism is imminent.

In the face of existential threats like fascism—and to the ecological survival of our planet—many U.S. journalists in outlet after outlet are running story after story about whether a few types of narrow police-reported crimes are up or down by a number of a few dozen per city.

This coverage is absurd on its own terms. Crime is near *historic lows,* and fluctuations (up or down) discussed in crime stories are small on any objective view of total harm. They don’t compare to death/illness/injury from poverty, pollution, traffic, lack of health care, etc.

I want to say this clearly: Safety is important. I do this work and I write these threads because I care about everyone’s safety, including the most vulnerable people in our society.

@AlecMacGillis @kzernike I thought that was a good article. Like you, I also liked the graphic. Happened to download from the online article...