1. In some respects @IgnatiusPost is right- @JoeBiden's cabinet IS built for comfort- BUT its imp to rem the context.

That comfort is a function of the extensive exp this cabinet has- the antithesis of Trump's appointments.

This country NEEDS the antithesis of Trump's cabinet

2. But its also built for another purpose. Its built to be an olive branch to one man- @senatemajldr who is expected to yield either total control over confirmation, or at the least, great influence. Its meant to signal to him that Biden is serious

https://t.co/reAAoFHMTT
2. about his "governing for all" campaign pledge & asking for a reset moment in American politics post-Trump. Something he continues to hope for even as more than 1/2 of the House GOP Caucus signs onto an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States that argues to end
3. democracy itself, as @SteveSchmidtSES articulates so clearly in this video that every American should see. Biden could not have presented to the GOP Senate, to McConnell, a more serious peace offering than this cabinet and its a good move that if it

https://t.co/2LQXysrHLN
4. works would pull America back from the brink of a civic collapse. So it MUST be tried even if people like myself think the odds of success are depressingly low. It simply MUST BE TRIED. BC if we are to plummet off the cliff, it needs to McConnell & the GOP who on their own are
5. responsible for it, and by handling things the way he has, painful & frustrating as it may be, Biden has guaranteed one of two outcomes: either a diffused tension and reset of American politics, one that will help resteer us back to sanity and eventually marginalize the nuts
6. OR one that falls off the cliff into chaos with the person that pushes us clearly, unambiguously being one @senatemajldr- and he doesn't know it now (though honestly I wish he did bc perhaps he'd consider it as he makes his choice in Jan) but unlike this fall where his selfish
7. unpatriotic choices were made in darkness, with no personal accountability, I plan to make him famous in the way that AOC and The Squad were made famous. He will become the face of GOP extremism and synonymous with the fall of democracy and functioning government in America
8. and Mitch, don't you dare make the mistake of thinking it won't happen buddy. I'm a good teacher, but I'm an even better student & I've studied the GOP's electioneering outfit for years. I know all of its tricks of its trade & I am planning on deploying your own playbook
9. against you and already know it works. When I get done with you, you won't get a paragraph in the textbooks written about this time, you'll be the main culprit of chapters describing how one man, Mitch McConnell and his quest for power destroyed American democracy, hurting
10. millions of Americans in pursuit of a radical economic agenda that starved people through a pandemic. It won't be pretty Mitch. So, you might just want to go with Biden's reset offer. BC it would be, by far, best for America if you could return the Senate to regular order,
11. start reigning in your out-of-control party, and defend the sanctity of the backbone of American democracy: our free and fair elections. Biden's cabinet picks make this easy for you. They are good, solid picks that will guide this country through the massive mess Trump has
12. left us in under a public health crisis that is now the leading cause of death in the US & will likely remain so until the vaccine starts to take effect. And the Senate's actions will play a big role in deciding how many more Americans will die. That means YOU Mitch. You have
13. people's lives, literally in your hands. Play the obstruction game and kill thousands. Kill thousands and I will make you an executioner. Its a new day coming Mitch.

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1. I think school closures also dragged Ds down in congressional races. To be clear, they wouldn't in a functional democracy not following a herd immunity strategy & normalizing the indifference genocide of up to a half million of its citizens. That "conditional" is a necessary


2. component of the "pandemic backlash effect that we have in the U.S. other countries don't have sizable anti-mask movements, ones so large it impedes states like North Dakota who governor @DougForDakota has "led" them to a point where every single county in his large;y rural


3. state has been governed to "high" infection rates. He must feel so successful that liberty & freedom is so abundantly clear all around him! So yes, in a country that has normalized murdering via indifference its old, medical compromised & in the case of

4. COVID- which is a random killer, which sometimes kills young healthy mothers whose own mothers couldn't let their daughter forgo a baby shower bc its such a special part of the birth experience or bc how do you skip the "1 year" baby party when the baby smashes her cake all

5. over her own head? I get it. Those are once in a lifetime events that can't be replaced. So people have been doing them bc their governors & their president esp has told them to do so, that its no big deal, that actually they'd be FOOLS not to hold that gender reveal party,

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@SidneyPowell1 reflects on #Iran’s meddling in the U.S. in a recent tweet to U.S. President Donald Trump.

This thread focuses on Iran’s dangerous influence in the U.S., especially through its DC-based lobby group


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Why is this important?

@DNI_Ratcliffe "told CBS News that there was foreign election interference by China, #Iran & Russia in November of this year [2020]."

All Americans should be informed about how Iran & its lobby group NIAC are meddling in the


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#Iran has been increasingly aiming to interfere in U.S. elections specifically through NIAC.

DNI John Ratcliffe had previously shed light on this vital


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NIAC is a lobby group in the U.S. pushing Iran’s talking points.

Listen to this Iranian regime insider explain that NIAC was established by @JZarif, the foreign minister of


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@tparsi is the official founder of NIAC in the U.S.

Listen to how Trita Parsi parrots Zarif’s talking
My piece in the NY Times today: "the Trump administration is denying applications submitted to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services at a rate 37 percent higher than the Obama administration did in 2016."

Based on this analysis: "Denials for immigration benefits—travel documents, work permits, green cards, worker petitions, etc.—increased 37 percent since FY 2016. On an absolute basis, FY 2018 will see more than about 155,000 more denials than FY 2016."
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"This increase in denials cannot be credited to an overall rise in applications. In fact, the total number of applications so far this year is 2 percent lower than in 2016. It could be that the higher denial rate is also discouraging some people from applying at all.."

Thanks to @gsiskind for his insightful comments. The increase in denials, he said, is “significant enough to make one think that Congress must have passed legislation changing the requirements. But we know they have not.”

My conclusion:

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