Jyn Erso  🇺🇸

Kavanaugh has said TWICE, under oath, that he first learned about the warrantless surveillance program when the NYT reported it in 2005. Here is an email about the program that he wrote in 2001 to John Yoo, the legal architect of the programhttps://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1037722621234872321 …

I'm hoping all the fools following @MichaelAvenatti are seeing how real patriots fight. Not by saying empty words at expense of liberal politicians with no consequence, but instead doing the right thing and possibly losing your career.https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1037705776666746881 …

“If the president’s closest advisers believe that he is morally and intellectually unfit for his high office, they have a duty to do their utmost to remove him from it, by the lawful means at hand.”- now that would be heroic.

YOU STOPPED THE MUSLIM BAN YOU STOPPED THE OBAMACARE REPEAL YOU WERE IN THE STREETS FOR DACA YOU STOPPED THEM FROM KIDNAPPING MORE KIDS YOU ARE THE CHECK ON TRUMP NOT SOME GHOSTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE CRUSH THE MIDTERMS please sharehttps://twitter.com/MarisaKabas/status/1037539646501208066 …

Assume for a sec that the US is in the midst of a constitutional crisis (it is). Notice how the stores are still open, your bus completed its usual route & the game still on? That’s what makes genuine crises terrifying, bc they (co)exist for so long within our normal exp of life.

Until there is a concerted & consistent civil society & Congressional effort to restore accountability & leadership in the WH, it is difficult to see any of this ending w/o major instability of sort unlike anything Americans have seen in generations & possibly ever. /xxx

Constructive criticism is one thing. But Avenatti's tweets are supporting the incorrect assumption that Dems didn't do enough, that there were procedures / options they didn't use, that could have stopped this confirmation. That's factually incorrect. https://goo.gl/XXvrJB 

Russia had a lot to do with Dems losing in 2016. Many Dems didn't vote, many people voted 3rd party, which is exactly what Russian agencies wanted. I think there's a very real risk iof that happening again. 1/2https://twitter.com/TheSWPrincess/status/972258951608897538?s=19 …

If we respond with the unreflecting outrage they hope to evoke, they use and and we lose that round. If we call out the tactic, we can get better at this game.

I agree. I addressed it because many others were/are responding to it, and I thought it might be useful to discuss not so much this particular ambiguous incident, but the ways in which this type of incident is *used* by the alt right to create a reaction they can call crazy.

By now most of us have seen the video. In the middle of today's confirmation hearing for odious SCOTUS nominee #Kavanaugh, comic supervillian #ZinaBash apparently gets a text, then makes a super awkward hand gesture and holds it for a couple of minutes.https://twitter.com/ManInTheHoody/status/1037124624557830144?s=20 …

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