It’s gonna get ugly.
You can watch my conversation with @brianstelter here: https://t.co/KFfvBcDiRO (and read the story here: https://t.co/wW3zihKoqo) https://t.co/xy4ZoZJ0z6
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) February 10, 2020
That this is taken such hold within the GOP is a very scary thing for the USA https://t.co/8AjjcPunbc
— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) February 9, 2020
Really strong Yahoo article about the steady creep of #QAnon into the Republican mainstream. I've been screaming for two years that this was a cancer on the GOP, it's nice to see more people listening.https://t.co/CGdEkC7zmG
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) February 9, 2020
There's a QAnon follower who angrily speculates that Pope Francis is secretly Frank Sinatra, who in reality died in 1998.
— Travis View (@travis_view) January 30, 2020
Sinatra going from a world-famous boozing philanderer to the celibate head of the Catholic Church would be quite a dramatic lifestyle change. pic.twitter.com/0udwW7o2H9
Promoters of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory were urging their fans to ward off the coronavirus by purchasing and drinking dangerous bleach https://t.co/0EKpNYaOsg
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 29, 2020
Lots of crowing from QAnon followers over the run of 53-47 votes. Q proof, right??
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) January 22, 2020
53-47 was Q's prediction of the Kavanaugh vote. And Q was wrong. So Q followers retconned it to be the Senate makeup after the midterm. Which was in line with every forecast model. https://t.co/Ep2GAVmDsc
I don't even think Q could have predicted that one of its adherents would become a social media whisperer for a U.S. Senator. pic.twitter.com/D3JQXuVMgv
— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) January 24, 2020
— hend amry (@LibyaLiberty) January 16, 2020
Well this is certainly a terrible development. https://t.co/hWL7c02xis
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) January 12, 2020
Trump's recent retweets have conspiracists in overdrive. “Best case is we’re up getting a medal at the White House,” one QAnon luminary gushed. https://t.co/1jHfuuWIyZ
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 3, 2020
President Infowars: Trump spent his (ongoing) Mar-a-Lago holiday retweeting QAnon and Pizzagate accounts https://t.co/oIfhEbzRod
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 2, 2020
UPDATE: A new count finds that Trump has now amplified QAnon accounts at least 72 times via at least 58 individual accounts. https://t.co/AItOII5Cft
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) January 2, 2020
Less than a day after his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer, QAnon believers have "determined" that John Lewis is faking having cancer to avoid being executed by a military tribunal for his treasonous crimes. pic.twitter.com/dGBljma7T1
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) December 30, 2019
With the impeached President retweeting QAnon fan accounts (h/t @atrupar)…
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) December 28, 2019
Reminder of the FBI’s sounding the alarm that the promotion of QAnon leads to risk of domestic violence
By @justinhendrix:https://t.co/SwE5GhajYZ
NBC News has identified four candidates running in primaries for *Congress* who have shared or promoted messages affiliated with the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, as reported by @MorganRadford on @Morning_Joe https://t.co/ECDnCFtHVD
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) November 11, 2019
the president and a staffer appear to be tweeting a Qanon slogan often used to suggest looming arrests of Trump's critics, or similar vengeance. You can order that slogan in a number of "Q"-themed t-shirt designs https://t.co/RYvs8fAqG8
— Devlin Barrett (@DevlinBarrett) March 8, 2020
We’re going to get a whole election campaign of fake videos and lies from Trump and social media won’t stop them.
Facebook and Twitter said they wouldn't take down a video posted by President Trump that was edited to make it appear as if Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped a copy of his State of the Union address while he honored a Tuskegee airman and other guestshttps://t.co/Pp9q75Pz1r
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 9, 2020
What Trump did here will be worth 3 million votes to him.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) February 9, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg won't take it down.
And low educated voters in key states will say that Pelosi ripped it during speech
Trump can't win clean. He has to use propaganda and this WILL work https://t.co/CJAnAQv0Fs
What Trump did here will be worth 3 million votes to him.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) February 9, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg won't take it down.
And low educated voters in key states will say that Pelosi ripped it during speech
Trump can't win clean. He has to use propaganda and this WILL work https://t.co/CJAnAQv0Fs
The wealth gap between America’s richest and poorer families more than doubled from 1989 to 2016, according to a @pewresearch analysis.
— Katherine Schaeffer (@katschaeffer) February 7, 2020
6 facts about economic inequality in the U.S.: https://t.co/VBHRkrh9cw pic.twitter.com/ORIsRleML7
Some 72% of wealth accumulated between 2009 and 2019 went to the richest 10% of households. The poorest 50% of households reaped only 2% of wealth gains.https://t.co/MG7uqMIRwo
— Jonnelle Marte (@Jonnelle) February 5, 2020
Sigh. Why is it these headlines don’t specify that the story is only referencing white people? The most left behind are African Americans and 3% consider themselves Republican. These same groups of white voters supported George Wallace. https://t.co/Gc7o0NarRC
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) January 28, 2020
Social Mobility Index, 2020:
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 26, 2020
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You’re now more likely to move up economically in Denmark or Sweden than in America.
The 26 richest people on Earth now own as much as the 3.8 billion who form the poorer *half* of the planet’s population.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 19, 2020
Again, 26 people own as much as 3.8 billion people.
26 v. 3,800,000,000
Your Monday morning reminder that the richest 0.1% of Americans now owns a bigger share of the pie than at any time since 1929, just before the Wall Street crash.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 6, 2020
This can’t go on forever.
Tax the rich.
Lower-income Republicans are more likely than higher-income Republicans to say there’s too much economic inequality in the country today (48% vs. 34%). https://t.co/xUsKskZUkA
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) January 13, 2020
Almost as soon as he got into office, Trump gave the 1% and massive corporations a massive tax cut.
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) January 12, 2020
If you want a president that addresses our country’s income inequality, he’s not your guy. https://t.co/j65wnVQz9l
The Dow soars, wages don’t.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 12, 2020
Inequality in a nutshell. https://t.co/hD1g1y4uBk
Chart: Income inequality in the U.S. is rising and is the highest among G-7 countries. https://t.co/Hq9CwIbEjj pic.twitter.com/xldoTpLRLv
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) January 11, 2020
The DOW:
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) January 10, 2020
2017 – 19819.78
2018 – 23,062.40
2019 – 28,583.44
– Gain of 44.2%
Median Household Income:
2017 – $62,626
2018 – $63,179
2019 – $63,688
– Gain of 1.6%
Mininum Wage:
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
– Gain of 0.0%
The median income of U.S. households stood at $74,600 in 2018, 49% higher than its level in 1970, when the median income was $50,200. https://t.co/Hq9CwIbEjj
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) January 10, 2020
1) Almost half of Americans don’t own stocks
— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) January 9, 2020
2) 10% of Americans own 86% of all stocks
3) Only 32% of the workforce has a 401(k)
4) The stock market is not the economy
5) The deficit is exploding
6) You should be in prison https://t.co/0Newg9mPkW
Only U.S. families in the top 20% in terms of net worth have gained back the wealth lost during the Great Recession. https://t.co/5galjPVbj1
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) January 9, 2020
Here's how much of their wealth the 10 richest Americans gave to charity in 2018:
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) January 3, 2020
Ellison: 0%
Page: 0%
Brin: 0%
Bezos: 0.1%
D. Koch: 0.1%
C. Koch: 0.5%
Zuckerberg: 0.7%
Bloomberg: 1.5%
Gates: 2.6%
Buffet: 3.9%
Billionaire philanthropy will not save us. Tax the rich.
Fraction of all US wealth owned by Boomers & Gen-Xers when the average member of each was age 35:
— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) November 24, 2019
Boomers, 1989 21%
GenX, 2008 8%
The average Millennial turns 35 in 2023. Right now they own 3%.
There will surely be political implications.https://t.co/j1pNrt8mll
The money left behind for middle-class Americans is dwarfed by that inherited by the children of the very wealthy https://t.co/aHw3dngNh1
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 30, 2019
High room prices are a Trump scam.
NEW: @realdonaldtrump’s company charges Trump’s own Secret Service agents while they protect him — at rates as high as $650/night for a room and $17,000/month for a cottage. Taxpayers pay. https://t.co/JIOHe66Hjx
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 7, 2020
That’s the president’s golf club charging taxpayers $17,000 (plus tax) to rent a cottage for a month at Trump Bedminster. We paid even on days when @realdonaldtrump wasn’t there. https://t.co/tn5DAETKNN
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 7, 2020
New details about nearly $500,000 in taxpayer expenditures at Trump properties illustrate the world historical shameless of Republicans trying to gin up a scandal about Biden "corruption" https://t.co/xy0LSTTmqW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 7, 2020
And here’s one for 4 nights in a room at Mar-a-Lago in 2017. Trump Org charged the Secret Service $650 per night. Remember: Trump Org says it only charges “cost of housekeeping.” pic.twitter.com/rN3xQXnGlu
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 7, 2020
And here’s one for 4 nights in a room at Mar-a-Lago in 2017. Trump Org charged the Secret Service $650 per night. Remember: Trump Org says it only charges “cost of housekeeping.” pic.twitter.com/rN3xQXnGlu
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 7, 2020
More fun with govt secrecy: @realdonaldtrump’s club charged the Secret Service to rent a cottage for a solid month. Secret Service redacted the rate, with a code saying it would reveal “techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations.” pic.twitter.com/A2Cwi5WpY4
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 19, 2020
"President Donald Trump once bragged that if he ever ran for president, he’d be the first person to make money off it. According to his campaign’s filings with the Federal Election Commission, that prediction appears to be coming true."https://t.co/AuO7BgOfz6
— PACRONYM (@PACRONYM) February 10, 2020
update:
Trump never signed an executive order requiring new federal buildings to be classical in design. But the @USGSA is doing exactly that: New solicitations for federal courthouses include language copied and pasted from the classical-only mandate. https://t.co/U46odocBGx
— ◥◤.@kristoncapps (@kristoncapps) November 12, 2020
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday that mandates federal buildings be “beautiful” and praises the characteristics of Greco-Roman architecture. Recent modernist designs are described in the text as “ugly and inconsistent.” https://t.co/ol2iUVGWn9
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 21, 2020
This is weakened from the original proposal and in any case is mostly symbolic, just a chance to lob another grenade on his way out the door. I don’t think it means too much. And unlike last-minute pardons, the next administration can mitigate its impact, or reverse it. https://t.co/EBUOKMTKTX
— Paul Goldberger (@paulgoldberger) December 21, 2020
They’re ready to control architecture, folks. Does this sound familiar? https://t.co/s51ptsEzCv
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) February 6, 2020
i know the point of the White House proposal to ban modernist federal buildings is to trigger people like me, but i’m triggered! i don’t like the idea of dictating an architectural style. i like the fact that federal buildings look different in different parts of the country. https://t.co/8uHrc7H0rW
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) February 6, 2020
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building was described by Mark Twain as "the ugliest building in America" and by Harry Truman as "the greatest monstrosity in America." The draft EO on classical architecture calls it "beautiful and beloved." pic.twitter.com/MhzZNzCbzv
— Amanda Kolson Hurley (@amandakhurley) February 7, 2020
It’s puzzling that you find this so benign when even advocates of classical architecture, as well as historic preservationists, find the notion of an official, mandated government architecture style to be troubling. And quality is not a function of stylistic choice. https://t.co/tA5twk600W
— Paul Goldberger (@paulgoldberger) February 7, 2020
But they’re breaking the law by withholding information about Trump. This is disgraceful.
This is bad. The Treasury Department, which broke the law to avoid giving Congress Trump's tax returns, is turning over records related to Hunter Biden in response to requests from GOP Senators. The sharp contrast demands answers, one exert tells me:https://t.co/zBWbpOI0iN
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 6, 2020
Treasury Dept refuses to release Trump's tax returns, despite subpoena; but has complied with GOP senators’ requests for highly sensitive financial records about Hunter Biden & his associates and has turned over “‘evidence’ of questionable origin” to them https://t.co/IMa88avRxC
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) February 6, 2020
Two Senators who voted to acquit Trump for trying to coerce a foreign power to investigate his political rival are now undertaking to investigate the political rival for something that happened in 2013, after they didn't investigate him in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 or 2019. https://t.co/xkGQXyXZFC
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 6, 2020
In response to Trump’s hypothetical that if his kids behaved like Hunter Biden it would be corrupt but they “could make a fortune”, here’s my break-down of his children’s actual international business ties: https://t.co/f1DIePOkbG https://t.co/xa1cByZBBe
— Tara Subramaniam (@tarasubramaniam) February 6, 2020
Senate Republicans are pressing ahead with investigations into the finances of Hunter Biden. The Treasury Department complied with their request for documents related to his ties to a Ukrainian energy company, according to a Senate Democrat. https://t.co/V2rpnUVzyw
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 6, 2020
Democrats are moderate/liberal
Yeah, uhh, I think you’ve just proven the point about GOP extremism. This chart shows that the Democratic Party is modestly center-left and Republican Party far-right, at least in the comparative context. https://t.co/6I2khMOfrL
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) February 6, 2020
The media seem the most desperate of anyone to keep the myth of bipartisanship alive. Republicans have been torching it for decades. Dems have come to accept it's not gonna change.
— Paul Moment (@paulmoment) February 3, 2020
But the MSM just can't let go of an America that no longer exists. pic.twitter.com/llhUxqCsgJ
They’re no better than the Russians. Maybe that’s where they got the ideas.
Scoop: In a true shocker, the Iowa caucus hotline was posted to 4chan repeatedly on Monday night with directions to “clog the lines”https://t.co/YlbKUlK2Ik
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) February 6, 2020
Posters on 4chan shared the phone number of Iowa's Democratic caucus results line Monday evening and encouraged readers to "clog the lines," NBC News reports.https://t.co/vGBZkK87Nq
— Axios (@axios) February 6, 2020
Yes GOP is supporting Bernie in SC b/c they want Bernie to be the Dem nominee.https://t.co/4ZMj4ju4qy
— Christine T. (@Christine_TBH) February 6, 2020
This is an *enormous* ad buy by a pro-Tillis group attempting to boost the more lefty primary challenger Dem. https://t.co/aLm6bjhRFw
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 6, 2020
SCOOP: Trump supporters flooded a hotline used by Iowa precinct chairs to report Democratic caucus results after the telephone number was posted online, worsening delays in the statewide tally, a top state Democrat told party leaders Wednesday. w/ @jeneps https://t.co/AMlFNKf1F4
— Tyler Pager (@tylerpager) February 6, 2020
Republican-affiliated group intervenes in Democratic primary for US Senate seat in North Carolina https://t.co/U2kwCSO3hu pic.twitter.com/Err9jSlbhK
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 6, 2020
CONTEXT ALERT: There’s a long history of Republicans meddling in Democratic primaries to help their general election prospects.
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) January 19, 2020
In 1972, Nixon aides mounted a concerted campaign to damage top-polling Democrat Ed Muskie. It’s how George McGovern became the Dems nominee that year https://t.co/CLnCDAmw5u
“Republicans are preparing to vote for the socialist in what The Post and Courier reports will be a ‘wide-scale effort this week to encourage GOP voters across South Carolina to vote for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Feb. 29 Democratic primary.’” https://t.co/qv7DJorxei
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) February 9, 2020
The National Archives blurred a photo to hide criticism of Trump. The Library of Congress pulled a photo which included signs opposing Trump policies. This self-censorship is dangerous.
Another great scoop by @joeheim: Library of Congress pulled a Women’s March photo because of signs critical of Trump. https://t.co/vvKE7295x0
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) February 1, 2020
When the National Archives and Records Administration fell prey to the “alternative facts” approach, turning history from fact to fiction through the alteration of a photograph, it felt as if we were traveling further down the path to authoritarianism. https://t.co/ZPzDHORmJ4
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 1, 2020
BREAKING: We're demanding the National Archives turn over all records concerning its decision to doctor a 2017 Women's March photo in order to remove protest signs critical of President Trump or referencing women's bodies.
— ACLU (@ACLU) January 22, 2020
A number of people have emailed asking how we learned the National Archives had altered the photo from the 2017 Women’s March. The short answer is: chance. The little bit longer answer I’ll explain in this thread.
— Joe Heim (@JoeHeim) January 18, 2020
1/?
The altered photo at the Nat'l Archives is the second time that a Washington museum was exposed (by the WashPost) for showcasing factually questionable Trump material. The last was a book of Trump agitprop I found for sale at the Nat' History Museum. https://t.co/ShvcHSsorA
— IanShapira (@ianshapira) January 18, 2020
ACLU Deputy Legal Director Louise Melling responds to National Archives:
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 18, 2020
“Apologizing is not enough. The National Archives must explain to the public why it even took the Orwellian step of trying to rewrite history and erasing women’s bodies from it, as well as who ordered it."
Thread from the Archives. https://t.co/9SjJfXMn9d
— Joe Heim (@JoeHeim) January 18, 2020
Thread from the Archives. https://t.co/9SjJfXMn9d
— Joe Heim (@JoeHeim) January 18, 2020
“There's no reason for the National Archives to ever digitally alter a historic photograph," Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley said. "If they don't want to use a specific image, then don't use it. But to confuse the public is reprehensible.” https://t.co/r1LR9gudR0
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 18, 2020
Sad!