I remember Spencer Gifts

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Sure, maybe you don’t NEED a vibrator, a marijuana leaf ashtray, and a hat that says “Asshole” but, then again, why the hell not? pic.twitter.com/V3aDWmDWv5
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) November 6, 2022

Trump mob update 11/5/22

I am glad these people are going to jail but the people who incited the rally need to be charged too. I don’t think Trump will go to jail but I believe he belongs there.

JUST IN: Latest update in Jan. 6 cases:

-900 arrests
-447 guilty pleas (110 to felonies)
-316 sentences handed downhttps://t.co/kyCjJ7oY9Y pic.twitter.com/7a5S2PCRa5
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 14, 2022

HAPPENING NOW: Jurors now text exchange in which Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs says he "looked for" Speaker Pelosi while inside the Capitol on Jan. 6.

FBI agent testifying notes Meggs spent most of his time near Pelosi's office.

This has come up before: https://t.co/gc8VnOJhjy pic.twitter.com/6DvsOfXkUx
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 1, 2022

Troy Faulkner, who smashed in a Capitol window while wearing a jacket bearing his last name and telephone number, said he had a case of "the Trump crazies" on Jan. 6, his friend writes in a letter to a judge. pic.twitter.com/FzcBk6RWZ1
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 1, 2022

Jan. 6 defendant John Thomas Gordon, caught thanks to his massive head tattoo, pleaded guilty to a felony civil disorder charge. His sentencing guidelines range is 12 months to 18 months, per plea agreement. pic.twitter.com/73dNVCUVsW
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 30, 2022

John Charles Stewart, a Proud Boys member from Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty in a deal with U.S. prosecutors. Former Proud Boys chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio said Stewart proposed storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. https://t.co/L4aUmfwKnz
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 29, 2022

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Michael A. Riley was found guilty of deleting his messages with a man who was at the Capitol and later arrested. https://t.co/ZtJQlFgALI
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 28, 2022

“I was going to be super hard and go punch a Antifa terrorist in the face. And I end up being the terrorist. Plot twist, huh?”

Video of former West Virginia councilman Eric Barber's FBI interview about Jan. 6. pic.twitter.com/Sk4KykRubb
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 28, 2022

Macsen Rutledge, who was wearing a "bear-like hood" when he stormed the U.S. Capitol, was arrested in Lansing, New York, today. pic.twitter.com/3cFzs95VPf
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 27, 2022

Breaking News: A man was sentenced to more than seven years for dragging a police officer into a mob during the Capitol riot, leading to the officer’s assault. https://t.co/qCfrEDCi86
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 27, 2022

Newly released video from the Capitol on January 6th. Take 30 seconds to watch it. Does this look like a peaceful gathering to you? pic.twitter.com/7YfG79N7FF
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 25, 2022

A Delaware man who helped lead the initial break-in and mob pursuit of a police officer in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 24 months in prison Monday. https://t.co/D69fK3bnAa
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 24, 2022

"Mazza was the 48th rioter sentenced for a felony. The average prison sentence for Jan. 6 felonies is slightly less than three years. Of the 880 rioters charged so far, more than 270 have been charged with assaulting the police." https://t.co/cfWPxzZhYg
— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) October 23, 2022

Man who brought two guns to the Capitol on Jan. 6 — and was only caught because he dropped one (and then lied and said it was stolen) — sentenced to five years in federal prison. https://t.co/K2CvqeSAft
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 21, 2022

Bruce Catton has been added to the Library of America

I am glad that The Library of America has published the Army of the Potomac trilogy by Bruce Catton. Non-fiction Civil Wat books were the first adult books I read. I had the Pocket Books paperbacks which are probably in my basement somewhere. Our family took a vacation in 1963, right before I turned 10, which included stops at Gettysburg and several Virginia Civil War battlefields. When we came back, I found I could read adult books about the Civil War and never went back to books for kids or adolescents. Catton wrote a second trilogy. Someone (I think it was the father of one of my sister’s classmates) gave me his hardback copy of one of them. Catton also wrote the text for The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War.

I owe a big debt to Catton and other authors of Civil War books for increasing my already strong interest in reading.

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Two excellent columns on Kanye West

Congrats, you canceled Kanye. Call me when White guys get in trouble. https://t.co/RzAuzriktS
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) October 26, 2022

My latest on #KanyeWest looks at the discussion around #Antisemitism & #antiblackness Thanks @DamonYoungVSB for the interview & @MrErnestOwens for helping to inspire the piece https://t.co/HqwF59fw0v
— Lisa Respers France (@LisaFranceCNN) October 29, 2022

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter unleashed an avalanche of bigotry

Right-wing extremists spewed racism and anti-semitism

Antisemitic campaign tries to capitalize on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.https://t.co/Ch78G2xgiz pic.twitter.com/IwhGVvpKY5
— Oren Segal (@orensegal) October 29, 2022

🚨 There was a *1,300% INCREASE* in the use of the N-word on Twitter in the hours after the Musk takeover happened, a Bloomberg analysis found.

The word peaked at 170 mentions every five minutes on the afternoon of Oct. 28. https://t.co/BnNAAqaf73
— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) October 29, 2022

"An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over the social network Thursday"https://t.co/qjQm9mESZE
— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) October 28, 2022

The ADL Center on Extremism has identified a coordinated effort to spread #antisemitic content on @Twitter, explicitly drawing inspiration from @elonmusk's takeover of the company. In the past 24 hours, over 1200 tweets and retweets have spread antisemitic memes. pic.twitter.com/4mUj5wxQnH
— ADL (@ADL) October 28, 2022

Greedy oil companies

High profits, giving money to shareholders instead of reducing prices

Can’t believe I have to say this but giving profits to shareholders is not the same as bringing prices down for American families. https://t.co/Q84NNK9sck
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 28, 2022

Q3 profits for Exxon: $20 billion

Q3 profits for Chevron: $11 billion

Q3 profits for Shell: $9.5 billion

Republicans who voted to stop oil companies from price gouging: 0
— Josh Schwerin (@JoshSchwerin) October 28, 2022

Shell just posted its second-highest quarterly profit ever.

$9.5 BILLION.

Like other oil companies, it’s exploiting the moment to make billions off the backs of working families.

I have the bill to hold Big Oil accountable and lower gas prices immediately. We should pass it.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) October 28, 2022

Shell will buy back $4 billion worth of shares and increase its dividend by 15% after posting another gigantic quarterly profit thanks to strong oil and gas prices https://t.co/WnrDRHGFGf
— CNN (@CNN) October 27, 2022

Imagine if more of these gains went to relief at the pump, instead of corporate stock buybacks. https://t.co/L8jhtQuva9
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) October 27, 2022

Valero boosted profits by 500% in just one year by price gouging families at the pump. The House passed my bill to hold Big Oil companies accountable for ripping off consumers in May. The Senate needs to act.https://t.co/xssOATcHE7
— Katie Porter (@katieporteroc) October 27, 2022

ExxonMobil’s profit set a record for the second straight quarter as oil and gas prices remained high. No. 2 US oil company Chevron also posted much-better-than-expected results. https://t.co/aCDbhVdPHD
— CNN International (@cnni) October 28, 2022

Q3 profits for Exxon: $20 billion

Q3 profits for Chevron: $11 billion

Q3 profits for Shell: $9.5 billion

Republicans who voted to stop oil companies from price gouging: 0
— Josh Schwerin (@JoshSchwerin) October 28, 2022

Another example of bad New York Times coverage

This is a crystal clear example of media bias in political narratives https://t.co/2EFhNqUvZb
— Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay) October 28, 2022

The “fresh evidence that the Republicans are poised to retake Congress” is that they’re not winning in any of these four polls of “archetypal swing districts,” and they’re losing one by double digits. https://t.co/aJBJfvPUOZ pic.twitter.com/ErCNqVKFl8
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 28, 2022

The NYT just released four new House polls: a GOP-held district, two Dem-held tossups, and one lean Dem district. The polls find Democrats leading in all but one, where the race is tied.

The headline: “Polls in Four Swing Districts Show GOP Strength in Midterms.”

What?
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) October 28, 2022

More tweets on Trump’s antisemitism

Trump’s long history of trafficking in antisemitic tropeshttps://t.co/BvqDvM7sMl
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 17, 2022

The White House calls Trump's statement about American Jews "antisemitic and insulting both to Jews and to our Israeli allies." Press secretary says Trump has aligned with antisemitic figures for years
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) October 17, 2022

Donald Trump, in a newly released video from 2021, described Persians as "very good salesmen," said Israeli Jews favored him more than Jews in the U.S. and asked whether a filmmaker interviewing him was a "good Jewish character." https://t.co/jMWYQZRrPx
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 19, 2022

Disturbing response to my tweet on Trump’s antisemitism

I was alarmed by the response to my tweet below. I can’t understand why any Jew would support Trump who is clearly a terrible antisemite. As usual, they don’t respond to my concern about the GOP but try to point at Democrats.

Ask @GOP if they have any comments on Trump’s antisemitism.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 17, 2022

Trump is correct. Now comment about this group of Jew haters? Yes, I’m Jewish. I support Israel. pic.twitter.com/0AOtZO75rm
— Carl Gottlieb (@c_cgottlieb) October 17, 2022

Twenty minutes into CNNs 9am hour and no mention of Donald Trump's antisemitic threats.
— Eric Schmeltzer 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@JustSchmeltzer) October 17, 2022

Today is the anniversary of the Nazi-Fascist roundup of Italian Jews from Rome's ghetto. They were deported to extermination camps. Many Italian Jews never thought Mussolini would go after them. A lesson for our times given some US Jews' faith in Trump: https://t.co/1Sz80DoygS
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) October 16, 2022

The abiding and even encouragement of Hitler-esque anti-Semitism by Trump and the @gop and the silence of @gop Jews in the face of that marks a frightening and rapid escalation. To treat Trump like he “said this before” or Kanye like he’s just a blowhard is profoundly dangerous.
— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) October 16, 2022

White grievance, xenophobia, the “great replacement theory” and Confederate idolatry have taken center stage. They are the emotional levers by which Republicans incite their base and draw attention away from their rotten governance.https://t.co/sj8u7wh2PG
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 17, 2022

Trump’s long history of trafficking in antisemitic tropeshttps://t.co/BvqDvM7sMl
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 17, 2022

Good riddance to Larry Hogan

He admits Biden won and doesn’t support the Trump cult member running to replace him. That’s good. He’s still very conservative and anti-Baltimore. I’ll never forgive him for killing the Red Line.

Larry Hogan has vetoed $15 minimum wage and paid family and sick leave legislation for Maryland workers. And pro-immigrant and pro-union bills. Early in his administration, he attempted to rescind a promised 2 percent raise for state workers. https://t.co/wadtjPnDQ1 https://t.co/xMrq6qAsGZ
— Ron Cassie (@ron_cassie) October 17, 2022

On the day the January 6 committee releases new tapes of the Trump-instigated MAGA insurrection on the Capitol and the remarkable leadership-under-fire of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan “both sides” the extremism threatening American democracy. https://t.co/I7hZamOiFO
— Ron Cassie (@ron_cassie) October 14, 2022

As Gov Larry Hogan weighs a presidential run, MD Sen Paul Pinsky (D) offers his inside view of Hogan's 2 terms in Maryland–
"..posturing, pandering, and the pursuit of publicity" https://t.co/tZs42cY5qm
— Jayne Miller (@jemillerbalt) October 9, 2022

Finishing school ass Trump https://t.co/ziR9PjUjyb https://t.co/3NCknvDSmf
— District Sentinel (@TheDCSentinel) August 30, 2022

New: As elements of his party feud over the FBI's search of Trump's Florida estate Mar-a-Lago, Maryland's GOP Gov. Larry Hogan is using his final weeks in office to launch a new "tough on crime" offensive https://t.co/7N8nQwoPHo
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) September 7, 2022

After 8 years of mismanagement, @GovLarryHogan is leaving a Purple Line that will cost taxpayers $1.4 billion more than budgeted and start 4 1/2 years later than scheduled and be worse. While he prioritized roads to benefit his own properties. #MDPolitics https://t.co/4kXGB3NhnO
— Our Maryland (@Our_Maryland) August 28, 2022

New: @GovLarryHogan still won't release $3.5 million in funding to train medical professionals to perform abortions, a decision that means the money won't be allocated until July 2023. Lawmakers want him to release the $ early, especially in light of today's SCOTUS decision.
— Maddi O'Neill (@MaddiONeill) June 24, 2022