It's on all of us to fix it --
this is horrifying and heartbreaking, if not surprising. No matter what we find out about the shooter, our Asian American neighbors are carrying an understandable fear of violence and it's on all of us to fix it https://t.co/9HZtBIkzIc
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) March 17, 2021
Meanwhile, we'll call it the "Fuck You Trump Flu" --
“It's got all different names. Wuhan. Wuhan was catching on, coronavirus, kung flu...I could give you many, many names. Some people call it the Chinese flu, the China flu, they call it the China" #WordsMatter pic.twitter.com/6v6Umg6hE6
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) March 17, 2021
i don't think it's a coincidence that Trump spent the better part of a year using a virus as a slur against Chinese people while hate crimes against Asian Americans spiked by 150 percent
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 17, 2021
Conundrums --
38,000 gun deaths a year in US: who needs gun control?
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) March 17, 2021
2 cases of voter fraud in 2020: let’s pass 253 new voter suppression laws
McConnell made 3 arguments in defense of the legislative filibuster yesterday. They blatantly contradicted each other. https://t.co/Jp1B0BWcOB pic.twitter.com/JE0HY1LlUC
— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) March 17, 2021
Your government values free speech. Absolutely. Now here is a list of forbidden concepts. https://t.co/4xiFXlH1pA
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) March 17, 2021
What to expect from puerile, self-absorbed, Republican- wired media at Biden's March 25 press conference --
This exchange (and the drawn out effort to bothsides Biden’s travel) embodies the incentives that made Trump realize he’d be better off canceling the briefing and spending every weekend at his for-profit clubs and hotels. https://t.co/hGVzgKC4NG
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) March 17, 2021
our long national nightmare is over..... https://t.co/8ee7UduxEM
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 17, 2021
Defining "border crisis" --
.@SecMayorkas pushes back on GOP effort to label #border a "crisis."
— Todd J. Gillman (@toddgillman) March 17, 2021
"How I define a #crisis is when a nation is willing to rip a 9-year-old child out of the hands of his or her parent and separate that family to deter future migration." - at House Homeland hearing #BorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/v6tefW34WQ
Riverdance is calling --
Happy #StPatricksDay!
— Tom Hall ☘ (@TomHall) March 17, 2021
Let’s start the celebration with an Irish Seagull ;)
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🍀 🍀#LáFhéilePádraig #EmeraldIsle #ErinGoBraghpic.twitter.com/2MbfGsZFXa