Some major horn tooting is due --
When I took office, 18 million people had to rely on unemployment benefits.
— President Biden (@POTUS) March 10, 2023
Today, that number is less than 2 million.
Some major alarm sirens are due --
The Republican Study Committee’s plan calls for massive cuts to gov't.
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) March 10, 2023
Relative to Biden's plan:
-16% cut to Medicare (against McCarthy's rules)
-41% cut to Medicaid
-67% cut to SNAP, farms, vets, etc.
-45% cut to all other discretionary $
+8% on defense @Morning_Joe pic.twitter.com/Q9Z5jieDjT
Florida's fascist Governor doesn't want kids to read about the Holocaust --
Insane: Under Ron DeSantis's book crackdown, 20 books by Jodi Picoult just got banned at one county's schools.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 10, 2023
One of them is "The Storyteller," about the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor.
"Banning 'The Storyteller' is shocking," Picoult tells us:https://t.co/y0tKdxz6Ws
They've created an audience that wants to be lied to --
"The evolution of Carlson and his colleagues into ever more reliable purveyors of absurd lies is actually the culmination of a strategy...to create a media infrastructure that is...wholly untethered to facts."@atrupar and @davidrlurie on Fox's long con:https://t.co/yg7WCP4xLp
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 11, 2023
Because cruelty is the point --
Congratulations to abortion opponents in Texas, you’ve really given abusive men some novel new tools to control and punish their partners and ex partners. https://t.co/Id4QBqVYSe
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) March 11, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank: another Trump-insigated train wreck --
https://t.co/sjuJI0IicI pic.twitter.com/sZBSxtU6Nw
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 10, 2023
The party of "Christian family values" indeed --
Lauren Boebert brags that her son impregnated a 15-yr-old girl
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) March 11, 2023
Sarah Palin’s teen daughter also had a kid
Trump bragged about Ivanka’s body when she was still a kid
West Virginians just legalized child marriage
The party of Christian family values sure loves knocking up kids
Answer Abraham Lincoln's question --
“I should like to know if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all . . . are equal . . . and making exceptions to it…where will it stop?” — Abraham Lincoln, 1858. It’s the question today’s racists, sexists, anti-LGBTQers, and antisemites must answer.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 11, 2023
Allies need to rush the weapons to make their counteroffensive successful --
⚡️Ground Forces Commander: Spring counteroffensive ‘not far off.’
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 11, 2023
Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine’s Ground Forces, said that the defense of Bakhmut was necessary for the start of the spring counteroffensive, which is "not far off," the Ground Forces reported.
Close call --
— Never tell me the odds ! (@nevertellmeodd) March 11, 2023
