ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST IN PARIS

25th Amendment and Impeachment thoughts.

There can not be a 25th amendment removal of Trump until Pence and Congress complete the certification of electors. Why?

2) Because Pence would become President and would no longer be able to preside over the Congress. A new VP would have to be nominated and then approved by congress and that takes time and allows for filibuster and other procedural delays that Trump supporters could employ...

3) and he has 6 senators and many reps still on his side. That would delay certification of electors for minimally a week or more because in the midst of this,

4) all it takes is a letter from the President to Congress saying “I’m ok” and he’s back in power until congress decides to challenge that letter, which must take place within 48 hours or it’s settled...

5) but the debate can carry on for a while longer as Trump gets to defend himself.

Thread --> #pennsylvania state police #dauphincounty . TROOP H. @DauphinCounty @PriesMike @PAStatePolice
1. While i do NOT support #DefundThePolice The inundated abuses of the Elizabethville barracks need attention. If video recordings w/audio were lawful I'd have done so.
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2. Yesterday I witnessed a shit show at a local magistrate's office north of #harrisburg #dauphincounty #pennsylvania. Commonwealth v. McClelland, With the Supreme Court’s ruling, prosecutors will again have to present more than just the arrest at a preliminary hearing.
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3. This means the arresting officer MUST BE PRESENT in order to testify. Any officer sent in lieu of arresting officer is hearsay.
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4. I witnessed from my car a state trouper, outside on his cellphone assumably with his barracks yelling and cursing like a brooklyn truck driver . Says hes sent to cover said officers cases but has NO PAPERWORK.
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5. Im admittedly entertained by this meltdown. Im citing case law loudly from my car. State assembly code.
Case MUST BE DISMISSED. He heard me, however he ignored me like the busboy at hooters.
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25 ways Princess Diana broke protocol as a Royal - A THREAD

1. She had a job before she got married:
Diana worked as a part-time kindergarten teacher in London. At the time, she was the first royal to have a paying job before getting engaged.

2. She picked her own engagement ring — from a catalog:
Although royal engagement rings are usually custom made, the 19-year-old bride selected hers from the Garrard jewelry collection catalog. Because Diana's ring was "accessible" to the public at the time, this caused a stir.

3. She wrote her own vows:
In 1981, Princess Diana made history when she famously refused to say that she would "obey" Prince Charles during their wedding vows. She also called Charles the wrong name!

4. Then Kate Middleton followed Diana's lead:
Kate removed the line in her vows that said she would "obey" Prince William.

Thread: Deputy Defense Minister for Armaments, Alexey Krivoruchko, gave his annual end of the year interview summarizing the year's arms deliveries. He said 2020's state defense order (GOZ) was fulfilled at

You. Yes you. You are the target of a massive disinformation campaign.
Corrupt, evil powers of the world do bad and nasty things. And their tactic is to then flood the world with tons of fake news. They don't have a good way to spin it, so they drown the truth. /thread

These evil powers will try to delegitimize journalists who report the truth. Journalists will be attacked, arrested, sometimes killed.
Journalists and investigators are on the front lines of this information war. And they're our only hope for finding the truth.

Inoculate yourself from this by recognizing where disinformation comes from and don't trust those sources.
And try not to be so outraged, fear driven, or believe everything you read or see. This knocks you off balance and distracts you.

Stay focused. Stay centered. It's not going to get better from here. Evil powers recognize how powerful this is and are using it more than ever. It's going to be harder to spot the truth. But don't give up. Don't let them win.

Even the good guys. Even your side does stuff like this. They do bad stuff, and then try to erase that, distancing themselves from it and not owning it. It's also important to hold your own side accountable for the bad things they do.

It’s true that Labour cannot form the next government without winning back most of the “Red Wall” seats it lost.

But the leadership has come to some odd decisions over its Brexit strategy as a result.

Let’s look at the polling. From @OpiniumResearch last week, we can see that of 3 options:

a trade deal with close alignment to the EU
a trade deal with a clear break from the EU
No Deal

Only the close alignment option is acceptable to more people than unacceptable. 2/12

If we just look at the people who find each option unacceptable, out of All Voters, Labour voters *and* 2019 Labour Leave voters, all groups find a deal with a clear break more unacceptable than a deal with close alignment. 3/12

So it hardly feels like electoral suicide for Labour to explicitly argue for a deal with close alignment. This is particularly true since Labour’s current poll lead with @YouGov comes mainly from the one third of 2019 Lib Dem voters who now say they would back Labour. 4/12

75% of 2019 Lib Dem Remainers think a “clear break” deal is unacceptable, so there is considerable risk in alienating these voters by Labour backing a Tory deal with the EU which will inevitably mean a very hard Brexit.

THREAD - My thoughts on what happened at the Capitol.

Please read EVERYTHING before commenting.

The violence we saw was unacceptable and must be fully condemned. It has no place in a democracy.

Those committing violence should spend a long time in prison.

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Bad news. The day before yesterday, we had confirmation of 3 new variants of concern in the US. As of yesterday, we now have 4. Three of the 4 variants have just been confirmed in the last month. The new one yesterday is the South African variant.

What does this mean for

Americans?
1. If you have been lucky and been able to get away with being in gatherings and not wearing a mask up until now, your luck is about to run out. It’s time to take the public health guidance seriously and don’t get in large gatherings, especially indoors, and you need

to wear a mask.
2. We need to slow down the transmission of this virus or we are going to get yet more variants. I have fought against the suggestions by some that we should lock up the elderly & high risk individuals at home & then let everyone get back to normal and spread the

virus to get herd immunity for a year. It is a dangerous proposal and the proliferation of new variants is a consequence.
3. We need to get as many people vaccinated as soon as possible.
4. There are discussions that since schools have operated safely in the past (by and large,

they have), we should now bring students back for full in-person classes. This is a mistake for several reasons. First, our data that these decisions and the recent CDC report were based on was with the majority of schools in hybrid. The first rule of interpreting scientific