I want to try to build on the excellent points made by @dpcassidyC3, @DavidAFrench, @Peter_Wehner & others about the need to disentangle the white, evangelical church from far right wing politics and its contribution to the insurrection.

I want to consider practical steps. 1/21

But first, a defense. Why the need to do this? And why address this, but not, say the BLM protests?

Because many of us are adjacent to these types of right wing Christians. These are our folk.

We may not have them in our congregations, but we know them. 2/

I don't know anyone in Antifa. I don't know anyone who lit buildings on fire this summer.

Of course arson is wrong, but my primary job is to care for our folk, not call out the sins of others (see I Cor 5:9-12). 3/

And we know the kinds of folks who went to the MAGA rally on Jan. 6th. If they are not in our churches, they are adjacent to our churches. Folks who promoted the patently false narratives about the election. 4/

They covered over the president's abuse of democratic norms and the rule of law. They chose to ignore many warning signs, going all the way back to 2015. 5/

THREAD: Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /1

Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /2

Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /3

Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /4

Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /5

Absolutely.

A thread on papers that show the positive impact of having #women in #politics.

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Women as #Policy Makers: Evidence from a randomized policy experiment in #India

Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo

https://t.co/vVMJosWGEX

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Are #Female Leaders Good for #Education? Evidence from #India.

Irma Clots-Figueras

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#Health and the Political Agency of #Women

Sonia Bhalotra (@SoniaBhalotra), Irma Clots-Figueras

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Powerful #Women: Does Exposure Reduce #Bias

Lori Beaman (@LoriBeaman), Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo,
Rohini Pande, and Petia

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Effect of #political decentralization and #female #leadership on institutional births and #child mortality in rural Bihar, #India.

Santosh Kumar (@santosh_econ), Nishith Prakash

This is getting wild:

"Today, the electoral college votes will be sealed and sent by special carrier to Washington where they will remain sealed until January 6th when the House and Senate will come into a joint session to open the votes..

@RepThomasMassie I am a huge supporter of yours but the notion that Congress should sit this one out isn't correct. Adams and Jefferson discussed making decisions on how to count ballots 1796 & 1800. ECA is unconstitutional. In event of no ascertainable majority House elects iaw 12th Amendment.

Courts didn't want to do their duty to settle controversies? Fine. Congress must but not through invoking the ECA. That creates a new unconstitutional way of electing President. Instead support the House election method iaw w/ the 12th A. when the time comes. Thanks.

People will say, "but Biden will have majority."

No, he doesn't. AZ, NV, WI, MI, PA, and GA are ALL in question. Subtract those as being indeterminable due to fraud and/or Constitutional election law violations and you're left with Trump winning.

BUT.....

There isn't a mechanism for excluding states totally from the process so every reasonable step should be take to ensure they are all able, in one way or another, to have their due input. That way in this situation is by having the House elect iaw the 12th Amendment.

So...

Instead of Pence just excluding ballots & declaring Trump winner he should exclude the controversial ballots & then send the election to the House, explaining it's the fair option in view of the circumstances instead of just handing Trump a victory while excluding several states.

The greatest tools we still have at our disposal are the US Constitution, our State Constitutions, the separation of powers, division of state and federal powers, the long list of judges appointed by @realDonaldTrump, and more important then anything our faith in God. All hope...

There needs to be a mass movement of political maturation. People are obviously encouraged to move at the pace which best suits them, but it is concerning, to say the least, that people closer to 40 are still impressed by political pageantry over policy.

Now what pace is that? Progress is all but stalled when you’re more agitated by the truth than the lies you’ve been led to believe and repeat about misleadership in this country.

Perhaps you aren’t interested or invested in an equitable society where the poor and working class represent themselves. But it truly should eat away at you that you’re fine being corralled into repression and subjugation by “your” government.

The emphasis we place on political education is not symbolic or even an attempt to rewrite history. It allows us to see what methods Black revolutionaries used, but also to see how the government subverted and destroyed their movements.

They saying is “history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes”. Many people were exhibiting their first term Obama jubilation. What we know happened next is the justification for why those pipes in Flint were never fixed, why so many extrajudicial killings of Black people happened etc.

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🗳️ ELECTION CRIME FLASHBACK- LEFTISTS BLOCK POLL MONITORS

Criminal Leftists in Philadelphia Preventing Poll Monitors from Entry into Voting Locations

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@SidneyPowell1 @realMikeLindell

Alright, so let's do a thread on what the fuck just happened in Georgia tonight. Unless something changes, it sure looks like Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff will be Georgia's senators in the 117th Congress. With that in mind, let's litigate this disaster.

Before saying anything else, we should state that Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff, David Perdue, and Kelly Loeffler are all horrendous candidates. I will explain below.

Raphael Warnock is a radical leftist and a vicious antisemite. A healthy body politic would never let him get near the levers of power.

Jon Ossoff is a trust-fund bozo who has never accomplished anything in his 33 years of life and is not remotely qualified to be a senator.

1/ Will Republican voter suppression efforts be enough to block the tens of millions of Americans who have discovered that Trump and the Republicans don't give a damn about them >> per https://t.co/dw0Y01pwXG by Thom_Hartmann >>

Okay, the fatalism and despair on my TL is foolish and silly and exhausting. Sit down and shut up and listen to me for a sec.

THREAD Last night’s vote against delaying the budget deadline means nothing can stop the Knesset dissolving @ midnight. Election on 23.3. I explained in @haaretzcom last month why Netanyahu doesn’t want a March election. Too many factors beyond his

A March election means the campaign will be dominated by 3 events beyond Netanyahu’s control: 1. 3rd wave of covid crashing down on Israel before vaccines have an impact 2. From January 20, a much less friendly administration in the US 3. Early February his bribery trial resumes

Netanyahu’s biggest advantage is that he’s going in to the election serving PM with control over the critical finance and health ministries. Gantz and his B&W ministers will remain in office but have much less power as discredited members of a zombie

Netanyahu’s campaign is going to have 2 themes: Only I could have brought millions of vaccines early to Israel (expect another show when he gets his 2nd jab) and my diplomacy brought peace with Arab states (he’s desperate to visit the UAE during the campaign). No-one else could.

Netanyahu’s biggest problem going in to the election, he won’t have Gantz to kick around any more and brand “weak left” but much more experienced right-wing challengers determined to take him out. Sa’ar, Bennett, Lieberman. Sa’ar tried and failed last

This is such BS

The storming of the Capitol was just the latest in a long line of examples in which Trump's supporters took him LITERALLY.

At least 87 ppl were killed by right-wing terrorists in the first 3 years of Trump b/c they took him LITERALLY https://t.co/FEmOzv6Kxj

Here are other examples of right-wing terrorists being inspired by Trump's rhetoric

AUGUST 2015: 2 brothers beat a homeless man in Boston with a metal pipe who they believed to be an undocumented immigrant. “Donald Trump was right,” they told police.

3/ OCTOBER 2016: 3 men arrested for plotting a series of bomb attacks against Somali-Americans in Kansas.

Two of the three men were Trump supporters who shared his anti-immigrant views.

4/ MAY 2017: A University of Maryland student accused of stabbing a black U.S. Army lieutenant to death apparently liked memes about Donald Trump, white supremacy, and the alt-right.

5/ AUGUST 2017: Members of a far-right militia bombed the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, MN in an effort “to scare” Muslims.

🚨Things I've PROVEN since the day after the election🚨
1: Dominion products have wifi cards.
2: Dominion can be hacked with or without internet access.
3: Iran/Pakistan/China/Russia all interfered in this election with cyberwarfare.
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4: Swing state decision makers and IT departments were woefuly ignorant or incompetent.
5: Swing states were often lobbied or financially connected to voting companies.
6: All major voting companies were owned by secretive Private Equity Funds.
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7: First person to publish the Dominion Manuals/training videos on Twitter.
8: First person to publish the Dominion swing state contracts on Twitter.
9: First person to post the boxes of 2020 primary absentee envelopes from in the Freeman video.
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10: First person to suggest TEST DECKS were used to ballot stuff.
11: First person to suggest an envelope to ballot count for all absentee ballots cast.
12: Prove that Dominion schemas are NOT air gapped like they claim.
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13: First person to demand public access and third party analysis of the Dominion Audit Logs (still not produced to this day, even though they are a selling feature of "transparency" according to Dominion)
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My sincerest hope is that yesterday's abhorred invasion of white entitlement has taught the politicians who encouraged and enabled it that their political theatrics aren't a joke.

Lawmakers can incite a radical insurgency if they lie convincingly enough, but as lawmakers that insurgency will come for your heads after they've gotten bored attacking the marginalized people you unleashed them on.

Try to install a dictator and that dictator's rabid followers will put your heads on the chopping block right next to the rest of us.

As representatives, your jobs are to do whats best for all citizens. All of us whether you like us or not. That starts with putting an end to gridlock, revisionism, and blaming groups of marginalized people and the other side of the aisle.

Keeping the country stable takes compromise, not winning at all costs. We are your neighbors, not your enemies.

A tour of front pages this morning, starting with the Arizona Republic: “AGAIN.” Above the banner: “Donald J. Trump becomes first president in history to be impeached twice, as House charges him with inciting Capitol riot” 1/

LA Times: "TRUMP IMPEACHED FOR A SECOND TIME” 2/

The Washington Post: “Trump impeached again” Subhead 1: “An isolated president has few willing to defend him.” Subhead 2: Senate trial is likely to occur after departure” 3/

Miami Herald: “IMPEACHED AGAIN: House Democrats and 10 Republicans say Trump should be ousted for ‘incitement of insurrection’ but trial is likely to come after he leaves office”

The Times of Gainesville, Ga.: “House votes to impeach Trump: 10 Republicans join in historic 2nd charge over Capitol assault”

If Biden sticks by Trump's U.S.-Taliban withdrawal deal, then he owns very little of the results, some of which won't be immaculate. Post-withdrawal, can talk about "concern" for any events as they unfold, reiterate commitment to hit terrorist groups with intent/capability... 1/

to harm U.S. and its interests, but generally practice benign distancing from internal politics of AFG. Can also say that he was fulfilling Trump's deal and the die was cast, even criticize it (and people like me) as needed for political reasons - but stick to plan knowing... 2/

...that he doesn't want to have to own an endless war he should know will remain a headache for US and a suck on resources better used elsewhere. 3/

4/ But if he reneges on the deal, the conflict becomes Biden's War. Whether based on some "conditions" or a "spirit" of the deal that isn't in the text for all to see, he'd have to make an active choice to return to what we've been doing - and not doing well at - for years.

5/ Then Biden owns the results. This will include continued violence, but this time with US/coalition forces in crosshairs. Deciding to remain won't wave magic wand & make things better than they were before the deal; conditions on ground still only "modicum of success" at best.