#Legislative

Fair Fight

fairfightaction

THREAD: On Aug 6, 1965, 153 days after John Lewis was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the VRA was signed into law. In 2013, the GOP-led Sup Court gutted

Melquiades Gagarin🌹🇵🇭🇵🇷

MelforProgress

Seeing any progress towards menstrual equity at the federal level should be commended. But here's my problem with this and a on how we differ. TL;DR: ending period poverty

Ben Wikler

benwikler

NEW AD: Governor Tony Evers has worked tirelessly to beat the pandemic—& Wisconsin Republicans have opposed him at every turn. Now, they’re aiming for supermajorities in the state legislature instead

Eric Rauchway

rauchway

As @dkarol says there are differences between the current reaction to an invisible, impersonal enemy and that of the Hoover administration, but there are some similarities …https://twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/status/1260554398545084416 Early on, Hoover

Ingrid M

iMusing

LRT I used to teach bioethics, covering abortion, euthanasia, vivisection, the long and shameful history of [white, male] scientists running horrific human experiments and producing dangerous concoctions that destroy the

Indivisible Madison

IndivisMadison

***URGENT ACTION ALERT*** ATTN WISCONSINITES. We only have until MONDAY's Special Session to pressure @SpeakerVos, @SenFitzgerald and our state legislators to take up and PASS policing reform bills. Don't let

Julio Ricardo Varela

julito77

Today in Puerto Rico's House of Representatives, @repjuniorperez of @pnp_pr says the N-word on the House floor. He also dropped a "whore" slur for good measure. Opposition legislator @manuelnatal asked

Michael Avery

MichaelJAvery

(1/15) While we are all still engrossed in elections and democratic processes, now is a good time to bring your attention to an alarming affront to democratic process unfolding right

(((Greg Siskind)))

gsiskind

1 - Most people probably don't know what hospitalists are. They are internal medicine MDs who work in hospitals. And they are a large % of the MDs at the

Kelsey D. Atherton

AthertonKD

The F-35, by virtue of three decades of development and crowding out all other alternatives, has become a singularly perfect metaphor for spending trade-offs made by the US, in a

Chad Pergram

ChadPergram

1) Coronavirus has claimed an unlikely victim in Congress - at least for a while: the custom of the roll call vote. Votes are supposed to run 15 minutes in

Oath Keepers

Oathkeepers

Fear is the greatest tool of the wanna-be dictator. We’re all susceptible to it, hence George Mason’s warning: "No free government, or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to

Frédéric Emmanuel

FrdricEmmanuel

Quoi? On ose parler d'islamo-gauchisme? Ce terme qui viendrait de l'extrême droite? Eh bien pour ma part je vais me gêner. Un thread. Je définis d'abord un islamo-gauchiste comme quelqu'un

Gary Holland 🇺🇸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🇺🇸

gholland04

!! Article w/Thoughts: 2020 the “Perfect Storm” facing our Republic — All three branches of our Government are in peril. An election in 1917 forecast the election in 2020! Here

Timothy Huyer

tim4hire

So, a quick (for me!) explainer of responsible government in a Westminster parliamentary system. Grab your pillows and/or coffee, as per your needs and preferences...https://twitter.com/millwoodsgal/status/1260556128376598529 Most of the Crown’s powe

Ron Rabatsky

ExposingALEC

There is a rumor out there that tRump will blame the #coronavirus debacle on Pence, then announce - on the day of the #DemocraticParty nomination - that Nikki Haley will