Deleted tweet detection is currently running at reduced
capacity due to changes to the Twitter API. Some tweets that have been
deleted by the tweet author may not be labeled as deleted in the PolitiTweet
interface.
Showing page 157 of 811.
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
In Week 3 of playing iphone scrabble in front of a roaring fire in parents' basement, I'm thinking we need to rethink the "middle-age people playing video games living in their parents' basement" stereotype as it's quite nice. (Hi mom, i'm totally leaving soon don't worry) — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
@erin_gs Not only little interest, think it's gross! — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
@casey__bella oh way better imo. — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
And why *should* children's movies be centered around plots of romantic love exactly? Seems like sibling love (hello Frozen), for example, a more apt lesson for most ages... — PolitiTweet.org
Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT
Encanto is the best Disney since Moana but also its fifth movie in a row without a meaningful love story; decadence… https://t.co/ELXe4jO9hr
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
RT @mujerbaldwin: “We’re beyond speeches. We’re beyond events,” Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown told Atlanta’s NPR station. “W… — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
The New Georgia Project on Biden’s speech today: “Let’s be clear: we’ve heard rhetoric like this before … a goal without a plan is just a wish.” https://t.co/uv0NWEHcsw — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
@marc_v27 If you, ya know, read the story, it will all make sense. The narrative that "Republicans all supported VRA renewal so why don't they now" is not true. — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
In related news, does anyone know how to get ahold of Jim Sensenbrenner? I tried last year. Would love to talk to him about all of <gestures> THIS. DM me. — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
The Repub push to gut VRA/make voting more difficult started long before 2020; before the White House was a twinkle in Trump's eye. The lawmakers involved were savvy: they didn't want to seem racist, so they did it quietly. Know the history. (12/12) Fin. https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
I'll end this in a minute before I lose the three sets of eyeballs I still have, but know this: (11/?) https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
When @SenatorLeahy found out about the revised report, he asked that the record be updated to reflect that it had the support of only nine of the committee’s 10 Republicans and none of its Democrats. It was a“highly unusual development” he said. (10/?) https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
Which Republican senators signed the surprise revised VRA report? Then Judiciary Chair Arlen Specter, along w/ Jon Kyl of Arizona, John Cornyn of Texas and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. (9/?) https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
RT @lawrencehurley: Justice Scalia at oral argument in the 2013 voting rights act seized upon the idea that the lopsided vote in favor of V… — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
Republican Rep. Lynn Westmorland — a White dude from Georgia who went on to call Obama "uppity" — was a main House opponent. But the concerns about the VRA he raised were echoed by Republican Senators once it got there. https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr (8/?) — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
He knew this! So Sensenbrenner, a White Republican, teamed up with *CBC CHAIR* Melvin Watts (who went on to be an Obama appointee) to be “bipartisan partners in crime" to protect the VRA. The kind of teamwork that brings a tear to my jaded eye. (7/?) https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
Let me pause to talk about Rep. Sensenbrenner, who told me plainly: “I wanted to get it done while I was still there as its supporter ... If the expiring sections were allowed to go out into space, it would have been much harder to reinstate them.” (6/?) https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
The Repub senators knew that if SCOTUS overturned VRA preclearance, it would be hard to restore it, b/c fellow Republican Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin —a true supporter of voting access— would no longer be chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. (5/?) https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
Why does it matter? As @rickhasen told me: “It was clear [in the Republican revised committee report] that the seeds were being sown for a legal challenge [to the VRA],” says Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine. (4/?) https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
What was in that revised committee report? It detailed serious concerns (from Rs) about the statute and the process by which it had been renewed, even calling the Voting Rights Act a “tool for political and racial gerrymandering.” (3/?) https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
The 2006 VRA renewal was ushered thru a Republican Congress w/ limited debate & virtually no public dissent. But some of same Rs who stood by as President Bush signed it had just the previous day signed their names to a revised committee report (2/?) https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
Folks like to talk about how Republicans in Congress had no problem reauthorizing the VRA in 2006. Here's a 🧵 on why that was a false flag. 1/? https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
Folks like to talk about how Republicans in Congress had no problem reauthorizing the VRA. Here's a 🧵 on why that that was a false flag. https://t.co/Ijyl2JB6cr — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
I would watch a fireside chat explainer on the filibuster. I think maybe a lot of people would? — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
Maybe our fact-checking skills have gotten rusty over the past year but if a president says something that's not accurate you don't need to repeat it without context. — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
Reminder that if a president says something that's not accurate you don't need to repeat it without context! — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
Again: https://t.co/MeHJUt3k7C — PolitiTweet.org
Lauren Gambino @laurenegambino
Biden going hard after his former colleagues: "Even Strom Thurmond came to support voting rights. But Republicans t… https://t.co/NlisLQroc2
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
A reminder that it is not true that NO Republican senators will work with Democrats on voting rights: https://t.co/MeHJUt3k7C — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
The political climate to pass voting leg in Congress has only gotten worse over past year. Within the next week, it is highly probable if not certain that a Senate vote to change the rules will fail, then both bills Ds are focused on will be dead, & it's back to Square One. — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
RT @JessicaHuseman: The speech Kamala Harris is giving now could have been given one year ago, with no changes. As far as I can tell. — PolitiTweet.org
Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
RT @JessicaHuseman: Biden is taking the stage in Atlanta for his speech on voting — lots of activists important to this movement declined t… — PolitiTweet.org
