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Two brilliant historians on today’s @intercepted, David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom & @GregGrandin, author of The End of the Myth. What Reconstruction and the New Deal can teach us about what comes after the pandemic presidency https://t.co/gsArvygtux — PolitiTweet.org

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How Betsy DeVos’s handling of relief funds hurt some of the country’s neediest schools, students. https://t.co/MnOhIPuR6g — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheJackieB @IwriteOK Yes. They needed 60. — PolitiTweet.org

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@samuraislack @hacks4pancakes Murray was the only absent Democrat. Sanders is an independent. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PoliticalH2Os I’m aware. It was autocorrected — PolitiTweet.org

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@jljacobson See additional tweets in the thread. I list them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Brown916 @andrew_292 Actually, 24 Republicans supported the amendment. That makes it even worse. It should have passed even in McConnell’s senate. That’s why what these 10 Democrats did was atrocious. — PolitiTweet.org

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@my_dys @sarahkendzior Democrats have generally sided with the GOP on large scale surveillance authorizations repeatedly since 9/11. What was remarkable here was how close an actually decent surveillance amendment came to passing in McConnell’s Senate. Those 10 Dems were flat wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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@my_dys @sarahkendzior Lol — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChangeMySetting It was sponsored by the leading Democrat on FISA and surveillance issues and 10 Democrats decided to support giving Trump’s FBI more surveillance powers. That’s the story. — PolitiTweet.org

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@legsbenedict It was an amendment sponsored by the leading Democrat on surveillance issues. It was a rare moment to get something good passed in McConnell’s senate and these 10 Democrats destroyed it. Great work. — PolitiTweet.org

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@legsbenedict Do you understand basic math? The GOP wouldn’t have defeated this measure without the Democrats who supported it. It’s literally the reason it failed—because 10 Democrats joined the GOP in supporting this surveillance power. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NettiePearl01 Where did I include him as a Dem? I mentioned him separate and in another tweet discuss him joining 2 GOP and a Dem in not voting. I’ve never called him a Democrat because he isn’t. Also, if it fell a vote short, he is in fact responsible, especially knowing his stance on this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@koush Murray is the Democrat mentioned above who did not vote. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DefierTea Sheldon Whitehouse. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RGC_BPPA Read carefully. I said he joined 2 GOP and a Democrat in not voting. — PolitiTweet.org

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@StevenLucasChef See the next 2 tweets in that thread — PolitiTweet.org

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@theleftfarmer @MagicKing78 @HelloLetsDate Biden often brags he wrote the precursor to the Patriot Act. Of course he voted for it as well. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JanhoiT Wyden has always been a champion of this issue for a very long time. He’s one of the absolute best on surveillance issues and works on it nonstop. — PolitiTweet.org

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The 10 Democrats who joined GOP in defeating amendment to stop FBI warrantless surveillance of web browser history: Carper, Casey, Feinstein, Hassan, Jones, Kaine, Manchin, Shaheen, Warner and Whitehorse. Joined 2 Republicans & a Democrat in not showing up to vote: Bernie Sanders — PolitiTweet.org

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@3JohnGoddi It wasn’t a tie. It fell one vote short of the 60 it needed to PASS. Do some reading on voting for amendments. Has zero to do with Pence or tie-breakers. Sanders didn’t show up and it made a huge difference. — PolitiTweet.org

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Remember this vote next time one of these 10 Democrats or Sanders tells you that Trump is the most dangerous president in history. They just facilitated outrageous surveillance powers for William Barr and the FBI. — PolitiTweet.org

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Great job to the 10 Democrats who voted *against* the Wyden-Daines amendment that would have prohibited FBI warrantless surveillance of web browser history. Special shout out to Bernie Sanders who didn’t show up to vote. It was defeated by *one* vote. — PolitiTweet.org

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HEROES Act delivers a win to the health insurance industry https://t.co/kKPjXhpwdb by @akela_lacy, @JonWalkerDC — PolitiTweet.org

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What comes after the pandemic presidency? On the new @intercepted, we revisit the era of Reconstruction & its dismantling by white supremacy & the launching of The New Deal & who was left out & left behind. Featuring historians David Blight & @GregGrandin https://t.co/gsArvygtux — PolitiTweet.org

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New @intercepted: What Reconstruction and the New Deal can teach us about what comes after the pandemic presidency https://t.co/gsArvygtux — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ErikWemple: This appears to be an important coronavirus media moment: A reporter on the news side of @nytimes saying that the CDC chief… — PolitiTweet.org

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A woman died of Covid-19 in a New Jersey prison after begging to be let out of a locked shower https://t.co/6zwuSsU34A by @alicesperi — PolitiTweet.org

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@JessicaValenti @onesarahjones There was also the near drowning episode 😬 — PolitiTweet.org