Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse

It’s a good time to revisit the basics for preventing COVID-19, including the new variants: make sure your mask fits well (two masks often better than one), practice social distancing, and wash your hands often. — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/MaGOm5rLno — PolitiTweet.org

Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse

“We didn't need more witnesses, we needed more senators with spines." https://t.co/mCypZyi9Gh — PolitiTweet.org

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Why we fight the fossil fuel emissions monster; and note that some, like the pteropod, swim in the water column and are essential in the food chain for fish. The oceans are at unprecedented risk, at least in the time of we humans. https://t.co/ZL65gCgKpO — PolitiTweet.org

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Lost Decade on Climate — here’s why: Chamber a “worst climate obstructor” (@InfluenceMap); Crossroads GPS a Karl Rove operation; Americans for Prosperity is the Koch operation. Dark money — over $300 million — killed climate action. https://t.co/bS9gsW4ctL — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s what happens when powerful corporations rely on “financial might and political clout” to overcome facts and science. https://t.co/BiB4Ow9eSe — PolitiTweet.org

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Glad to see the recent energy auction in New England signaling an energy surplus, with low clearing prices, and with battery storage and demand response/efficiency growing. Change is coming. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HealthSourceRI: Wishing you a safe and healthy #PresidentsDay! Our call center and live web chat are open today to help you get cover… — PolitiTweet.org

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Liberian families settled in RI decades ago seeking refuge from a brutal civil war. They have become an important part of our community. I’m glad Pres. Biden took this action, and we need to keep working to open a pathway to citizenship that would make this extension permanent. — PolitiTweet.org

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Flabbergasted? Wait until they learn about sea level rise, sunny day flooding, Freddie Mac warnings, and First Street Foundation research. This is only the beginning. https://t.co/OgUwTGdWIj — PolitiTweet.org

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Happy news. More Rhode Islanders will be able to learn from and enjoy everything @TomaquagMuseum has to offer. — PolitiTweet.org

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And yet still more on lying. Okay, I will stop now. And go take a shower. https://t.co/8mGYPiUHOp — PolitiTweet.org

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And still more on Trump lawyers: “they misstated legal precedents. They invented facts. They rewrote history.” https://t.co/76bDnhoZnu — PolitiTweet.org

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Yet more on the claims by Trump’s lawyers. https://t.co/h5EUxaokUn — PolitiTweet.org

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More on untruthful Senate trial statements by Trump lawyers here. https://t.co/r5jbsLQNQE — PolitiTweet.org

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One way to clear it up? Suspend trial to depose McCarthy and Tuberville under oath and get facts. Ask Secret Service to produce for review comms back to White House re VP Pence safety during siege. What did Trump know, and when did he know it? — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump’s lawyers are likely under ethics obligation to clean this up: duty of candor to a tribunal. You don’t get as counsel to make misrepresentations; if you do, you have an affirmative duty to clean it up. Tomorrow just got a lot more interesting. — PolitiTweet.org

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A review of Trump’s abominable lawyers in which the authors did not yet know about evident lies. Pretty damning stuff, even without that. https://t.co/rTZgUqOcOb — PolitiTweet.org

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Looks like Trump’s BS-artist attorneys may have crossed the line from BS to something much more serious. https://t.co/Mh5uu1Dkj2 — PolitiTweet.org

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House case alleged the rally had a purpose, hence its time, location and target. Trump team never addressed that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Georgia? Is someone nervous about Georgia calls now? I wonder when, & on whose instruction, THAT got into the presentation. Seemed pretty obvious House used Georgia call as evidence of intent: Trump’s intent to disrupt his defeat, even ultimately with a mob at the Capitol. — PolitiTweet.org

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Do Trump’s lawyers really think the impeachment was over Trump using the word “fight”? And if you’re going to make charges of selective editing, does it make sense to do a mass video of selective editing? — PolitiTweet.org

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My most prevalent feeling through Trump presentation: I am not the audience. Fox News/talk radio; Republican base/wavering Senators; Audience of One; but not me. — PolitiTweet.org

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The fights you’re not sure you can win are often the most important ones, & leading rather than following public opinion can be our most important duty in politics. Never again should Democrats just walk away. Mistakes We Should Not Repeat: Part 4 ⬇️ https://t.co/Kf0ZNHr9NQ — PolitiTweet.org

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I broke down the Republican talking points on impeachment being circulated by the RNC. They are… pretty exceptional, but they don’t stand supported by the law, by the bulk of American scholarship, and certainly not by the facts. https://t.co/3YpGH0h3EJ — PolitiTweet.org

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Looking forward to joining @maddow on @MSNBC. I’ll be on around 9:30 tonight. — PolitiTweet.org

Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse

And we are living the Voltaire warning he quoted that “those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Trump’s lies the absurdity; Trump mob’s pillage the atrocity. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@RepRaskin rocked entire opening of Preamble by memory, followed by whole Paine summer soldiers/sunshine patriots riff. So cool to think of all the lonely tedious lectures that prepared him for that lectern for that moment. Cinderella stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@davidcicilline did another excellent job today. Very proud! They all did really well, this sometime lawyer thought. — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the most jarring things I learned from the House Managers’ footage is how long the physical combat between these assailants and the Capitol police went on for. This was hours of steady, physical hand-to-hand combat with numerous injuries and several fatalities. — PolitiTweet.org