116th Congress

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Soraya Chemaly
@schemaly
·
3h
Always worth repeating: Women politicians are far more likely than male counterparts

to be threatened and denigrated online. Recent research shows that

@AOC and @IlhanMN

, by a large margin, are targeted with the highest proportion of abuse, hate, & threats

They just didn’t include Keith Olberman in the stats

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https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...MasonDixon.pdf



Moscow Mitch up 9 in latest poll. Very disappointing but kind of expected given Democrats nominated a Trump supporter to run against him. One of the dumbest things I have ever seen in politics.

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Senator Joe Manchin
@Sen_JoeManchin
· Nov 9
2:01
Let me be clear: I will not vote to pack the courts & I will not vote to end the filibuster. The U.S. Senate is the most deliberative body in the world. It was made so that we work together in a bipartisan way. If you get rid of the filibuster, there's no reason to have a Senate.




Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
Let me be clear: The Senate was absolutely *not* made that way.

It was designed before there were parties and was meant to function with simple majorities.

The first filibuster didn't even happen until 1837. Even after that, they were still extremely rare for over a century.



richard willey
@Wombative

Rather than breaking this down by party, it might be interesting to do so by geography. For example, what happens if we show "Senators who belong to States in the Confederacy" versus States outside the same...
9:02 AM · Nov 11, 2020·Twitter Web App

Replying to
@Wombative

@KevinMKruse
and
@jbouie
Apart from Virginia (and perhaps Georgia come January, fingers crossed), that's a distinction without a difference. Literally every senator from a Confederate state is a Republican (except just-voted-out Doug Jones, who was an anomaly to begin with).

richard willey
@Wombative
·
13h
That might be true if you look at the last 30 years. If you go back 50+ years, you'll see that the filibuster was primarily used by South Democrats trying to block civil right's legislation. This is best understood as a tool that Southern's use, not Republicans or Democrats

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https://cbsaustin.com/news/connect-t...legalize-weed-



The House is expected to pass a marijuana decriminalization bill in December. Grim Reaper McConnel has never let any pro-legalization bill come to a vote in the Senate. I have no expectations he will change but this could easily be done by Biden as am executive order. I doubt we will hear anything about this from Biden nkw that he has won. When McConnel refuses to allow a vote Biden will ignore the issue and when the press asks him about it he will blame Moscow Mitch for something Biden could do at anytime after January 20th. If it ain't done by midterms they deserve to lose massively. There is no more bipartisan issue than legalization.

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Cristian Benavides
@cbenavidesTV
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7h
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has launched a free virtual homework helper program for her district.

As families struggle with online learning the one hour tutoring sessions per week are helping students to not fall behind.