Invisible people are the easiest to forget. Ask any homeless person.Today is the 21st anniversary of the beginning of U.S. military detention at #GTMO.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 11, 2023
21 years later, we're still detaining 35 men, 23 of whom have *never* been charged with a crime; and 20 of whom have been cleared for transfer.
Forgetting them won't make it (or them) go away.
Nature abhors a vacuum and rushes to fill it. So does power. And we have so many House members with empty space between their ears.In 2016, congressional Republicans created a much-ballyhooed “Task Force on Executive Overreach.”
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 10, 2023
You’ve never heard of it because witnesses kept testifying that the real issue was Congress not asserting *its* institutional authority, out of which no actual reforms were adopted. https://t.co/IqFDD249nE
Exhibit A.House Republicans are hard at work tackling inflation and cri-- oh no wait it's dudes trying to restrict reproductive rights pic.twitter.com/QVrSEwcqTO
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 11, 2023
From the mouths of babes. The work of Harper Lee is next.School administrator stops reading of "The Sneetches" by Dr. Seuss, because a 3rd grader (correctly) surmised that it was an allegory about racism and segregation. The Administrator declared Dr. Seuss inappropriate for 3rd graders.
— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) January 11, 2023
Welcome to Republican America. https://t.co/btvEBFT7I6
— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) January 11, 2023You can tell your kids where you were when privacy became a commodity again. (Can paying to keep your information secret be far behind?)
Gettysburg Address? The Lincoln Douglass debates? Wouldn't that be appropriate, Republican-fascists banning Lincoln's most famous words from public schools.
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