House of Representatives strips Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments as punishment for incendiary remarks, including support for violence against Democrats https://t.co/V9TSAFCH6P pic.twitter.com/5beVmS31pW
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 5, 2021
House votes 230-199 to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments.
— The Recount (@therecount) February 4, 2021
11 Republicans vote yes:
Carlos Gimenez
Mark Jacobs
John Katko
Young Kim
Adam Kinzinger
Nicole Malliotakis
Maria Elvira Salazar
Mario Diaz-Balart
Chris Smith
Fred Upton
Brian Fitzpatrick pic.twitter.com/GWb64PTmPh
WTGCSGN — Where They Go Committees, She Goes None
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) February 5, 2021
All but 11 House Republicans are fine with putting a woman on the education committee who thinks the Sandy Hook and Parkland shootings were faked.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 5, 2021
11 yeses is considerably more than I thought there would be on this Taylor Greene vote.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 4, 2021
House Republicans voting (publicly) to impeach Trump: 10
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 4, 2021
House Republicans voting (secretly) to save Liz Cheney: 145
House Republicans voting (publicly) to remove Marjorie Greene from Committees: 11
Am detecting a pattern…
Greene had endorsed violence against Democrats, falsely claimed school shootings were staged and said a laser controlled by Jewish financiers started a wildfire. The top House Republican, Kevin McCarthy, condemned her comments, but didn’t punish her. https://t.co/63nDRZpilr
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) February 4, 2021
Hoyer: "In 2019, during the same election cycle in which she ran, [Greene] showed support for comments online that the quickest way to remove Speaker Pelosi from power would be, and I quote, a bullet to the head. Did any of you hear Steve king say anything like that?" pic.twitter.com/Xn1c2Op7Vg
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 4, 2021
A few things you couldn’t see on TV during Hoyer 🔥 speech:
— Haley Talbot (@haleytalbotcnn) February 4, 2021
– Congresswoman @IlhanMN, who is on the poster, was seated just behind Hoyer
– Greene was in the chamber the whole time, listening
– Several Dems stood up and applauded when he closed pic.twitter.com/IikDzny30T
Republican's use of "cancel culture" for everything is really about their rejection of any norms or social contract for behavior and mutual responsibility.
— JodiJacobson 🇺🇦 🩸🦷 @jljacobson@mastodon.social (@jljacobson) February 4, 2021
My first column in the @thedailybeast on Marjorie Taylor Greene being the present and future of the #GQP. She's the center, not the outlier. Also, a brief word on how Dems should flex and confront this threat moving forward. Hope you dig it.https://t.co/hRvzj7J6Dn pic.twitter.com/MXR8tTqXmT
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) February 4, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene ovation shows why Biden and Democrats shouldn't deal with GOP
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) February 4, 2021
Republican members of Congress have not shown the necessary respect for their oaths of office to be treated as the loyal opposition. https://t.co/GMBDiWJEOx
"We need women like [Marjorie Taylor-Greene] in there, otherwise these Democrats are gonna keep eating babies and cutting the faces off of them."https://t.co/zCxmLtcLN9 pic.twitter.com/LNAqlLSbV2
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) February 4, 2021
With the Marjorie Taylor Greene controversy and Trump's impeachment trial, Republicans are facing fundamental questions about the future of their party. This is why. In 5 minutes. Produced @courtbembridge @Henry_Belot & Clare Casey https://t.co/DQxCPEFfJA pic.twitter.com/C6TudtomDc
— Ros Atkins (@BBCRosAtkins) February 4, 2021
Donald Trump’s lawyers rejected a request to testify at his second impeachment trial in the Senate next week, dismissing Democrats' invitation as a ‘public relations stunt’ https://t.co/6n1zoOsWvP pic.twitter.com/hr5XuuaHWd
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 4, 2021
There’s plenty of evidence. https://t.co/S2xvMY0tX4
— Slate (@Slate) February 4, 2021
"I’m very proud of my work on movies such as Home Alone 2, Zoolander … and of course, one of the most successful shows in television history, The Apprentice – to name just a few!"
— Matthew Choi (@matthewichoi) February 4, 2021
Trump leaves SAG amid disciplinary chargeshttps://t.co/T7rvYwUZUk
NEW: Smartmatic, an international elections equipment company, has sued Fox News for more than $2.7 billion over false reports it was part of a conspiracy to steal the 2020 election. https://t.co/nKXu6dLuYg
— NBC News Tech (@NBCNewsTech) February 4, 2021
Here is the 285-page, $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit that election tech company Smartmatic filed today in state court in Manhattan against Fox, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell: https://t.co/VYwrKETtyS
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) February 4, 2021
Intro: "The Earth is round." pic.twitter.com/dZzyPBuIvd
Meanwhile…
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin orders all units to “stand down” to address extremism in the ranks https://t.co/A5RBjVOYEd pic.twitter.com/16vuIQqupT
— POLITICO (@politico) February 4, 2021
U.S. ending support for Saudi-led war in Yemen as Biden shifts foreign policy priorities – The Washington Post https://t.co/m9mGuT9O56
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) February 4, 2021
Pres. Joe Biden vows to take new approach with Russia from the Trump Administration while condemning the imprisonment of Putin critic Alexey Navalny: "He's been targeted for exposing corruption. He should be released immediately and without condition." https://t.co/N6KsgBGjX2 pic.twitter.com/MhkjOmFeeU
— ABC News (@ABC) February 4, 2021
I assume the omission was a way to slap at Netanyahu, who turned himself willingly into a whole owned Trump subsidiary.
— Clyde Haberman (@ClydeHaberman) February 4, 2021
After Trump, Biden's Clichés Sound Revolutionary https://t.co/Wr3kdAOPS4
— Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) February 5, 2021
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BRITAIN WRESTLES WITH TWIN CHALLENGES OF COVID AND BREXIT
Friday’s Telegraph: “Ministers to requisition 28,000 quarantine hotel rooms” #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/7FuHsAa3Vz pic.twitter.com/urJSUe2BgK
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) February 4, 2021
UK residents returning from coronavirus hotspots abroad will have to quarantine in hotels from 15 February, sources tell BBChttps://t.co/k1YlN9Mfs8
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) February 4, 2021
UK launches trial aimed testing effectiveness of mixing different COVID vaccineshttps://t.co/iFGGwcEQi7
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 4, 2021
The world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, prompting a race to improve vaccines, Britain said, as researchers began to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots https://t.co/hMFWh9ZYBV 1/5 pic.twitter.com/ahzAEjduS2
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 4, 2021
Kilmarnock: hospital under lockdown after 'serious incident' say Police Scotland https://t.co/jltZ2mMQCR
— The Guardian (@guardian) February 4, 2021
Gove's letter to Commission about NI Protocol is deeply insulting – worthy successor to Trump's truth-twisting method of treating international diplomacy with same contempt & dishonesty as domestic politics. But cut through the propaganda & what do we learn? Voila, short thread:
— Michael Dougan (@mdouganlpool) February 4, 2021
🚨BREAKING: EU will not respond to ‘threats’ from London over Northern Ireland border disruption, says Dublin: Foreign minister Simon Coveney tells hard Brexiteers: 'You've got to own the consequences of your own decisions.'…@news247tweets
— MBE (@MBELTD) February 4, 2021
The Guardian view on Northern Ireland and Brexit: stick with the protocol | Editorial https://t.co/uCIOT2hsGs
— The Guardian (@guardian) February 4, 2021
The duty is on @BorisJohnson to act @DUPleader tells @MarkCarruthers7 @SJAMcBride pic.twitter.com/93I9tl0GEy
— BBC The View (@bbctheview) February 4, 2021
When you think back to that £1 billion bribe that Theresa May gave to the DUP, to support a Brexit that splits up the Union, even though that party basically exists to keep the union together…
— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) February 4, 2021
That means @DUPleader LITERALLY sold out on everything they stand for.
Am I fuck! 🇮🇪
— Irish Sea Border (@BorderSeaIrish) February 4, 2021
Good recap of why Article 16 isn't shorthand for 'junk the Irish Protocol' – for which, btw, there isn't an alternative. It needs to be made to work. A16 (as we've just seen!) would inflame not fix the problems. All this made harder by trust deficit UK did lot to help create. https://t.co/KpR1HljwHm
— Peter Foster (@pmdfoster) February 4, 2021
Here are three stories that offer an alternative view of the recent days of political theatrics in NI/North ⬇️
— Steven McCaffery (@StevieMcCaffery) February 4, 2021
We also hear Invest NI CEO Kevin Holland who says the unique position NI is now in with helps to sell the potential of NI
— Clodagh Rice (@ClodaghLRice) February 4, 2021
"In the last 5-10 days I've had companies from New Zealand, the US, Britain+Europe talking to us about how this works+whether this is an opportunity for them
Let’s never forget this, eh? pic.twitter.com/0CrzgBcHIM
— Sue Perkins 💙 (@sueperkins) February 4, 2021
The Overnight Note 