President Biden commended Justice Stephen Breyer for his nearly 28 years on the bench, and said his pick for the vacancy “will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court.” https://t.co/w3P0pYWUGx pic.twitter.com/FwGRSss2JU
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 27, 2022
BREAKING: President Joe Biden reasserts his pledge to nominate a Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, calling it "long overdue." Biden said he will decide on a replacement for Justice Stephen Breyer by the end of February. https://t.co/o1wxha3Tsf
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 27, 2022
"I thought that he could do everybody, the party, and himself a lot of good," Rep. Clyburn says on President Biden's campaign promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court. https://t.co/c6a10mc5cX
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 27, 2022
Justice Breyer has an extraordinary record of public service. I’m very happy that President Biden will fill this seat by naming the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. And we ought to #ExpandTheCourt to give her at least four more new colleagues & rebalance this institution.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) January 27, 2022
“It is hard to overstate just how important and powerful and inspiring a moment this is," @mayawiley says on President Biden's commitment to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court. https://t.co/OcN1kFocLA
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 27, 2022
President Biden's team is expected to begin reaching out to and potentially meeting with possible Supreme Court nominees as soon as next week, a source says. The White House is expected to work from a list of ten or fewer people.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 27, 2022
Biden urges Congress to act now on Equal Rights Amendment https://t.co/9vlwYK0scu pic.twitter.com/ENzqDCvgGI
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 27, 2022
I'm not giving up on #VotingRights.
— Dr. Michael Owens (@OwensForGeorgia) January 25, 2022
Pass it along. https://t.co/vlyVlkWVkF
Clyburn calls for full-court press on voting rights https://t.co/o3MBxCuGAt pic.twitter.com/t2FhwTbMPe
— The Hill (@thehill) January 27, 2022
End gerrymandering.
— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) January 27, 2022
Let voters choose their elected officials, not the other way around. https://t.co/V3Tp1MgZEd
Neil Gorsuch lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court 54 votes, not 60
— Eric Garcia for Congress (@EricG1247) January 24, 2022
Brett, M. Kavanaugh lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court 50 votes, not 60
Amy Coney Barrett lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court 52 votes, not 60
But #VotingRights needs 60 votes???
If the senate can put someone on the Supreme Court who wants to take away your rights with only 50 senators, then shouldn’t 50 senators be able to vote for legislation to give your rights back???
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) January 27, 2022
There's only one kind of people who would vote to ban Maus, whatever they are calling themselves these days. https://t.co/fs1Jl62Qd8
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) January 26, 2022
This is the same root cause as the appropriation of Holocaust tropes among antivaxxers. The lack of shame in the appropriation is because it is to them really nothing more than a historical abstraction.
— Jake Anbinder (@JakeAnbinder) January 27, 2022
On #HolocaustRemembranceDay, Centenarian Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender urged the young generation to always remember the Nazi genocide and denounced the use by some anti-COVID vaccination protesters of the yellow star Jews were forced to wear https://t.co/DHTQItVASg 1/6 pic.twitter.com/1c5yTpVdeA
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 27, 2022
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‘Prepare for impact’
Russia has continued to mass forces on the Ukrainian border, with troops now surrounding the country on all sides. This map, compiled by The New York Times, represents a snapshot of Russian positions. https://t.co/gXddgh3CKa
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 27, 2022
Had a long phone conversation with @POTUS. Discussed recent diplomatic efforts on de-escalation and agreed on joint actions for the future. Thanked President @JoeBiden for the ongoing military assistance. Possibilities for financial support to Ukraine were also discussed. pic.twitter.com/pAsQLYAuig
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) January 27, 2022
A Russian invasion is now virtually certain once the ground freezes, Biden said to Zelensky, a senior Ukrainian official told @mchancecnn. Kyiv could be “sacked," Russian forces may attempt to occupy it, “prepare for impact”, Biden said, according to this official.
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) January 27, 2022
I can think of nothing that would make Biden look even weaker than to have Russia sack Kyiv and occupy Ukraine in a matter of weeks https://t.co/qBN2A5goOp
— Mike Madrid (@madrid_mike) January 27, 2022
Some Western powers have said they would consider imposing personal sanctions on President Vladimir Putin if Moscow invades Ukraine. Here's an explanation of what that would mean for the Russian president pic.twitter.com/ZxX99zel5G
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 27, 2022
Awful: GOP aides are fielding calls from Tucker Carlson viewers demanding the US refrain from defending Ukraine against Putin, a new report says.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 27, 2022
We need to stop calling this "isolationism." Tucker is pulling the GOP base toward Putinism.
My latest:https://t.co/tyu42PRMxy
“Shame on them. Vladimir Putin hates the United States. He wants to do everything he can to weaken the United States around the world…That’s incredibly, incredibly myopic, political, silly kind of thinking,” Sipher added.” https://t.co/CUVSrfslH9
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) January 27, 2022
Three months ago, Johnson was warned about the escalating crisis in Ukraine. He *actually laughed* at former infantry officer, Tory MP @Tobias_Ellwood. "The old concepts of fighting tank battles on European land are over".
— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) January 27, 2022
And still MPs blather: he's got all the big calls right. https://t.co/jKF4J5kDtK
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Blather, indeed…
London is the chosen location for the vast majority of money laundering efforts by the kleptocratic thieves in Russia. They have literally laundered trillions of dollars in stolen money in London. Finally, Washington appears to be waking up to this. pic.twitter.com/koPvhd6QBw
— John O’Brennan (@JohnOBrennan2) January 27, 2022
Johnson’s position is indefensible, as is exposed whenever someone tries to defend him. My piece for @NewStatesman on why Conservative MPs should end his premiership. (I’m sure this’ll do the trick.) https://t.co/s99df370oQ
— David Gauke (@DavidGauke) January 27, 2022
Rory Stewart – Boris Johnson lies all the time… he lies to his wife, he lies to his employers, he lies to his colleagues, he lies to Parliament… he's probably the best liar we've ever had as a Prime Minister#GMB pic.twitter.com/SSvKRggXPj
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) January 27, 2022
8 minutes of me on the clues in Boris Johnson's past that could have served as a warning to anyone who was paying attention.
— Otto English (@Otto_English) January 27, 2022
Followed by 3 minutes of me putting the boot in. (contains swears)https://t.co/VNDSccMxpE
Boris Johnson dismisses claims he approved the airlift of animals from Afghanistan as “total rhubarb”.https://t.co/yc7b8Xae9r
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) January 27, 2022
Rhubarb denials crumbling #BorisJohnson
— Bruce (@Brucebfg) January 27, 2022
🔴 NEW: Boris Johnson “authorised” for “staff and animals” at the Nowzad charity “to be evacuated” from Afghanistan, a minister has said in written evidence published by the Foreign Affairs Committee https://t.co/6kzHMprCZF
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) January 26, 2022
Why can’t @BBCNews just say Johnson lied when Johnson lied? On #penfarthing, as with #PartyGate, it’s not like there’s any ambiguity. Why is it always Labour ‘claims’ he lied? https://t.co/50oXU0OI50
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) January 27, 2022
People who say Boris Johnson was involved;
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) January 27, 2022
Farthing's charity
FCDO whistle-blower
Multiple emails from FCDO officials
His own PPS on a call to a airplane charter firm
People who say he wasn't:
Boris Johnson https://t.co/Bkor3ZceD2
Fabulous flowchart from @alexwickham charting potential outcomes for Boris Johnson in partygate saga. Its daedalian nature underlines the only thing we really know right now: this could end up anywhere. pic.twitter.com/I9wRa2apby
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) January 27, 2022
Boris Johnson may have ended plan B measures, but we still have 100k new cases of Covid a day & over 300 new Covid deaths reported yesterday alone.
— Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) January 27, 2022
My advice as a doctor is to strongly recommend continuing to wear masks in indoor spaces. Why? To protect ourselves & each other 💙 https://t.co/R8ptufWvDi
Welcome to Boris Johnson’s “golden age”https://t.co/klnAxp3DvP
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) January 27, 2022
Maybe this is also why we didn’t used to have “a government plane”. Seem to recall the cost of commercial travel used to have to be checked first before charter planes were used. Would be good to know whether it was this time. https://t.co/SOU9LCQAIq
— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) January 27, 2022
After reports that Liz Truss took a specially chartered flight to Australia, here's a quote from the 'Back to Black' cost-cutting document she co-authored in 2009: pic.twitter.com/zrCpzdMjLb
— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) January 27, 2022
… possibly outweigh the pointless damage to one's prized reputation, the needless antagonism of insulting your key negotiating partner & the gross irresponsibility of actively stirring up trouble in NI? Please don't become another Brexit gravestone. Or risk more of them in NI.
— Michael Dougan (@mdouganlpool) January 27, 2022
This tweet is a disgrace. Literally everything that’s happened in Northern Ireland as a result of the protocol was predicted. The government was warned about that for years and dismissed those warnings as Remain scaremongering. For once, own it. https://t.co/vk42JbTguo
— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) January 26, 2022
So genuinely shocked by this that I am RT'ing. FCDO should not be used as propaganda tool of govt, or to support Truss's leadership hopes. It's also dreadful diplomacy if aim is genuinely to try to address any NIP issues. This behavior is NOT normal, but an abuse of power. https://t.co/0qhknfRXr1
— alexandra hall hall (@alexhallhall) January 27, 2022
It bears repeating: the nature of the NI Protocol was clearly understood from the moment it was signed. https://t.co/JnhUwVDTol
— JPCampbellBiz – Open a window, keep your distance (@JP_Biz) January 26, 2022
When you say ‘rules’ you mean the rules that you agreed to? That the uk parliament voted on and quite literally agreed to?
— Jason Gordon (@jasonrgordon) January 27, 2022
"There is no prospect of the protocol being scrapped, which is why Jeffrey Donaldson only talks about removing ‘the sea border’" #premium https://t.co/zXs0DvcSUi
— The Irish News (@irish_news) January 27, 2022
Significant scoop by @MargaretCan: Liz Truss indicates that when DUP minister Edwin Poots halts (probably within days) many Irish Sea border checks at ports, the UK Government will not use its power to over-rule him. Civil servants' position now trickier. https://t.co/MtuyUooCIT
— Sam McBride (@SJAMcBride) January 27, 2022
The DUP may well resign the FM next week as indicated by Jeffrey Donaldson yesterday but leave other ministers in place until the election in May. Question now is whether civil servants will obey Poots order to stop the checks.
— Allison Morris (@AllisonMorris1) January 27, 2022
I know this is cheap and simplistic but on one reading the Johnson administration now seems to be painting EU in its own image. It's every pronouncement on the EU now sounds like the purest projection of its own innards.
— Ray Thomson (British subject/Ex-citizen of the EU) (@iichroma) January 27, 2022
What was all this for? The ambitions of a few hundred people. 🤔 https://t.co/6RKtLsvXQG
— Shown (@northernlad18) January 27, 2022
Finally, RIP Barry Cryer…
This version of a Barry Cryer joke may well be my favourite of all time. Had me crying helplessly when I first read it.
— Chris Mooney (@chrismooney) January 27, 2022
RIP pic.twitter.com/3RGm5nnjFs
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