deMauri S. Mackie

When people ask “why is [shitty thing in this country] shitty?” 90+% of the time the answer is: 1. Racism And/or 2. The patriarchy

@VP Thank you, MVP. Your strength and dignity are so admirable. I’m trying to carry that with me for the next 4 years and remember that if you can do the job this country needs of you, so can we.

Today, I will perform my constitutional duty as Vice President to certify the results of the 2024 election. This duty is a sacred obligation — one I will uphold guided by love of country, loyalty to our Constitution, and unwavering faith in the American people.

@brianros1 And their decisions are so consistently conservative but in doing so they are legally inconsistent — applying opposite logic to get to conservative outcome every fucking time.

Jan is a good reporter and has been for a long time. But this is a very charitable interpretation. The bottom line is legitimacy stems from making decisions that aren't woefully out of line with public opinion & don't almost always go on in one direction. Also, the conservative

@EliMcCann YESSS team Logan!

I finally finished Gilmore Girls. I love Lorelei. Emily is my favorite character. Luke won me over big time by the end. I want to hang out with Miss Patty. JUSTICE FOR LANE. Logan was Rory's only good boyfriend. Rory pissed me off in season 6 but I was ok with her in the end.

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum: "If even a small percentage of what the United States allocates to war were instead dedicated to building peace and fostering development, it would address the underlying causes of human mobility."

@RepNancyMace Is this really the best use of your time? Harassing one of your coworkers? Don’t you have something better to be doing to help Americans?

I never thought we would need a sign for this, but women's restrooms are for BIOLOGICAL women. Not men.

If @HouseGOP really wanted to protect women, they'd release the Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz' alleged sex trafficking - not try to ban their colleagues from using the bathroom. Stop the bigotry and release the report.

@27thguyy My great aunt and uncle were Forrest and Fern

This election result isn't about Dem messaging. Their messaging during the campaign was about helping the middle class, continuing with sound economic policies, affordable healthcare and education, the rights of women, strengthening the border, unity. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz formed a balanced ticket filled with character, intellect, and genuine love for this country, and they eloquently delivered their vision better beautifully. This election result is about racism, misogyny, lack of education—and an irresponsible media that caters to those realities. There is no messaging that can overcome prejudice and ignorance, and those two factors are the only explanation for Trump even being the nominee and getting 75 million votes. We need to stop pretending there is some perfect Democratic candidate or magic messaging to reach people who have abandoned objective reality and chosen to embrace their fears and phobias, while failing to do the slightest bit of work to know what candidates' policies and plans are. The Dems didn't fail America, they just exist in a nation where far too many people don't pay attention or care to understand what's actually happening. Maybe they will now.

Oh my goodness. What an opening on 60 Minutes re Trump’s cabinet. This is how it’s done. Watch and share this.

You can’t win a presidential nomination in one tweet, but I think you can sure lose one that way.

I’m excited by the news that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov. He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health. Before you mock him or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through show why I’m excited: “Level the playing field for Americans internationally on drug costs…cap drug prices so that companies can’t charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay." YES! Colorado currently has an application just SITTING at FDA for us to import low-cost prescription drugs from Canada and we just need their approval. "In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are – that have to go, that are not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids," YES! The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good “We’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.” YES! We have tried unsuccessfully to better protect people and pollinators from harmful pesticides here in Colorado and we need all the help we can get to take on big chemical companies and improve human health and the environment! For our pollinators and our people! 🦋 He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues.

"If what you want is a centrist campaign that's quiet on trans issues, tough on the border, distances itself from Palestinians, talks a lot about law and order, and reaches out to moderate Republicans, that candidate existed and she just lost" ~John Oliver on dems moving right

One problem with the DNC is that when the Ds have the WH, the DNC is just an extension of the WH. The DNC must be a 365/50-state Base-Building organization, somewhat insensitive to the latest race, but highly sensitive to educating Americans about Democratic Values.

@MI_James57 Steve Kornacki going county by county in NC. The writing was on the wall.

What was your “uh oh” moment during election night (at what point did you realize it wasn’t going well)?

welcome to America.

In the coming days there's gonna be a lot of opining about what the Harris campaign did wrong, but this election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America.

@Victorshi2020 Go Quakers!!

What I see. A very long line of UPenn students barely after polls opened at 7am, so excited to vote. Students are smiling & taking selfies of their voting experience. This gives me so much hope & it should give you hope too.

Clear eyes, full hearts, fuck nazis

Here's why I do this. What propels you?

He’s patiently standing in line, waiting to vote. Stop for a second and think about what this moment means for him…what this moment COULD HAVE meant for HIM. And then thank @JoeBiden for being selfless and for making one of the hardest decisions in his life not about him, but about America.