Matthew Curran

I just left the Senate floor where I laid out the top ten ways Donald Trump is wrecking the country. Every American should know the facts about this administration – so here they are: (Thread 🧵)

I am all for cutting gov costs, then and now. I'm even more for efficiency I would have a plan. Ready Fire Aim is not a plan. Cutting programs without knowing if they would have saved taxpayers more than they cost, or saved lives, is a mistake Tariffs, cutting programs, agencies and employees ALL AT ONCE, without doing an analysis of the impact on city, towns and states they impact, is going to backfire big time Some cities have 9 pct or more of their employment as federal workers. Colleges losing millions in funding. Gov contractors and grant recipients having to close their businesses and lay off everyone. Repeated in city after city. Town after town What do you think the economic impact on their tax base is ? What do you think happens to home values ? What services will they have to end ? What about the local businesses ? How many people will lose their jobs and homes because this was done ALL AT ONCE Cut federal government bloat in an organized fashion and it's great. Ready Fire Aim and the uncertainty it creates is a huge mistake

Let’s be clear: This is illegal and unconstitutional. The American people had voted. The courts had ruled. The Electoral College had met and voted. The Governor in every state had certified the results and sent a legal slate of electors to the Congress to be counted. The Vice President has no constitutional authority to tell states to submit alternative slates of electors because his candidate lost. That is tyranny. Our institutions held on Jan 6 because Mike Pence refused to violate his oath to the Constitution. Trump picked JD Vance because Vance will do whatever Trump wants, including violating the Constitution. They are both far too dangerous to serve. It’s our duty to stop them.

@AdrianneCurry Very interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing. I wish more young women would hear it. But I was a little surprised at the toxic/feminist Hollywood mention. Isn’t it more common to see mention of masculinity as the problem, toxic or otherwise?

Here is Robert De Niro’s full statement about how Donald Trump should NEVER be president again: “I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty. Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly. I see an evil one. Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong.  Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped. Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them. We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego.  We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.  We tried to warn the world in 2016. The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination.  Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world. We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags. The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior.  That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse. Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously. So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America: This is our last chance. Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator. And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided. So what do we do about it?  I know I’m preaching to the choir here.  What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.   We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House.  They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice.  Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them. Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.  Let’s not talk about “democracy.”  “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it.  Let’s talk about right and wrong.  Let’s talk about humanity.  Let’s talk about kindness.  Security for our world.  Safety for our families.  Decency.  Let’s welcome them back.  We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”

Donald Trump took out a full-page ad in a newspaper calling for Yusef Salaam’s execution. Yusef was innocent then, and he is a City Councilman now. Ironically today, of the two of them, the only one facing prison — is Donald Trump.

This is hilarious. @therxckstxr He Tried to Be Patient 😂 youtube.com/shorts/a75H32W… via @YouTube

We are at a critical point in our country’s history. If you do not understand the complexities and promise of our past, you cannot imagine a better future. We either invest in the humanities, including history and civics, or we forfeit our democracy. usatoday.com/story/news/edu…

POWERFUL: former Navy Commander SLAMS DeSantis and right-wing cult banning books in his son's school. “I spent the last decade of my Naval career fighting religious fascism abroad. Never thought I’d have to fight it right here in the United States of America.” The REAL reason Republican extremists want to ban books didn't occur to me until I watched this full video. Let me know if this rings true: A normal brain EMBRACES new information; we take in diverse info from everywhere. We can discern what is true through critical thinking, and then filter out the trash. We encourage our children to do the same. But a conservative brain HATES new information; they take in info from very few untrustworthy sources (aka Fox News), and only let those lies shape their world view. They can NOT discern what is true, because they are not critical thinkers. They can't filter out the trash. So what is their fear based on – Are they afraid their children can't think too? Or are they afraid their children are SMARTER than them, and will learn the truth?

“…the bullseye will wind up on the back of democracy itself.” Arguably, it already is. Villianizing the press is un-American, counterproductive, and missing the forest for the trees.

American History is important. It's important because it teaches us of our mistakes of the past, so that those mistakes are not repeated. On February 19, 1942 FDR signed Executive Order 9066, allowing for the formation of Japanese internment camps. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, 120,000 Japanese Americans, 2/3 of whom were American-born citizens, were rounded up and sent to 10 different internment camps. These Americans were forced to sell their belongings and their homes in just 6 days, and required to live in 1-room apartments under heavy 24-hour surveillance for 3 whole years. Even with these horrific acts against Americans, 33,000 Japanese Americans still joined the US Military. It wasn’t until 1988 that the US Government, under Ronald Reagan, signed a reparations bill to help pay back damages to these individuals and their families. At the time, only 35% of Americans thought these Japanese Americans should be allowed home after the war. History is important. We acknowledge that we screwed up and we can react better next time.

This guy’s videos are hilarious. Why Can’t I Put My Paw Here?!? youtube.com/shorts/jRc2n5-… via @YouTube

The DeSantis playbook on race and education is just an updated edition of what I saw in the South in the 1960s.

This collection of slow motion videos of objects falling in water and cornflour result in spectacular fluid motion effects, with highly unexpected but extremely satisfying geometries and shapes [📹: buff.ly/3F3pqrc] twitter.com/trinukso2/stat…

First, @RepMTG and now, @realDonaldTrump hanging around with this anti-Semitic, pro-Putin, white supremacist. This isn’t complicated. It’s indefensible.

KANYE 2024!!! He Ready!!! @kanyewest LFG!!!

When the first movie was really bad it rarely leads to a successful sequel.

Take away: 1. The liar’s back. 2. Everybody gets fact checked except the politicians. Say WHAT?!?! Facebook reminds fact-checkers Trump is off limits if he says he’s running again for president - CNN Politics apple.news/AJ3QsVheARmu-H…

What Mehmet Oz means when he says abortion should be between "a woman, her doctor, and local political leaders." #PASenateDebate Thx @amyschumer