About the Russiagate indictments
The 13 named defendants are presumably in Russia, beyond the reach of U.S. justice. Mueller's account of what they allegedly did is simply infuriating.
Voters who saw the Russians' Facebook, Instagram and Twitter posts were led to believe they were being lobbied by their fellow citizens — not by an adversarial foreign power.
They tried to convince Muslim voters that Clinton was anti-Islam and convince anti-Muslim voters that she favored imposing sharia law.
They tried to suppress the African-American vote with an Instagram account named "Woke Blacks" that called Clinton "the lesser of two devils" and argued "we'd surely be better off without voting AT ALL."
They purchased online ads calling Clinton "a Satan," falsely accusing her of voter fraud and claiming that "Donald Trump is the one and only (candidate) who can defend the police from terrorists."
They organized and promoted actual pro-Trump and anti-Clinton rallies in Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, according to the indictment, and they targeted their social media campaigns at other swing states.
To pay for all of this, they established fraudulent U.S. identities and bank accounts so that no one would know they were heeding political advice from Russians employed by "Putin's chef."
About Parkland
They won’t do anything meaningful about guns until you force them to with your votes.
This time, following the Parkland, Fla., massacre, does feel different from all the other times.
But I fear the outcome will always be the same — thoughts, prayers, furrowed brows and no real action — until the Republicans who control Congress and so many state legislatures start losing elections because of their obstinacy on gun control.
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The president and his party are not going to act, so we must.
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When we begin to insist that our elected officials support lifesaving gun-control measures, and throw them out of office if they don’t, we’ll get a ban on the mass shooter’s weapon of choice.
We just have to care.
And vote.
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