⚠️ Via Sherrilyn Ifill:
This is a VERY SERIOUS situation unfolding in #Nashville. Reps who stood w/their constituents who came to state house to demand #guns safety are facing expulsion from the House. Their Member ID badges have already been turned off. This is how #democracy ends.
Olivia Julianna:
...The Tenn. legis is planning to expel lawmakers who stood w gun control advocates today.
They've been stripped from committee assignments & their member ID’s shut off
THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY.
Citizens United is anti-democracy.
Lax gun safety laws are anti-democracy.
The Dobbs reproductive rights rollback is anti-democracy.
The Jan 6 insurrection was anti-democracy.
Thwarting climate action is anti-democracy.
Google, Twitter, and Meta social media content moderation & sales of user data are anti-democracy.
The overturn of the Voting Rights Act is anti-democracy.
The anti-vaxxer movement that cost 1.16 million American lives is anti-democracy
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#MoscowMitch refusing to act in face of Russian & Chinese attacks on election security is anti-democracy.
Police qualified immunity in an era of #BLM is anti-democracy
Republicans siding with Putin, OPEC+, and #KochNetwork is anti-democracy
Book bans and public library closures are anti-democracy.
Anti-trans laws are anti-democracy.
The debt ceiling antics are anti-democracy.
Lax bank regulation is anti-democracy.
Defunding the EPA, IRS, DOJ, and public education is anti-democracy.
Laffy
Nicole Parsons